Prepared Food/en

Much more filling than Raw Food, Prepared Food is food that has either been prepared for consumption by baking, cooking, or by nature itself in the cases of fruit and mushrooms.

All prepared foods are, unsurprisingly, stored a prepared food stockpile or in a Barrel for prepared food, if available.

Naturally Prepared Foods
Naturally Prepared Foods include those that are fine for consumption straight after harvesting. They can all be found in nature, and can all be used to create even more advanced and filling foods.

Apple
Apples can be harvested from Apple Trees in grass areas, and can be stored in prepared food stockpiles.

They can be baked into Apple Pies.

Pear
Like apples, pears can also be harvested from Pear Trees in grass areas. They too can be baked, and the result is a delicious Pear Pie.

Banana
Bananas can be harvested in the jungle from Banana Trees. They can be baked into delicious Banana Bread or Banana Pie, cooked into Baked Banana, or mixed into a Jungle Salad.

Snowcherry
Snowcherries can be harvested from Snowcherry Trees, which grow in snowy areas. They can be baked into Snowcherry Pies.

Blue Radish
Blue Radishes can be harvested from mature Blue radish plants grown on jungle terrain. They can be eaten raw, or used to make Jungle Salad.

Cactus Fruit
These can be found by harvesting cacti, which grow in sandy areas. They can be used to cook Cactus Soup.

Jungle Mushroom
These green mushrooms are found growing on jungle tiles. They can be eatten raw or used to make Mushroom Soup, Mountain Stew, or a much less appetizing Poison bottle.

Cave Mushroom
These mushrooms currently do not grow in caves, but instead on snow tiles. They have all the same uses as Jungle Mushrooms.

Milk
Milk can be harvested using the auto-production menu from either cows, unifallow or does. The resulting milk can be drunk straight from the bucket, and is actually quite filling. However, it can also be used as an ingredient for several soups, to provide even more sustenance. Cow farms must be built on grassy terrain, while unifallow farms must be built on sandy terrain. Currently there is no doe farm.

Egg
Eggs can be harvested using the auto-production menu from either chickens or skootenbeeten. The resulting egg can be eaten plain, but is not very filling. However, it can also be used as an ingredient for several foods, to provide even more sustenance. Chicken farms must be built on grassy terrain. Skootenbeeten farms must be built on jungle terrain.

Baked Goods
Baked Goods include all those that require flour (and therefore, wheat) and a Bakery zone to create.

Bread
Bread is the most basic of the baked goods, and requires only flour to make. Simply have a Bakery zone complete with oven and table, queue up bread on the auto-production menu, and wait. If your civilians are not making enough bread, increase the amount of wheat by building more Wheat Farms. If they have too much wheat but no flour, create more Mills.

Apple Pie
Apple Pies require flour and a single apple to make. They too, like all baked and cooked foods, can be queued up in the auto-production menu.

Pear Pie
Pear Pies are similar to Apple Pies, except that they require a juicy Pear instead of an Apple to craft. They are only slightly less filling than Meat Pies, but take 1/3 less time to eat. As a result, it might be worth the effort to order your Townsfolk to harvest some Pears for this dish.

Banana Pie
Banana pies are similar to other fruit pies, but require a Banana as their main ingredient, along with the normal flour.

Snowcherry pie
Snowcherry pies require a single flour and a Snowcherry to bake. They fill as much as pear pies, making them quite valuable.

Meat Pie
Meat Pies require flour and a single raw steak or raw pork to craft. They fill up your Townsfolk more than almost any other foods, and therefore are in high demand when available.

Cookie
A single cookie requires 1 Egg and 1 flour. They aren't the most filling, but they don't take long to eat, either.

Banana Bread
Banana bread requires a piece of already cooked Bread as well as a banana to cook. They fill a lot more than regular bread, keeping your Townsfolk full for longer.

Cooked Meats
Cooked Meats are all prepared the same way: take raw meat, prepare it on a Kitchen Table, then cook it on a stove or Cooking Fire. They tend to fill more than more Baked or Naturally Prepared foods, and therefore tend to be eaten first when available.

Cooked Pork
Raw pork can be cooked on either a Cooking Fire or a stove to create Cooked Pork. Note that, like all raw meats, Townsfolk require a Kitchen Table to prepare the meat before cooking.

Cooked Steak
Similar to cooked pork, raw steak can be cooked on either a fire or a stove once prepared.

Cooked Poultry
Raw poultry is required for this item, prepared and cooked like steak and pork.

Cooked Badger Meat
Badger raw steak can be cooked up into Cooked Badger Meat the same way as other meats.

Roast
By combining raw steak, poultry and pork, you can cook a very filling Special Roast. Since you can now farm all the types of meat required for this food, it has become a viable option for sustaining a Town.

Other Cooked Food
Other cooked food includes anything that requires a Stove or Cooking Fire that isn't made from meat or some kind of stew. They range from quite filling to very filling, so it's worth giving them a look.

Baked Banana
Baked Bananas require 2 bananas to cook. While quite filling, they are tough and require a lot of time to eat.

Ham and Eggs
Ham and eggs require 2 eggs and 1 raw pork to cook, but are very filling when eaten.

Omelette
An omelette requires 2 eggs to cook.

Cooked Fish
Raw Fish is only acquirable through caravans, making cooked fish the rarest food item in the game.

Soups & Stews
Soups & Stews tend to be slightly harder to create, since they usually require mushrooms and a Cooking Bowl, but they tend to fill up the Townsfolk who eat them. That's what's important!

Mushroom Soup
One bowl of Mushroom Soup requires 2 Cave or Jungle Mushrooms to create, as well as one of the following: a bucket of Milk, a jungle bush, or a Water Bucket. Cooked on a Cooking Bowl, they are complicated to craft, but like all soups & stews, fill a big gap in a Townsfolk's stomach.

Cactus Soup
Cactus Soup is prepared using the same utilities as Mushroom Soup, but only require 2 Cactus Fruit and one bucket of Milk to create.

Mountain Stew
Mountain Stew is currently the most complex food to create, requiring:
 * 2 Jungle or Cave Mushrooms
 * 1 raw steak, raw pork or raw deer steak
 * One of the following: a bucket of Milk, a jungle bush, or a Water Bucket.

However, the complexity of the recipe is reflected in the hunger it sates, so do not be put off!

Jungle Salad
Jungle salads require 1 banana and one Blue radish to be created at a Baker's table. However, they are only 90% filling, and it would be better to use the banana to make banana bread.