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Biscuits day and night. Biscuits summer and winter, spring and autumn... I'm sick of them!

So I decided to test some of my own "receipes" for variation, and it's actually way too easy to make new meals into the game. Keeps things a little more interesting, too. Just two types of food in each category is way more interesting.

So, here are some of my receipes. All you need to do is add one or more "receipe" to the item_food.txt in ( raw -> objects-folder ) and you get random meals from the kitchen. ( Meat on meat sandwiches. Yum. Also, salads are for weedy elves )


The receipes work as follows:

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_NAME_NAME] -Defines this item as food, with a one- or two-part name for the game to identify it
[NAME:name] -The name that will be use in-game ( This is a stack of 5 ingridient name )
[LEVEL:2] -Amount of ingridients ( 2 for Easy Meal, 3 for Fine Meal and 4 for Lavish Meal; these are used in the game )


I myself added the following receipes on a small receipe-mod for fun and in-game variation:

Easy Meals

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_SANDWICHES]
[NAME:sandwiches]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_SOUP]
[NAME:soup]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_JERKY]
[NAME:jerky]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_BUN]
[NAME:in a bun]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_SMOKED]
[NAME:smoked, following the old receipe]
[LEVEL:2]

Fine Meals

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_GRILL]
[NAME:grilled to perfection]
[LEVEL:3]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_STEAK]
[NAME:steaks]
[LEVEL:3]

Lavish Meals

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_ROAST]
[NAME:roast]
[LEVEL:4]


I've made a sample receipe list/minimod, that you can simply download or save into your raw -> objects folder to add some additional foods into the game.

Karpatius's Kitchen Mayhem Mod
http://nowhere.fi/dwarffortress/item_food.txt

What kind of receipes do you give your dwarfs?
And please offer me some feedback on the idea and functionality.