Your choice of food

AllisonW · 2015-01-17T07:40:39.000Z

hexman:

permanently wearing a filter mask

Mouth encumbrance hurts your run speed, though.

hexman · 2015-01-17T09:18:34.000Z

AllisonW:

[quote=“hexman, post:31, topic:8640”]permanently wearing a filter mask

Mouth encumbrance hurts your run speed, though. :([/quote]

Who needs to run? Well sometimes I do need to run, but most of the times I just have to improvise , fighting a handful of zombies is better than cold or influenza (but I don’t think I need to wear it now since I’ve started taking vitamins daily), even better when you just raid at night. Most of the time I just drive through towns and raid at night so it doesn’t seem to affect my gameplay. But it might hurt a little, in the beginning.

Edit: I’ve started day-raiding to improve my cutting skills, (right now my bashing skill is 8 and cutting is 7; I just need to make them 10; extreme task, i think it is), especially when the town I’m having my base is running out of zombies (zombies do spawn but they just keep themselves in the lower part of the town).

BeerBeer · 2015-01-17T09:42:07.000Z

Recent rampant ant population in my game steered me towards woods soup and smoked meat. So much smoked meat. I had two charcoal kilns churning out charcoal for about a whole season non-stop, I think. Someone needs to stop me from clear-cutting dandelions, because they can be used in woods soup.

Speaking of ants, their eggs provide insane nutrition, as I just stumbled upon an ant hill. Couldn’t find the queen in the tunnels below, though. So many eggs… like a scene from an Alien movie… Never attacked an ant along the way, just waltzed in there. Not one shit was given on behalf of the ants to my presence. On a more mysterious note, prior to entering the ant tunnels, I killed and butchered a bunch of zombies nearby. The thing was, when I left the tunnels at night, and slept in a nearby house, the butchered zombie meat was gone in the morning, overnight. Usually it takes a bit longer than that, right? I was thinking maybe the nearby roving ants cleaned them up. If so, that begs the question if ant flesh is just recycled tainted meat… Am I what I eat? Am I the thing that my meal eats?

AllisonW · 2015-01-17T10:04:13.000Z

BeerBeer:

Recent rampant ant population in my game steered me towards woods soup and smoked meat. So much smoked meat. I had two charcoal kilns churning out charcoal for about a whole season non-stop, I think. Someone needs to stop me from clear-cutting dandelions, because they can be used in woods soup.

I love woods soup; it’s so filling and healthy and hits two major food groups. If you want to save some dandelions for things like dandelion wine or tea, though, you can also forage in underbrush for wild vegetables or strip blackjack oaks for acorns which can be used in woods soup after being cooked into acorn meal. I have something like 200 handfuls of acorns lying around.

On the matter of ant eggs, they do provide a lot of nutrition, don’t they? But it’s so much as to be total overkill unless you’re bloody starving. You can dehydrate a single ant egg into 100 egg powder, though, which’ll let you get rid of the gross factor and stretch the nutrition out over several meals (as well as likely multiplying it by a good half-again).

BeerBeer · 2015-01-17T11:40:09.000Z

AllisonW:

You can dehydrate a single ant egg into 100 egg powder, though, which’ll let you get rid of the gross factor and stretch the nutrition out over several meals (as well as likely multiplying it by a good half-again).

Oh, wow! Did not know that. Well, then. That right there is a game changer. Looks like I’ll be snatching some ant fetuses soon and turn them into delicious baby ant powder. My god… I should… I should carry shopping cart parts with me into the tunnels and assemble a vehicle just to have some assistance… There’s hundreds of them eggs… Hell, I’ll build a golf cart there if necessary. I… I don’t want to kill the queen anymore. Must protect the ants.

Rhodri · 2015-01-17T11:46:26.000Z

BeerBeer:

[quote=“AllisonW, post:36, topic:8640”]You can dehydrate a single ant egg into 100 egg powder, though, which’ll let you get rid of the gross factor and stretch the nutrition out over several meals (as well as likely multiplying it by a good half-again).

Oh, wow! Did not know that. Well, then. That right there is a game changer. Looks like I’ll be snatching some ant fetuses soon and turn them into delicious baby ant powder. My god… I should… I should carry shopping cart parts with me into the tunnels and assemble a vehicle just to have some assistance… There’s hundreds of them eggs… Hell, I’ll build a golf cart there if necessary. I… I don’t want to kill the queen anymore. Must protect the ants.[/quote]

Yes… All hail the queen! Insect-y-ness intensifies

EkarusRyndren · 2015-01-17T11:48:47.000Z

Rhodri:

[quote=“BeerBeer, post:37, topic:8640”][quote=“AllisonW, post:36, topic:8640”]You can dehydrate a single ant egg into 100 egg powder, though, which’ll let you get rid of the gross factor and stretch the nutrition out over several meals (as well as likely multiplying it by a good half-again).

Oh, wow! Did not know that. Well, then. That right there is a game changer. Looks like I’ll be snatching some ant fetuses soon and turn them into delicious baby ant powder. My god… I should… I should carry shopping cart parts with me into the tunnels and assemble a vehicle just to have some assistance… There’s hundreds of them eggs… Hell, I’ll build a golf cart there if necessary. I… I don’t want to kill the queen anymore. Must protect the ants.[/quote]

Yes… All hail the queen! Insect-y-ness intensifies[/quote]

Eh, queen is flammable. Though it’s so much easier to drive to a swamp than it is to clear out an ant house.

Though now I’m wondering if ant or frog tastes better…

Jakers · 2015-01-17T11:57:54.000Z

Rhodri:

Yes… All hail the queen! Insect-y-ness intensifies

The queen tasted great =3

dovla · 2015-01-17T13:15:46.000Z

I got Carnivore from a recent serum injection. I think I’ll use a purifier to get rid of it. Seems a huge waste to subsist on meat alone when my cooking is in double digits and my cargo carriers brimming with all kinds of food.

Rhodri · 2015-01-17T13:16:48.000Z

Jakers:

[quote=“Rhodri, post:38, topic:8640”]Yes… All hail the queen! Insect-y-ness intensifies

The queen tasted great =3[/quote]
I will now kill and eat every spider I see to exact revenge! Because following the food-chain is too mainstream.

system · 2015-01-17T13:30:47.000Z

Just saying, but frog tastes like chicken.

Ironically enough, almost all reptiles and amphibians have chicken taste. Probably because birds are dinosaurs

Zaweri_Runewright · 2015-01-17T13:37:54.000Z

EkarusRyndren:

Though now I’m wondering if ant or frog tastes better…

Ant would quite likely taste like acid. Then again, frog’s legs are a delicacy and ants are also a delicacy… unsure…

Illogical_Blox · 2015-01-17T14:20:14.000Z

Coolthulhu:

[quote=“AllisonW, post:13, topic:8640”]What is aspic even for, aside maybe from slowly grinding from cooking 4 to cooking 5? Low nutrition, no health bonus, no enjoyability, long cook time, I just don’t get it.

It’s one of those recipes that got in and immediately were too weak for anyone to use. Like makeshift macuahuitl and few articles of clothing.

If someone sent a balancing PR, it would probably get in.[/quote]
I use aspic to preserve zucchini when it starts to spoil; can’t be wastin’ good… lumpy green vegetable.

Coolthulhu · 2015-01-17T18:44:45.000Z

Zaweri Runewright:

Ant would quite likely taste like acid.

I heard ants taste of lemons due to the acid. Other insects generally nut-like.

AllisonW · 2015-01-17T22:29:27.000Z

BeerBeer:

[quote=“AllisonW, post:36, topic:8640”]You can dehydrate a single ant egg into 100 egg powder, though, which’ll let you get rid of the gross factor and stretch the nutrition out over several meals (as well as likely multiplying it by a good half-again).

Oh, wow! Did not know that. Well, then. That right there is a game changer. Looks like I’ll be snatching some ant fetuses soon and turn them into delicious baby ant powder. My god… I should… I should carry shopping cart parts with me into the tunnels and assemble a vehicle just to have some assistance… There’s hundreds of them eggs… Hell, I’ll build a golf cart there if necessary. I… I don’t want to kill the queen anymore. Must protect the ants.[/quote]

You can actually build a shopping cart that can be folded for transport on other vehicles or between Z-levels. You’ll need to construct it entirely out of foldable parts (foldable light frame or handle, folding shopping cart basket, casters), and add controls so you can access the control menu to fold it. Credit to dovla for cluing me into it; dovla also likes to add a (charged) motorbike battery and floodlight so you have a bonus light source while dragging the thing around. (If you do this, dovla also recommends including a jumper cable in your supplies in your surface vehicle so you can recharge the folding cart’s battery from your main vehicle.)

EkarusRyndren · 2015-01-17T23:14:59.000Z

Coolthulhu:

[quote=“Zaweri Runewright, post:44, topic:8640”]Ant would quite likely taste like acid.

I heard ants taste of lemons due to the acid. Other insects generally nut-like.[/quote]

Can you burn life’s house down with ants?

BeerBeer · 2015-01-18T21:03:51.000Z

AllisonW:

You can dehydrate a single ant egg into 100 egg powder

Hmmmm, I don’t think this is true. It may have been true at some point but my character doesn’t have the recipe for it. He could turn bird eggs or reptile eggs into powder, but not ant eggs. Ant eggs are only good for superglue as far as my character is aware of. Therefore: death to ants.

Darkfirephoenix · 2015-01-18T21:25:42.000Z

BeerBeer:

[quote=“AllisonW, post:36, topic:8640”]You can dehydrate a single ant egg into 100 egg powder

Hmmmm, I don’t think this is true. It may have been true at some point but my character doesn’t have the recipe for it. He could turn bird eggs or reptile eggs into powder, but not ant eggs. Ant eggs are only good for superglue as far as my character is aware of. Therefore: death to ants.[/quote]
You CAN dehydrate ant eggs, but not in the stable release, you’ll need to upgrade to a experimental build for most of the functions we discuss around the forum

AllisonW · 2015-01-18T22:43:38.000Z

Coolthulhu:

[quote=“Zaweri Runewright, post:44, topic:8640”]Ant would quite likely taste like acid.

I heard ants taste of lemons due to the acid. Other insects generally nut-like.[/quote]

Speaking of eating bugs, talk of people doing shit like keeping giant black widows in the basement as cattle and making jerky out of them really grosses family and friends the fuck out. Except for one friend I talked to about it, who also plays the game; she was just like, “They probably just taste like lobster, considering lobsters are really just big sea bugs. Melt some butter and they might even be tasty.”

Jakers · 2015-01-18T22:53:00.000Z

AllisonW:

Speaking of eating bugs, talk of people doing shit like keeping giant black widows in the basement as cattle and making jerky out of them really grosses family and friends the fuck out. Except for one friend I talked to about it, who also plays the game; she was just like, “They probably just taste like lobster, considering lobsters are really just big sea bugs. Melt some butter and they might even be tasty.”

TELL YOUR FRIEND SHE MADE ME CRY :-:

Spiders should not be eaten or kept as cattle, release them out of their basements and make friends with them! And we certainly DO NOT taste nice with a little butter!
[color=red][Size=1pt]Maybe with some mayonnaise, though…[/size]