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Packaged survival meals, sometimes abbreviated as 'PSM', are a high-tech long-lasting food option. They are the colonists' primary food source at the very start of each game (except for a tribal start). They can also be found in cargo pods or cooked (after research) by colonists with a minimum cooking skill of 8. Packaged survival meals restore 0.9 nutrition and do not spoil, meaning they do not require cold storage. Note that they can still deteriorate. They require 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian and 0.3 nutrition of meat or animal product to produce.

Producing a packaged survival meal takes 0.6 units of nutrition in ingredients and yields 0.9 units of nutrition as a result -- a nutrition efficiency of 150%. This is not as efficient compared to other meals such as fine meals, so it's best not to prepare these for regular colony use. Unlike most other meals, packaged survival meals can be sold to traders and friendly settlements.

Acquisition[edit]

After researching Packaged Survival Meals, they can be crafted at a fueled stove or electric stove with 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian ingredients and 0.3 nutrition of meat. For example, 6 rice and 6 meat can create a meal.

Outlander and Orbital traders, particularly Bulk Goods traders, can carry Packaged Survival Meals.

The Crashlanded scenario gives 50 Packaged Survival Meals. The Rich Explorer scenario and the Mechanitor scenario each give 40 Packaged Survival Meals. The Sanguophage scenario gives 30 Packaged Survival Meals. With Ideology DLC PSMs have three colors, red if there's meat ingredients (except milk) in it and green if not, yellow will be color of meals that are purchased and PSMs that player started with, the player can't create yellow PSMs by any mean and it has to be bought.

Analysis[edit]

Packaged survival meals will always be accepted by trade caravans and orbital traders in trade. Their market value is not affected by their ingredients; insect meat and human meat can be converted into packaged survival meals to sell at full value.

Comparison to pemmican[edit]

When packaged survival meals are compared to pemmican:

Packaged survival meals have slightly worse nutrition per ingredient (50% vs. 60%)
Packaged survival meals do not have the nutritional flexibility that pemmican has, only offering a single chunk of .9 nutrition vs. the precise .05 bites of pemmican. See the Pemmican page for details.
Packaged survival meals are slightly more efficient in terms of carry weight (3 nutrition/kg vs. 2.78 nutrition/kg, or ~8% more/kg carried).
Packaged survival meals are significantly more efficient in storage space (9 nutrition/stack vs. 3.75 nutrition/stack).
Packaged survival meals require 43% less work to make.
Packaged survival meals never expire, while pemmican expires after 70 days if not refrigerated or frozen.
Packaged survival meals are slightly less valuable in terms of wealth (0.038 nutrition/$ vs. 0.036 nutrition/$).
Packaged survival meals are accepted by all traders; pemmican may not be.

This makes researching and producing packaged survival meals a good choice for long-term travel or emergency rations, once a colony has both the required stove and cook.

Money making[edit]

Package Survival Meals are amazing source for money making, they never rot (compared to the ingredients necessary to make them) are easier to store (both in storage condition and $/title, are easy to mass produce and give a high work/profit ratio. Each PSM requies 6 units of meat (worth 2$) and 6 unit of vegetable (worth 1.1$) for a total of 18.6$ of market value, ending in a total of 5.4$ profit for 4.5 seconds of work, by mass producing PSMs a huge profit can be accumulated over a fairly short amount of time, given how the price of PSMs is independent of thier ingredients, this can be further enhanced by using chicken/duck eggs instead of meat (8.4$ profit), using human meat instead of normal meat (12.6$ profit) or using insect meat (14.4$ profit). Using turkey egg is also technically profitable (4.4$ profit) but since there's no unfertilized ver. of egg, letting the egg hatch and using the meat of hatched turkey is usually better (unless the egg is spoiled for some reason)

Given the profitable nature of PSMs, care must be taken to leave enough food for your colonists & not sale all the food colomy has. In most colonies, having some extra growing zone of food is advisable in case of disaster, if nothing happens, the extra vegetable can be combined with some meat (whether gathered by hunting, renching, manhunter packs, butchering human or infestations) to be turned into some easy money. It can be worthy to have a dedicated rice growing zone that is normally set to not growing so in case of any event that gives lots of meat, you can grow the vegetable to even the food used to gain money verify: how big the growing zone has to be? this can turn into a pretty self-sustainable way to gain money with PSMs over time.

Gallery[edit]

One packaged survival meal
Partial stack
Full stack

One carnivore packaged survival meal
Partial stack
Full stack

One vegetarian packaged survival meal
Partial stack
Full stack

Version history[edit]

1.2.2719 - Fix: Incorrect calculation for packaged survival meal bulk recipe.

Texture from A14
Texture from before A14

Food

Meals: Chocolate • Fine meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Kibble • Lavish meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Nutrient paste meal • Packaged survival meal • Pemmican • Simple meal • Baby food
Raw food - Animal: Meat (Human, Insect, Twisted) • Insect jelly • Milk • Hemogen pack
Raw food - Eggs: Cassowary egg (fert.) • Chicken egg (fert., unfert.) • Cobra egg (fert.) • Duck egg (fert., unfert.) • Emu egg (fert.) • Goose egg (fert., unfert.) • Iguana egg (fert.) • Ostrich egg (fert.) • Tortoise egg (fert.) • Turkey egg (fert.)
Raw food - Vegetarian: Agave fruit • Berries • Corn • Hay • Potatoes • Raw fungus • Rice • Toxipotatoes

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-{{Define|Meal
+{{Rewrite|reason= Rewrite to format standard. Add Summary section - take relevant sections from intro and analysis and expand as needed. Abandon use of info template as necessary}}
+{{Infobox main|food
+| name = Packaged survival meal
+| image = Packaged survival meal a.png
+| description = A high-quality packaged meal, manufactured for use in survival situations. While it never rots, it can still deteriorate if left outside. Great for traveling.
+<!-- Base Stats -->
+| type = Food
+| type2 = Meal
+| hp = 50
+| deterioration = 0.25
+| marketvalue = 24
+| mass base = 0.3
+| flammability = 1
+| stack limit = 10
+| path cost = 14
+<!-- Ingestion -->
+| taste = Simple
+| max num to ingest at once = 1
+| nutrition = 0.9
+<!-- Creation -->
+| work to make = 450
+| work speed stat = Cooking Speed
+| production facility 1 = Fueled stove
+| production facility 2 = Electric stove
+| research = Packaged survival meal
+| skill 1 = cooking
+| skill 1 level = 8
+| resource 1 = Nutrition
+| resource 1 type = non-vegan
+| resource 1 amount = 0.3
+| resource 2 = Nutrition
+| resource 2 type = vegan
+| resource 2 amount = 0.3
+| bulk product amount = 4
+<!-- Technical -->
+| defName = MealSurvivalPack
+| preferability = Simple
+<!-- Unused -->
 | always haulable = true
-| def name = MealSurvivalPack
-| description = A high-quality packaged meal, manufactured for use in survival situations.
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+| eat effect = EatVegetarian
 | graphic class = Graphic_Single
 | graphic path = Things/Item/Meal/SurvivalPack
 | label = packaged survival meal
 | parent name = MealBase
-| path cost = 15
 | resource readout priority = Last
 | selectable = true
 | social properness matters = true
-| stack limit = 10
+| sound eat = Meal_Eat
 | thing class = Meal
 | ticker type = Rare
-| eat effect = EatVegetarian
-| max num to ingest at once = 1
-| nutrition = 0.90
-| sound eat = Meal_Eat
-| taste = Fine
-| joy = 0.02
-| preferability = Fine
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-| deterioration rate base = 0.25
-| flammability base = 1.0
-| market value base = 30
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-{{Info|Packaged Survival Meals are the colonists' primary source of food at the beginning of each game before they set up a new source of food. Occasionally they drop in random crashed drop pod events. Packaged Survival Meals restore '''90 saturation'''.}}
+{{Info|'''Packaged survival meals''', sometimes abbreviated as 'PSM', are a high-tech long-lasting food option. They are the colonists' primary food source at the very start of each game (except for a tribal start). They can also be found in cargo pods or cooked (after research) by colonists with a minimum cooking skill of 8. Packaged survival meals restore 0.9 nutrition and do not spoil, meaning they do not require cold storage. Note that they can still [[deteriorate]]. They require 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian and 0.3 nutrition of meat or animal product to produce.}}
+Producing a packaged survival meal takes 0.6 units of nutrition in ingredients and yields 0.9 units of nutrition as a result -- a nutrition efficiency of 150%.  This is not as efficient compared to other meals such as [[fine meal]]s, so it's best not to prepare these for regular colony use. Unlike most other meals, packaged survival meals can be sold to traders and friendly settlements.
+== Acquisition ==
+After researching Packaged Survival Meals, they can be crafted at a [[fueled stove]] or [[electric stove]] with 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian ingredients and 0.3 nutrition of meat. For example, 6 [[rice]] and 6 [[meat]] can create a meal.
+Outlander and Orbital traders, particularly Bulk Goods traders, can carry Packaged Survival Meals.
+The [[Scenario system#Crashlanded|Crashlanded scenario]] gives 50 Packaged Survival Meals. The [[Scenario system#The_Rich_Explorer|Rich Explorer scenario]] and the [[Scenario system#The_Mechanitor|Mechanitor scenario]]{{BiotechIcon}} each give 40 Packaged Survival Meals. The [[Scenario system#The_Sanguophage|Sanguophage scenario]]{{BiotechIcon}} gives 30 Packaged Survival Meals.
+With [[Ideology DLC]] PSMs have three colors, red if there's meat ingredients (except milk) in it and green if not, yellow will be color of meals that are purchased and PSMs that player started with, the player can't create yellow PSMs by any mean and it has to be bought.
+== Analysis ==
+Packaged survival meals will always be accepted by trade caravans and orbital traders in trade. Their market value is not affected by their ingredients; [[insect meat]] and [[human meat]] can be converted into packaged survival meals to sell at full value.
+=== Comparison to pemmican ===
+When packaged survival meals are compared to [[pemmican]]:
+* Packaged survival meals have slightly worse nutrition per ingredient (50% vs. 60%)
+* Packaged survival meals do not have the nutritional flexibility that pemmican has, only offering a single chunk of .9 nutrition vs. the precise .05 bites of pemmican. See the [[Pemmican#Benefits of discrete nutrition|Pemmican]] page for details.
+* Packaged survival meals are ''slightly'' more efficient in terms of carry weight (3 nutrition/kg vs. 2.78 nutrition/kg, or ~8% more/kg carried).
+* Packaged survival meals are significantly more efficient in storage space (9 nutrition/stack vs. 3.75 nutrition/stack).
+* Packaged survival meals require 43% less work to make.
+* Packaged survival meals never expire, while pemmican expires after 70 days if not refrigerated or frozen.
+* Packaged survival meals are slightly less valuable in terms of wealth (0.038 nutrition/$ vs. 0.036 nutrition/$).
+* Packaged survival meals are accepted by all traders; pemmican may not be.
+This makes researching and producing packaged survival meals a good choice for long-term travel or emergency rations, once a colony has both the required stove and cook.
+=== Money making ===
+{{Rewrite|section=1|reason=1) copy editing 2) price gain over materials only really matters when you're buying the materials - if you can get an equivalent amount of meat for less work, that's better than using eggs because they nominally cost less unless you're selling the meat. the disparity doesn't matter, only value/work and value/tile}}
+Package Survival Meals are amazing source  for money making, they never rot (compared to the ingredients necessary to make them) are easier to store (both in storage condition and $/title, are easy to mass produce and give a high work/profit ratio. Each PSM requies 6 units of meat (worth 2$) and 6 unit of vegetable (worth 1.1$) for a total of 18.6$ of market value, ending in a total of 5.4$ profit for 4.5 seconds of work, by mass producing PSMs a huge profit can be accumulated over a fairly short amount of time, given how the price of PSMs is independent of thier ingredients, this can be further enhanced by using chicken/duck eggs instead of meat (8.4$ profit), using human meat instead of normal meat (12.6$ profit) or using insect meat (14.4$ profit). Using turkey egg is also technically profitable (4.4$ profit) but since there's no unfertilized ver. of egg, letting the egg hatch and using the meat of hatched turkey is usually better (unless the egg is spoiled for some reason)
+Given the profitable nature of PSMs, care must be taken to leave enough food for your colonists & not sale all the food colomy has. In most colonies, having some extra growing zone of food is advisable in case of disaster, if nothing happens, the extra vegetable can be combined with some meat (whether gathered by hunting, renching, manhunter packs, butchering human or infestations) to be turned into some easy money. It can be worthy to have a dedicated rice growing zone that is normally set to not growing so in case of any event that gives lots of meat, you can grow the vegetable to even the food used to gain money [[verify: how big the growing zone has to be?]] this can turn into a pretty self-sustainable way to gain money with PSMs over time.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Packaged survival meal a.png|One packaged survival meal
+Packaged survival meal b.png|Partial stack
+Packaged survival meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Carnivore packaged survival meal a.png|One carnivore packaged survival meal
+Carnivore packaged survival meal b.png|Partial stack
+Carnivore packaged survival meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Vegetarian packaged survival meal a.png|One vegetarian packaged survival meal
+Vegetarian packaged survival meal b.png|Partial stack
+Vegetarian packaged survival meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+== Version history ==
+* [[Version/1.2.2719|1.2.2719]] - Fix: Incorrect calculation for packaged survival meal bulk recipe.
-As of Alpha 17 after researching Packaged Meals, they can also be crafted with 0.5 nutrition worth of animal products and 0.5 nutrition worth of plant ingredients. This is rather wasteful, so don't use it to prepare meals for your colony. For the same price you can make [[lavish meal]]s which are more satisfying and provide a better mood boost.
+<gallery>
+Packaged survival meal old 2.png|Texture from A14
+Packaged survival meal old.png|Texture from before A14
+</gallery>
-They do not expire, meaning they do not require cold storage.
+{{nav|Food|wide}}
+[[Category:Food]] [[Category:Processed Food]] [[Category:Meal]]