Insect jelly

Insect jelly

Jelly stored and used as food by oversized insects. It is smooth, rich, and brings joy to those who consume it. Because of its unique biological properties, it can nourish almost any creature and never rots.

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Type

Food – Raw Food

Nutrition Facts

Nutrition

0.05

Taste

Fine

Base Stats

Deterioration Rate

6

Flammability

1

Market Value

8

Mass

0.025

Max Hit Points

100

Insect jelly periodically appears near insect hives. It fills the recreation meter of colonists by 8% when eaten raw. It can also be used as a cooking ingredient. Cooking is recommended as it is a dangerous food type.

Acquisition

?

Farming techniques

?

Analysis

It lasts forever and provides roughly 8% recreation of the Gluttonous type per consumption, so its also a good emergency food supply to break out when times are tough and mood is at risk. It is especially good for caravans as they can't get recreation while moving otherwise, and only slowly get social recreation when stopped. It has a 2% food poisoning chance. In this role is is comparable to Chocolate which provides 10% Gluttonous recreation and 0.1 nutrition. Statistically, chocolate is superior in terms of nutrition and recreation provided and the lack of food poisoning risk is especially helpful, however Insect Jelly requires no research to acquire and is often acquired in large amounts from threats that would arise regardless. Chocolate must be researched and farmed. Additionally, insect jelly is also 1/3 the weight of chocolate and sells for more, giving it advantages as a buffer product in caravans as it occupies less weight for trade goods and is worth more in the event that it must be sold to make up the value in a trade.

Its also a decent trade good, separate to its use by the caravan itself, as it is expensive, light and it is easy to get a lot of it when facing late game infestations, or can even be farmed.

It is currently unknown if using it in cooking maintains the recreation boost.

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Food

Meals

Chocolate • Fine meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Kibble • Lavish meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Nutrient paste meal • Packaged survival meal • Pemmican • Simple meal • Baby food

Raw food - Animal

Meat (Human, Insect) • Insect jelly • Milk • Hemogen pack

Raw food - Eggs

Cassowary egg (fert.) • Chicken egg (fert., unfert.) • Cobra egg (fert.) • Duck egg (fert., unfert.) • Emu egg (fert.) • Goose egg (fert., unfert.) • Iguana egg (fert.) • Ostrich egg (fert.) • Tortoise egg (fert.) • Turkey egg (fert.)

Raw food - Vegetarian

Agave fruit • Berries • Corn • Hay • Potatoes • Raw fungus • Rice • Toxipotatoes