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Beefcake Food Overhaul [B42]

• Makes all foods useful by adding a boredom system so you can't just eat the same thing all the time!
  
• Balances animals, fishing, liquids, meats, vegetables and many misc foods!
  
• More meat! More calories! Fixes overpowered foods and buffs many other foods!
  
• Get faster as your cooking skill increase and less left over scraps saves time!
  
• Adjustable sandbox settings!

It makes all food matter by overhauling the entire food system. You'll now (optionally) get bored of food if you eat the same thing over and over. Meats have more calories but less hunger. Many vegetables also have more calories so it will be easier to keep a normal weight without cooking so many meals, but its far easier with meats.

It also greatly increases the amount of meat you get from butchering farm animals.



Are you annoyed that just eating 1 or 2 foods is all you need in project zomboid? Why grow and hoard all that other stuff if cabbages is all you need?

Not anymore, with beefcakes new optional feature your character will now keep track of what they have eaten recently and get bored of it! They will even complain about eating things they have eaten too much of and remark about new foods.

Make meals with more and varied ingredients to lower the boredom of your staple foods and how fast you get bored of them, Now everything has a purpose! Turn it on/off at any time in the sandbox options or configure it how you wish.


Cooking skill has been changed: You no longer use less hunger of an ingredient at higher cooking skill. Instead you always use the amount the UI says and the resulting recipe has more calories instead. This prevents annoying little 'leftover' ingredients and helps each recipe have higher calories.

Most meats can now be fully added to a recipe in one or two uses meaning you won't need to cook so many meals.

Cooking skill now also reduces adding ingredient to a recipe time to 50% of normal at level 10. (Vanilla is 75% at level 10)


All animals have had calories and meat quantity from butchering increased greatly as they suffered badly from the butcher hook bug and very low calorie meats.


Way more meat from most animals! More calories from meat and vegetables!
Buffs many foods that had far too little calories for realism!
Fixes overpowered foods such as rabbits, sunflowers and fishing to name a few!
Balances drinks so that all juices have realistic calories!


It fixes 2 vanilla bugs with butchering animals (The butchering hook bug and the 12~30 hour decay bug) and vastly increases amount of meat and cut quality of animals butchered on the hook.


This mod is safe to add/remove mid game, although the mod won't affect any already spawned items. It will affect already spawned animals as the animal code only executes when you butcher them.

It should be compatible with other cooking mods such as Sapph's cooking.


Feel free to give me feedback on the rebalance!

Special thanks to Kaydeth for the well commented mod No more food scraps that helped me make the cooking skill ingredient features of this mod.

Recommended Mods: More Item Info so you can see the calories in food with high enough cooking skill, even without nutritionist trait!

Workshop ID: 3543815008
Mod ID: ProjectBeefcake