It seems to be due to the original game's ingredient display feature that the twisted meat in the food remains recognizable.

bug report:

my pawns still hate all the food in this mod and get twisted meat negative, except for the four new meals added in v1.3.

Does the Grand Damn need to be chicken eggs? I've got other egglayers, and I would really like to be able to make it with... well, other kinds of eggs.

Very brit'ish food, jolly good!

Not an optimal situation but I've switched from Adobe Animate to Affinity Designer 2, this tools switch might reflect in the artwork as I get used to the new and different controls and methods.

I got recommended to use an actual drawing program instead of a crash happy animation program and I'm trying. The new foods might look a little different, hopefully not too much though.

Utterly genius. Absolutely based. I love that it doesn't upset normal Pawns because it tastes THAT GOOD. I can't wait to see this Mod in action.

@Robert20697

100% Horax would be like "How dare you make- actually these are quite good, pass the potato things?"

I like to imagine Horax seeing this, and going "...Okay, I guess that's funny, might as well make it good!" and using his influence to make all of the food actually enjoyable and beneficial.

I'm sure my genetic supremacist weirdos that want to become androids and live in the Arctic would appreciate these recipes.

Awesome, thank you for the quick peek and fix! Happy to have helped! :D

@Mocha

Thanks for finding that issue, I was using the nutrition value getter in the code as part of the recipe because most food does as it's useful for mixing ingredients but it's not needed with this modded fixed ingredient style of meals. With that gone ingredients with no nutrition can go into the food and there's no issues with salt or herbal medicine.

Again thanks for the heads up!

@Mocha

That... might be a bug with the recipe. I'll look into it now, might be as simple as a missed period or I might have just straight up used the salt in the recipe code wrong.

With the Salt Crusted Cutlets, it says they require 0.5x nutrition, but the salt from VE has a nutrition of 0.00, and despite having 100+ salt in storage, pawns can't cook the cutlets. Am I missing something?

4 meats to a pigman,turn it to be a monster

I could definitely go for a dread melt right now.

Love it

fair enough i suppose

@Bustly

They are around 4 - 6 as they are still simple, fine and lavish meals more than anything. The buffs are generally weak and are more just defining features than anything game changing until you leaned into them for some specific aspect. Even then the meals do require manufactured ingredients generally though so you'd expect some small return.

also to meet the eldritchness of it it'd be funny to see some absolutely out-there ingredients (mmm human liver yummy), maybe even a tier 2 as well (meals requiring specific meals made here)

just curious: do these specialized foods have high cooking reqs? seems pretty insanely powerful to be able to convert a bad foodstuff into long-lasting (day to quadrum) buffs

this mod is beautiful. so excited to use it for an anomaly playthrough this october!

Easy debuff / buff could be if you have vanilla expanded insanity, have each food count towards negative sanity (also ya did good on the lasagna lol)

@UncleRippu

Yeah the lasagna was inspired by the monster lasagna from Don't Starve directly, the first designs for the meals did have stronger positives and distinct negatives, either mental break threshold, sickness or some sort of sleep effect

as I worked on it and debugged stuff I dropped the negatives pretty quickly, it's already difficult to manage pawn foods and I didn't want to add more overhead to that with this mod as I feel the game does enough to make food rough

having heard that feedback a few times though I might implement a mod setting to switch from "British" normal to "Horror" hard mode and change the effects to be stronger positives with new negatives for people who want a tougher difficulty/reward curve.

reminds me of the monster meat meals from don't starve; which makes me think eating these should come with some kind of negative debuff as opposed to a positive one. like yeah your pawns dressed it up better and put normal ingredients in with it, but not even a five star chef could make meat from an anolmalous monster any less bad for your body and/or mind

So creative with the recipes and art, good job

@Halicade

If you've got the biotech DLC I recommend getting that gene removed.

Dreadmelt is a god tier pun

oh boy its finally out

@Halicade thats not what you said last night

My asstose intolerant

I'm lactose intolerant. Can you make a dairy free version?

tasty

Well making an Anomaly Space McDonalds is now my top priority

he twist my tots till bhang

@Sentinel

my guy... cmon man...

Can confirm i drank his meal

Twisting my meat to make a meal out of it <3

Sloppy slop slop