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| You need to eat to survive. Your character simply needs food in his inventory in order to stay fed. Food in a backpack will be shared among the squad members. |
Food consists of all the items in Kenshi which fill your hunger bar. A character's hunger bar is filled by 1 for every nutrition charge used. They automatically consume some food when their hunger gets below 250, unless the only types of food they have are edible ingredients. In that case, they will not eat it until they get below 200.
Characters can eat any food in their own or their squad member's inventories, including that in their backpack. After eating, the hunger bar slowly fills up over time. Characters of different Races have different rates at which their hunger drains, which is also dependent on any action that a character is doing, i.e., it will drain more slowly if a character is idle and faster if a character is working.
It is worth noting that no food items are subject to spoilage in Kenshi.
Types of Edible Food
All edible food items that are not also ingredients, displayed with their nutrition value. Items marked by an asterisk (*) can be made by the player.
| Food | Nutrition (Nu) | Buy value (c) | Sell value (c) | Weight (kg) | Size | Buy value per Nutrition (c/Nu) | Sell value per Nutrition (c/Nu) | Nutrition per Size | Edible by | |
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Ancient Nutri-Rations | 125 | 1143 | 571 | 1 | 4 | 9.14 | 4.57 | 31.25 | All |
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Chewsticks* | 20 | 152 | 76 | 0.5 | 6 | 7.60 | 3.80 | 3.33 | All |
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Cooked Vegetables* | 25 | 320 | 160 | 1 | 9 | 12.72 | 6.36 | 2.78 | All |
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Dried Fish | 20 | 367 | 183 | 1 | 3 | 18.00 | 9.00 | 6.67 | All |
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Dried Meat* | 15 | 76 | 38 | 1 | 4 | 5.20 | 2.60 | 3.75 | All |
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Dustwich* | 70 | 730 | 365 | 1 | 6 | 10.43 | 5.21 | 11.67 | All |
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Foodcube* | 75 | 757 | 378 | 1 | 6 | 11.65 | 5.83 | 12.50 | All |
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Foul Raw Meat | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 2.50 | Animals, Hivers |
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Gohan* | 75 | 462 | 231 | 1 | 9 | 5.92 | 2.96 | 8.33 | All |
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Grand Fish | 15 | 360 | 180 | 1 | 6 | 24.00 | 12.00 | 2.50 | All |
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Meatwrap* | 50 | 844 | 422 | 1 | 6 | 13.16 | 6.58 | 8.33 | All |
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Ration Pack | 125 | 1143 | 571 | 1 | 4 | 9.14 | 4.57 | 31.25 | All |
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Rice Bowl* | 25 | 141 | 93 | 1 | 9 | 7.44 | 3.72 | 2.78 | All |
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Thinfish | 10 | 360 | 180 | 1 | 3 | 36.00 | 18.00 | 3.33 | All |
Edible Ingredients
These ingredients are edible before being further processed. Item marked by an asterisk (*) can be made by the player.
| Ingredients/
Food |
Nutrition (Nu) | Buy value (c) | Sell value (c) | Weight (kg) | Size | Buy value per Nutrition (c/Nu) | Sell value per Nutrition (c/Nu) | Nutrition per Size | Edible by | Used in | |
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Raw Meat | 15 | 60 | 30 | 1 | 4 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 3.75 | Animals, Hivers, Scorchlanders | Dried Meat, Meatwrap |
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Bread* | 30 | 488 | 244 | 0.5 | 6 | 16.27 | 8.13 | 5 | All | Foodcube, Meatwrap, Dustwich |
Non-Edible Ingredients
Not all ingredients are edible by themselves. The non-edible ingredients are listed here. All of them are either grown or otherwise made from Farming-related activities.
| Ingredients | Avrg. Price (.c) | Weight (kg) | Used in | |
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Cactus | 15 | 1 | Chewsticks, Dustwich |
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Greenfruit | 30 | 0.5 | Cooked Vegetables, Foodcube, Gohan |
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Riceweed | 13 | 0.5 | Gohan, Rice Bowl |
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Strawflour | 400 | 4 | Bread |
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Water | 25 | 10 | Mostly in cooking and watering (farming) |
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Wheatstraw | 40 | 1 | Strawflour |
Trivia
- The food system was first introduced in the v0.90 beta update.
