Food

“	Don't make a religion out of food	„
	~ Ostap Bender on The Golden Calf

Food are items that reduce your Hunger and/or Thirst.

Food Mechanics

Eating food reduces your Hunger by the amount listed on the food item.
Eating any food item always takes one turn.
Sometimes food provides other beneficial effects like Morale Change, these effects are applied for a limited amount of turns listed on the item.
Eating food that would reduce your Hunger below 0% instead sets your Hunger to 0% and applies the Satiety effect, which will temporarily prevent Hunger accumulation.

Some food items like the Bilberry Pie have multiple uses. Only one use can be expended per turn, but the benefits listed on the food item will be obtained each time the food item is used.

Most foods have the Freshness attribute, indicating how long before the food will spoil and/or rot.

Time passes for food items even if you are not present in the area. If you open a barrel with food items and come back few days later, the food items inside the barrel will be expired.
There is currently no way to stop food from expiring.
Eating expired food will have negative effects.
Expired food currently has no use.

Obtaining food

Margyt and Ormond, Food and Meat vendors from Osbrook

Food can be bought in towns from:

Innkeepers
Innkeeper's assistants
Local food shops
Food stalls
Sometimes from random townspeople

Instead of buying food, you can hunt most animals for food, but for example Rabbit and Deer might be hard to catch without using Bows or Crossbows.

You can also defeat Bandits in their Dungeons and loot the food stored in their crates and barrels. Barrel 1.png

Cooking

Camps have fires that can be used for cooking.

Some foods can be cooked, which improves their benefits. Cooking is a simplified mechanic, where the player uses a fire source, turning uncooked foods in their inventory into cooked foods.

Fireplaces in town buildings and Campfires in Camps or the ones created by using the Campfire skill can be used for cooking.
Food cannot be cooked over burning effects caused by Pyromancy.
Cooking raw food that is about to expire doesn't affect the Freshness of the cooked version.
For example, Raw Drumstick will always turn into Roasted Drumstick with 2 days of Freshness remaining.
Uncooked food can be eaten too, but some raw foods have a chance of producing negative effects such as Vomiting.
In Rags to Riches the cooking system are expanded and you can cook dishes with recipe that you can obtained.

See Cooking for more details.

Planning ahead

You should stock up on different amount and type of food based on where you plan to go. Travelling to a far away area will require bringing more food with you, so make sure you have enough inventory space and take the right food items with you.

First eat the foods like Cheese that spoil quickly. Save long lasting food like Potatoes for later.
Eating cooked foods like Roasted Tender Meat will give you Hunger Resistance, which slows down Hunger accumulation, but cooked foods usually don't last very long.
There are currently two foods that never spoil - Sausage and Smoked Ham . These are valuable food items with multiple uses, ideal for long journeys.

List of all foods

Meat and Fish

Meat	Cooked Variant	Salted Variant	Spoiled Variant
Fatty Meat	Roasted Fatty Meat	Salted Fatty Meat	Rotten Meat
Tough Meat	Roasted Tough Meat	Salted Tough Meat	Rotten Meat
Tender Meat	Roasted Tender Meat	Salted Tender Meat	Rotten Meat
Sinewy Meat	Roasted Sinewy Meat	Salted Sinewy Meat	Rotten Meat
Meat Morsels	Roasted Meat Morsels	Salted Meat Morsels	Rotten Meat Morsels
Raw Drumstick	Roasted Drumstick	Salted Drumstick	Rotten Drumstick
Fish Morsels	Roasted Fish Morsels	Salted Fish Morsels	Rotten Fish Morsels
Red Fish	Roasted Red Fish	Salted Red Fish	Rotten Red Fish
White Fish	Roasted White Fish	Salted White Fish	Rotten White Fish
Crab Meat	Roasted Crab Meat	Salted Crab Meat	Rotten Crab Meat
Sausage	N/A	N/A	N/A
Smoked Ham	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bear Fat	N/A	Salted Bear Fat	Spoiled Bear Fat
Gulon Liver	Roasted Gulon Liver	Salted Gulon Liver	Rotten Gulon Liver
Harpy Stomach	Roasted Harpy Stomach	Salted Harpy Stomach	Rotten Harpy Stomach
Moose Kidney	Roasted Moose Kidney	Salted Moose Kidney	Rotten Moose Kidney
Rockeater Flesh	Roasted Rockeater Flesh	N/A	Rotten Rockeater Flesh
Wolf Tongue	Roasted Wolf Tongue	Salted Wolf Tongue	Rotten Wolf Tongue

Fruits and Berries

Fruit/Berry	Spoiled Variant
Apple	Rotten Apple
Peach	Rotten Peach
Pear	Rotten Pear
Fig	Dried Fig
Grape	Rotten Grape
Elven Citrus	Spoiled Elven Citrus
Dragon Fruit	Spoiled Dragon Fruit
Barberry	Rotten Barberry
Bilberry	Rotten Bilberry
Blueberry	Rotten Blueberry
Gooseberry	Rotten Gooseberry
Lingonberry	Rotten Lingonberry
Raspberry	Rotten Raspberry

Vegetables

Vegetable	Cooked Variant	Spoiled Variant
Carrot		Rotten Carrot
Potato	Baked Potato	Rotten Potato
Leek		Rotten Leek
Tomato		Rotten Tomato
Cabbage		Rotten Cabbage
Onion		Rotten Onion
Garlic		Rotten Garlic
White Radish		Rotten White Radish
Beet		Rotten Beet
Ginger Root		N/A
Lentils		N/A
Seaweed		Rotten Seaweed

Mushrooms

Mushroom	Cooked Variant	Spoiled Variant
Morel	Roasted Morel	Rotten Morel
Penny Bun	Roasted Penny Bun	Rotten Penny Bun
Pinecap	Roasted Pinecap	Rotten Pinecap
Chanterelle	Roasted Chanterelle	Rotten Chanterelle
Fly Agaric	Roasted Fly Agaric	Rotten Fly Agaric
Death Cap	Roasted Death Cap	Rotten Death Cap
Azurecap	Roasted Azurecap	Rotten Azurecap
Marble Truffle	Roasted Marble Truffle	Rotten Marble Truffle
Pale Puffball	Roasted Pale Puffball	Rotten Pale Puffball

Pastry

Pastry	Spoiled Variant
Bilberry Pie	Spoiled Bilberry Pie
Bread	Moldy Bread
Custard Muffin	Spoiled Custard Muffin
Simit	Spoiled Simit
Long Bread	Spoiled Long Bread
Kipfel	Spoiled Kipfel
Pancakes	Spoiled Pancakes
Pretzel	Spoiled Pretzel

Other

Food	Cooked Variant	Spoiled Variant
Cheese		Rotten Cheese
Goat Cheese		Rotten Goat Cheese
Egg	Boiled Egg	Rotten Egg
Chicken Egg	Boiled Chicken Egg	Rotten Chicken Egg
Harpy Egg	Cooked Harpy Egg	Rotten Harpy Egg
Acorn	Roasted Acorn	N/A
Mussel	Cooked Mussel	Rotten Mussel
Honeycomb		Rotten Honeycomb
Handful of Flour	N/A	N/A