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They automatically eat the survival meals first while the fine dining spoils?

Welp, that's it, pemmican for everyone. A metric ton of it. We can't have nice things on the rim.

Just off the top of my head, you didn't have carnivore animals who had nothing but berries/hay did you?

Does that even matter? Is that a thing?

The cooking system could easily be expanded upon as a whole (I know it's a placeholder, just saying). As just one example, add soy beans as a crop. They can't safely be eaten raw (darn those lectins!) but just like how hops can be processed into wort then beer, soybeans could be either cooked to produce soy milk and okara or fermented to make soy sauce, natto, tempeh, miso, etc. Okara can't be eaten raw either but can be cooked into plenty of stuff, used to make japanese pickles or as great fertilizer in nitrogen-poor soil. It's an entire industry in one crop!

For game balance purposes, it also allows for a simple crop to be cooked into food directly or fermented/processed over time (to simplify and save space, you could use the existing beer fermenting barrels) into a product that can easily make fine meals. Of course it would be easier to just go out and turn the nearest living thing into meat but as our storytellers keep reminding us, meat spoils quickly. Fermented soy products don't really spoil.. As some like to say, they just 'get stronger'. There is also the plus side of giving people options, be it for role play or traits added later like vegetarian. Turning spoiled foods and/or okara into fertilizer to boost crops grow speed for the life of that plant (maybe adding a % boost to grow speed, capped at what rich soil provides) would be awesome too.

Adding some/all of these things as tribal research could give new and interesting things to do or easily allow it to be skipped and ignore the soy bean altogether. Also, allow rice/potatoes/etc to be fermented into whisky/vodka/sake/wine in the same barrels.

On an early game I had all my pawns digging out a modest cavern to be a sheltered and safe main storage area. I didn't know you had to actually support the roof as you dug.. All 3 dead instantly.