Difference between revisions of "Pemmican"

Latest revision as of 17:25, 16 February 2024

Pemmican is a low-tech long-lasting food, ideal for caravan trips.

Acquisition[edit]

Pemmican can be cooked at a Campfire, Fueled stove, or Electric stove once the Pemmican research project has been completed. There is no Cooking skill requirement, though it does use the cooking skill.

Each batch of 16 requires a mixture of 0.25 nutrition from meat and 0.25 nutrition from vegetables and 700 ticks (11.67 secs) of work. Alternatively, pemmican can be made in batches of 64 at the cost of 1 nutrition of each type and 2,800 ticks (46.67 secs) of work. Campfires have a ×50% work speed multiplier; it takes twice as long to cook pemmican at a campfire.

It can also be purchased from traders, or occasionally recovered from tribal raiders.

Summary[edit]

Unlike most cooked meals, each unit of pemmican is worth 0.05 nutrition. 18 units of pemmican are as filling as a single simple meal, fine meal, or packaged survival meal (which all worth 0.9 nutrition per item).

As you get 16 pemmican for 10 units of raw food, pemmican has a nutrition efficiency of 160%.

Benefits of discrete nutrition[edit]

Pawns will eat just before they become hungry. With larger meals, this can result in a significant amount of overeating. Simple meals and fine meals give 0.9 nutrition per meal. Humans can store up to 1.0 nutrition, but will try to eat when they have around 0.25 nutrition left. If left to their own devices, a colonist will waste 0.15 nutrition for every full meal. In contrast, a colonist with pemmican will only bring what they need. They'll eat 0.8 nutrition of pemmican, resulting in a lower waste of food. Smaller animals will overeat more. Chickens only have capacity for 0.30 nutrition, so making full meals for your coop is a waste.

It is possible to micromanage your colonists so that they'll only eat when starving, meaning that they will never overeat (even with simple meals). If micromanagement is used, then simple meals will give more nutrition than pemmican. If pawns are left to their own devices, pemmican is more efficient since it prevents overeating.

Discrete nutrition is also helpful when pawns undergo frequent vomiting. Food poisoning will slow eating speed, and if they vomit, the entire meal is interrupted. With pemmican, pawns will consume each unit of pemmican separately, so when a pawn vomits, they won't lose progress for the entire meal.

Analysis[edit]

Pemmican's main purpose is to preserve food. This is useful for two independent purposes.

Caravans. Most cooked meals only last for a few days, so pemmican can be used for long trips on the road. Pemmican faces direct competition with packaged survival meals, which New Arrivals can research for the exact same cost as the pemmican research. An in-depth comparison can be viewed below.

New Tribes start with Pemmican researched, but lack the ability to freeze food. Pemmican can be used to preserve meat and other perishables like berries before they spoil. However, food crops last a while - rice lasts for 40 days, corn for 60 days. You can get multiple harvests by the time the first spoils. If reliant entirely on crops, then pemmican is mostly unnecessary.

As pemmican takes a long time to create, it is not recommended for "usual" daily consumption. If food storage isn't an issue, then simple meals or fine meals should be made instead, as they are quicker to prepare, regardless of overeating or not.

Comparison to packaged survival meals[edit]

The packaged survival meal (PSM) serves a very similar purpose to pemmican. They are both foods that can last for a long time. Pemmican is more nutritious than packaged meals (160% vs 150% nutrition efficiency). In addition, pawns won't overeat with pemmican nearly as much, as described in the summary section. Finally, pemmican is roughly +8% better for weight, a small but relevant bonus for any sort of caravan trip.

The most apparent advantage of packed survival meals is that they never rot. In contrast, pemmican spoils in 70 days. However, the actual use of this is questionable. Unless you are playing with 100% coverage, even the ship to the stars quest is unlikely to take more than a RimWorld year. And during the trip, you'll likely be able to trade for food, using silver, gold, or any other material. Silver never spoils. Finally, you can settle on a new, temporary colony to restore your food reserves.

PSMs have a few other advantages. They are drastically more efficient in storage space - storing ×240% nutrition / tile when compared to pemmican. PSMs also require ×60% the work to make. Finally, packaged meals sell for more than pemmican, and can be sold to outlander factions. If you end up packing too much food but need to buy goods, then PSMs have a small advantage.

Overall, pemmican is often a better caravan food, due to its superior nutrition / weight. However, it takes more work to create. If a cook's work is important, if you need to prepare for a trip quickly, or if you are planning a massive trip, then packaged survival meals can be a more practical choice. If you are New Arrivals looking to research a caravan food, then pemmican is likely the better option - but the differences are small and either option could work fine.

As animal feed[edit]

Pemmican and kibble both have 0.05 nutrition per item, which makes them good animal feed. They both allow herbivorous animals to eat meat, and increase nutrition per work.

Kibble's main advantage is that it is much quicker to prepare. It takes 400 ticks (6.67 secs) for 50 units of kibble, but 700 ticks (11.67 secs) for 16 units of pemmican. However, pemmican is more nutritionally efficient. 10 raw food would create 16 units of pemmican, but only 12.5 units of kibble. When considering labor for both plant and animal farming, kibble ends up being a better choice for work. However, if it's winter and you are running out of food, then pemmican can end up being an animal-saving option.

Gallery[edit]

One pemmican meal
Partial stack
Full stack

Version history[edit]

Beta 19/1.0 - Colonists will now take pemmican to inventory like meals.
Sometime before 1.0.2150 - Texture updated.

Old texture

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

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{rewrite|reason=Cleanup, expansion, possibly summary.}}
 {{Infobox main|food
 | name = Pemmican
@@ Line 13: / Line 12: @@
 | flammability = 0.6
 | stack limit = 75
-| path cost = 15
+| path cost = 14
 <!-- Ingestion -->
 | taste = Simple
@@ Line 25: / Line 24: @@
 | research = Pemmican
 | work to make = 700
-| skill 1 = cooking
+| work speed stat = Cooking Speed
 | resource 1 = Nutrition
 | resource 1 type = meat
@@ Line 33: / Line 32: @@
 | resource 2 amount = 0.25
 | product amount = 16
+| bulk product amount = 64
 <!-- Technical -->
 | defName = Pemmican
-| bulk product amount = 64
 <!-- Unused -->
 | always haulable = true
@@ Line 51: / Line 50: @@
 | use hit points = true
 }}
-{{Info|'''Pemmican''' is a low-tech long-lasting food, ideal for [[caravan]] trips. It is produced from 0.25 nutrition each of meat and vegetables (0.5 total), producing 16 pemmican with 0.05 nutrition each, for 0.8 nutrition total. No Cooking skill is required.}}
+'''Pemmican''' is a low-tech long-lasting food, ideal for [[caravan]] trips.
-Pemmican will [[deteriorate]] when left outside.
 == Acquisition ==
-Pemmican can be [[Work#Cook|cooked]] at a [[{{P|Production Facility 1}}]], [[{{P|Production Facility 2}}]], or [[{{P|Production Facility 3}}]] once the [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] research project has been completed. Each batch of {{P|Product Amount}} requires a mixture of 0.25 nutrition from meat and 0.25 nutrition from vegetables and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work. Alternatively, it can be made in batches of 64 at the cost of 1 nutrition of each type and {{ticks|2800}} of work.
+Pemmican can be [[Work#Cook|cooked]] at a [[{{P|Production Facility 1}}]], [[{{P|Production Facility 2}}]], or [[{{P|Production Facility 3}}]] once the [[Research#{{P|Required Research}}|{{P|Required Research}}]] research project has been completed.  There is no [[Cooking]] skill requirement, though it does use the cooking skill.
-There is no [[Cooking]] skill requirement, although it does increase that skill.
+Each batch of {{P|Product Amount}} requires a mixture of 0.25 nutrition from meat and 0.25 nutrition from vegetables and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work. Alternatively, pemmican can be made in batches of 64 at the cost of 1 nutrition of each type and {{ticks|2800}} of work. [[Campfire]]s have a {{Bad|x50%}} work speed multiplier; it takes twice as long to cook pemmican at a campfire.
 It can also be purchased from [[trade]]rs, or occasionally recovered from [[tribal]] [[raider]]s.
+== Summary ==
+Unlike most [[meals|cooked meal]]s, each unit of pemmican is worth 0.05 nutrition. 18 units of pemmican are as filling as a single [[simple meal]], [[fine meal]], or [[packaged survival meal]] (which all worth 0.9 nutrition per item).
+As you get 16 pemmican for 10 units of [[raw food]], pemmican has a nutrition efficiency of 160%.
+=== Benefits of discrete nutrition ===
+Pawns will eat just before they become [[Saturation#Levels of Saturation|hungry]]. With larger meals, this can result in a significant amount of overeating. [[Simple meal]]s and [[fine meal]]s give 0.9 nutrition per meal. Humans can store up to 1.0 nutrition, but will try to eat when they have around 0.25 nutrition left. If left to their own devices, a colonist will waste 0.15 nutrition for every full meal. In contrast, a colonist with pemmican will only bring what they need. They'll eat 0.8 nutrition of pemmican, resulting in a lower waste of food. Smaller [[animal]]s will overeat more. [[Chicken]]s only have capacity for 0.30 nutrition, so making full meals for your coop is a waste.
+It is possible to micromanage your colonists so that they'll only eat when starving, meaning that they will never overeat (even with simple meals). If micromanagement is used, then simple meals will give more nutrition than pemmican. If pawns are left to their own devices, pemmican is more efficient since it prevents overeating.
+Discrete nutrition is also helpful when pawns undergo frequent vomiting. [[Food poisoning]] will slow eating speed, and if they vomit, the entire meal is interrupted. With pemmican, pawns will consume each unit of pemmican separately, so when a pawn vomits, they won't lose progress for the entire meal.
 == Analysis ==
-Producing pemmican takes 0.5 units of nutrition in ingredients and yields 0.8 units of nutrition as a result - a 60% net nutrition gain. Up to 20 can be consumed in one sitting.
+Pemmican's main purpose is to preserve food. This is useful for two independent purposes.
+* [[Caravan]]s. Most cooked meals only last for a few days, so pemmican can be used for long trips on the road. Pemmican faces direct competition with [[packaged survival meal]]s, which [[New Arrivals]] can research for the ''exact same cost'' as the pemmican research. An in-depth comparison can be viewed [[#Comparison to PSMs|below]].
+* [[New Tribe]]s start with Pemmican researched, but lack the ability to [[cooler|freeze]] food. Pemmican can be used to preserve [[meat]] and other perishables like [[berries]] before they spoil. However, food crops last a while - [[rice]] lasts for 40 days, [[corn]] for 60 days. You can get multiple harvests by the time the first spoils. If reliant entirely on crops, then pemmican is mostly unnecessary.
+As pemmican takes a long time to create, it is not recommended for "usual" daily consumption. If food storage isn't an issue, then [[simple meal]]s or [[fine meal]]s should be made instead, as they are quicker to prepare, regardless of overeating or not.
+=== Comparison to packaged survival meals ===
+The [[packaged survival meal]] (PSM) serves a very similar purpose to pemmican. They are both foods that can last for a long time. Pemmican is more nutritious than packaged meals (160% vs 150% nutrition efficiency). In addition, pawns won't overeat with pemmican nearly as much, as described in the [[#Benefits of discrete nutrition|summary]] section. Finally, pemmican is roughly {{+|8%}} better for weight, a small but relevant bonus for any sort of caravan trip.
-Pemmican requires the [[Research#Pemmican|pemmican research]]; [[Scenario_system#New Tribe vs New Arrivals|New Tribe]] colonies start with it, but New Arrivals need to research it before it can be produced. It thus can be very useful for long-term food storage as a tribal before you get freezers, as it lasts 70 days unrefrigerated before rotting, has no minimum Cooking requirement, and you start with the technology already researched. For New Arrival colonies, the immediate availability of [[cooler]]s makes this less useful for food storage, and given the need to research it, and the fact that the research required for pemmican and [[packaged survival meal]]s is identical for New Arrivals, there is little reason to use it.
+The most apparent advantage of packed survival meals is that they ''never rot''. In contrast, pemmican spoils in {{P|Days To Start Rot Base}} days. However, the actual use of this is questionable. Unless you are playing with 100% coverage, even the [[ship to the stars]] quest is unlikely to take more than a RimWorld year. And during the trip, you'll likely be able to [[trade]] for food, using [[silver]], [[gold]], or any other material. Silver never spoils. Finally, you can settle on a new, temporary colony to restore your food reserves.
-=== Comparisons ===
+PSMs have a few other advantages. They are drastically more efficient in storage space - storing {{Good|x240%}} nutrition / tile when compared to pemmican. PSMs also require {{Good|x60%}} the work to make. Finally, packaged meals sell for more than pemmican, and can be sold to outlander factions. If you end up packing too much food but need to buy goods, then PSMs have a small advantage.
-; Pemmican vs. a Fine Meal:
-* The exact same ingredients (both .25 meat + .25 vegetables)
-* Pemmican takes 50% more work to produce (12 vs. 8)
-* A fine meal provides ~11% more nutrition (0.9 vs. 0.8)
-* A fine meal provides a +5 [[mood]] boost
-* A fine meal spoils ''much'' faster (4 days vs. 70 days)
-* A fine meal can store more nutrition in a full stack (9 vs 3.75)
-* A fine meal has a lower nutrition density ({{#expr:{{Q|Fine meal|Nutrition}}/{{Q|Fine meal|Mass Base}} round 3}} vs {{#expr:{{P|Nutrition}}/{{P|Mass Base}} round 3}}), meaning pemmican gives you more nutrition for the same weight (for [[caravan]]s)
-* Pemmican gives ''exactly'' the amount of nutrition needed, while (any) meals have a potential for "waste" (see next)
-; Pemmican vs. a Packaged survival meal:
+Overall, pemmican is often a better caravan food, due to its superior nutrition / weight. However, it takes more work to create. If a cook's work is important, if you need to prepare for a trip quickly, or if you are planning a massive trip, then packaged survival meals can be a more practical choice. If you are [[New Arrivals]] looking to research a caravan food, then pemmican is likely the better option - but the differences are small and either option could work fine.
-* 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 drastically more efficient in storage space (9 nutrition/stack vs. 3.75 nutrition/stack).
-* Packaged survival meals require 1/3 less work to make (8 vs. 12).
-* 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/$).
-=== Benefits of discrete nutrition ===
+===As animal feed===
-While pemmican technically has a lower net nutrition gain than fine / simple meals, it is slightly more efficient while eating. Colonists try to eat just before actually getting [[Saturation#Levels of Saturation|hungry]], so they will typically eat at about 0.7-0.8 hunger. A set meal restores a fixed 0.9 nutrition in one single piece, so a pawn will often waste about 15% of it. Because pemmican comes in smaller pieces, colonists will take only as much as they need, and on average only waste about 2.5% while eating. These differences are small and nearly cancel each other out, but may be important/interesting to some players. It can also be relevant when feeding animals - small animals can waste a large amount of the nutrition of a meal, making pemmican (or [[kibble]], which works the same) an ideal option for feeding them high nutritional efficiency food.
+Pemmican and [[kibble]] both have 0.05 nutrition per item, which makes them good [[animal]] feed. They both allow herbivorous animals to eat meat, and increase nutrition per work.
-This technique can also prove beneficial when a colonist is affected by an [[ailment]] or [[disease]] which causes frequent vomiting, such as [[food poisoning]] or [[gut worms]]. Vomiting interrupts the process of eating a full meal, but a colonist can quickly down a few bites of pemmican between "attacks", and so more easily avoid [[malnutrition]].
+Kibble's main advantage is that it is ''much'' quicker to prepare. It takes {{ticks|400}} for 50 units of kibble, but {{ticks|700}} for ''16'' units of pemmican. However, pemmican is more nutritionally efficient. 10 raw food would create 16 units of pemmican, but only 12.5 units of kibble.  When considering labor for both plant and animal farming, kibble ends up being a better choice for work. However, if it's winter and you are running out of food, then pemmican can end up being an animal-saving option.
 == Gallery ==
@@ Line 97: / Line 98: @@
 Pemmican b.png|Partial stack
 Pemmican c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+== Version history ==
+* Beta 19/1.0 - Colonists will now take pemmican to inventory like meals.
+* Sometime before [[Version/1.0.2150|1.0.2150]] - Texture updated.
+<gallery>
+Pemmican.png|Old texture
 </gallery>