MOD that adds dried fruits, raisins and such, UPDATE 04-22-19 for experimental builds

[Trigon]

Indeed. It’s a fair abstraction, but making actual dried fruits to consume as-is is definitely a useful thing to have on long trips where I can’t or don’t want to carry the extra water to rehydrate fruits. Same as carrying smoked meat or jerky vs. dry meat. I definitely can’t wait to check this out. Might make a summer start just to take advantage of it quickly.

Also excellent reference to rabbit sickness. As a biologist someone pointing out the nutritional deficiencies in rabbit meat pleases me.

[Erk]

I personally think that most meat and fruit should be generic, but particular good ones should be separated. Beef is better than dog meat, so cows and cows alone should drop beef and there should be some recipes using it. Likewise, dried melons and apples might be the same generic fruit but dried grapes should make raisins.

Also, berries should vacuum pack separately from fruit slices dammit.

[Wayticus]

I’ll look into the separate fruit vacuum stuff later, but seeing as this is my first attempt at moding, and I know next to nothing about coding, it might be a bit. Main reason I think they did all fruit goes to vac fruit was to save on having to write out each recipe, and keep the crafting menu shorter, who knows.

Most things that seem odd I think was for ease of implementation initially, and understandably it is a lot of lines to make them each separate. Like the vitamin C levels of fruits, they aren’t set by hand to be increments of about 83, I may be wrong, but it seems it just pulls from the “healthy” level 1- 83, 2-166, etc. Which is why all the dried fruits have similar vitC, I just took a fraction of the base item, rather then setting them more accurate to real world. The other vitamins on them are, which is why your dried peaches for example will give you some good vitA, and some iron where the raw will not.

[Wayticus]

You should already be able to do that with wild vegetables in the base game.

[Invalid_Username]

So I can. I must be losing my mind, because I remember trying that before and nothing showing up. I haven’t changed experimentals so that’s not it.

[Wayticus]

I added char smoker as a tool to be used to make the dried fruits like the dehydrator, but after trying just adding the tags and such it didn’t work in the smoking rack, as in pop em in come back in 6 hours, searching on github looks like the ability to make them in the smoking rack is hard coded. It does not seem to be something I can change with json files in mod stuff, if it gets accepted into the base game I can look into figuring how to do the C++ to do so.

Anybody think I should add the less common dried fruits, like strawberries, raspberries, huckleberries etc?

[TheZoneWizard]

Ask Kevin. I seriously doubt he would poo poo the idea of access to fruit. That’d be kinda silly.

[Erk]

There’s a minor fear of item creep if there’s a separate dried fruit for everything, I think

[Invalid_Username]

It’s a mod. With other mods, I’m already up to four or five different types of 9mm ammo; I personally wouldn’t have a problem with different types of dried fruit. For those who do, that’s why it’s a mod. Mainline can be streamlined for those who don’t want to micromanage their fruits and nuts and meats, and probably should be, but I am not opposed to a little more granularity in my dried fruits if it makes them as distinct as they are in meatspace.

[Wayticus]

Updated to reflect 90 day seasons for some reason my test world was at 30 days instead of my default 91.

[Wayticus]

With the update on 8515 that moved smoking rack abilities out of hardcode, and into JSON, I made a new version that allows dried fruits to be made in smoking racks, see OP for link and description.

[Ricky_Van]

hmm good mod, i suggest adding more dried fruits recipe such as sugary dried fruits or mashed raisins to add some variation.

talk about raisins, why so many people got angry when they saw cookies sprinkled with raisins?

[Wayticus]

What sugary dried fruits did you have in mind?
Hmm, maybe add a recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies, and fruit cake, everyone likes fruit cake.

[Ricky_Van]

in here, i have this snack made from fruit called “Tamarind” (a really sour fruit) mashed and coated with sugar. i always call this snack “Sugar sour ball”

Fruit cake is also good, that would be something, well the point is… keep improving… seems like this is a good potential for fruits variation in-game.

[Wayticus]

I don’t think that would be able to grow in the New England area, a little cold there from what I understand, but I could make up a little mod that adds tamarind paste, or the balls with a chance for it to spawn in stores, if you wanted to add a taste of home to your game.

[Ricky_Van]

well i didn’t think about that part… but sure then… love to see some variation on fruits.

this could add more potential to fruits player can encounter during the journey.

[TheZoneWizard]

The only solution to non-natively grown produce would be a product added to the game as a finite item. We do have many grocery stores specific to a culture. Such as Asian markets. Spanish markets etc. Just outside boston is an asian market that is a standard super market size and serves only asian products as far I know.

[Invalid_Username]

Figured I’d let you know that there’s a typo in “plastic bag of dreid dates”. The item itself doesn’t have the typo, so that’s strange.

[Wayticus]

Should be fixed on both versions.

[Wayticus]

A bit behind but updated for the vitamin level changes, if there are any errors, or things you think should be added let me know on this thread, should have time again(assuming real life cooperates) to be checking here more often.