Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-58.175.67.38-20171026110518

Right now, Mevans has done an amazing job with the amount of food and drink items in this mod, but I feel there is a lot more potential for more of these, with better mechanics to add entertainment and realism. My suggestion here is more a variety of smaller suggestions piled into one; as the list below will show:

1. Plate eating mechanics

Currently the plate interaction is quite simple, right click and your hunger goes up and a piece of food is consumed. However, a minor suggestion would be to incorporate the normal eating animation as you eat it, OR to incorporate a new animation using cutlery as the next suggestion will explain. This is a to be an aesthetic change, and is aimed at adding realism.

2. Cutlery

This suggestion is to add knives, spoons, forks, etc to the dining set. These could be placed on a flat surface similarly to plates, and when the player eats food on a plate by right clicking with these a modified eating animation will be shown.

3. Foods

These are some suggestions for more food items, as well as more of "2 step" or "3 step" foods. Currently foods are either eaten raw from the animal or field, or they are cooked/mixed into a new type of food. The "multi-step food" will be made similarly to rabbit stew, where cooked products are either mixed with raw or with other cooked products to form a new food. Some ideas for foods below

Spiced meats (rabbits, steak, pork, venison, chicken etc)- These are made by putting cooked meat next to spice on a crafting table. These are more nutritious (offering 1 stick more hunger and 2 sticks more saturation) and taste much better!

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spice bushes- They are similar to berry bushes in that they can be taken and placed as a block, and will over time generate raw spice.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Raw spice (as said above)-A new item which is harvested from bushes, these can be then milled in a mill-stone or furnace into spice

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spice-A powdery substance which is used to flavour foods adding flavour and nutrition to foods

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Roast man-flesh- Disgusting for most, but a food product of orcs and those in league with them. Restores the same amount of hunger and saturation as roast porkchop

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Herbs-These are to be found as common plant spawns throughout ME but certain herbs will be unique to certain places. These will be similar to existing plants, and be found in groups of up to 10 small, low-laying shrubs. The standard varieties include: Rosemary, Chives, Parsley, Pepper and Basil. The location unique ones are: Coriander (Rhun), Ginger (Harad),

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">The herbs are a bit confusing, just thought they might turn out to be useful for other recipes

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomatoes-These are a new bush which yields tomatoes, a red coloured and useful fruit/vegetable used in salads, soups and sauces

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Salad-Made from tomato, lettuce, basil and salad dressing, this healthy and delicious dish restores 4 hunger bars and 10 saturations. Made on a standard CT with a base of lettuce, a tomato in the centre, and 2 containers of salad dressing around it. There will be 2 basil at the left and right on the top row,

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sandwich-Made from 2 breads, a piece of meat (gammon for pork sandwiches, chicken for chicken sandwich etc), lettuce, and dressed with mayonnaise. Egg sandwiches are made with the same recipe but instead of meat there is an egg. Sandwiches are made on a standard CT, with 1 bread at the centre top and 1 at the centre bottom row, and a container of mayonnaise at the left top, a piece of cooked meat (or egg) at the centre block and lettuce at it’s left and right.

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<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Sauces

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Self-explanatory, these offer ½ more hunger bar and 1 ½ more saturation to any food they are applied to. These are made in barrels by adding 1 bucket of water in the center, 3 of the herb needed for the specific sauce along the bottom row and unique ingredients for the rest (mayonnaise would have egg for example, while others would have different herbs, spice or even meat). The sauces are currently a bit confusing, but the idea is for them to be a versatile liquid which is used in many recipes to enhance food. With recipes which require sauce, the food value will be included in the food, but with other dishes placing a container of sauce next to it will add the phrase “with ____ sauce”. This will add the food bonus, and a fancier name. <ac_metadata title="Food"> </ac_metadata>