Curing Meats (and the return of Peffern)

[Peffern 94]

Well hello there people.

I am back for the 5th time. It's been probably about a year so most likely no one remembers me except eternal. Hi eternal. By the way how did you get that fancy title, I be looking for one of those.

But down to the meat (pun intended) of the suggestion (also if this has already been suggested please flame me. jk don't)

With the addition of barrels of liquid and the time- and effort-intensiveness of cooking, I'm looking for alternative way to give my sister more ingredients to make me OP meals with.

My suggestion is as follows. Add a crafting recipe for a hammer and rock salt that yields salt. Then add a barrel recipe that puts salt in water to create salt water. Then finally, add a group of barrel recipes that accept raw meats and create cured beef/pork/chicken/mutton/fish.

Also it has not escaped my notice that oceans in fact consist of salt water, it is potentially an option to have a saltwater liquid that is identical in water in every way except that the oceans are made of salt water. Also, maybe, drinking saltwater could replenish a bit of thirst, but would then cause your thirst to decrease faster.

On a related note, sugar should be able to be used in meals.

[SunsetSpecter 18]

I do like the idea of spoiling meat, or meat that has a shelf life unless properly stored/cooked/preserved, however I do not know the implications on the code side of such an endeavor.

It would quickly put an end to massive food stockpiles early on making farming and other production methods pointless. [aka run out to nowhere, kill everything, run back with stacks of meat, never need any other source].

However if said massive stack of meat would spoil unless salted and barreled, then, you would have to conserve your food, use other ways to grow food, actually have a reason to plant seasonal crops.

[Peffern 94]

I also think it would not waste my precious logs, 100% of which go to my massive charcoal-consuming metal-producing beast of a blacksmith friend.

[Sda215 8]

Welcome back, Peffern

So basically, you're suggesting a way of making pickled meat?

In order for saltwater to be safe for the human body, one must drink around 12 gallons of saltwater, if that is correct.