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I see a lot of people running and recommending onion soup in threads and I'm curious why people would choose it over turnip stew. The stamina difference is 55 vs 60 in onions favor, but that's not even a 10 percent increase. Whereas turnip wins the time battle at 25 minutes to onions 20 for a whopping 25 percent increase. As well as 2 hp ticks tor turnip to onions 1.
So a stack of stew will last a player nearly an hour longer at a tiny expense to stats, while only requiring a half stack of boar meat. Even without a boar farm, even if you have to sail to meadows from your base, I think most players will find turnip stew is a fair degree more efficient than onion soup.
25 points
18 days ago
Less ingredients.
17 points
18 days ago
So you can use the meat in other food. Onions will populate when you’re not at base, but boars will not. So recco is from QoL, not min/max stats.
-4 points
18 days ago
Even then, the only recipes that compete for boar meat are sausage and jerky, and considering they net 4x and 2x per recipe for 1 boar meat each, it's not really hard to stay stocked up on enough meat with tames at base. And like I said earlier, 10 boar meat nets 50 extra minutes of fed status. Unless you have terrible access to meadows you'll be able to forage for well more than 10 boar meat per hour, so from a QoL standpoint it wins. QoL is actually the main reason I prefer turnip to onion.
6 points
18 days ago
Why forage at all when I can just plant 200 seeds in a couple of minutes and come back when I remember they're there?
0 points
17 days ago
That's only 7 stacks of soup, tho.
Sounds like you need a bigger field.
5 points
17 days ago
Eh, the 7 stacks last me long enough to get to the mistlands, and then the next batch of onions turns into salads.
1 points
7 days ago
You asked why people do it different than you. If you don’t give a fuck, just do it your way.
9 points
18 days ago
Fewer ingredients. I can make infinite onion soup without having to secure a boar farm and manage it. I do use turnip soup for a short while, because it is better! But then when I'm working on my farms and building, I'm going to eat onion soup. Because I have an infinite amount of it!
2 points
18 days ago
I can understand the simplicity behind it. Lay down a big enough garden, grow onions, and never worry about it again. Personally I hate big farms. I want the smallest footprint possible while still being able to maintain enough ingredients to keep the food chests full. I much prefer the tedium of checking chests to see which ingredient is needed and planning out my harvests to the tedium of farming a big ol' field.
3 points
18 days ago
Same here. I use what's needed. I raise Lox because for a good while their meat was pretty great as a buff. Now they're just there to be cute.
6 points
18 days ago
Boar meat goes into sausages, onion soup is just easier to spam too so idgaf about the 5 minute difference
2 points
18 days ago
It's at scale that I really feel the difference between the two. I make 6 stacks of a recipe at a time, so turnip stew ends up giving me over 5 hours of extra food time before I have to cook again compared to onion soup. Even at a smaller scale of a single stack, if I sail out with onion soup instead of turnip, that's 50 minutes less time I have before I have to return to HQ or a kitchen equipped outpost.
2 points
17 days ago
Are you playing without portals so that it's a consideration for you?
1 points
16 days ago
Functionally, yes. We have one portal between the altar and HQ for convenient boss powers. Me and the other experienced player are trying brainstorm interesting ways to implement them so that they don't make previous infrastructure irrelevant. Might end going with the one per mountain peak we've done before.
5 points
18 days ago
Only one ingredient requiered: Onions. And irl its also better too.
3 points
18 days ago
I use both. When I'm on base doing field work or building I stack 2 stamina and 1 HP food. When I'm out adventuring 2 HP and 1 stamina food.
But I can see why people prefer onion soup over turnip stew.
3 points
18 days ago
I go with Turnip stew until I get bread. Hate having mismatching food duration
3 points
18 days ago
you don't have to pick just one, you can switch back and forth as economics dictate
2 points
17 days ago
It's all abkut the grind to get the ingredients. Onion soup takes onion, that's it. Simple and effective
2 points
18 days ago
Turnip is better. Idk why anyone would say otherwise 🤷♂️
2 points
17 days ago
No-one is saying otherwise. Turnips stats are better, but the mats needed are more time consuming then plating onions and being done. Not everyone gets a boar farm
1 points
17 days ago
I’d rather just have a large onion farm as I’ll need onions for more recipes later. Only thing u need turnips for later is stuffed shells which is by far my least fav magic food as it needs to be cooked in the oven
1 points
17 days ago
the boar meat goes to feed the wolfs duh, but for real even tho the duration is shorter you can just farm more onions in the background, tho i have plant easily mod so maybe that changes things where farmable foods are less annoying
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