Revolutionary cooking system

[SekoETC]

This might be too difficult to program, so I'm posting this here instead of suggestions.

There would be foods that can take a variety of ingredients, and the percentage of each resource would be recorded in a separate table that was linked to objects, so people could always check what they were eating. Since we were dealing with percentages, those wouldn't change even if the food was partially eaten. These custom foods wouldn't merge with other foods with the same name if they had a different ratio of ingredients, so the piles in the inventory would remain separate.

Each food uses a base that consists of one or more mandatory ingredients which have a minimum and maximum percentage out of the whole weight, plus optional ingredients, which have a maximum percentage of the whole weight. For example, most foods can include salt, but the maximum percentage in most cases is 1 %. I was thinking it's easier if it doesn't allow starting the project if the allocated value for some resource exceeds the maximum percentage. Another option would be to make the food cause tiredness if some resource exceeds maximum percentage, and have a hard limit that can't be exceeded.

The more ingredients a food includes, the more efficient it will be. If some ingredients have healing values, they will be transfered to the resulting food.

Tertiary ingredients can be given such a small max percentage that they won't fill the requirement of an optional ingredient on their own.

Green salad (mixing bowl):

One or more of the following:

spinach
curly kale
lettuce (not implemented yet)

Optional ingredients:

tomatoes
corn
pumpkin
mushrooms
asparagus
carrots
cucumbers

Not implemented at the moment:
zucchini
bell pepper
avocado
peas
croutons

Tertiary:
basil
olives
nuts

Fruity green salad (mixing bowl):

Green salad + one or more of the following:
apples
pineapple
papayas
coconuts
grapes

Not implemented at the moment:
oranges

Tertiary:
raisins

Fruit salad (mixing bowl):

Two or more of the following:
apples
bananas
pineapple
papayas
coconuts
grapes
oranges (not in the game)

Tertiary: sugar

Seaweed salad (mixing bowl):

Seaweed + at least one ingredient out of following:
carrot
onion
sugar
salt
ginger

Not implemented at the moment:

soy sauce
rice vinegar
sesame seeds
sesame oil

Rice salad (mixing bowl):

polished rice, water, salt + one or more from the list

spinach
tomatoes
corn
pumpkin
mushrooms
asparagus
carrots
cucumbers
olives
nuts
pickles

Not implemented at the moment:
zucchini
bell pepper
avocado
peas

Tertiary ingredients: mayonnaise, parsley

Fish and rice salad (mixing bowl):

Rice salad + one or more of the below

baked cod
baked pike
baked salmon
baked trout
salted cod
salted pike
salted salmon
salted trout
smoked cod
smoked pike
smoked salmon
smoked trout
shrimp (not in the game)
tuna (not in the game)

Tertiary ingredients:
lemon juice
dill

Ham and rice salad (mixing bowl):

Rice salad + ham

Optional: mustard

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Meat pizza (oven):

Pastry dough, tomatoes + one or more from the following:

grilled meat

Not implemented at the moment:
ham
chicken

Tertiary ingredients:
cheese
olives
mushrooms
asparagus
pineapple
onion
basil
oregano (not implemented)

Seafood pizza (oven):

Pastry dough, tomatoes + one or more from the following:

baked cod
baked pike
baked salmon
baked trout

Not implemented at the moment:
shrimp
tuna (could be fished from boats only, with a large net)

tertiary ingredients:
cheese
mushrooms
olives
asparagus
dill
pineapple
onion
basil
oregano (not implemented)

Vegetarian pizza (oven):

Pastry dough, tomatoes + one or more from the following:

cheese
mushrooms
olives
asparagus
pineapple
onion
carrot

Not implemented at the moment:
zucchini

tertiary ingredients:
oregano
basil

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Berry kisiel:
potato starch (currently we use potatoes), sugar + one or more of the following:

strawberries
raspberries
blueberries
(not implemented: cloudberries)

Apple kisiel:

potato starch, sugar, apples

optional: cinnamon (we don't have it in the game)

Raisin soup:

potato starch, sugar, raisins

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Berry pie (oven):

Pastry dough, sugar + one or more of the following:

strawberries
raspberries
blueberries

Apple pie (oven):

Pastry dough apples

Optional: cinnamon, sugar

Vegetable pie (oven):

Pastry dough, egg, cheese + two or more of the following

onions
pumpkin
asparagus
tomatoes
mushrooms
olives
carrots

Not implemented: zucchini, bell pepper

Tertiary:
potatoes
salt
milk/cream

Fish pie (oven):

Pastry dough + one or more of the following

baked cod
baked pike
baked salmon
baked trout
salted cod
salted pike
salted salmon
salted trout
smoked cod
smoked pike
smoked salmon
smoked trout
shrimp (not in the game)
tuna (not in the game)

Tertiary:
egg
cheese
dill
lemon juice
salt
rice
onions
pumpkin
asparagus
tomatoes
mushrooms
olives
potato
carrot
milk/cream
Not implemented: zucchini, bell pepper

Meat pie:

Pastry dough + one or more of the following

meat
grilled meat
cooked meat

Not implemented at the moment:
ham
chicken

Tertiary:
egg
cheese
rice
salt
basil
sage
thyme
oregano (not in the game)
onions
pumpkin
asparagus
tomatoes
mushrooms
olives
potatoes
carrots

Then there could be casseroles, wok and soups.

[NostalgicMelody7]

Okay, this is literally the coolest thing that I have seen suggested (or, partially suggested, I guess). A system like this would add local culture to so many dishes! People might travel to a place because they make the best fish and rice salad or whatever, because they have a certain ingredient readily available to them. This gives chef RPers sooo much more room to work with; I can think of one character in particular that would have a field day.

If this could be implemented, I would die of happiness (and them revive myself so I can play more cantr)!

[Meem]

Hoooo yeah. I totally like this idea and definitely would have a character have a field day too. Landis would go nuts over all the food he could make and the ingredients. XD shit- you found a way to make him fat. LOL

[freiana]

Everyone that knows Landis, has to think of Landis when reading this, right? xD
Anyway, I think this would go very well together with the suggestion about showing the materials used to make something. There was some suggestion about that, saying that if you make a sword with a bone hilt it'd have another name then when you'd make it with a wooden hilt. I guess that's the same kind of coding.