Potatoes

Potatoes are a vegetable raw food obtained by harvesting potato plants. Potato plants are insensitive to soil fertility.

Acquisition[edit]

Potatoes are harvested from potato plants. Each plant requires 10.71 full days at optimal light and temperature range to reach maturity in normal, 100% fertile soil and yields units per plant, before modifiers for Difficulty and Plant Harvest Yield.

Summary[edit]

As a raw food, potatoes can be be eaten raw, with a flat 2% chance of giving food poisoning, or cooked into a meal with a food poisoning chance dependent on the skill of the cook and the cleanliness of the kitchen. Animals are immune to food poisoning from raw food but not from meals. When used in food recipes that require specific types of nutrition, such as fine meals, potatoes are classified as a vegetable.

As with most raw food, eating potatoes directly results in a −7 Ate raw food mood penalty. This mood penalty is negated if the pawn has the ascetic trait or the robust digestion gene.