Cooking bug

[SolomonKhane]

Sometimes when trying to make a dish the game would transform the cooking utensil without adding the food creating dishes with no effects such as empty soups stir-fries, etc. Once eaten it returns to normal but none of the ingredients are being used.
This can also happen with proper food dish that did accept an ingredient but won't accept any more added ingredients.
(the little icons under the item name would only be of the previously added ingredients)

[Keven]

Is this when adding meat/fish fillets?

[SolomonKhane]

Not just meat or fish, it changes per saves. It can include vegetables, fruits and canned food. (E.G can't add bolognes to pasta. Or sometimes even the pasta into the water)

[Vex]

Same for me.

[SolomonKhane]

Can we get a dev here?

[Dark Thoughts]

I've had a cooked pasta pot, which was unedible after adding mayonnaise to it.
https://i.imgur.com/aHmdhCM.jpg

[SolomonKhane]

I got the error page for it, and it seems like after a while the host can't add food items because the item name changed and was no longer the original prestine (fresh) and then the game doesn't know what to do with it. A multiplayer game still allows others to cook, but I don't know what's the difference.

[CybrNtx]

I've been encountering this frequently too. It's very inconsistent, some foods work in one save while not in another. I notice that foraged food specifically doesn't work, and this seems to be the cause in every save I have. Removing mods, validating the game, outright removing all files and reinstalling doesn't fix anything either.

[Kahj]

I've got this issue too, and i have it in my solo games, and in hosted games from my computer. However anyone else joining my hosted game doesnt have the issue. which makes me think its client side.

[SolomonKhane]

From the tests i've made it seems the game is looking for specific item names, the kind that won't show up on the player's side, but would indiciate stuff like, how many servings it has and how old it is.
At first I thought it might be due to how old the food is, but now I think it's looking to see whether it has more servings than the dish requires to determine if the ingredient should be replaced or delelted outright. If it can be replaced with the lower serving, it seem to work, but when it needs to be deleted it doesn't seem to. So foraged food seem to never have enough servings other than medium to large fish. While grown foods CAN have enough servings, but can only be used once per veggy. And even then, not every veggy is large enough.

(servings are the number after the ingredient name e.g: "Potatoe (fresh) (18)" it's not the amount of potatoes you have, but the size of a single potatoe.)

In multiplayer, It seem to only affect the host, while anyone who joined (including me) isn't affected. So, if it affects you as a host, remember that you'd probably be able to cook if you join a server instead of hosting it.

[Kahj]

is there anyway to get some dev attention to this? (dont know if theyve said anything about it), but its pretty game breaking when surviving on other food than canned food.

[SolomonKhane]

Well guys, if you're having trouble with cooking try to make sure any meat you add has at least (15) servings (it shows up when adding to dish, it also shows up as -15 hunger), carrots should have (7), tomatoes (11), potatoes (11), radish(2), mushrooms(11), berries (10? might be higher).
So when catching fish, make a fillet out of the 30+ hunger reducers to get 2 15 hunger fillets, and anything less than that you can just cook whole and eat. For veggies and fruits. Once you used them for cooking and the give less hunger reduction just eat them raw or toss them for the composter. For foragables you'll need to open their drop down menu to compare nutrition bars. Higher goes into dishes, lower goes into mouth or compost.

I hope this helps my culinary friends here. Have fun and cook a mean -100 hunger, -50 unhappiness meals!

final tip: hunger reduction on meals scales with cooking skill. Plus, [another bug] adding another ingredient of the same kind that was already added increases the nutritianal value of the meal without reducing the value of the ingredient. E.G add both fish fillets (15) and one will reduce to around 7 and the other will stay at 15, but the dish will have gone from -20 hunger to -40.

[Bizilux]

same problem... its soooooo annoying... i have all this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ perishable food and cant do anything with it

[Xenai]

Ditto... This is getting to be really frustrating.