Difference between revisions of "Packaged survival meal"

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Packaged survival meals, sometimes abbreviated as 'PSM', are a high-tech long-lasting food option. They are the colonists' primary food source at the very start of each game (except for a tribal start). They can also be found in cargo pods or cooked (after research) by colonists with a minimum cooking skill of 8. Packaged survival meals restore 0.9 nutrition and do not spoil, meaning they do not require cold storage. Note that they can still deteriorate. They require 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian and 0.3 nutrition of meat or animal product to produce.

Producing a packaged survival meal takes 0.6 units of nutrition in ingredients and yields 0.9 units of nutrition as a result -- a nutrition efficiency of 150%. This is not as efficient compared to other meals such as fine meals, so it's best not to prepare these for regular colony use. Unlike most other meals, packaged survival meals can be sold to traders and friendly settlements.

Acquisition[edit]

After researching Packaged Survival Meals, they can be crafted at a fueled stove or electric stove with 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian ingredients and 0.3 nutrition of meat. For example, 6 rice and 6 meat can create a meal.

Outlander and Orbital traders, particularly Bulk Goods traders, can carry Packaged Survival Meals.

The Crashlanded scenario gives 50 Packaged Survival Meals. The Rich Explorer scenario and the Mechanitor scenario each give 40 Packaged Survival Meals. The Sanguophage scenario gives 30 Packaged Survival Meals.

Analysis[edit]

Packaged survival meals will always be accepted by trade caravans and orbital traders in trade. Their market value is not affected by their ingredients; insect meat and human meat can be converted into packaged survival meals to sell at full value.

Comparison to pemmican[edit]

When packaged survival meals are compared to pemmican:

Packaged survival meals have slightly worse nutrition per ingredient (50% vs. 60%)
Packaged survival meals do not have the nutritional flexibility that pemmican has, only offering a single chunk of .9 nutrition vs. the precise .05 bites of pemmican. See the Pemmican page for details.
Packaged survival meals are slightly more efficient in terms of carry weight (3 nutrition/kg vs. 2.78 nutrition/kg, or ~8% more/kg carried).
Packaged survival meals are significantly more efficient in storage space (9 nutrition/stack vs. 3.75 nutrition/stack).
Packaged survival meals require 43% less work to make.
Packaged survival meals never expire, while pemmican expires after 70 days if not refrigerated or frozen.
Packaged survival meals are slightly less valuable in terms of wealth (0.038 nutrition/$ vs. 0.036 nutrition/$).
Packaged survival meals are accepted by all traders; pemmican may not be.

This makes researching and producing packaged survival meals a good choice for long-term travel or emergency rations, once a colony has both the required stove and cook.

Gallery[edit]

One packaged survival meal
Partial stack
Full stack

One carnivore packaged survival meal
Partial stack
Full stack

One vegetarian packaged survival meal
Partial stack
Full stack

Version history[edit]

1.2.2719 - Fix: Incorrect calculation for packaged survival meal bulk recipe.

Texture from A14
Texture from before A14

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

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+{{Rewrite|reason= Rewrite to format standard. Add Summary section - take relevant sections from intro and analysis and expand as needed. Abandon use of info template as necessary}}
+{{Infobox main|food
+| name = Packaged survival meal
+| image = Packaged survival meal a.png
+| description = A high-quality packaged meal, manufactured for use in survival situations. While it never rots, it can still deteriorate if left outside. Great for traveling.
+<!-- Base Stats -->
+| type = Food
+| type2 = Meal
+| hp = 50
+| deterioration = 0.25
+| marketvalue = 24
+| mass base = 0.3
+| flammability = 1
+| stack limit = 10
+| path cost = 14
+<!-- Ingestion -->
+| taste = Simple
+| max num to ingest at once = 1
+| nutrition = 0.9
+<!-- Creation -->
+| work to make = 450
+| work speed stat = Cooking Speed
+| production facility 1 = Fueled stove
+| production facility 2 = Electric stove
+| research = Packaged survival meal
+| skill 1 = cooking
+| skill 1 level = 8
+| resource 1 = Nutrition
+| resource 1 type = non-vegan
+| resource 1 amount = 0.3
+| resource 2 = Nutrition
+| resource 2 type = vegan
+| resource 2 amount = 0.3
+| bulk product amount = 4
+<!-- Technical -->
+| defName = MealSurvivalPack
+| preferability = Simple
+<!-- Unused -->
 | always haulable = true
-| def name = MealSurvivalPack
-| description = A high-quality packaged meal, manufactured for use in survival situations.
 | draw gui overlay = true
+| eat effect = EatVegetarian
 | graphic class = Graphic_Single
 | graphic path = Things/Item/Meal/SurvivalPack
 | label = packaged survival meal
 | parent name = MealBase
-| path cost = 15
 | resource readout priority = Last
 | selectable = true
 | social properness matters = true
-| stack limit = 10
+| sound eat = Meal_Eat
 | thing class = Meal
 | ticker type = Rare
-| eat effect = EatVegetarian
-| max num to ingest at once = 1
-| nutrition = 0.90
-| sound eat = Meal_Eat
-| taste = Fine
-| joy offset = 0.02
-| preferability = Fine
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-| deterioration rate base = 0.5
-| flammability base = 1.0
-| market value base = 25
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-{{Info|Packaged survival meals are a high-tech long-lasting food option. They are the colonists' primary source of food at the beginning of each game (except for a tribal start) before they set up a new source of food. They can also be cooked, minimum cooking skill 8, after research or found in crashed cargo pods. Packaged survival meals restore '''0.9 saturation''' and do not ever expire, meaning they do not require cold storage.}}
+{{Info|'''Packaged survival meals''', sometimes abbreviated as 'PSM', are a high-tech long-lasting food option. They are the colonists' primary food source at the very start of each game (except for a tribal start). They can also be found in cargo pods or cooked (after research) by colonists with a minimum cooking skill of 8. Packaged survival meals restore 0.9 nutrition and do not spoil, meaning they do not require cold storage. Note that they can still [[deteriorate]]. They require 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian and 0.3 nutrition of meat or animal product to produce.}}
+Producing a packaged survival meal takes 0.6 units of nutrition in ingredients and yields 0.9 units of nutrition as a result -- a nutrition efficiency of 150%.  This is not as efficient compared to other meals such as [[fine meal]]s, so it's best not to prepare these for regular colony use. Unlike most other meals, packaged survival meals can be sold to traders and friendly settlements.
+== Acquisition ==
+After researching Packaged Survival Meals, they can be crafted at a [[fueled stove]] or [[electric stove]] with 0.3 nutrition of vegetarian ingredients and 0.3 nutrition of meat. For example, 6 [[rice]] and 6 [[meat]] can create a meal.
+Outlander and Orbital traders, particularly Bulk Goods traders, can carry Packaged Survival Meals.
+The [[Scenario system#Crashlanded|Crashlanded scenario]] gives 50 Packaged Survival Meals. The [[Scenario system#The_Rich_Explorer|Rich Explorer scenario]] and the [[Scenario system#The_Mechanitor|Mechanitor scenario]]{{BiotechIcon}} each give 40 Packaged Survival Meals. The [[Scenario system#The_Sanguophage|Sanguophage scenario]]{{BiotechIcon}} gives 30 Packaged Survival Meals.
+== Analysis ==
+Packaged survival meals will always be accepted by trade caravans and orbital traders in trade. Their market value is not affected by their ingredients; [[insect meat]] and [[human meat]] can be converted into packaged survival meals to sell at full value.
+=== Comparison to pemmican ===
+When packaged survival meals are compared to [[pemmican]]:
+* Packaged survival meals have slightly worse nutrition per ingredient (50% vs. 60%)
+* Packaged survival meals do not have the nutritional flexibility that pemmican has, only offering a single chunk of .9 nutrition vs. the precise .05 bites of pemmican. See the [[Pemmican#Benefits of discrete nutrition|Pemmican]] page for details.
+* Packaged survival meals are ''slightly'' more efficient in terms of carry weight (3 nutrition/kg vs. 2.78 nutrition/kg, or ~8% more/kg carried).
+* Packaged survival meals are significantly more efficient in storage space (9 nutrition/stack vs. 3.75 nutrition/stack).
+* Packaged survival meals require 43% less work to make.
+* Packaged survival meals never expire, while pemmican expires after 70 days if not refrigerated or frozen.
+* Packaged survival meals are slightly less valuable in terms of wealth (0.038 nutrition/$ vs. 0.036 nutrition/$).
+* Packaged survival meals are accepted by all traders; pemmican may not be.
+This makes researching and producing packaged survival meals a good choice for long-term travel or emergency rations, once a colony has both the required stove and cook.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Packaged survival meal a.png|One packaged survival meal
+Packaged survival meal b.png|Partial stack
+Packaged survival meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Carnivore packaged survival meal a.png|One carnivore packaged survival meal
+Carnivore packaged survival meal b.png|Partial stack
+Carnivore packaged survival meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Vegetarian packaged survival meal a.png|One vegetarian packaged survival meal
+Vegetarian packaged survival meal b.png|Partial stack
+Vegetarian packaged survival meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+== Version history ==
+* [[Version/1.2.2719|1.2.2719]] - Fix: Incorrect calculation for packaged survival meal bulk recipe.
-They are made with 0.3 nutrition worth of animal ingredients and 0.3 nutrition worth of plant ingredients at fueled stoves and electric stoves. This is not as efficient compared to other means of food preparation such as [[fine meal]]s, so it's best not to prepare these for regular colony use.
+<gallery>
+Packaged survival meal old 2.png|Texture from A14
+Packaged survival meal old.png|Texture from before A14
+</gallery>
-Unlike other meals, packaged survival meals can be sold to traders and friendly settlements.  The price is only ~4% higher than the raw ingredients, however: [[pemmican]] offers a much better return on investment with substantially less cooking work.
+{{nav|Food|wide}}
+[[Category:Food]] [[Category:Processed Food]] [[Category:Meal]]