Gourmand

Gourmand gives a health reward for eating a greater variety of foods and using the various food mechanics in the game. The goal is to encourage the player to grow more foods, preserve more foods, forage more foods, and use more cooking mechanics.

The player is granted food points for eating foods that meet the criteria of the food achievements. Each achievement can only be earned once (unless it is forgotten through death). So that eating another food in the same category does not earn any additional points. The food points are converted into health points using a semi-logarithmic function.

When the player dies, 30% of their achieved foods are lost (configurable with the gourmandDeathPenalty worldconfig).

The design doc has more details about the internals of the mod.

Food achievements

• Food types - 1 point for each food code
• Meals - 10 points per type of meal (like meatystew), with a bonus of 100 after eating all 6 types
  • Bonus after eating all 10 meal types with Expanded Foods
• Pies - 2 points per type of pie, with a bonus of 100 points after eating 32 types
  • Bonus after eating 217 with Expanded Foods
• Pickled foods
• Breads
• Climate spanning - 50 points for eating meals that require crops from hot and cold climates
• Mushrooms
• Juices
• Ciders
• Poisons
• Alcohol types
• Expanded Foods only achievements
  • Sweet and savory treats
  • Sushi
  • Fried foods
  • Deluxe fried foods
  • Hardtack bake levels
• Floral Zones only achievements
  • Fruits
  • Vegetables
• Wildcraft only achievements
  • Fruits
  • Nuts
  • Granola bars
• Art Of Cooking only achievements
  • Flat bread
  • Lavash
  • Shawarma
• Make Tea Forked only achievements
  • Teas

Finding what to eat next

Open the character dialog ('c' hotkey), and go to the Gourmand tab. First it lists any foods that were lost through death. You likely have these ingredients on hand and want to eat these again first. Following that, it shows all of the food categories and any foods that have not been eaten yet in that category.

FAQ

Instead of rewarding the player for eating a variety of foods, can you punish them for eating the same food too often?

The base game already punishes the player for eating too narrow of a diet. There's not much room for improvement on this mechanic.

Can you give a greater variety of buffs than just increased health?

There are other mods that provide buffs to other stats, like foraging. Adding those buffs in Gourmand would cause some server owners to view Gourmand as conflicting with those other mods or the class system.

Also Elephant Studios is working on a mod called Gluttony that would give a variety of buffs for eating different foods.

Can you make the mod less OP?

I find that the current power level is important to keep the player motivated to keep looking for new foods. However, if you prefer, the GourmandBalance mod can be additionally installed to reduce the max health given by Gourmand.

Contributors

• Kwehlani - Expanded Foods achievements
• DeanBro - Ukrainian translation
• Pawelot - Polish translation
• Drakrochma - German translation
• AzuliBluespots - Brazillian Portugese translation
• C4BR3R4 - Spanish translation

• ChimMAG - Russian translation

 

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