The Nomad Cookbook

<p>As much as I enjoy some of the mods based around long-term primitive survival foods, i can't help but feel some of them are a little overcomplicated or difficult to grasp. I also struggled for a long time personally trying to figure out where the hell i would get salt during a SHTF scenario. Well, turns out there's quite a few herbs that can be baked to get what's called "black salt" which has a similar flavor to regular salt. So I've implemented that, and the ability to cure meat right in your inventory (though its more expensive than the barrel version).</p> <p>I've implemented tallow but it's very basic. You don't need a container or water like you would if you were really rendering fat, but it does take a long time. Tallow is a super calorie dense food made from fat and though it does have a spoilage time, it can last a very long time even exposed to the elements.</p> <p>I've implemented my own pemmican recipe that I though reflected the spirit of the food a little better. Just take any 2 cooked meat, 2 fruit (or grain as the siberian peoples did), and 1 tallow, and it will make pemmican. I haven't play-tested this yet because my survival playthru is during the winter - but pemmican should be able to be dried after making and then last basically forever.</p> <p>---</p> <p>FEATURES<br />- Flowers can now be cooked into salt<br />- Meat can be cured without a barrel<br />- Fat must now be cooked into tallow at a fire to be edible<br />- Fat cannot be eaten raw but must be cooked into tallow<br />- As fuels in fires, fat burns low and slow and tallow burns hot and fast.<br />- Added several varieties of pemmican including a pemmican-like grain version that steppe nomads have used for millenia</p> <p>---</p> <p>PLANNED FEATURES<br />- recipe for baked fruit<br />- ashcakes<br />- PACKED tentblocks (64 tent blocks in one block)<br />- Larger seed stacks</p> <p>UPDATE 1.3.0<br />- Increased longevity of pemmican to match real world values (1 to 5 years)<br />- Rebalanced pemmican recipe so that it outputs 2 pemmican per recipe.<br />* So this is because I buffed the calories received from rendered fat to be more realistic, so the idea here is that you "dilute" the fat with meat and berries to stretch it out some. Add salt to this and you can really extend the longevity of it. If this makes the game too easy, it might be time for me to make a more realistic animal behavior mod to make hunting much harder... need to make a new mod soon...</p> <p>PATCH 1.2.3<br />- Updated for 1.22.2</p> <p>UPDATE 1.2.2<br />- updated pemmican to dry faster, since mine was rotting before it could dry.</p> <p>PATCH 1.2.1<br />- altered pemmican recipe to allow a mixture of berries or grain, and moved recipe ingredients around a bit.</p> <p>UPDATE 1.2.0<br />- Updated for 1.21.6<br />- Created completely new defintion for tallow instead of trying to hijack old butter definition.<br />- This has accomplished nothing and i will now don the cap of shame and clothe myself in sackcloth to proclaim my failure to the world</p> <p>PATCH 1.1.1<br />- Changed "butter/handbook/exclude" to false<br />- Added missing "item" keyword in pemmican translation file<br />- Changed "itemtypes/food/pemmican/enabled" to true<br />- removed bakedfruit for now</p> <p>UPDATE 1.1.0<br />- added "bakedFruit" item based on redclay (not ready for crafting yet)<br />- Removed lines 26-31 in salt file to try and fix tallow handbook issue.<br />- Fixed pemmican titles in handbook<br />- Substantially nerfed salt cooktime<br />- Cut tallow cooktime in half</p> <p>VERSION 1.0.1<br />- Tested, corrected syntax errors, released</p> <p>VERSION 0<br />- Flowers can now be cooked into salt<br />- Added more expensive but convenient cured meat recipe<br />- Removed edibility of raw fat<br />- Fat can now be cooked into tallow at a fire<br />- Fat burns slower and longer in a fire than tallow. <br />- Tallow now burns hot and fast.<br />- Added pemmican as 2 cooked meat, 2 fruit, and 1 tallow.<br />- Added salted pemmican as 2 cured meat, 2 fruit, and 1 tallow.</p>