Fishing and Food Processing
Basics
Your Whiskers do need food to survive while they labor away to pay their taxes to The Claw. Each day, your Whiskers will seek out food from a Warehouse (of any size), Cafe or Dining Hall. You will need to make sure enough food is available for your Whiskers to eat each day or they will start to produce negative thoughts about being hungry. Eventually they may die if not fed after a few days; although, this is an unlikely scenario as raw food is not difficult to obtain.
Your first step is to gather "raw food" which can be be done in a variety of ways. Forage Huts can be used to gather berries as well as Farms. Underground Farms can produce mushrooms. Fishing Docks can produce fish. Later, you will need to use your Farms to produce other raw ingredients like Wheat, Tea, and Peppers. Wheat and Peppers will need to be further refined in the Mill or Spice Grinder to be used in cooking recipes. Tea must be processed at the Tea Roaster before it can be consumed - it is not edible like other "raw foods."
Once you have enough food to survive on, you can begin processing it into better foods at the Bakery, Smokery, Soup Kitchen, and Fine Kitchen.
While this supply chain of food might feel daunting, producing better foods for your Whiskers is always a net positive. That is, the recipes to produce food will always produce more food than the inputs required, and the increased quality of the food has a host of benefits like more positive thoughts and stat boosts when consumed.
You should always strive to provide the best food possible for your Whiskers, so lean into the next quality tier of food as soon as you can sustainably produce it.
Food Recipes
Below is a list of food you can produce in your colony along with where it can be produced and what it costs. For more information about what you can sell it for, see the Taxes and Pirates page. See the section below for more information about the effects of consumed food.
The Claw provide Hard Tack and Rations which are not listed here since you cannot produce these recipes independent of The Claw. Their effects are listed elsewhere.
Also remember that the production times listed below are the default and will be adjusted by various other factors. See Factories for more information about production speed, catalysts, and more. All Food Processing buildings are essentially factories that produce food, even creating pollution when recipes require fuel.
| Food Output | Recipe | Building | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berries | N/A | Farm | Harvest - N/A |
| 2 Fish | N/A | Fishing Dock | 89 seconds |
| Mushrooms | N/A | Farm | Harvest - N/A |
| 3 Canned Food | 1 Raw Food + 1 Bronze | Cannery | 89 seconds |
| 5 Smoked Fish | 3 Fish + 1 Fuel | Smokery | 144 seconds |
| 5 Fish Skewers | 2 Fish + 1 Mushroom + 1 Fuel | Smokery | 144 seconds |
| 5 Bread | 2 Flour + 1 Fuel | Bakery | 144 seconds |
| 5 Jam Pastries | 3 Flour + 1 Berry + 1 Fuel | Bakery | 144 seconds |
| 5 Berry Soup | 2 Berries + 1 Fuel + 5 Water | Soup Kitchen | 144 seconds |
| 5 Mushroom Stew | 1 Mushroom + 2 Flour + 1 Fuel + 5 Water | Soup Kitchen | 144 seconds |
| 5 Savory Meals | 1 Smoked Fish + 1 Mushroom Stew + 1 Spice | Fine Kitchen | 144 seconds |
| 5 Fancy Meals | 1 Berry Soup + 1 Jam Pastries + 1 Spice | Fine Kitchen | 144 seconds |
| 5 Hearty Meals | 1 Bread + 1 Fish Skewer + 1 Spice | Fine Kitchen | 144 seconds |
| 5 Tea | 1 Tea Leaf + 1 Fuel | Tea Roaster | 55 seconds |
| 8 Fine Tea | 2 Tea Leaf + 1 Spice + 1 Fuel | Tea Roaster | 89 seconds |
Food Effects
When Whiskers consume food, they will receive a bonus associated to the food they consume. Food bonuses increase as the food quality increases with 4-star quality food providing much more benefit than raw food. Food bonuses only last for one day (the day after consuming it at night) and clicking on any Whisker will show what food they last ate along with its bonus.
The Claw will provide hard tack and ration meals via Supply Ships or via tax rewards. While these can supplement your food supplies and meet food quality expectations (ration meals are 4-star quality), they provide far less bonuses to your Whiskers than just cooking any meal of that quality.
See Services for more information about where to serve up your meals to meet Dining Quality expectations and to try and control what foods your Whiskers are eating.
| Food | Quality | Speed | Production | Carry Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berries (raw) | 1-Star | +3 | +3 | 0 |
| Fish (raw) | 0-Star | +5 | 0 | 0 |
| Mushroom (raw) | 1-Star | 0 | +5 | 0 |
| Canned Food (raw) | 0-Star | 0 | +3 | 0 |
| Berry Soup | 2-Star | +10 | +5 | 0 |
| Smoked Fish | 2-Star | +5 | +10 | 0 |
| Bread | 2-Star | +5 | +5 | +1 |
| Hard Tack | 2-Star | 0 | +10 | 0 |
| Mushroom Stew | 3-Star | +10 | +10 | +1 |
| Fish Skewers | 3-Star | +10 | +20 | 0 |
| Jam Pastries | 3-Star | +20 | +10 | 0 |
| Hearty Meals | 4-Star | +25 | +25 | +2 |
| Savory Meals | 4-Star | +25 | +35 | +1 |
| Fancy Meals | 4-Star | +35 | +25 | +1 |
| Ration Meals | 4-Star | +15 | +15 | +1 |
