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Edible Sugar and Recipe Tweaks (B41)

Makes sugar edible! Sugar now has nutritional value! Minor tweaks to recipes that use sugar! Also buffed hot cuppa fatigue!


DO NOT load this mod onto a previous save unless you're fine with the sugar you have looted disappearing.


Specifics below!

-Changes Sugar from a drainable item to a nonperishable, packaged food.

-Sugar Nutrition: 2090.1 calories and 565.9 carbohydrates, 0 protein and lipids.

-Changes cake preparation and both cuppas nutrition.

-Cake Nutrition: 1003.2 calories and 271.6 carbohydrates, protein and lipids unchanged.

-Cuppa Nutrition: 334.4 calories and 90.5 carbohydrates, protein and lipids unchanged.

-Hot cuppas now provide -15 fatigue change! Now it's actually worth using those tea bags!

-Recipes that used sugar as an ingredient (jarring, cuppa, and cake batter) will still use the same amount of sugar they did before I made sugar edible.

-Because sugar is now a food item you can't find partially empty bags of sugar, this will result in more sugar in your playthroughs.

-Adding sugar to a mug of water will provide you with calories and carbs as well as minor hunger reduction. You can do this in the base game but you'd actually get 0 calories and carbs from doing this, just wasting your sugar.



A few of you may be wondering why I picked those specific calorie and carbohydrate values. Originally I was going to just use the value of 1 kg of sugar based off the USDA website, but I realized it might be a bit strong. Since honey is the closest thing to edible sugar in the base game I looked at it's ingame nutrition and USDA nutrition, found the equivalent ratios for calories and carbohydrates (irl honey has 1.84x more calories and 1.76x more carbs than the game honey for the same weight), and found the "game values" for sugar. I then made sure the cake and cuppa recipes had at least the same amount of calories and carbs as the amount of sugar that went in them.



Note: This is my first Zomboid mod and one of the few mods I've ever made in general. If the base game or mods changes anything significant about what I've changed here I can't guarantee this will be compatible.

Compatible with Vanilla Food Fixes (although the amount of sugar used in beverages, not cuppas, is changed with it on)

Workshop ID: 2110914525
Mod ID: EatSugar

Special thanks to Soul Filcher on TIS discord for helping me implement recipe changes.