Difference between revisions of "Vegetarian fine meal"

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See also: Fine meal and Carnivore fine meal

A vegetarian fine meal is a variant of the fine meal created from vegetarian ingrediants.

Acquisition

Vegetarian fine meals can be cooked at a Fueled stove or Electric stove. Each meal requires 0.75 units of nutrition from vegetable or animal products (milk or eggs), 450 ticks (7.5 secs) of work to make, and a Cooking skill of 6.

Summary

A fine meal can be eaten by humans or animals for 0.9 nutrition. As it takes 0.75 nutrition of raw food to create, vegetarian fine meals provide 120% nutrition efficiency, which is less than regular fine meals.

Eating a fine meal or any of its variants gives the +5 Ate fine meal moodlet for 24 hours. This moodlet stacks with the +12 Ate lavish meal from lavish meals. If Ideology DLC is active and the meal was made out of raw fungus, its normal moodlet will be applied.

Analysis

Vegetarian fine meals are useful for the fine meal mood boost if meat is unavailable, or if it is forbidden by ideoligion. Vegetarian meals are less efficient for food than simple meals or fine meals. However, they are reasonable for daily use, if your colonists have the time to produce the extra food. They can also be saved for mood-related emergencies.

Even if meat could be available through hunting or ranching, it might be easier to grow the +44% extra food for a +5 mood buff.

Extra work from fine meals

To establish how much extra work a vegetarian fine meal would take, we would need an estimate of how much is required to feed a pawn with simple meals. In Losing is Fun, 25 tiles is a rough over-estimate of what would feed a baseline pawn if they were in a temperate biome, assuming a competent planter and simple meals.

If you were planting 25 tiles of crop to feed per colonist before, you'd need to plant 36 crops to feed colonists using vegetarian fine meals. With an extra 11 crops of food, it would take a Plants 8 grower an average of 4,070 ticks (1.13 mins) more work for every harvest. Rice plants take ~ 5.54 days to grow in regular soil when considering day/night cycles.

With rice, you'll need 734.7 ticks (12.25 secs) of work, per day per colonist.
With corn in regular soil, it'd take only 195.1 ticks (3.25 secs) of work for the same thing.
By spending a single game-hour of work, you could upgrade 3.4 colonists to vegetarian fine using rice, and 12.8 colonists with corn.

If you have anyone better than Plants 8, or if you are playing on a lower difficulty than Losing is Fun, then you'll need even less work.

This analysis makes multiple key assumptions. First, it neglects the "spike" in work caused by each harvest. Second, it assumes a temperate, year-round ground biome with 0 negative events harming your crop production. Finally, it does not include the extra, pre-skill 150 ticks (2.5 secs) of work required to actually cook a fine meal (of any type).

Overall, vegetarian fine meals are very affordable in terms of work. Growing more food is a simple task, especially in temperate and warm biomes. If you are cooking vegetarian fine meals when a cold snap ruins your crop harvest, then you can downgrade to making simple meals, giving you a nice food buffer. (Assuming you didn't cook all your food right away)

Gallery

One vegetarian fine meal
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Version history

1.3.3066 - Added
1.3.3074 - New graphics.
1.3.3087 - Vegetarian meals now allow animal products as ingredients.

Texture between version 1.3.3066 and 1.3.3074

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) • 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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 If you were planting 25 tiles of crop to feed per colonist before, you'd need to plant 36 crops to feed colonists using vegetarian fine meals. With an extra 11 crops of food, it would take a Plants 8 grower an average of {{ticks| 11 * 370}} more work for every harvest. [[Rice plant]]s take ~ 5.54 days to grow in regular soil when considering day/night cycles.
-With rice, you'll need {{ticks|{{#expr: 11 * 370 / 5.54 round 1}}}} of work, per day per colonist. With [[corn plant|corn]] in regular soil, it'd take only {{ticks|{{#expr: 11 * 370 / 20.86 round 1}}}} of work, per day per colonist. If you have anyone better than Plants 8, or if you are playing on a lower difficulty than Losing is Fun, then you'll need even less work.
+* With rice, you'll need {{ticks|{{#expr: 11 * 370 / 5.54 round 1}}}} of work, per day per colonist.
+* With [[corn plant|corn]] in regular soil, it'd take only {{ticks|{{#expr: 11 * 370 / 20.86 round 1}}}} of work for the same thing.
+* By spending a single game-hour of work, you could upgrade {{#expr: 2500 / (11 * 370 / 5.54) round 1}} colonists to vegetarian fine using ''rice'', and {{#expr: 2500 / (11 * 370 / 20.86) round 1}} colonists with corn.
-By spending a single game-hour of work, you could upgrade {{#expr: 2500 / (11 * 370 / 5.54) round 1}} colonists to vegetarian fine using ''rice'', and {{#expr: 2500 / (11 * 370 / 20.86) round 1}} colonists with corn. Again, assuming Plants 8. You can always downgrade if a [[blight]] ruins your harvest during the fall.
+If you have anyone better than Plants 8, or if you are playing on a lower difficulty than Losing is Fun, then you'll need even less work.
-Overall, the upgrade ends up being a fairly small amount of work for a {{+|5}} mood buff. This analysis does not include the extra, pre-skill {{ticks|{{#expr: {{P|Work To Make}} - {{Q|Simple meal|Work To Make}} }}}} of work of work required to actually cook a fine meal (of any type).
+This analysis makes multiple key assumptions. First, it neglects the "spike" in work caused by each harvest. Second, it assumes a temperate, year-round ground biome with 0 negative events harming your crop production. Finally, it does not include the extra, pre-skill {{ticks|{{#expr: {{P|Work To Make}} - {{Q|Simple meal|Work To Make}} }}}} of work required to actually cook a fine meal (of any type).
+Overall, vegetarian fine meals are very affordable in terms of work. Growing more food is a simple task, especially in temperate and warm [[biome]]s. If you are cooking vegetarian fine meals when a [[cold snap]] ruins your crop harvest, then you can downgrade to making simple meals, giving you a nice food buffer. (Assuming you didn't cook all your food right away)
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