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.

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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

Food Quality and Benefits Table

Food	Quality	Speed	Production	Strength
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