We need more butter-y product sources

[Reiko24]

Butter in itself is too powerful to be easily farmed in mass quantities.

There should be a source of a resource that can be used in a crock pot just like butter, while having stats similar to honey. 

The name could be a pun, just like with butter and butterfly.

maybe some plant related margarine?

“——-garine”

[BalkanCockroach]

Marinegarine. Made from Salicornia A.K.A sea beans. They can make it work like kelp but rarer, maybe only harvestable in a new marine biome. Or they could be added to the waterlogged biome. Cooking it would have a 20 percent chance to grant a marinegarine. And the cooked food itself is can have stats similar to a carrot or worse.

[RexySeven]

This and milk, yes.

[Cheggf]

Milk and milky whites are both easily farmed and can be used in place of butter for ice cream & milkmade hats. The only butter exclusive recipes are waffles & wobster dinner, but I don't see why they need to be readily available to be mass produced. They're fine as situational dishes you make when you're lucky enough to have butter. Their purposes are already easily fulfilled with other dishes. 

[Reiko24]

52 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

Milk and milky whites are both easily farmed and can be used in place of butter for ice cream & milkmade hats. The only butter exclusive recipes are waffles & wobster dinner, but I don't see why they need to be readily available to be mass produced. They're fine as situational dishes you make when you're lucky enough to have butter. Their purposes are already easily fulfilled with other dishes. 

Warly dishes that need butter, fe. Fresh Fruit Crepes

[Cheggf]

5 minutes ago, Reiko24 said:

Warly dishes that need butter, fe. Fresh Fruit Crepes

Fresh fruit crepes is the only dish of his that requires butter, and I don't think that one needs to be more accessible either. Its stats are arguably the best in the game, it requiring a rare ingredient you can't mass produce makes sense. If anything bringing up fresh fruit crepes shows that butter shouldn't be more accessible. Why would you ever make anything else when fresh fruit crepes has the fast eat animation and restores 150 hunger, 60 health, and 15 sanity while being made of 3 free ingredients & butter? The only drawback is a somewhat fast spoilage time (stale in 5 days, compared to other dishes' 7-10) which can be compensated for with bundling wrap/bearger bin/insulated pack/snow chester. It is literally the single best dish in the game in every single way except for sanity where it's average (but if it had an accessible recipe it'd be the best at that too) and spoilage where it's a bit fast.

[WilsonHiggs]

The suggestion is to remove the only reason that makes butter a special ingredient?

[Walrusst]

It might be a good mini boss drop but I don't like the idea of another naughtyness system....
The level of fatigue I've seen with naughtyness systems and newer players is unreal even if they are the sorts of people who enjoy grouping up and fighting stuff like bee queen, seasonal bosses and the like.

If farm crops had a variable output where different crops had different yields for numbers of plants, it might be cool to see a crop that's low yield but can be refined into little bits of butter, but given all farm crops are 1+seeds or 3+seeds if giant, its hard to say that there would be a good way to do it.

[Frosty_Mentos]

If we get ranching mechanics introduced I would enjoy getting goat milk regularly for butter churning.

[Evelo]

6 hours ago, Frosty_Mentos said:

If we get ranching mechanics introduced

It would be nice to have this just for the relaxation of it akin to the Farming Rework. Sure it will probably be overpowered but yknow. Everything else is already.

The only animal it feels like we can actually ranch for a proper reward are Tall Birds.

[DegenerateFurry]

11 hours ago, Cheggf said:

Milk and milky whites are both easily farmed and can be used in place of butter for ice cream & milkmade hats. The only butter exclusive recipes are waffles & wobster dinner, but I don't see why they need to be readily available to be mass produced. They're fine as situational dishes you make when you're lucky enough to have butter. Their purposes are already easily fulfilled with other dishes. 

Milky whites are only farmable every 20 days, though.

[FillerText]

There is a sentimental quality to a rare drop you get once in a blue moon being the only way to experience the taste of home you are now far, far away from. It's supposed to be a rare privilege instead of just another unexciting piece of ham coated in honey to make you forget it's made from purple chunks of hairy meat.

[_mylilsunshine_]

1 hour ago, DegenerateFurry said:

Milky whites are only farmable every 20 days, though.

it's 15*, but yeah milky white is still an uncommon commodity

i actually like that dairy products are hard to amass in large quantity, makes the cooked dishes extra special. if we're talking about diversifying dairy products, there should be new cooked dishes with lower power to accompany the new low-power dairy items

but then again, getting food in DST has never been a hustle, even more so now with bear bin and farming. having more food choices doesn't mean much when everyone would just default to the easiest, most low-maintenance options like kelp, leafy bulbs, and honey. what we need is a food rework!

[Evelo]

2 hours ago, DegenerateFurry said:

Milky whites are only farmable every 20 days, though.

  Boom, 5 days now.

[MA7xGE]

Every time I smack a winged flower and it drops butter, I yell an excited "BUTTA! :O".

Butter holds the power of being one of the most delightful random little things in this game.

[Edible Coal]

warly mains getting butter on day 3 realizing they cant make fruit creep because it needs
1.5 fruit value

so angry about this thing

[BrixGoBrrr]

Butter-fish? maybe it spawns near Salt Formations, and prefers Popcorn as bait 

[Johnny_Waffles]

They could add a stucture where if you put eletric milk in it, after a few days you get a piece of butter.

[BalkanCockroach]

5 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

warly mains getting butter on day 3 realizing they cant make fruit creep because it needs
1.5 fruit value

so angry about this thing

Banana not work?

[_mylilsunshine_]

22 minutes ago, BalkanCockroach said:

Banana not work?

yeah but not everyone is doing scienceless ruins rush for a crepe on day 3 because of a lucky buttah

[Wormboi]

4 hours ago, _mylilsunshine_ said:

yeah but not everyone is doing scienceless ruins rush for a crepe on day 3 because of a lucky buttah

Or rushing to the funny monkey island

[sosiskaKi]

Butterfly miniboss. Guaranteed butter and wings for sail.

[Wawchik]

Nah, butter is fine, I don't why this community is obsessed with reworking\making every single thing more useable

[BalkanCockroach]

22 hours ago, _mylilsunshine_ said:

yeah but not everyone is doing scienceless ruins rush for a crepe on day 3 because of a lucky buttah

Now you can succesfully rush bananas and crepes to your hearts content without ruins or moonquay 

[WilsonHiggs]

On 4/10/2025 at 7:07 PM, _mylilsunshine_ said:

yeah but not everyone is doing scienceless ruins rush for a crepe on day 3 because of a lucky buttah

Butter last super long