Ceviche is unusually terrible and outclassed. Recipe should be fixed.

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20 HP, 25 Hunger, 5 Sanity. Lowers temperature for a couple seconds much like eating raw ice does.

17 HP, 54.6 Hunger, 0 Sanity - The combined cheapest ingredients to make ceviche, which is 2 big fish meat, and 2 ice.

Ceviche's stats don't compare well with just eating it's raw ingredients because you lose 29.6 hunger while only gaining 5 sanity and 3 hp. You would still get the cooling temperature effect by eating the raw ingredients because you ate the ice. Though the cooling effect is totally ineffective in game so it's a moot point. Here's another comparison:

40 HP, 37.5 Hunger, 5 Sanity - Fish sticks

2 HP, 17.1 Hunger, 0 Sanity - Its cheapest ingredients to make fish sticks, which is 1 small fish, 1 twig, 2 ice.

 

Obviously fish sticks is the winner by a long shot. It's recipe is much easier to make because you do not need big fish, and you only need one fish - not two. Not to mention you can make the 2 big fish in the ceviche recipe into 2 jerky instead which is far better than ceviche.

One fix is to make the ceviche recipe into small fish meat instead of big fish meat which would actually make ceviche much more efficient. Fish sticks would still be better, but ceviche wouldn't be totally useless as a meal. Perhaps the sanity gain could be boosted to 10 or 15 to give it a niche over fish sticks. Another idea, the spoilage time could be increased to 20 days which could make sense because ice is supposed to preserve food - right now ceviche is only 10 days spoilage, same as fish sticks.

Another seperate idea to fix it is to give ceviche way better stat boosts. Say, 40 hp, 62.5 hunger (same as meatballs), 5 sanity. These great stats reflect the difficulty of getting 2 big fish meat in the recipe while also making it cost efficient like fish sticks. I don't really like this idea because there is already bigger fish meals like seafood gumbo and surf'n'turf.

A buff to this useless fish recipe would make fishing only marginally more viable, but still more viable nonetheless; something awfully needed with the new ocean update.