CHEF - Cooking Hunger and Expanded Food

COOKING

Recipes in CHEF are split between more categories and separated into tiers. Roasted meats, soups and beverages can be made at any cooking station, but a full oven is required for more advanced dishes. Advanced cooking recipes usually require more ingredients, and are split between light-weight efficient travel fare and heavier entrees that are more filling and grant longer, larger buffs. The stats of all food have been tweaked with the intention of keeping ingredients thematically consistent and ensuring there are no clear best choice recipes. Also, recipes across the board use Purified Water instead of Dirty Water. (There are no recipes to contaminate your clean water, and adding one seemed silly. Don't cook with cesium, kids!)

HUNGER

Survival mode in Fallout 4 is weird. The game calculates hunger and thirst reduction values of food in the simplest way possible: cap value (eg: food that costs 10 caps removes 10 hunger.) CHEF modifies the hunger and thirst values of select foods as part of the balancing process. The system is modular, using keywords that adjust hunger values alongside the vanilla survival mode scripts.

EXPANDED FOOD

Many common ingredients in Fallout 4 are used only one recipe (most types of meat), and some are used in none (pre-War food and half of growable crops). CHEF adds more than 50 new recipes to improve your cooking options, with an eye towards lore-friendliness and balanced effects. These new foods are available

from vendors throughout the Commonwealth though leveled list injection. Most are available from the start, but some are learned from pre-War magazines scattered throughout the Commonwealth.

Sorry, no recipes or rebalance work yet for cat meat or synthetic gorilla meat.

DETAILS:

NEW INGREDIENTS: Added Coffee Beans and Sugar as luxury commodities you'll usually have to trade for or find as rare loot (though sugar can be extracted from other goods with an advanced cooking station). Brahmin milk has a variety of uses, and can be obtained from vendors or by milking the brahmin of your settlements. Your settlers will deposit the milk in storage daily if you have better things to do.

BEVERAGE: Magnified the effects of all the types of alcohol more potent than beer. Added recipes for brewing different tiers of coffee. Added a number of recipes for cocktails and fruit juice. Moved purifying water down to the utility category.

New Recipes:

[]Awful Coffee

[]Weak Coffee

[]Black Coffee

[]Boston Coffee

[]Irish Coffee

[]Black and Tan