Revision as of 01:42, 25 January 2025

Food

The food that your slaver eats is one of the most important factors in maintaining your Strength. Without proper meals your slaver will lose Strength daily and while there are methods to prevent this decay they aren't viable long term strategies for growing and maintaining high strength levels.

Dinning Out

Eating in the city is generally cheaper than cooking at home but there are some trade-offs to consider. Here's a list of all the available restaurants:

• Quarter of the Outcasts:
  • (S+) 8$ Go to a restaurant reward;
• Quarter of the Bull:
  • (A+) Free* Rest and relax at the Gentleman's Club;
• Serpentine Quarter:
  • (B+) 5$ meals at the Virgin Hip;
  • (C-) 3$ meals at the Virgin Hip.

 *Note: The cost of eating at the Club is included in the increase in standard of living expenses (membership fees). When adjusting for the amount that the slaver would otherwise spend on home cooked food (cheapest A+ recipe), this cost is around 2,6$ to 12,6$.

The player should keep in mind that:

• If you don't live in the quarter that you're eating in or you don't have the Bull Ring you will spend 1/2 energy traveling there (5 energy in a decade);
• While the player will get 1/2 energy from the interaction, go to the restaurant is a 5 merit reward so it's not a reliable way for the slaver to eat S+ meals daily;
• You're technically not eating the cheapest possible meals for most food tiers with the exception of A+ tier;
• You'll have to micromanage your meals.

Cooking

Cooking is one of the most reliable ways to make sure that your slaver gets proper meals on time. While it is generally more expensive than eating, cooking has several benefits that eating out doesn't and this is before factoring in any sort of minmaxing or cost reduction strategies.

The benefits of eating at home include:

• Extra mood from eating quality home cooked food (either at your Strength or Personality levels, whichever is higher);
• Leveling Strength if the quality of the food exceeds your Strength level (possible up to A+ Strength with S+ food);
• Helping you recover from injuries;
• Cost savings.

When the slaver or a slave cooks it isn't possible to decide what they cook. Nonetheless what the character is able to cook is contingent on:

• Their cooking skill;
• Available ingredients;
• Mood.

 Note: A character will only cook up to the level of their mood. This is one of the most common reasons for why meals might be of an inferior quality than what would otherwise be expected.

Recipes

Here's a breakdown of all the recipes that are available in the game as well as their costs:

 Note: Eating Canned Food isn't a long term solution as the slaver will lose Strength rapidly.

   Note: There is no character in a Normal Start that has D- Strength.

 Note: The cheapest diet in this case is Mince + Spices/Flour/Vegetables.
 Note: If you own a egg layer then the cheapest dish is Mince + Eggs (2.4$).
 Note: Eating at the Virgins Hip for 3$ will save you 4$ in a decade in exchange for 5 energy. The energy cost can be nullified by living in the Serpentine Quarter or owning the Bull Ring. 

 Note: The cheapest diet in this case is Mince + Flour + Vegetables.
 Note: If you own a slave that can lay eggs the cheapest diet becomes Mince + Vegetables + Eggs (4.4$).
 Note: Eating at the Virgins Hip for 5$ will save you 4$ in a decade in exchange for 5 energy. The energy cost can be nullified by living in the Serpentine Quarter or owning the Bull Ring.

 Note: The cheapest diet in this case is Mince + Alcohol + Vegetables/Flour/Spice.
 Note: Recipes with Eggs stop being the cheapest options if you grown eggs at home.
 Note: Eating at the Gentleman's Club is "free" but you require a Respectable Standard of Living (80$~180$ more than the previous tier) in exchange for 5 energy. The energy cost can be nullified by living in the Quarter of the Bull or owning the Bull Ring.

 Note: Since Virgin Meat cannot be bought the prices were calculated using the price that you can sell Virgin Meat at (4$). The prices reflect the opportunity cost of cooking with Virgin Meat rather than selling it.
 Note: The cheapest diet in this case is Virgin Meat + 2 of either Flour/Vegetables/Spice.
 Note: If you own a slave that can lay eggs the cheapest diet becomes Eggs + Flour + Virgin Meat (7$).
 Note: Going to the restaurant costs 8$, and can only be used situationally, in exchange for 1/2 energy per trip. The energy cost can be nullified by living in the Quarter of the Outcasts or owning the Bull Ring.

Strategies

Here's a quick overview of some strategies in regards to food. Some can be combined while others cannot.

Strength Leveling

If you eat an home cooked meal that is of a quality higher than your Strength you will get Strength exp from it. For this reason you should always try to have your assistant cook meals one tier above your Strength so that you can level it up faster. Once you get to A+ Strength and S+ food you'll have to keep in mind the high food costs if you cannot afford them.

Cheapest Meals

By only cooking with mince based dishes the player can get away with saving a significant amount of money while still being able to cook quality food.

On the opposite spectrum of this, if the player has an assistant with A+/S+ Nursing then it's possible to nullify the strength loss from eating food that 1/2 tiers below your Strength.

Eggs

Eggs are one of the grocery types that you can readily make at home if your assistant has undergone oviparity surgery. The amount of eggs that a slave can lay is a sum of her age, endurance, physique, 3 and a random value between 3 and 6. Your slave will lay one egg every day after a 3 day incubation period, once she runs out of eggs to lay she will have to wait another 3 days before she can lay the next batch. This effectively means that you can make significant savings if your assistant is an egglayer and if you already have an egglayer in your barn then you'll also profit more since any excess amount of eggs that won't fit in your fridge will get sold and hence increase your profits.

For maximum benefit you would want an assistant that has undergone oviparity surgery and is Mature with S+ Endurance and B+ Physique. Then you'll want to look at the recipes and settle on which ingredients you want. This could net you a potential cost saving of 16-19 eggs or 96$-114$.

Virgin Meat

Since Virgin Meat cannot be bought the only reliable way to secure it is to either buy slaves at the auction or explore the border of fogs. Given that there's still a considerable amount of RNG with either method I would advise that the player looks at Virgin Meat as a cost saving opportunity rather than a reliable way of feeding one's self. While the cost of buying slaves purposefully to slaughter them for meat is pretty straight forward to calculate there's are too many variable costs to consider when it comes to patrolling the fogs (medical costs, potion costs, etc.), for this reason I won't actually provide any figures in regards to exact cost savings from pursuing either strategy. However I will say that employing both will likely be profitable if you know which slaves to buy and what slaves to slaughter.