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Cooking and Hunger Rework Beta Patch

We're putting the cooking patch up on the beta branch. If you'd like to help us test it, right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. Please leave your feedback here! If you'd rather wait for the full patch release, we understand. It's coming with more recipes, more ingredients, more polish, and more of the kinks ironed out, in a couple weeks.

Hunger has completely changed.

After a day without eating, you become hungry (no penalty). After another day without eating, you become famished (-10 Quickness). Thirst is unchanged.
The primary way to sate hunger now is to cook at a campfire. You can interact with campfires with the use key.
As long as you aren't in combat, you can make camp (see your abilities screen). This starts a campfire.
As long as you aren't in combat, you can whip up a basic meal at a campfire. This costs no resources and sates your hunger, even if you're famished.
Occasionally, the meal you whip up is especially tasty and grants you a small bonus for the rest of the day.
If you have special ingredients in your inventory, you'll occasionally use them when whipping up a meal. They grant dynamically-generated effects.
You can eat up to three times before you are too full to eat, but only the first meal has the chance to be tasty. This three-meal cap is relevant for the Cooking and Gathering skill, described below.
You can still eat food out of your inventory to supplement campfire cooking.
- Most foods are now snacks, which sate a few hours of hunger.
- Corpses count as full meals, but you can no longer bring yourself to eat them unless you're famished.
- If you eat corpses or raw meat, your hunger is sated, but you become ill for 12 hours.
- We removed auto-eat.
- Fresh food spoilage is coming soon.
Hunger status is ignored while traveling on the world map, as we assume you're cooking meals along the way.
However, if you travel more than one world map tile, you'll be hungry when you come back down to a local map.
We adjusted food quantities throughout the world to account for the new hunger system.

We added Cooking and Gathering, a skill that lets you do more sophisticated cooking.

If you have Cooking and Gathering, you get three new options in the campfire menu: cook with ingredients, cook from a recipe, and preserve fresh foods. We'll list the details in the patch notes when we launch the full patch. Until then, if you're interested, go try them out!
You can learn cooking from the Kyakukyans.
Cooking a meal with ingredients bestows a dynamically-generated effect for the rest of the day.
Cooking a meal from a recipe bestows a particular effect.
We added a whole bunch of cooking ingredients. In general, you create them by harvesting and butchering food, then preserving it at a campfire.
We added a kipper tent to the southeast corner of the Stiltgrounds. He sells some preserved cooking ingredients. We'll likely change his inventory before the full patch is released.
You can share recipes during the water ritual.
Share water with Mehmet or Elder Irudad to learn Joppa's favorite dish, apple matz.
We simplified Harvestry and Butchery. They're now each a single power under the Cooking and Gathering tree.
- Harvest Plants is now a toggleable passive power like Butcher Corpses.
- Plants, meat, and organs you harvest and butcher can now be preserved at campfires and turned into cooking ingredients.
- We adjusted all the harvestable and butcherable item frequencies to account for these changes.
- Ripe plants now appear as a different color than their non-ripe counterparts.
- We added some new harvestable and butcherable items.
We tweaked the caste and subtype starting skills to account for new cooking, harvestry, and butchery.

Energy cells of the same charge level now stack in your inventory.

Fixed a bug with bleeding resist.

[ 2017-12-09 00:20:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Caves of Qud
Freehold Games

Developer

Freehold Games

Publisher

2015-07-15

Release

Indie Strategy RPG Singleplayer EA

Who are you?

Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a pure-strain descendant from one of the few remaining eco-domes—the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the Holy City; the ice-sheathed arcology of Ibul; or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon.

You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky.

You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. You approach a watervine farmer—he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."

What can you do?

Anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world.

Assemble your character from over 70 mutations and defects and 24 castes and kits—outfit yourself with wings, two heads, quills, four arms, flaming hands, or the power to clone yourself—it's all the character diversity you could want.
Explore procedurally-generated regions with some familiar locations—each world is nearly 1 million maps large.

Dig through everything—don't like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava. Yes, every wall has a melting point.
Hack the limbs off monsters—every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. So if you have a mutation that lets you, say, psionically dominate a spider, you can traipse through the world as a spider, laying webs and eating things.
Pursue allegiances with over 60 factions—apes, crabs, robots, and highly entropic beings—just to name a few.
Follow the plot to Barathrum the Old, a sentient cave bear who leads a sect of tinkers intent on restoring technological splendor to Qud.
Learn the lore—there's a story in every nook, from legendary items with storied pasts to in-game history books written by plant historians.
Die—Caves of Qud is brutally difficult and deaths are permanent. Don't worry, though—you can always roll a new character.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 18.04. and CentOS 7
Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
Storage: 2 GB available space

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