Food Quality
Food Quality, simply referred to as Quality in game, is a measure of how tasty a Food item is and how much it affects Morale.
| Quality | Items | Morale Impact | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Trait | Shrivelled Tastebuds/Kitchen Menace | Gourmet | ||
| Grisly (-1) |       
|
-1 | 0 | -1 |
| Terrible (0) |     
|
0 | +1 | |
| Poor (+1) |  
|
+1 | +4 | 0 |
| Standard (+2) |    
|
+4 | +8 | +1 |
| Good (+3) |    
|
+8 | +12 | +4 |
| Great (+4) |    
|
+12 | +16 | +8 |
| Superb (+5) |   
|
+16 | +12 | |
| Ambrosial (+6) | 
|
+16 | ||
Mechanics
Food Quality ranges between -1 and 6. Currently, normal Duplicants have a Perception of 0. The highest quality food will result in +16 Morale, the lowest in a -1 penalty. Dupes with the Shrivelled Tastebuds, Kitchen Menace, or Gourmet Trait will perceive Food of the same quality one level better or worse, respectively.
A Duplicant's eating speed is 30,000 kcal/cycle, so eating 1,000 kcal takes 1/30 of a cycle (20 seconds). Duplicants start eating in their downtime when below 3300 kcal or during work if they are below 1000 kcal and starving.
What Duplicants eat can be controlled by the Consumables window.
Tips
- The more premium food in the colony should be saved for Duplicants with higher Morale expectations.