It's Time to Add Some Jerky-based Dishes

[Sofy Happy]

    The current changes to the Drying Rack only reduce its crafting cost but fail to address the issue of dried meat foods becoming obsolete as the game progresses. Once the Polar Bear Bin is obtained, any food that cannot be processed into dishes is completely phased out. Therefore, it’s time to add several dried meat dishes.

Features of Dried Meat Dishes:

1. Requires dried meats as one of the ingredients. This includes Jerky, Monster Jerky, Small Jerky,.
2. The stats of dried meat dishes don’t need to be too high but should at least exceed those of plain dried meat. These dishes would only significantly improve one specific stat (depending on the recipe), while other stats remain close to regular dried meat. Since dried meat already has decent stats, the main purpose of turning them into dishes is to make them compatible with the Polar Bear Bin.
3. Long shelf life, maintaining and enhancing the characteristic of dried meat—at least 40 days or more. The game could introduce new shelf-life durations, such as 80 or 120 days.
4. Short cooking time, around 10 seconds. Cooking dried meat dishes counts as secondary cooking since the meat is already cured, so it should require less time. The player’s effort in drying the meat should also be factored into the overall cooking process.

Example Dish Designs:

1. Canadian Maple Bacon – Requires Jerky and Honey. Primarily boosts sanity restoration and, due to the honey, has an extremely long shelf life.
2. Fig-Dried Jerky – Requires Jerky and Figs.
3. Smoked Stew – Requires Jerky plus at least 2 Meat value and 1 Veggie value. Mainly improves hunger restoration.
4. Jelly Jerky – Requires Jerky and Figs. The shelf life is a balance between Leafy Meat and regular Jerky, offering a moderate duration.

 

(More) Dried Kelp Powder Seasoning – Warly Skill Tree Concept
     3 Dried Kelp can craft 2 Umami Seasonings. Dishes seasoned with "Umami" gain a "Savory" prefix, and consuming them grants the player a movement speed boost.

Edited July 27, 2025 by Sofy Happy

[Sofy Happy]

On 7/27/2025 at 5:43 PM, Sofy Happy said:

Jelly Jerky – Requires Jerky and Figs.

Sorry ,requires Jerky and Leafy Meat

[Wigfridge2137]

Or just rework polar bear bin and let us put jerky in it

[Edible Coal]

1 hour ago, Wigfridge2137 said:

Or just rework polar bear bin and let us put jerky in it

warly: how about no

[Wigfridge2137]

9 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

warly: how about no

No one wants to play this cooking simulator anyway until he gets a skill tree. Its a character that everyone want to have in their team but no one wants to play him.

[Dyzrespect]

As much as I yearn for more crock pot foods, if there were to exist jerky crock pot dishes worth the effort of making, they'd need a ludicrous amount of stats, as jerky itself is already possibly the most efficient food in the game in terms of ingredients to stat recovery. Each piece of jerky would need to contribute 20 health, 15 sanity, and 25 hunger worth of value to any dish it is in to be worth it, and that's already coming close to what most dishes offer on their own.

On 7/27/2025 at 2:43 AM, Sofy Happy said:

the main purpose of turning them into dishes is to make them compatible with the Polar Bear Bin.

I think trying to evade the limitations of the Bearger Bin defeats its entire purpose, and we might as well instead argue to remove the crock pot dish limitation on it. Though in fairness this suggestion preserves spirit of encouraging crock pot use, but just making it so you feel pressured to dry all of your meats before cooking them takes away from all the meat dishes that already exist, and the point of using bundling wraps. Also if they did have similar shelf lives to jerky, they'd last 200 days in a bearger bin before even going stale, so there'd be basically no reason to make anything else.

[Evelo]

Can we balance the current recipes first please?

[Sofy Happy]

On 7/30/2025 at 7:57 AM, Evelo said:

Can we balance the current recipes first please?

Yes, I also really hope the developers will rebalance the recipes - some dishes simply aren't cost-effective at all. My guess is that if this is already on the developers' to-do list, it will likely be released alongside Warly's skill tree.

Edited July 31, 2025 by Sofy Happy

[Maxil20]

On 7/29/2025 at 7:57 PM, Evelo said:

Can we balance the current recipes first please?

I’m curious what they would end up doing. While I do agree some could be tuned, crockpot balance has been in a much better spot for a long while now. The only dishes that stick out are ironically things like the vanilla/RoG recipes in particular.