Eternal Stew

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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">History:</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From Wikipedia - "A perpetual stew, also known as forever soup, hunter's pot, or hunter's stew, is a pot into which foodstuffs are placed and cooked, continuously." The longest reported of them lasting over 50 years. This is achieved by maintaining a non-stop simmer (200&deg;F/93&deg;C), which kills bacteria and prevents new pathogens from growing.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is why our Eternal Stew will never be crock-able. Allowing the stew to cool causes it to rot&nbsp;rapidly. It must be eaten fresh from the "living" pot to be safe to consume.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Eternal Stew comes to Vintage Story!</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The core concept here is to be able to throw any food items into the pot, and get a good meal in return. The vanilla stew-cooking system requires even numbers and only has four slots, as well as specific ratios of specific types of foods to even work - so what do you do with that one piece of left-over redmeat and a handful of berries? Instead of being stuck eating them raw like a peasant, or just tossed on the fire without salt, or letting them rot in storage, add them to your Eternal Stew pot! Leftovers are the life-blood of the Eternal Stew.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Added blocks and how it works;</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eternal Stew adds a purpose-built stove and pot for true perpetual stewing: keep a batch simmering, top it up with liquid and ingredients, and ladle out bowls on demand.</span>

• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">You craft the stove from clay brick slabs, cobblestone and fire clay.The pot is made from a fired clay cooking pot plus a metal plate; your inputs set the stove&rsquo;s brick color and the pot&rsquo;s metal finish.</span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Place the pot on the stove, add 10 L of liquid to start, fuel with firewood/peat/coal, light with a torch, and drop ingredients straight from your hotbar into the stewpot.</span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">The stewpot accepts up to 64 ingredients by default. You can add more ingredients at any time as long as there is space, the pot is heated, and you have enough broth - <span style="text-decoration: underline;">this is CONFIGURABLE</span></span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Broth will deplete over time with servings, top off the pot with more liquid when it gets too low to continue adding ingredients.</span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contents change color/texture based on what you added.</span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Acceptable <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">offerings</span> ingredients: Most objects that have satiety will be allowed in the stewpot.</span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Each bowl inherits nutrition from the current stew - <span style="text-decoration: underline;">this is CONFIGURABLE</span></span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">As long as there is a fire lit in the stove, the stew will not rot</span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fuel burn is heavily reduced in simmer/kept-warm modes for long-running batches. Stove accepts up to 32 fuel (firewood, peat, coals) by default - <span style="text-decoration: underline;">this is CONFIGURABLE</span></span>
• <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Stew age bonuses: at 3 months, bowls grant warmth (+0.5&deg;C base, +0.1&deg;C per month after, cap +2&deg;C). There is no duration for the warmth buff, just a one time increase at time of consumption. At 6 months, bowls also reduce hunger rate (-3% base, -1% per month after, cap -15%), duration 5m + 2m per month, cap 30m.</span>
  • <span style="font-size: 12pt;">To maintain your age bonus, do not let the fire go out!!!</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">NEW! Many Broths;</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Escalate your stew exaltation with bases beyond water - booze, milk, blood, broths - give life to your stew. This provides bonus satiety to your Eternal Stew, matching the type of liquid you add. The Eternal Stew now hosts a multitude of broths&nbsp;simultaneously. Your willingness to experiment with satiety-bearing liquids is the limit of what can go in the pot.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The broth in the pot now absorbs 10% of the satiety of all solid food added to it as well, enriching the broth with every morsel.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">NEW! Return to the Stew;</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partially eaten bowls of stew can now be returned to the pot. Simply sneak to dump your leftovers back into the stew! This applies to&nbsp;all meals, not just bowls of Eternal Stew. Additionally, non-pot meals can now be added to the stew as well - such as slices of pie, bread, fruit bars, and slices of cheese. This is not an extensive list:&nbsp;if you find something that does not yet go in the pot, let us know!! All things must return to the Stew. </span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Crocks cannot be emptied directly into Eternal Stew. Serve the crock into a bowl first, then use that bowl on the pot.</span>