Box lunch and Sleeping bags

[MagusLucius]

requires a smith to make a "Lunchbox", and a cooking bill "Make Boxed Lunch"
Meal quality is relative to lunchbox quality and cooking skill, best is equivalent to a "Fine Meal".
no debuff for "eating off the ground"
If boxed lunches are available, colonists will carry them instead of other meals.

Lunch Boxes count as art items.

sleeping bags could be bought, found on raiders laying siege, or made at a tayloring bench.
If a colonist is working in a distant part of the map, rather than hiking through their sleep period to get back to their bed, they can use the sleeping bag, and get a reduced debuff for sleeping on the ground / in the cold. or trade "Sleeping on the ground" for a lesser debuff "Had to camp out"

Depending on the quality of the sleeping bag, they might have a happy thought "Good sleeping bag" or an extra debuff "worn out sleeping bag"
Can be made from any fabric plus a quantity of wool
cost: 100 fabric, 50 wool

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Just requiring like 1 steel or wood would make sense for lunch boxes, and just have that with the boxed meals. Separate items for the food and box doesn't make much sense just because it already comes in a package, the other meals.

[MagusLucius]

Just requiring like 1 steel or wood would make sense for lunch boxes, and just have that with the boxed meals. Separate items for the food and box doesn't make much sense just because it already comes in a package, the other meals.

So... let me get this straight.  You're suggesting that every time  my colonists eat in the field, it should cost me 1 steel, if I don't want a debuff.

that would be ridiculously expensive by comparison, given how much it would be used.  And as an art item you could sell them.

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Yeah, except making a concrete floor requires 1 steel. The lunchbox would probably be reasonable to cost what, 5 wood or steel, you really wouldn't be able to sell that as an art item for much at all. If you have that many people eating out in the field, get the modular table mod, make a single table and chair out there.

As really it's more that the tables are too big to just make them all over the map for people away from the base.