Dried Meat
Leaving it outdoors somehow made it more digestible.
Notes
Dried Meat is a preserved food item made from raw meat via the Dry Meat recipe, offering 550 calories with moderate protein and fat but zero vitamins. While its nutrition is fixed and does not multiply on eating, it serves as a useful early-game calorie source and a key ingredient for crafting Culinary Research Papers Basic Meat. To maximize your XP gain, pair Dried Meat with other foods that supply the missing vitamins to keep your four-nutrient intake balanced.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
Nutrition
Diet & XP
Eating doesn't change a food's calories or nutrition — those are fixed. What your diet changes is your skill-gain rate (XP). This estimates the rate this food's nutrients contribute. ≈ estimate; set your diet in the ⚙ Character panel.
Base: this food alone (+12 base gain). Craving & dinner-party bonuses are situational (assumed ×1).
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Recycling & waste
0.2× Food Scrap
The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.
How garbage, sorting & recycling work
Total raw to craft this
0.1× Bison Carcass