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Peffern

Food Spoilage - A Comprehensive Summary

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Yes, I know. There have been many threads on this topic. One and a half years ago, which I consider to be my heyday on these forums, it was a huge topic. Instead of necro-ing those, I'll make this one. I think that

A: People have forgotten about this.

B: Barrels bring it all together.

So here goes:

Part 1: Decay

Food should, over time, if left alone, spoil/rot/decay/whatever using a system similar to heating. I'm thinking something along these lines:

Fresh**-Fresh*-Fresh-Old**-Old*-Old-Spoiled**-Spoiled*-Spoiled-Compost.

Fresh food is the food we know and love today.

Stale food doesn't heal as much hunger, decreasing further with the *s.

Old food(tell me if you have a better name)heals you initially, then gives you the hunger or poison debuff (similarly to vanilla rotten flesh).

Spoiled food is inedible.

Compost has some use in fertilizer. (For now I'm going to suggest replenishing nutrient groups)

The food should decay at some speed if in player's inventory and at a higher speed (double, but up to triple depending on humidity and airtightness) in chests, and at a very high speed if in a water barrel (for making lots of compost).

Part 2: Methods of Prevention

There should be an icebox, perhaps a multiblock structure created using snow or ice blocks, that like the bloomery, once created allows access to a GUI. This would allow you, the player, to store food in it with a severely slowed decay rate. Also, maybe this could be used to make cheese from milk (at least part of the cheesemaking process).

Also, food can be placed in a barrel of salt water. While in the barrel, it does not decay (or decays very slowly). When it is finished pickling/curing, the barrel no longer prevents decay, however the cured/pickled food decays very slowly on its own.

This makes the order of decay speed as follows:

Pickled vegetables - Cured meats - All cereal products(crop, grain, flour, dough, bread) - vegetable ingredients - cooked meat/eggs/fish - raw meat/eggs/fish - meals

The order of decay speed for placement is:

Salt water barrel (temporary, only for somethings) - icebox - player's inventory - dry, enclosed chest (cellar) - dry, exposed chest - humid enclosed chest - humid exposed chest - water barrel

Humidity would be calculated based on, well, I think it's already part of the weather code.

Airtightness would be calculated based on whether, from the chest, a path X blocks can be found that reaches open air

If anyone has anything to add on this topic, tell me, and I'll edit the OP

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-snip-

Fresh-Fresh*-Fresh**-Stale-Stale*-Stale**-Old-Old*-Old**-Spoiled-Spoiled*-Spoiled**-Compost.

-snip-

Should be:

Fresh** | Fresh* | Fresh | Stale ** | Stale * | Stale | **Old | *Old | Old | **Spoilt | *Spoilt | Spoilt | **Rotten | *Rotten | Rotten | Compost

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Yea Ok, that works for me. Just wondering, is spoilt or spoiled correct, I've seen both.

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Yea Ok, that works for me. Just wondering, is spoilt or spoiled correct, I've seen both.

There used to be rules on the usage of these words but they are apparently now officially obsolete and you can use any one of those two, it mainly is dependant on whether it sounds right to you.

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Yes, I know. There have been many threads on this topic.

Stopped reading there.

Thread revival isn't a necro if you're adding useful content

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Stopped reading there.

Thread revival isn't a necro if you're adding useful content

It's a discussion thread on a topic that has sort of faded away.

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It's a discussion thread on a topic that has sort of faded away.

I fail to see the relevance there

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Chunk of meat turning into compost in your pocket. Think about that for a second.

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Chunk of meat turning into compost in your pocket. Think about that for a second.

Have you ever kept a sandwich in a backpack for a month?

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Have you ever kept a sandwich in a backpack for a month?

I am aware of the thing that happens. I was just asking to think about it.
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I am aware of the thing that happens. I was just asking to think about it.

Why?
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Comprehend the grose felling of you're pocket being one with the chunk of meat that is turning in the same thing that adds nutrients to the ground and is from an biological nature...................etc. pigs , cows , plants , humans , zombies , sheep , fish , birds , blood sucking bats , and other

nasty/cute creatures ..........think about it a little more , i will not explain this further!

-Sincerely Krski

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Should be:

Fresh** | Fresh* | Fresh | Stale ** | Stale * | Stale | **Old | *Old | Old | **Spoilt | *Spoilt | Spoilt | **Rotten | *Rotten | Rotten | Compost

Should be :

Fresh** | Fresh* | Fresh | Stale | Stale * | Stale ** | Old | Old * | Old ** | Spoilt | Spoilt * | Spoilt ** | Rotten | Rotten * | Rotten ** | Compost

instead

I do agree with this idea,because in real life,we can't eat 3 month old steak (or it's extremely inadvisable if you don't wanna die during the night) so that would be a lot realistic

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