Food Production

**Food Production** can take a number of forms in *Clanfolk*.

Most Food will be consumed by Clanfolk at Sunrise and Sunset, but if their food Attributes are low Clanfolk will stop working and find food at other times. While their food need meter is maximum 10,000 for an Adult they will not require a complete refill at each meal, the amount and type of work done during their workday will heavily influence how much it depleted between meals.

## Clanfolk

### Food directly from the Map

Especially at game start the Clan will not be able to do much in the way of cooking etc. so will need to eat food obtained directly from the map. Berries and Mushrooms can be gathered or picked right from the start of the game and each will provide a small portion of an Adults required food need (5% and 7% respectively). If the game setup included Smoked Meat or Dried Mushrooms the Clanfolk may eat through that reserve first, each serve providing 20% or 7% of their food need respectively.

### Simple Cooking

With the construction of a Cooking Fire the Clanfolk may cook their food.

* Raw Eels (from an Eel Trap) and Raw Meat (from Animals that are hunted or slaughtered) may be cooked on the Fire. Cooked Meat will provide 30% of food need, Cooked Eel only 20%.
* Raw Fish can be cooked once a Fishing Spot is used, Cooked Fish results also providing 30%.
* After cultivating Neeps and/or Onions those can be roasted over a fire, providing Roasted Neeps and/or Roasted Onions. Both provide 15% of food need.
* Eggs may be cooked to become Cooked Eggs which provide 20% food need.
* The Pluck that can be obtained from Deer and Cattle can become Pluck on a Stick which rots in a single day but provides 30% of food need.

A Stone Fireplace will cook all the same things as a Cooking Fire, but will do so in less time.

### Smoking

A Meat Smoker allows meat and fish to be *smoked*, avoiding the need for a member of the clan to stay at a cooking object the entire time something is being cooked. Compare to cooking, smoking meat or fish results in less filling but longer lasting food. (Eels may Not be smoked.)

### Bread Making

Bread can be baked regularly as long as the production chain is maintained.

* This starts with growing Oats, preferably in Tilled Soil for the automation.
* Once the Oats are Harvested Oats Sheafs will result.
* Sheafs are broken down into Oat Grain (and Straw).
* Grain may be processed into Oat Flour at a Quern.
* Flour and water can be mixed at a Dough Table to make Dough.
* Using a Bread Oven will turn Dough into Bread.

Eating the bread provides 35% of food need. It could instead be used when making stew at a Kitchen.

### Tiled Peat Stove

To cook Brose the player needs to have the Clanfolk craft a Tiled Peat Stove; Clay Bowls, Oat Grain, Dry Peat Bricks and water (from Water Jugs) are used. In addition to the food need, Brose will also add to warmth.

### Milk, Butter and Cheese

* With cattle and/or Goats in the colony the females may be milked as long as a Milking Bucket has been crafted.
* A Butter Churn can process Milk into Butter, which can be eaten for a small satiation. Or used in a Kitchen for some of the recipes.
* A Cheese Press can process Milk into Cheese, with a shelf life of 15 days.

### Kitchen

In addition to all the things that may be cooked at a cooking fire and Stone Fireplace, a Kitchen can be used to cook more involved meals. In addition to the food ingredients the food made in a kitchen will also require water, most require a number of Bowls, and the heating is supplied by Charcoal.
Each of the five meals replenish at least half of the food need an adult has, and some other benefit(s) to mood, warmth, work Attributes. Should visitors (Travellers or Workers) be fed Fish Stew, Haggis, or Haggis and Neeps, they will also have an increase in their Satisfaction.

## Animals

Livestock and pets also require regular feeding.

* For most of the year (not winter) the Livestock will be able to graze on grass they find growing wild. During winter Livestock will require a Grain Trough or Hay Trough to be topped up.
* Pets will be fed via the use of Pet Food Bowls, and Clanfolk will need to supply them with Raw Meat, Raw Fish, Raw Eels, or Pluck. Cats may go off and hunt rabbits if they are hungry (or bored).