Food requirements

[Frozencarbon]

Food requirements should more complex. There should be vitamins and minerals in each food type. Let's say if your dupes dont get enough vitamin C their immunity goes down and their more prone to getting sick. This would make it so we couldn't just keep giving them same food day in a day out. There would be a lot more planning to food choices we make and how effects our dupes overall well being/effectiveness in the game. Maybe this would a good idea for like a hardcore mode?

 

 

 

[TheExceed]

4 minutes ago, Frozencarbon said:

Food requirements should more complex. There should be vitamins and minerals in each food type. Let's say if your dupes dont get enough vitamin C their immunity goes down and their more prone to getting sick. This would make it so we couldn't just keep giving them same food day in a day out. There would be a lot more planning to food choices we make and how effects our dupes overall well being/effectiveness in the game. Maybe this would a good idea for like a hardcore mode?

This would be pretty cool.
Starches, Meat, Fruits. Higher jobs require balanced diet.
Not getting enough possible causes health issue. Like iron deficiency.
 

[Rossum]

47 minutes ago, Frozencarbon said:

Food requirements should more complex. There should be vitamins and minerals in each food type. Let's say if your dupes dont get enough vitamin C their immunity goes down and their more prone to getting sick. This would make it so we couldn't just keep giving them same food day in a day out. There would be a lot more planning to food choices we make and how effects our dupes overall well being/effectiveness in the game. Maybe this would a good idea for like a hardcore mode?

 

Not a fan of the idea of trying to simulate vitamins or something, but it could be nice if different foods restored things like health, stress, energy, etc.

Kind of like how in Don't Starve different foods restore different amounts of hunger, sanity, health, etc. Or in Zelda: Breath of the Wild you make up different foods that restore heath and stamina while applying various buffs.

So, instead of trying to simulate vitamins and nutrition, it's more like getting the right buffs for your duplicants.

 

For example:

Fruits and vegetables provide more energy

Meaty foods restore more health

Eggs and Fish provides a boost to learning

Sweet or Flavorful foods reduce stress

Juicier foods or drinks help keep a duplicant cool in hot environments

Spicy foods keep a duplicant warm in cold environments

 

Or something like that, they could just be general rules rather than hard coded. I suppose boosting immunity would be another good bonus.

So, simple foods like meal lice are good at restoring hunger, but provide little in the way of bonuses. The more advanced foods meanwhile provide greater bonuses to handling stress, providing energy, and boosting experience gain and stuff like that.