Vastly, vastly increases the recipes available for creating unmodded food types, as well as creating many recipes for inedible items such as eggs, flour, and animal hides. More recipes, more utility, dramatically expanded eating options and hardcore variety, particularly with increased needs. Designed with compatibility first in mind.
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Recipe Expansion adds dozens upon dozens of recipes for existing items as a light overhaul to vanilla food crafting, vastly increasing meal diversity for hardcore playthroughs, increasing early game food availability for realism and balance purposes, and making artificially scarce items possible to obtain.
This mod is aimed at two primary goals. Fix the logic gaps in FNV's cooking system, and make eating more realisticand practical. It does this by adding many alternatives to the vanilla crafting recipes for food in the game, allowing for a much wider variety of edible items.
Notable Vanilla Examples
Most eggs are useless rocks. I'm hungry enough to eat my own shoes but I can't eat a 3 pound gecko egg. Many types of meat can't be cooked without very specific ingredients - I have a perfectly good bloatfly but I'm supposed to eat it raw because I don't have pears. What?
Flour is both completely useless and very difficult to obtain, when it should still be a staple of the human diet. The NCR is an agrarian society - if Brahmin Barons are able to amass the economic power they are, wheat production has to be significant.
Vanilla animal loot yields are low to the point of absurdity. You can starve to death after killing ten animals. You have to eradicate the local gecko population to fill half your stomach.
Many recipes that should be common are locked behind some arbitrary item - cooked meats are infamous for this.
Many items that should be caloric, if not nutritious, are completely inedible. You can starve to death with an inventory full of eggs while dressed in animal hide and dragging a sack of deathclaw hands and mantis legs behind you, standing over the body of three dead lakelurks.
This mod is made with extreme compatibility in mind - in lieu of editing or adding foods, it merely adds and redefines recipes for the appearance of adding new foods. Generally, conversions are done at an arbitrary loss (for example, a recipe to convert meat might require excess water), to balance the ease at which they can occur.
It is intended to make natural resources more rewarding and logical, particularly in the context of reduced purchasing power. Cities are more of a luxury than a necessity for crafting, survival will be much more useful, and your resources will be more varied and important.
Noteworthy Changes
* Over 130 new recipes for vanilla food and items. * More than 25 new nutritious recipes using flour as a main ingredient. * Conversions for all in-game eggs into consumables. * Massively expanded recipes for Caravan Lunches and Trail Mix. * Jerky tanning from animal hides, food breakdowns, alternative recipes, food purification.
An example of my naming conventions - for sorting, most foods are labelled in the format of "[Food] - [Mojave] style"
In addition to more meat recipes, it expands animal hides into an animal jerky conversion, which can be exchanged for meat at a 2:1 ratio. It makes Nightstalkers a valuable nutrition source by allowing you to convert their tails into steaks as well as cooking their eggs. Combined with a More Meat / Missing Meats / Simple Meats mod, there is essentially no animal that cannot be made into a viable food source, quickly.
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MEAT
2 dog hides = 1 dog steak 1 Nightstalker Tail = 1 Coyote Steak 2 coyote hides = 1 coyote steak 3 leather belts = 1 rat meat 1 molerat meat + 1 yeast = molerat wonder meat 1 yao guai meat = 2 brahmin steaks brahmin skull + 10 purified water = molerat stew 1 deathclaw hands = 2 iguana bits 1 tunneler hide = 2 gecko steaks 2 gecko skins = 1 gecko steak 4 fire gecko skins = 1 gecko steak + 20 flamer fuel 1 golden gecko skin = 1 gecko steak 2 mantis legs = 1 grilled mantis leg Wine + 2 rat meat + water = Squirrel Stew 3 Roach meat + Whiskey + Dirty water = Squirrel stew Squirrel bits + beer = Squirrel Stew Rat meat + 1 water = crispy squirrel bits + dirty water 2 fire ant meat + 1 flour + 6 devilled eggs = fire ant fricassee 2 lakelurk meat + 1 flour + lakelurk egg = fire ant fricassee Brahmin Meat + Flour + 1 golden gecko eggs = Wellington 3 bloatfly meats = 1 bloatfly slider Whiskey + 2 fire ant meat + fresh potato + maize = cook cook stew 2 pork and beans + 2 purified water = 1 bighorner steak, 1 pinto bean pods 4 salisbury steaks + 3 purified water = 1 pre-war steak 3 molerat meats, 5 purified waters = 3 molerat stews 1 cram + 2 purified water = 2 iguana bits 2 molerat meats = 1 cram bighorner steak + 2 yucca = desert salad bloatfly meat + 2 nuka cola = bloatfly slider 2 fire ant meat + cazadore egg = fire ant fricasee
CARAVAN LUNCHES
All caravan lunches require a lunchbox, any failure to list such is a typo. My mod also adds recipes for lunchboxes and vanilla lunch ingredients. Coyote steak + 2 squirrel stew + 2 flour = Caravan lunch 10 Salient Green, 1 Lunchbox = Caravan Lunch 2 ant meat + 1 ant eggs + 1 ant nectar + 1 vodka = Caravan lunch 500 caps, 1 lunchbox, 1 can, Barter 50 = Caravan lunch, purified water 3 flour, 1 yeast, 1 pinto bean pod, purified water, lunchbox = Caravan lunch Brahmin Steak + Gecko Egg + Purified Water + Lunchbox = Caravan Lunch Bighorner Meat + Yucca Fruit + Purified Water + Lunchbox = Caravan Lunch 2 radroach meat + bloatfly slider + dirty water + radaway + radx + lunchbox = Caravan lunch 3 nuka cola, junk food, potato crisp, sugar bomb, fancy lad snack cake, cram = Caravan lunch 2 noodles + 2 jalapenos + maize + xander + lunchbox = Caravan lunch 1 deathclaw eggs + 1 bighorner meats + 1 ant nectar + 1 nuka cola = 2 Caravan Lunches 2 cook cook stew = caravan lunch 2 desert salad = caravan lunch 2 wasteland omelet= caravan lunch + 2 iguana bits 3 fire ant fricasee = caravan lunch + 1 ant meat 2 Ruby casserole = caravan lunch
Flour is now generally an extremely useful food item. While it still cannot be consumed by itself it is roughly equivalent to -25 FOD. Notably you can now make flour out of many different sources and the most two common flour amalgamations in the wasteland either consist of scavenged pre-war foods ground into powder or insect flesh burnt into char and mixed with plant matter. Despite this edible pre-war flour as well as fresh wheat potato and corn flour do still exist in some capacity albeit only for the rich or the crafty survivalists of the Mojave.
All vanilla eggs can now be directly cooked into irradiated devilled eggs. Just ignore the packaging. Different eggs have different ratios. This notably creates an alternative to the deathclaw omelet, providing less food and health with a much easier crafting recipe.
1 golden gecko egg + 2 gecko meat + yucca fruit = 1 wasteland omelet 2 ant meat + 2 ant nectar + 2 ant egg + Yucca fruit = 2 wasteland omelets
RECIPE CATEGORY - AID ITEMS
Many aid items can be converted into differing aid items at an arbitrary loss of resource. Many misc items can now be repurposed into recipes for aid items. Particularly, many tribalistic recipes have been widely expanded.
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10 dirty water + 1 whiskey = 3 purified water 8 dirty water + 1 vodka = 3 purified water 3 dirty water + 1 beer = 1 purified water Vodka + Fire Ant Nectar + Nuka Cola = Atomic Cocktail
2 fire ant meat + 1 vodka = fiery purgative Cazador Poison Gland + 2 Healing Powder + 1 water = Fiery Purgative vodka + cazadore venom + ant nectar + healing powder = fixer + fiery purgative
Leather Belt + Buffalo Gourd Seed = Snakebite Tourniquet
Auto Inject Stimpak = Sensor Module, 2 healing powder Auto Inject Super Stimpak = Sensor Module, 2 stimpaks
(Sierra Madre Martini perk) Centaur Blood, Wonder glue = 2 cloud residue
RECIPE CATEGORY - MISC ITEMS, WEAPONS, AMMO
Many common items can now be crafted or converted in some way. Additionally, some late game, rare or exclusive items can be crafted at great expense. I've hidden some of these items behind both either Jury Rigger, Wild Wasteland or both to focus the mod itself on the food aspect; With a few different visions in the time I've taken to edit it, some of the recipes are essentially created for late-game The Sink massive breakdown recipes.
There are additionally a few extremely, extremely minor stat changes to misc items to compensate for changes in the mod, particularly flour weight.
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Item Stat Changes
Flour - Being a valuable item that you will now likely want to carry around, flour has had its weight reduced to a realistic level.
Value: 2 -> 5 Weight: 1 -> .2
Yeast - Yeast is intended to be a cheap food supplement that can be hoarded without consequence.
Value: 2 -> 1 Weight: 1 -> .01
Golden Gecko Hide - These were valuable enough that a couple of them could get you access to Vault City in Fallout 2. I always felt like they were undervalued in game, and too reliant on the tanning mechanic.
Value: 20 -> 50 Weight: 1 -> 1.5
Scrap Metal - For caravan lunch purposes.
Value: Unchanged Weight: 1 -> .5
Q: So does this mod make the game easier? A: Strictly speaking, yes, on a vanilla setup this mod would make the game easier by simply providing more food options and ways to get items. However, this mod is intended to paired with modules like Famine, increased hunger rates,, economy mods, DUST, IMCN, etc. Additionally, this increased versatility usually comes at a cost - for example, many recipes for clean food require an excess of water, some items may be crafted at a loss. Think of this like TTW's logic applied in reverse - TTW is made to be "harder" stat wise than Fallout 3, because you now have more tools available to you so it adjusts the world to compensate for your increased power. This is allowing more to be available to the player, to adjust for increased difficulty that might be necessary for modern setups. Now you don't have to kill 16 geckos to make 3 steaks.
Q: Does this mod intend to recreate or supercede other mods? A: No. Other mods have done what I'm doing in any way, simple meat cooking, caravan lunch recipes, etc. However, to my immediate knowledge there is no mod attempting to base this framework entirely on expanding vanilla food crafting.
I have no plans on adding additional consumables to this mod, only expanding the ways to craft vanilla consumables.
Q: Is this compatible with-? A: I cannot possibly see why not. I think the worst case scenario of compatibility is you may get a duplicate recipe by accident. Likewise I'm not aware of any mods that adds some ingredient that breaks the new crafting loops balance.
Q: So this mod is balanced around hardcore mods such as Famine or adjustable needs rates? A: Yes. This mod works well with (but does not require) Famine, Adjustable Needs Rates, or older mods like DUST and Imp's More Complex Needs.
Optional Files - NVSE plugin to increase Flour presence in levelled lists.
Also, More Immersive Fast Travel Requirements Empty Things, More Simple Items, Harvestable Cave Fungus
Let me know if there are any TTW/Jsawyer recipes this steps on.
Future Additions (Note to self)
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Mesquite Flour (Thanks for the recommendation) Change cave fungus weight to .1 Shrink the damn yeast .nif to a handful size, who the hell as hthat much yeast I think I accidentally balanced the noodle recipe around s6s ingestibles instead of vanilla, or made a typo? because it should be 1 flour, not 3
Eatin' black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread, Makes you live so long you wish you were dead. You add some yogurt and you'll be well fed, With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread.
Now I was thinner than a pencil line, Had no muscles and I had no spine. But now I'm friskier than a pup, All you have do is prop me up!
Just feed me black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread. Makes you live so long you wish you were dead. You add some yogurt and you'll be well fed With black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread!
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