Expanded Food Options

Food Bits

In order to standardize the amount of food between the various sources, all food items should be processed into bits. There are 5 respective categories - Meat , Vegatable , Fruit , Herbs and Mushrooms . The resulting bits are directly edible, can be used in advanced recipes or turned into food products by following recipes.

Food Drying

Using new Drying Rack , the food bits can be dried. Meat and Vegetable bits require salt in the process. Rest is dried as is. The drying process may take up to a week, depending on the type of food dried. Drying is in game process that is out of control of this mod and so certain problems may occur. It is recommended to always dry item racks inside containers. Unfinished racks can be identified by red color which is changed to green when done .

Dried food is divided into the same categories as the raw item - Meat , Vegetable , Fruit , Herbs and Mushrooms . All dried items can be eaten as is or used in advanced recipes.

Pickled Vegetable

Vegetable Bits can be pickled using bit of salt and water. Let it pickle for some time and get Pickled Vegetable . It will stay fresh for few months before becoming stale. Can be eaten as is or used in advanced recipes.

More Hot Drink Components

Additional Tea Servings can be crafted from Dried Fruits , Dried Herbs or Birch Bark .

Seasonings

Additional Seasonings can be crafted from Dried Herbs, Fruit or Mushrooms. Can be used for cooking same as Vanilla Salt or Pepper.

Yeast Cultivation

Yeast can be cultivated in a bowl of water from starting Yeast, Flour and Sugar. Let it process for some time and get Mature Yeast which can be simply grabbed and used as Vanilla Yeast.

Extracting Wild Honey and Crystalized Sugar

Foraged Honey Combs can be processed to get Vanilla Honey or to crystalize into Vanilla Sugar.

Mashed Nuts

Foraged Nuts can be processed to get Vanilla Butter, Milk or Flour.

Fermented Drinks and Vinegar

Fermenting is a multi-stage process starting with preparation of Young Fruit Juice . Let it process for some time and it will turn into Mature Fruit Juice which is unusable on its own, but can be either distilled (see Chemistry) into Moonshine or left to process some more into Wine . Wine needs to be filtered into Fruit Wine or it will change to Vinegar if left unattended. Vinegar can be used to replace Vanilla Vinegar and will not process any further.

Fruit Wine is an alcoholic drink that can be consumed as is. Moonshine needs to be made into Moonshine Drinks with some Herbs and a bit of Water. Fruit wine can also be used as a replacement for Vanilla Chardonay .

Honey Candy

There are 3 new candy types that can be crafted and used for their special effects. The effects are balanced against the Vanilla components they are derived from.

Pic	Candy	Resources	Effect
	Fruits	Herbs and Fruit Bits	Hunger/Stress/Unhappiness
	Healing	Herbs Bits, Black Sage, Wild Garlic, Mallow	Pain/Flu/Infection
	Energy	Herbs Bits, Rosehips, Ginseng	Endurance/Fatigue

Honey Bar With Nuts and Fruits

The Honey Bar is the ultimate pinnacle of each survivalists diet. Containing Honey, Wild Nuts, Fruits and Sugar, this bar has enough calories and all diet components to sustain one person for several hours of hard labor.