Apr 26

Cutting Edge Cooking rework -> Fermentation Skill

I've been wanting to add a fermentation/distillation mod but unsure how it would work, but I think I have a working idea now. The core element of this suggestion is a complete rework of the "Cutting Edge Cooking" skill, which at the moment is not needed for stopping the meteor, and additionally ahistorically places ethanol production as the pinnacle of the tech tree, and likely to be the last skill discovered: I propose a redesign so that it becomes more broadly a "fermentation/distillation" skill corresponding to cooking/baking. Ethanol biodiesel can still be an end-tier recipe crafted at a unique workbench, but there should be other recipes that can be crafted at lower levels, some suggestions for which I will include below. I also propose a new mechanic to cover imbibing of alcohol, which i'm calling "False Confidence". Besides fun/engagement and the potential for a character's favorite food to come from the fermentation/distillation skill, I would recommend the following benefit/tradeoff for alcoholic beverages: you are able to perform actions as though you were 1 level higher in each skill, but with a ≥75% chance that the result will be garbage and you will have wasted the inputs. This provides players with a motivation for drinking as well as a definite cost to do so. As for the recipes from this skill, I suggest the following:The game already includes wheat, rice, corn, sugar, berries, agave, pineapple, etc., and has a placeholder item for sugarcane, a mod for honey, and likely will include milk in the animal husbandry update. If you headcanon "beans" to be Soya sp., that opens yet another avenue. Workbenches: ----------------- - Fermentation Vats (level 1) [takes Basic Upgrades] - Distillation Still (level 5) [takes Advanced Upgrades] - Biorefinery (level 7) [takes Modern Upgrades] Recipes: ----------------- Level 1 - Beer (ingredients: wheat) - Tesgüino/Tejuino (ingredients: corn) - Pulque (ingredients: agave) - "Wild Fruit Wine" (ingredients: huckleberries) Level 2 - Mead (ingredients: honey) - Kumis (ingredients: milk) - Garum/Fish Sauce (ingredients: fish) - Tepache (ingredients: pineapple, sugar) - Vinegar (ingredients: Wild Fruit Wine, or any alcohol) Level 3 - Kkakdugi/Sinki (ingredients: Radish, fish sauce) - Sourdough (ingredients: flour) - Kvass (ingredients: any bread) - Cheese (ingredients: milk) - Yogurt (ingredients: milk) Level 4 - Atchara (ingredients: papaya, vinegar) - Amazake/Makgeolli (ingredients: rice) - Aryan/Lassi (ingredients: yogurt, salt -- rose lassi variant also requires rose) - Barrel-Aged Beer (ingredients: beer, wooden barrel [new crafted item for carpenter] ) Level 5 - Sake (ingredients: rice) - Moonshine (ingredients: sugar) [crafted at a still] - Brandy (ingredients: Wild Fruit Wine, wooden barrel) [crafted at a still] Level 6 - Hákarl (ingredients: shark, salt) - Bourbon (ingredients: corn, wheat, wooden barrel) [crafted at a still] - Mescal/Tequila (ingredients: agave, wooden barrel) [crafted at a still] - Soju (ingredients: rice) [crafted at a still] - Rum (ingredients: sugarcane) [crafted at a still] Level 7 - Wheat Ethanol [crafted at a biorefinery] - Corn Ethanol [crafted at a biorefinery]

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