Moon's Food Balance Overhaul

Requires Far Harbor and Nuka World and Contraptions DLC

DescriptionLead Belly perk has been renamed "Wasteland Gourmet" and it now functions as a properly balanced food based perk set. Many recipes and foods in the game have been changed, as well as new ones added. All foods are now radioactive and cooking does not fully remove radiation. This makes food feel like a fully fleshed out part of the game. Also, all sodas have been edited to only buff Action points (no longer a health source) to make them stand out.

Progression With no points in Wasteland Gourmet your character will be extremely limited to what they can cook. Recipes are limited to cooking easily prepared chunks of meat. You are new to the wasteland and besides, Wordsworth did all the cooking before the war. What parts of a radroach are edible exactly? That Salisbury Steak is starting to look tasty.

Once you unlock the first rank of Wasteland Gourmet your character can finally start living off the land. You can prepare many more recipes. Including batches of jerky, which heal more and take up less space than a basic steak. Great for a traveling adventurer!

Rank two of Wasteland Gourmet will start to show off your skills in the kitchen and knowledge of wasteland foods. These recipes offer bonuses to things like damage resistance, carry weight and action points.

If you are committed to being a true Wasteland Gourmet and take rank three, you will unlock the best recipes in the game. Each recipe creates a food that will buff one or more SPECIAL!

Each level of Wasteland Gourmet adds 2, 4 and 8 points to ingested rad resistance respectively. This adds up to 16 at rank 3, which negates about half or more of the rads in food on average.

Added Brahmin Milk to the game. It can be acquired the same way you acquire fertilizer in settlements or from food merchants. It is a recipe ingredient and can be used as a drink to stay hydrated in survival. You might want some more feeding troughs in you settlements as the milk is an uncommon drop. Brahmin milk can be fortified to restore a small amount of limb damage (even in hardcore) but you need to collect one of the ingredients from Far Harbor.

Water(purified/dirty/Institute) is nerfed. It heals half as much and ways 1. 0 instead of 0. 5. Also value is reduced. It's too easy to create water farms in settlements for currency and radiation free health. This will make survival harder, but this mod is primarily balanced for normal game play. Also, the new weights match the weight of every other beverage in game.

Bonus effects from some foods have been removed. Often moved to new recipes unlocked with later ranks of Wasteland Gourmet.