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CAT - Much Foods v2.05

Much Foods! v2.05 - Woof!

This mod slips smoothly into vanilla game play, adding more food/crop items and improving the end game with a vast variety and a better survival balance.
Wolves and spiders are optional again.
Custom planets no longer starve you.
Food acts more like food, typically recovering hunger not health.
Food trading is available!

Over all it fixed a lot of problems people seem to bring up.
The balance aims to be close to vanilla, just more survival focused.
Aims to improve your endgame and roleplay experience if you go that way.

Balanced for defaults (medium) food drain.

Currently adds about:
50 basic items (not including seeds or DNA samples)
60 meals items
5 drinks
3 types of poison (+whatever poison variants)

>>If you are playing with Apex.Advanced GO HERE instead!<<

Short guide:
The flow of the mod is simple, you start vanilla focusing on algae, while collecting DNA samples from unknown signals.
Bushes, wolves, spider and trade can also help you but are not strictly required.
DNA needs to be analysed to unlock new food items.
These are then farmed like vanilla or if its meat, cloned using algae as a base – giving you a reason to still collect it.
Meats require more matching DNA to unlock than plants, adding another small progression step (unless you’re just lucky!)
Vanilla starter food will keep you alive, but also provides you with a small amount of encouragement to move you onto better foods. But fear not, for while simple crops heal little, cooking thing up soon improved hunger restoration. The longer it takes to make something, the more rewarding it will be – see the time vs reward chart.
Some items can be traded, some appear as acquisitions and some items are not even useful just for fun.

Poison can also be crafted and applied to your foes (or friends) food to do damage.
In the right situation death is avoidable, but if you get stuck or are to far from help you may well die (please give feedback). Note Build Info will display food stats such as negative health, keep that in mind.

*These items are not dropped from unknown signals: DNA_21, Oak, Fungus, Herbs, Pumpkin. You can trade for all of them or their DNA. And some you can forage or hunt as well.

Road map:
Balance and tweaks.
>> Mod compatibility.
Improve drinks that currently do very little.
> Adding more items (basically whenever I get time).
May add more poisons, or split them into another mod.
>> Feature suggestions.

Mod makers and compatibility:
Food processer block mods need to include the correct classes to function. This is a very easy compatibility to add.
FoodProcessorRations : Food cooking
FoodProcessorSeeds: Make Seeds
UnidentifiedDNASamples : DNA extraction
IdentifiedDNASamples : DNA cloning
WCooking : Drink cooking
PCooking : Poison cooking

Adding new food:
In addition, there is a naming convention to help players.
A mid dot · indicates a basic food item. A colon : indicates a more useful food item and a degrees symbol ° indicates a seed item. Seed images have 2 icons as well, look in the sbc.
This is very important for players that still wish the ability to use a conveyor sorter without pain.

Farm Plot Blocks:
Farm plot blocks need to include mod seeds in white list!

Trouble shooting:
If you get no DNA from unknown signals (not even 1 in 10 drops) or DNA cannot be used in the food processor block. Then make sure this mod has priority in the load order!
Make sure this mod has priority (top of list for single player) over mods that add farm plot blocks.

Known bugs:
Language files can get ignored displaying the incorrect item text, such as the 'Fill Value'. Just ignore it until a fix can be found, I have a feeling this is on Keens end :3
MuchFoods never intended to show you how much food you got from an item. Just know the longer it takes to make something from-seed-to-plate total, the more benefit it will give you. See the benefits chart in images.

Final note:
This mod is script free for the lightest footprint posable.
I will continue to tweak the balance based on user feedback. So the good the bad and the ugly, comment on the steam page so I know what to improve. Please report any bugs or imbalance here also!
Thank you and enjoy. =)

Updates!
v2.05
Wolf and Spider loot improved, it was brutal... Now more likely to drop DNA.
v2.04
Added compatibility for coffee mod
Added vanilla items back into the game with new recipes and rebalanced stats.
Added new bugs relating to the vanilla items, thanks Keen! :D
v2.03 and before
Added compatibility for USGC (small grid conversion).
Added compatibility for the vertical farms mod. More farm plot block compatibilities to be added, link me to one below if you want it adding!