Algae bars

[SubProgram32]

So, we have mush bars, made from dirt, and mealloafs, made from meal lice. But what do we always see in low-resource dystopian futures? Algae as food! Surely, all that algae we get can be mushed up into edible bars, if freaking dirt can be made edible. It's not necesserily that imbalanced either - algae is already so critcal to the survival of the colony that the option to also make it a food source will certainly not be an easy one, with the additional strain on resources it would represent. I imagine plants will become more complicated to maintain in the future updates too, so having this as an option would be good for if you mess up your plants and dont want to risk dhioreah. (sic)

Also, having more food options in general would be great to see, especially in higher research tiers. The food systems were one of my favourate details about Don't Starve.

[darkrage000]

because you would run out of oxygen within a few turns because you ate up all your algae

[SubProgram32]

Well I mean that's the balance there. It's almost useless now yes, but in future when there are more ways to access/produce algae, this could help reward a base that goes strongly into that.

[Masterpintsman]

Algae Terrariums should produce algae anyway (vaporating some water, using up some fertilizer, eating some CO2 and have some light) instead of eating it in excessive quantities, so a sink like a food from it would make sense.

 

[Lwolf]

This sounds rather reasonable 

With future patches there may be better ways to produce algae so to make it into a food source wouldn't be a bad idea