===== Food Menu ===== ---- //Note: this article is part of a collection of articles about [[crafting|crafting]].// ---- You can craft a menu after picking prepared food ingredients and choosing a dish type for each of them. You can choose to craft a **Cantina Menu** or a **Travel Ration**. ---- //The calculations may seem very detailed but all this work rather naturally and intuitively.// //For instance if you pick compatible dish types, non-toxic food, and have a main course & base and anothing else (appetizer and/or dessert for instance) you'll score already well and this will result in a good menu.// //Note that calculations below may be modified at any time for gameplay or economical improvements: some food values for instance are unused yet, to allow players to familiarize themselves with a first version.// ---- If you want to have the best and most refined crafting values, mechanics are exposed below to help you understand how EXODE calculates all factors. ==== Base Concept ==== The system will determine appetency of your dishes and a final Rating for your entire menu. **This will be done by giving a score in three areas: Appetency, Composition and Plate Success.** Once the system gets your Menu Rating, it will use it to calculate the end Stamina you'll gain by eating it. A good menu will give even more Stamina! But note that Buffs exist too and may further affect the outcome! === Cantina Menu === For a Cantina Menu, **appetency** is first obtained by determining closeness to max value in Taste, Looks and Nutrients, and closeness to zero in Toxicity. This appetency is scored from 0 to 100. 0 is what you would have if you had 0 in Taste, Looks, Nutrients and 100 in Toxicity. 100 is what you would have if you had 100 in Taste, Looks, Nutrients and 0 in Toxicity. This is determined by using distance to the best value, such as in the example below: //If you had 60 Taste, 60 Looks, 50 Nutrients and 30 Toxicity, your "total distance to optimal values will be 160" (with 40, 40, 50 and 30 respectively).// //This makes an average of 40 distance to optimal values (because 160 / 4 = 40). Your appetency will be rated at (100 - this average).// //So you will obtain **60 appetency** in the example above.// Appetency is actually determined this way for every ingredient in the menu then used as an average of all ingredients in it. === Travel Ration === For a Travel Ration, **appetency** is obtained by determining closeness to max value in Nutrients and closeness to zero in Fragility and Toxicity. Looks and Taste are not important in Travel Rations: but food needs to be not fragile, and not decay easily! === Composition === We then determine a "Composition Score". You get +20 for every different dish type in your menu, and -20 if you lack a main course and -20 if you lack a main base. //If you have an Appetizer, a Main Course and a Main Base, you then have a Composition Score of 60.// //If you have an Appetizer and a Dessert, you then have a Composition Score of 0. Eating chips and cake does not make a good composition... but you can still gain some benefits from it, especially if they have Buffs!// === Plate Success === We then determine the individual success of every dish you provided in the menu. This will use the individual compatibility of all dishes and make an average. //So if you used an Appetizer with 80% compatibility with the Appetizer criteria, a Main course with 40% compatibility with the Main Course criteria, and a Main base with 60% compatibility with the Main Base criteria, you will end up with (180 / 3) = 60% Plate Success.// === Final Menu Rating === To determine the final rating for your menu we make an average of your Appetency, Composition and Plate Success! //So if you had 60 Appetency, 60 Composition and 60 Plate Success, you will of course have 60 as Final Rating.// === Gained Stamina === To determine gained Stamina we will add Nutrients of all ingredients in the menu then modify it according to your Menu Rating. //For instance suppose if you have 1200 total Nutrients and a 3-stars Menu Rating of 60. This will give a total of 72 Stamina Gained when eating your menu. Good job! 72 is really good!//