Very small food suggestion

[guitarehero14 1]

In vanilla minecraft you can squish a bunch of wheat together to make... more wheat in one bundle!

In TFC... hardtack recipe without salt? Here's my VERY small suggestion, hear me out.

Let's keep the current bread recipe, but instead of water and flour, you can add some salt (ground-up salt rocks, probably) in there and make some biscuits to cook up. You'll make let's say around 4 or 6 biskies, and when they're all eaten they offer some less hunger saturation than a full bread loaf. 

So now, to make some actual bread, you need yeast of some kind. But this is where it confuses me-- where would you get yeast? It's some kind of fungi thing... I think this would add a bit more fun and believeability to the game! What do you guys think?

 

EDIT: I realize that this would decrease the balance and increase the general difficulty of the game... so maybe just remove the salt but keep the yeast recipe?

[DA_HOBO2_URLEFT 6]

According to good ol' Wikipedia, it is speculated the the Egyptians first discovered yeast when, "a mixture of flour meal and water was left longer than usual on a warm day and the yeasts that occur in natural contaminants of the flour caused it to ferment before baking. The resulting bread would have been lighter and tastier than the previous hard flatbreads."

 

So maybe if we just left some dough out in the sun for a day, and it becomes Fermented Dough?

[starXephir 30]

Please, Water+Wheat Flour is Damper. I remember having to make some in grade 5 school camp... Some people put a banana in their damper. (I put chocolate )

 

As Da_Hobo suggested. Fermating your dough to make traditional bread seems reasonable in-game. It is wholely unnecessary though. There would need to be incentive for the modders to program it. And players to even do it.

 

So! Depending on how B78 and food changes come about, I propose:

The current bread formula produce Damper (and magic game forms of Rice-Damp, Barley-Damper, etc). A crappy food by game standards.

Then to actually make bread you must ferment it as Hobo suggested. Then it takes a long time to cook/heat up. Thus bread takes time/work to acquire, but is better usage of your resources.

 

If there was a food overhaul or for some other reason we had an Oven. Then there would be a tech/resource requirement to make bread. Rather than a time-spank on the player who just wants some toast.

[guitarehero14 1]

very nice ideas!

[callisto8413 19]

I like the idea.  I have a stone oven and make Irish Soda Bread with it.  Don't even need yeast.    But a stone oven should be pretty easy to create - could even use fired clay.

[AllenWL 186]

So maybe if we just left some dough out in the sun for a day, and it becomes Fermented Dough?

 

put water and flour(wheat) in a barrel, seal it, and leave it, and there, yeast.

[lightningtiger88 19]

Thing is, Damper isnt a crappy food. It's delicious is its done right, in coals and stuff. Real tasty stuff, and filling, and not even hard to eat. The only reason regular bread is better is because of quantity- you can make more bread out of the same amount of dough because it rises- and effort- damper is hard to mass produce. 

[AllenWL 186]

So what if both bread had the same fullness, but without yeast it gives one dough, and with yeast, it gives 2/3?

[lightningtiger88 19]

Sounds about right.

[starXephir 30]

Thing is, Damper isnt a crappy food. It's delicious is its done right, in coals and stuff. Real tasty stuff, and filling, and not even hard to eat. The only reason regular bread is better is because of quantity- you can make more bread out of the same amount of dough because it rises- and effort- damper is hard to mass produce. 

You're right. Damper isn't crappy. Damper does produce less per unit of material.Hence damper should be crappy in game. Providing less neutrition  than bread, since you used the same ammount of materials to make bread with none of the effort.Though I wouldn't say damper is hard to mass produce. It's just that no one has industrialized damper production.

[lightningtiger88 19]

I guess it's harder to digest, but since Dunk and Bioxx wanna keep disgusting things out, I don't think poop will be much of a worry.