We're soon preparing to wrap up the upcoming version and hopefully have a beta release out still this month.
There have been such a significant additions that I wouldn't be surprised if beta period would remain rather long before all the issues that may arise are tackled. But we'll see then.
And the last new features we'll still add to this version are quite exciting as well.
We'll have a bunch of new recipes and ways to utilize dried and smoked meat in cooking.
There will eg. dried meat soup and dried fish soup. Moreover, you'll be able to use salted meat/fish as an alternative to raw meat/fish in cooking. So you can prepare eg. meat stew using using raw meat or salted meat.
And then, there will be a new craftable cooking vessel made from birch bark - a birch-bark pot.
Despite the term it's rectangular in shape, made from a single sheet of birch-bark with the seams sealed tightly with split twigs. These can be used for cooking all the boiling based recipes ie. soups, herbal beverages or blanching mushrooms.
Cooking in a birch-bark pot requires constant care so the recipes that could be left preparing on their own in an iron pot need to be maintained constantly when prepared in the birch-bark pot. For this reason cooking in the birch-bark pot takes more of player character’s time. Birch-bark pots also wear out a bit with every heating and can be used only a limited number of times. Their smaller size also limits the number of portions you can cook at one go.
And apparently, in order to make birch-bark pots we also need to add mechanics to harvest birch-bark as sheets in addition to current method of harvesting it in long-strips.
We've got a bit tight schedule coming up, but I'll rest my case now and hopefully the next news you'll see will be 3.86 beta release news.
Stay tuned.
These are future features - not yet functional in current version 3.85.
Topic: Preserved meat/fish cooking and birch-bark pots (Read 444 times)