Cooking! Cooking has been added to the game. There is a Cooking Station now, which is used to create food items and for inventing new food recipes. Food provides a 'well fed' stat buff, and can be sold to hungry crew members on the Mothership, who are thrilled to get a taste of this new Syrinx cuisine that the player is inventing.
Each unique dish has it's own level of popularity, which affects the price it is sold for. This is randomized for each game, so that there is not a particular food recipe/combination of ingredients that provides the most profit. This means that there is not a single particular recipe that all players will always be trying to make and sell, thus giving a bit more variety and replayability to the game. Maybe your best seller will be Buttery Ginger Pancakes one game, and Sweet Fungi Steak in the next.