The Cooking and Hunger Rework Feature Arc

• After a day without eating, you become hungry (no penalty). After another day without eating, you become famished (-10 Quickness). Thirst is unchanged.
• The primary way to sate hunger now is to cook at a campfire. You can interact with campfires with the use key.
• As long as you aren't in combat, you can make camp (see your abilities screen). This starts a campfire.
• As long as you aren't in combat, you can whip up a basic meal at a campfire. This costs no resources and sates your hunger, even if you're famished.
• Occasionally, the meal you whip up is especially tasty and grants you a small bonus for the rest of the day.
• If you have special ingredients in your inventory, you'll occasionally use them when whipping up a meal. They grant dynamically-generated effects.
• You can eat up to three times before you are too full to eat, but only the first meal has the chance to be tasty. This three-meal cap is relevant for the Cooking and Gathering skill, described below.
• You can still eat food out of your inventory to supplement campfire cooking.
  • Most foods are now snacks, which sate a few hours of hunger.
  • Corpses count as full meals, but you can no longer bring yourself to eat them unless you're famished (or a carnivore...).
  • If you eat corpses or raw meat, your hunger is sated, but you become ill for 12 hours.
  • We removed auto-eat.
  • Fresh food spoilage is coming later.

• Hunger status is ignored while traveling on the world map, as we assume you're cooking meals along the way.
  
• However, if you travel more than one world map tile, you'll be hungry when you come back down to a local map.
  
• Traveling overland is a bit more difficult now; lost rates have increased.
  
• Crossing the salt desert on the overland map takes much longer now in game time (and water consumption).
  
• We adjusted food quantities throughout the world to account for the new hunger system.
  

• You can learn Cooking and Gathering from the Kyakukyans.
• If you have Cooking and Gathering, you get three new options in the campfire menu: cook with ingredients, cook from a recipe, and preserve fresh foods.
• Cook with ingredients:
  • Cooking a meal with ingredients bestows a dynamically-generated effect for the rest of the day.
  • You can cook with up to two ingredients (three if you have the Spicer skill power).

• Cook from a recipe:
  • We added handwritten recipes and procedurally-generated recipes.
  • We added procedurally-generated cookbooks with procedurally-generated recipes.
  • Cooking a meal from a recipe bestows a particular effect. You learn recipes from cookbooks or by performing the water ritual with NPCs.
  • You can share recipes during the water ritual.
  • Each village has a signature dish that its residents are willing to share in the water ritual. For example, share water with Mehmet or Elder Irudad to learn to cook Apple Matz.

• Preserve fresh foods:
  • We added a whole bunch of cooking ingredients, with tiles and descriptions. In general, you create them by harvesting and butchering food, then preserving it at a campfire.
  • We converted some existing foods and liquids into cooking ingredients. Some foods can be cooked fresh. (limbs? heads? faces?)
  • We added kippers to the Stiltgrounds who sell preserved cooking ingredients. There's always a kipper tent in the southeast corner of the Stiltgrounds.
  • We changed the sign used for Stiltgrounds honey merchants (it's a bee now) and made the old one (a bottle) the sign for kippers.

• The final Cooking and Gathering skill power is Carbide Chef.
  • With Carbide Chef, whenever you gain a level or 5% of the time you explore a new map, you become inspired to cook a meal (lasts for two days). While inspired, the next time you cook a meal by choosing ingredients, you get a choice of three dynamically-generated effects to apply. You create a recipe for the chosen effect.

• Harvest Plants is now a toggleable passive power like Butcher Corpses.
• Plants, meat, and organs you harvest and butcher can now be preserved at campfires and turned into cooking ingredients.
• We adjusted all the harvestable and butcherable item frequencies to account for these changes.
• You'll occasionally harvest or butcher items that previously required the Master skills at a low rate.
• Ripe plants now appear as a different color than their non-ripe counterparts.
• Ripe plants now appear on the alt overlay if you have the Harvestry skill.
• We added some new harvestable and butcherable items.

• Carnivores can eat raw meat without getting sick.
• Carnivores don't need to be famished to eat meat.
• Raw meat and meals cooked with meat are especially tasty to carnivores (increased chance for small bonus).
• Carnivores get no satiation from non-meat foods and may get ill from eating them.
• Carnivores can't cook with plant ingredients.

• Removed the Ravenous defect.
• Updated the Fasting Way and Mind over Body skill powers to work with the new hunger system.
• Reduced the cost of Fasting Way, Conatus, and Mind over Body.
• We tweaked the caste and subtype starting skills to account for new cooking, harvestry, and butchery.
• Added a bunch of detail to the Wayfaring skill power descriptions.
• Made harvestable witchwood rarer.
• Added an option for auto-drink threshold.
• Gave Svenlainard some preserved cooking ingredients.
• Updated dreadroots' tile and harvest properties.
• Updated the following UIs: turret selection, mine selection, recharge cell selection, book depositing, cell replacement, and pick-one-item quest reward selection.

Below is the log for the changes from last week's beta patch.