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Food Preservation Plus

In 2 collections by spoon
Realismus Crisostomus
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Project Realistic Overhaul
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Description
Winter is Coming

This mod addresses the need of vanilla friendly food preservation. Make smoked or salted meat/fish, canned food, vinegar, ethanol, glue, salt and much more. Use ethanol to make vodka or to refill a generator, refine food to biogas, find salt rocks and crush them to salt. It is also a good workaround for not having natural cold storage system - YET.

HUNTING IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS MOD AND IS NOT ALSO REQUIRED FOR THIS MOD TO WORK. YOU NEED TO SUBSCRIBE IT SEPARETLY IF YOU WANT TO HUNT!

Use Craft Helper to see exact unit quantities of some of the recipes.

Canning details :
  • Can carrots, cabbage and tomatoes. Cans last forever, just as in vanilla.
  • Overhauled vanilla jarring - jars last about an year now. They also give back a empty jar and a lid when opened.
  • Vanilla potatoes and cabbages are heavier and potatoes last longer - 30 to 60 days. It is implied the potatoes are kept in somewhere cool.
Meatwork details :
  • All meat related recipes will accept meat by the unit - no matter how it has been cut.
  • Meat can be canned, salted, smoked or eaten in any other way you want.
  • All bigger animals(From Immersive Hunting mod) , depending on their size, will produce certain amount of steak slabs, leather strips and bones when butchered.
  • Big steak slabs can be cut into smaller pieces to be shared with a friend, stored, cooked or traded more easily.
  • Small trapped/hunted animal, both from vanilla and Hunting Mod are butchered the vanilla way.
  • Raw canned meat needs to be heated in fire so it will change to normal canned meat.
  • Smoked meat/fish needs to be smoked for about 10-12 hours. Lasts 6-10 days.
  • Salted meat can also be made from various meat types. Lasts 15-20 days.
  • You can also mine salt and various other stuff with my : Dynamic Mining mod.

      Smoking/Salting Tutorial : PZ has such thing as units - these units can be either measured in drainable items as delta or they can be hunger value on food items. To prepare your meat for smoking/salting you need ONE unit of whatever kind of RAW MEAT, this will create you a "starter item". The whole system is not not new or made up by me but the usual evolved recipe(Stir Fry, Pie, Soup etc etc). Only difference is that in my version you need to craft the initial item from the food itself - there is no other item involved. Now you can click on that new item and start adding more meat to it, until its full and then cook it over the fire.
Brewing details :
  • Brew Ethanol from potatoes/corn and yeast.
  • Brew Vinegar from ethanol and vegetables.
  • Brewing and canning equipment such as wooden barrels and can sealers can be either looted or crafted.
  • Just make a brew and place the barrel on the ground and leave it be.
  • Ethanol takes 15 days to get ready.
  • Vinegar takes 10 days to get ready.
  • When the brew is ready, you can open the barrel while holding 5 empty bottles and voilaa - you get 5 bottles of ethanol/vinegar and your barrel can be used for the next brew.
  • Ethanol+Water can be mixed into vodka.
  • Ethanol can be also used as fuel.
  • You can use the vodka as a drink or to disinfect stuff.

Other :
  • Sweet Juice can be stomped out of certain veggies and used as sugar - it also produces yeast as a by product.
  • Mushrooms can be stomped straight to yeast.
  • Cook tallow from any animal meat.
  • Make candles from tallow. Candles last 6 times longer.
  • Tallow can be used in cooking recipes as an oil/lard/margarine.
  • Glue can be made out of bones and leather. Glue lasts 2 times longer.
  • Soap can be made out of animal meat. Soap lasts 5 times longer.
  • Make dried berries out of strawberries.
  • Foragable salt rocks that can be crushed into salt(Found in Forests/Vegetation/Farmlands).
  • Refining Biogas(Propane) from all sorts of food.
  • You can empty all cans(Vanilla too) from food(Even rotten).
  • Tweaked strategic lootable food nutrition values(Canned/Dried/Chips/Sweets)
  • Realistic calories for various vanilla foods. I also suggest using Calorie burn tweaker and
    Weight change speed to make the overall hunger system more balanced.

Everything related to canning, jarring, smoking, salting and brewing needs a certain skill + a recipe book.



Updates to this mod are 100% savegame friendly and wont break anything. Works in MP and is friendly with both vanilla and other mods.












Credits :
Russian translation - Thank you axelroadman

This is part of... :
Project Realistic Overhaul - Set of mods I've created that will overhaul the vanilla game experience to be more hardcore and true to life, but on the other hand leaves you the option to make it through and survive. It makes items and actions have more value and makes the world more alive.


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Mod ID: FoodPreservationPlus
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mcknightcarter10 14 Nov @ 3:37pm 
How much fish do I need to smoke? do I need to read a magazine? I have a bunch of fish and a fire.
Liberty or Ded 9 Nov @ 10:49pm 
Okay, how much friggin ethanol wort do you actually need?? It says 100 units. I made several ethanol wort and yet for some reason, in the crafting menu for making ethanol brew, it never says I have enough. Just to test, I cheated 100 ethanol wort and the "required" thing for ethanol wort is STILL greyed out as if I have none at all. What gives?
pgames-food 8 Nov @ 9:55am 
ah ok, yeah i like the mod, maybe spoon is bit busy atm,
(btw its good that evaporated milk has less calories irl, because thats what im going to be eating with me christmas puddings next month) :lunar2019grinningpig:
retr0l0gy 8 Nov @ 7:03am 
its a good mod, just wish it was maintained and fixed.
retr0l0gy 8 Nov @ 7:03am 
nah its evaporated milk. could be called condensed milk in files though. but irl evaporated milk is around 300-500 calories. and even if it was condensed milk, thats only 1000-1200 calories irl. my point is that the caloric counts in this mod make no sense. its not really an issue for me anymore since i uninstalled the mod because of this.
pgames-food 7 Nov @ 8:25pm 
hi the item i think is condensed milk
Icon = CannedCondensedMilk_Open,
i think that does have alot of calories due to all the sugar though
retr0l0gy 7 Nov @ 6:35am 
also creator was high when making this. There is not goddamn 2000 calories in a single can of evaporated milk.
retr0l0gy 7 Nov @ 6:34am 
@Aurora Cryptid. Could you link some?
Ban The ADL 7 Nov @ 1:57am 
Trash mod,there are many better alternatives
ryangoslinglover306 15 Oct @ 7:32am 
just steer clear of the obvious mistakes he's made