Vanilla Recipes Expanded for Food and Aid (LMs VRE)

Recipe Expansion adds dozens upon dozens of recipes for existing items as a light overhaul to vanilla food crafting, vastly increasing meal diversity for hardcore playthroughs, increasing early game food availability for realism and balance purposes, and making artificially scarce items possible to obtain.

This mod is aimed at two primary goals. Fix the logic gaps in FNV's cooking system, and make eating more realistic and practical. It does this by adding many alternatives to the vanilla crafting recipes for food in the game, allowing for a much wider variety of edible items.

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• []Most eggs are useless rocks. I'm hungry enough to eat my own shoes but I can't eat a 3 pound gecko egg. Many types of meat can't be cooked without very specific ingredients - I have a perfectly good bloatfly but I'm supposed to eat it raw because I don't have pears. What?

  []Flour is both completely useless and very difficult to obtain, when it should still be a staple of the human diet. The NCR is an agrarian society - if Brahmin Barons are able to amass the economic power they are, wheat production has to be significant.

  []Vanilla animal loot yields are low to the point of absurdity. You can starve to death after killing ten animals. You have to eradicate the local gecko population to fill half your stomach.

  []Many recipes that should be common are locked behind some arbitrary item - cooked meats are infamous for this.

  []Many items that should be caloric, if not nutritious, are completely inedible. You can starve to death with an inventory full of eggs while dressed in animal hide and dragging a sack of deathclaw hands and mantis legs behind you, standing over the body of three dead lakelurks.

  This mod is made with extreme compatibility in mind - in lieu of editing or adding foods, it merely adds and redefines recipes for the appearance of adding new foods. Generally, conversions are done at an arbitrary loss (for example, a recipe to convert meat might require excess water), to balance the ease at which they can occur.

  It is intended to make natural resources more rewarding and logical, particularly in the context of reduced purchasing power. Cities are more of a luxury than a necessity for crafting, survival will be much more useful, and your resources will be more varied and important.

  
  Noteworthy Changes

  Over 160 new recipes for vanilla food and items.

  More than 30 new nutritious recipes using flour as a main ingredient.

  Conversions for all in-game eggs into consumables.