Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20170917204722/@comment-26553378-20170917211837

1. sousing = salting? also, I've heard of smoking meats to make them last longer, would that be realistic? I am a vegetarian, and don't know much about the treating of meat.

Also, a few new ideas:

1. No idea what the thing about chests is. If it is in item frame for display I could agree with no rot as it seems you said, however if in a chest it should rot at the same rate unless it is in a stone chest which is affected by the environment more than normal. (Meaning a cold place preserves better, and a hot place will fry it better. Possibly with a chance of food frying if the temp gets high enough).

2. in 1.6.4 at least there is a method along the lines of canBlockSeeSky which determines if there are any blocks above it. while the food is in a covered area temp should be cooler/warmer dependant on region (cooler in desert, warmer in tundra). It should also be affected by nearby fires.

3. Something I remember being discussed before, midges being able to ruin bread/meat turning it into rotten flesh/maggoty bread. either by hitting the player, or by hitting a chest. This is a fairly low chance to make it take a while.

4. rotten meat should be rotten flesh which then deteriorates into the rotted foodstuffs.