Rice

Rice is a vegetable raw food obtained by harvesting rice plants. Rice plants grow very quickly but with a modest yield.

Acquisition

Rice is harvested from rice plants. Each plant requires 5.54 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

As a raw food, rice 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, rice is classified as a vegetable.

As with most raw food, eating rice 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.