Cilinary

[Dirmagnos]

New station - stove.

Stove initially starts with no recipes, but allows creating new ones thru experimentation. Upon initial attempt, up to 4 items(damn you Dont Starve) can be added and then dupe will attempt to create something out of it.

Outcome of this experiment is determined by several factors. Cooking skill, number of items and item quality(edible and hard to find/produce items will have higher chance of producing superior dish). But luck would play a major bonus as well(to make things interesting). Certain combinations could also increase(or decrease - i doubt that even dupes would appreciate polluted dirt in their meals; but add 4 types of seeds and you get yourself an energy bar) chances of higher quality dishes. 

Player may added newly created recipe to cooking list or it may just add it to "discarded" list, to prevent player from doing same thing when experimenting later(if i did just few experiments, then i may remember what i tried, but if i did a few dozen, then remembering them might become a problem). However, trying failed(relatively failed, as experiment results were technically edible, their caloric or quality values were simply unsatisfactory to player) by dupe with higher cooking skill could change end result of experiment.

Number of calories and dish quality are interconnected. High number of calories decrease chances of high quality of final product. It would be possible to create item of high caloric value and high quality, but chances of it would be extremely small.

All recipes are reset when player starts a new world and same combinations can produce completely different results in different games. Dish icon and name are based on ingredients used. If mushrooms are used it can become a "Mushroom Pie" or "Mushroom Stew", depending on what other ingredients are there. Certain ingredients could be prioritized when picking names, aka if player has both sand and meat lice, then it wont be a "Sand roast".

This all could be tied into occupations. Unskilled dupes could produce and experiment with 2 ingredients. Sous chef, upon completion of training, could produce dishes and experiment with up to 3 ingredients and Chef get all 4 slots at his disposal.