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Food & Drink Cost Spreadsheet (for the Lazy)

Victoria made some fantastic tables detailing various food and drink items by energy cost and gain. She even made a thorough spreadsheet of food and drink that would give you information by energy, mood, and currants, and even your gardening/croppery/animal kinship levels. These spreadsheets were based on the principle of self-reliance: grow, harvest, and make everything yourself.

As it happens, I am a lazy and impatient person who isn't willing to spend time to grow, harvest, and make everything myself. For those of you who are lazy and impatient like me, I offer you a spreadsheet of Food & Drink (for the Lazy). You can find a list of food & drink items, ingredients needed, and cost to make versus tool vendor price. This spreadsheet does not take energy cost into account at all; it's really geared more towards players who have too much energy to spare. This spreadsheet assumes that instead of growing or harvesting, you will buy ingredients whenever possible. It makes assumptions about what the value of different harvestable* items are, because why create a food item that will cost you when you can sell the raw ingredients for more? Unfortunately, you cannot simply alter the value of individual items to automatically affect the cost, but you are certainly welcome to calculate values on your own. 

Anyway, whether you're lazy, impatient, or neither, I hope that you'll find it to be of some use!

*By harvestable I mean you can only get the item by harvesting, like cherries, which are valued at 8 currants. Please see the reference sheet for more information.

Posted 16 months ago by Melody Pond Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Melody Pond, your spreadsheet proves you are the opposite of lazy. Thank you!
    Posted 16 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woo! I love it.
    Posted 16 months ago by shipwreck Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ok you put BIG time and effort into this!. I'm with emdot - so NOT lazy. Thank you:)
    Posted 16 months ago by gallagirl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had no idea so many of my standby recipes were big net losses of energy!

    Expensive Grilled Cheese, here I come!
    Posted 16 months ago by Vortexae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Some of the values in this look off to me. For example, the ingredients for Very, very stinky cheese say 1 milk. I'm pretty sure it takes 2 cheese to make a stinky cheese. Not sure about very, or very, very.
    Posted 16 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Only one cheese to make each of the stinkies. 
    Posted 16 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Really? I could have sworn that my 20 stack of cheese turned into a 10 stack of stinky. Well, now I know what to do with thousands of cheese I have on the floor of my house!
    Posted 16 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Skwid - Stinky Cheese may only stack 10 per slot. The other 10 went into another inventory slot. :) 
    Posted 16 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh man! Awesome! I was totally thinking about doing this exact same thing the other day!
    Posted 16 months ago by Arii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hehehe, my grilled cheese secret is out! ;_; another trick i found for the early game is sitting in front of the grocer in Ix, churning out fried noodles - 'free' xp! There may be better options; i'll check out the spreadsheet when i get home, thanks!
    Posted 16 months ago by FlirtyvonSexenhaven Subscriber! | Permalink