Food changes in Project Zomboid

Fixed food names not updating to the decayed versions when placed in the world

Fixed food items showing as frozen in the freezer, when they are still freezing

Fixed opening frozen packs returning defrosted food

Cooked food used as a lure no longer gets heavier or more filling.

Fixed some cooked food items increasing in encumberance and hunger reduction when used as lure

Fridges that are not the standard type now apply the refrigeration effect to chilled food, just like regular fridges.

Fixed non-standard fridges failing to apply refrigeration modifier to chilled food

Fixed removing food from a trough not updating the sprite

Fixed food amount not updating after adding it to a dish

Splitting food into 2 or 4 bowls now keeps its boredom reduction and any spices you added.

Fixed food divided into 2 / 4 bowls not inheriting Boredom reduction or added spices

Using the last of your Rice in a dish like Sushi or Cabbage Roll no longer destroys the Saucepan.

Fixed Saucepans being destroyed when using the last remaining Rice to make food (ex: Sushi; Cabbage Roll)

Food sickness now always wears off over time, unless you are actively building up corpse sickness.

Food sickness now always reduces over time unless corpse sickness is actively accumulating.

Double-clicking food you know is burned, rotten, unsafe to eat uncooked or poisoned no longer starts eating it, so you are less likely to eat something harmful by accident.

• Players will no longer start eating food items on double click if the player is aware of them being hazardous to consume on account of them being burned, rotten, dangerous uncooked and also uncooked, or has poison that the player is aware of.

Frozen food now shows and explains that it cannot be used in evolved recipes.

Frozen food for evolved recipes now show/explain they cannot be used.

Canned food that needs opening now has an Open and Eat option, which opens the can for you before eating, as long as you are able to open it.

• Canned Food that need to be opened to be consumed will, if the player is capable of opening the canned food, have the RMC option to Open and Eat available, and when selected the craft recipe to open it will be performed before the eating action.

Burnt Food no longer poisons you unfairly.

Fixed unfair poisoning from Burnt Food.

• Fixed unfair poisoning from Burnt Food. Guard rails had been put around this, but clearly not enough.

Fixed incorrectly calculating the age of frozen food items when first created.

Dried green peas now count as food.

Fixed dried green peas not being a food category item.

Food in a Pasta Pot can now be divided into bowls properly.

Fixed dividing food in 2/4 bowls not working for PastaPot.

Food items now keep their stress bonus when you save and load.

Fixed food items not saving or loading stress bonus.

Cookable food items now display in tooltips how long it takes to cook them if the character has at least 5 levels in Cooking.

Wild foods no longer multiply their happiness value by their size.

Removed wild foods, multiplying food happiness values by item size.

Eating utensils like a spoon, fork or spork now work from any bag you carry, so you can keep your spork in a fanny pack or backpack and still get its eating benefits.

• When eating food and an eating utensils such as a spoon, fork or spork would change the eating animation/speed/benefits, the timed action code will search the player's inventory recursively through all bags for a utensil versus just the primary inventory. I.e. you can keep your spork in your fanny pack or backpack and still use it.

Fixed Dry dog and cat food not giving Unhappiness.

Fixed dividing food into 2 bowls miscalculating hunger value if that food was not whole.

Food that does not change hunger can now be used as an ingredient in crafting.

Slicing a rotten animal head no longer gives a brain.

Opening a can with a knife or sharp stone now needs a surface instead of being done in your hands, so you are less likely to pick it by accident, and it can break the knife or hurt your hand.

Opening canned food with a knife or sharp stone is now AnySurfaceCraft and not InHandCraft; this is to make it less likely for players to unintentionally select this option when opening cans.

• Opening canned food with a knife or sharp stone is now AnySurfaceCraft and not InHandCraft; this is to make it less likely for players to unintentionally select this option when opening cans. Additionally with right-clicking you cannot both select the can and knife, and you can break a knife (or your hand) performing this craftRecipe. You should use a surface when stabbing a can open anyways.

Meat from butchering can now come out rotten if the animal lay dead too long before you butchered it.

This meat can be rotten if the animal stayed dead for too long before butchering.

Dead animal bodies now show as Stale or Rotten when they are, so you can check a carcass's freshness before butchering it.

Update the status of food for animal dead bodies (so it'll say Stale/Rotten if needed).

Food moved into bowls now keeps its cooked status.

Fixed moving food into bowls not setting their cooked status.

Fixed duplication of bowls when moving food from a pot.

Recipes that split food, such as a pot of soup into bowls, are being set up to pass nutrition and cooked, poisoned or old status on to each portion.

• This is intended to automate translating all of the food qualities from the appropriate input to the appropriate product(s), such as properly splitting a pot of soup into bowls of soup, with all of the proper nutrition, cooked, poison, old, etc.

Fertilized eggs no longer wrongly say they are rotten or stale; they were always treated as fresh.

Fixed rotten/stale text on fertilized eggs (they were still considered as fresh, but text was wrong).

• Fixed rotten/stale text on fertilized eggs (they were still considered as fresh, but text was wrong). Hi, Dipper.

Food placed in house stories now ages with the time since the apocalypse, so if it can rot and enough time has passed, it will be rotten.

Food items is stories that are spawned in using the regular story item spawning functions should now be the proper age for how long it has been since the apocalypse; ie rotten if they can rot and it has been long enough.

Fixed being unable to slice or smash a rotten watermelon.

Fixed being unable to use Rotten Milk to make the Mildew Spray Cure.

Fixed not being able to empty rotten sacks of produce.

Made more food items capable of being added to tacos and burritos.

Bagels now take several days longer to rot, so they stay edible for longer.

Changed the days until rotten for Bagels from 2 to 6.

You can no longer make Cake Batter with rotten ingredients below level 7.

Fixed being able to make Cake Batter using rotten ingredients below level 7.

Fixed issues with eating quarter and half portions of small amounts of food.

Many food items have adjusted values, and one item can now cover more portions in evolved recipes.

Values of many food items adjusted for balance, consistency, and QOL purposes such as allowing one instance of an item to be used in more evolved recipe portions.

Values for a range of food items and recipes have been rebalanced.

Balance adjusted assorted values of food items and recipes.

Many food items can now go into more evolved recipes as ingredients.

Many food items have more options for being used as evolved recipe ingredients.

Food values and evolved recipe names have been adjusted, so ingredients fit more recipes and dishes get shorter names.

Food value and evolved recipe name adjustments for more flexible recipe usage and shorter compound names.

Raw eggs are still risky but are now much less likely to give you food sickness.

Eggs are dangerous uncooked but now with a greatly reduced chance of causing food sickness.

Cooked food whose unhappiness was set to zero now stays at zero after you load a save, instead of going back to the default value.

Fixed food unhappiness being reset to the default value when loading the item, when it was set to zero after being cooked.

Fixed hot food not cooling down when placed on the ground.

Granola bars and cookies no longer spoil, so you can stockpile them.

Fixed granola bars and cookies being perishable.

Fixed partially eaten food not getting lighter in some circumstances.

Fixed cutting Bacon Rashers into Bacon Bits producing rotten Bacon Bits.

Fixed inaccurate weights for partially eaten food items with custom weights.

Partially eaten food with custom weights now shows its correct weight.

Fixed accurate weights for partially eaten food items with custom weights.

Fixed Rotten food showing in right click menu as (Fresh) when newly spawned.

Fixed "Cake Preparation" not spawning rotten in 6 Months Later scenario.

Fixed missing food types in Evolved Recipe items.