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Ziusudra: /* Prepared Meals */ moved value section to item value page

2025-02-28T06:21:06Z

Prepared Meals: moved value section to item value page

Ziusudra: /* Prepared Meal value */ added merge template

2025-02-28T05:41:22Z

Prepared Meal value: added merge template

Ziusudra: /* Prepared Meal value */ added outdated template

2025-02-28T05:36:00Z

Prepared Meal value: added outdated template

Jecowa: /* Bugs */ reference note. i don't think you can cook in adventure mode

2025-01-27T10:04:30Z

Bugs: reference note. i don't think you can cook in adventure mode

DarklingArcher: D for Dwarf: Delicious in Dungeon reference

2025-01-27T09:57:45Z

D for Dwarf: Delicious in Dungeon reference

Zippy: Added sprite.

2024-08-16T22:46:01Z

Added sprite.

Zippy at 05:40, 18 May 2024

2024-05-18T05:40:33Z

Silverwing235 at 11:03, 14 June 2023

2023-06-14T11:03:55Z

DiogenesOfMiami: /* Prepared Meals */

2023-06-13T19:44:33Z

Prepared Meals

DiogenesOfMiami: /* Prepared Meals */ - match language with Kitchen

2023-06-13T19:43:58Z

Prepared Meals: - match language with Kitchen

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 Although some kinds of [[food]] can be eaten raw, other food resources are ingredients; which are only edible when cooked into a meal. Cooking thus increases the number of food sources available to your fortress. Conversely, cooking plants does not yield plant [[seed]]s, so cooking edible plants decreases your potential [[crop]]s. Eating high-[[item quality|quality]] prepared food gives your dwarves happy [[thought]]s if the meal contains one of their [[preference|favorite]] foods {{Bug|4661}}. It is not precisely known how a cook's skill and the quality of ingredients affect the happiness generated by a meal, but as a general rule there's no such thing as "too good".
-== Prepared Meals ==
+== Prepared Meal ==
 There are three kinds of prepared meals: easy, fine, and lavish. All three of these give the same [[experience]] gain to the Cooking skill, so making easy meals maximizes experience gain; if you don't care about experience gain, preparing lavish meals saves much more stockpile space. The number of servings produced has no effect on experience gain. Prepared meals can [[wear|rot]], but will do so much more slowly than raw food, especially [[meat]].
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 Despite their large stack sizes, stacks of prepared meals can usually (though not always) fit into regular [[barrel]]s or [[pot]]s on a food stockpile.
-Prepared meals are subject to quality modifiers to their base value while each individual ingredient gets a quality modifier as well, making prepared meals an extremely profitable item indeed.
+Prepared meals get a quality modifier on their base value and each individual ingredient also gets a quality modifier as well, but more ingredients reduces the value of each. See [[Item_value#Prepared_meal|Item value]] for more information.
 == Variety==

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 This table shows how the [[item quality|quality modifiers]] compare to other items:
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 === Prepared Meal value ===
 This table shows how the [[item quality|quality modifiers]] compare to other items:
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 {{D for Dwarf}}
-Many of the monsters are suprisingly edible, therefore a skilled cook is all you need the next time your [[adventurer mode|adventuring party]] needs to save someone from a [[dragon]].
 {{Skills}}
 [[ru:Cook]]

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 * High-[[quality]] cooked meals only give a happy [[thought]] if at least one of the ingredients is [[preference|preferred]] by the dwarf eating it. {{Bug|4661}}
 * Cooks can combine all the ingredients in a barrel into one massive meal. {{bug|7546}}
 {{Skills}}
 [[ru:Cook]]

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 {{Quality|Exceptional}}
-{{Skill
+{{v50_skill
 | color      = 6:0
 | skill      = Cook
 | profession = [[Farmer]]

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 {{av}}
-A '''Cook''' is a dwarf whose highest skill is in cooking. Cooks will prepare meals at the [[kitchen]] workshop using ingredients available in your fortress. They will also render [[fat]] into [[tallow]] at the kitchen. Both of these fall under the Cooking labor.
+A '''Cook''' is a dwarf whose highest skill is in cooking. Cooks will prepare meals at the [[kitchen]] workshop using ingredients available in your fortress, and will also render [[fat]] into [[tallow]] at the kitchen, both of which fall under the Cooking labor.
-Although some kinds of [[food]] can be eaten raw, other food resources are ingredients which are only edible when cooked into a meal. Cooking thus increases the number of food sources available to your fortress. Conversely, cooking plants does not yield plant [[seed]]s, so cooking edible plants decreases your potential [[crop]]s. Eating high-[[item quality|quality]] prepared food gives your dwarves happy [[thought]]s if the meal contains one of their [[preference|favorite]] foods {{Bug|4661}}. It is not precisely known how a cook's skill and the quality of ingredients affect the happiness generated by a meal, but as a general rule there's no such thing as "too good".
+Although some kinds of [[food]] can be eaten raw, other food resources are ingredients; which are only edible when cooked into a meal. Cooking thus increases the number of food sources available to your fortress. Conversely, cooking plants does not yield plant [[seed]]s, so cooking edible plants decreases your potential [[crop]]s. Eating high-[[item quality|quality]] prepared food gives your dwarves happy [[thought]]s if the meal contains one of their [[preference|favorite]] foods {{Bug|4661}}. It is not precisely known how a cook's skill and the quality of ingredients affect the happiness generated by a meal, but as a general rule there's no such thing as "too good".
 == Prepared Meals ==

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 Prepared meals come in three varieties:
-* Easy meals require two ingredients and are named "{last ingredient} '''biscuit''' ([[File:biscuit_sprite.png]]).
+* '''Easy meals''' require two ingredients and are named "{last ingredient} '''biscuit''' ([[File:biscuit_sprite.png]]).
-* Fine meals require three ingredients and are named "{last ingredient} '''stew''' ([[File:stew_sprite.png]]).
+* '''Fine meals''' require three ingredients and are named "{last ingredient} '''stew''' ([[File:stew_sprite.png]]).
-* Lavish meals require four ingredients and are named "{last ingredient} '''roast''' ([[File:roast_sprite.png]]).
+* '''Lavish meals''' require four ingredients and are named "{last ingredient} '''roast''' ([[File:roast_sprite.png]]).
 As you can see, the last ingredient added to the meal will determine its name, which in turn is determined more or less randomly by the order in which the cook grabs them. To successfully create a prepared meal, a cook must have access to the proper number of ''distinct stacks'' of ingredients when the job starts, otherwise the job will be cancelled. The same ingredient may be used for a meal multiple times, provided that ingredient is in multiple discrete stacks. The stack size of the finished prepared meal is the sum of the stack sizes of its ingredients, so a cook grabbing "turkey hen egg [14]", "plump helmets [5]" and "plump helmets [5]" would result in a stack of "plump helmet stew [24]". Prepared meals cannot be used as ingredients in other prepared meals.