new food item. (travel rations)

[ijkdenem]

i was thinking maybe we could mix fruit/berries + nuts + honey + some sort of grains = a granola bar type travel ration thingy.

this kind of food stores well, rots slow, and is tasty and healthy. also small so you can have a LARGE stack of them to go with you so it will last you a long time.

AND if you guys and more nut types we can have a huge variety in the travel ration bars. (T.R.B.'s for short.)

[Vexxvididu]

Yeah, I'm all for giving us more ways to make travel rations that either just don't go bad or go bad VERY slowly... but maybe at a cost of efficiency and labor to balance them out.  For example, maybe give us a way to make vintage beef that is clearly a lot less satiety and a lot more labor than if you just turned the same beef into a stew, but obviously has the advantage of lasting forever.

Likewise, give us a way to make medieval style Hardtack biscuits.  Way more trouble and way less satiety then existing ways to eat grain, but great for travel.

[ijkdenem]

5 minutes ago, Vexxvididu said:

Yeah, I'm all for giving us more ways to make travel rations that either just don't go bad or go bad VERY slowly... but maybe at a cost of efficiency and labor to balance them out.  For example, maybe give us a way to make vintage beef that is clearly a lot less satiety and a lot more labor than if you just turned the same beef into a stew, but obviously has the advantage of lasting forever.

Likewise, give us a way to make medieval style Hardtack biscuits.  Way more trouble and way less satiety then existing ways to eat grain, but great for travel.

i agree. i forgot about hardtack. if we had oats we could ACTUALLY make granola bars or oat nut bars.

[EnbyKaiju]

Absolutely here for some kind of travel food inclusion in vanilla. There are plenty of modded versions of long-term foods, but for those of us who like to stick to vanilla or want to avoid having mods that nuke our pantry whenever there's an update, we really need some more options.

Technically the best long-term travel foods we've currently got are salted meat, grain and jam, as they have the best travel pack life. But it would be really nice to have more variety, or at least give us the opportunity to make rations that last more than a few weeks for those long voyages. It also sucks if you don't have ready access to salt (a way to process sea-water into salt like boiling or salt-panning would help there) for preservation of basics.

Hardtack is a great suggestion, one that should be super easy to do as opposed to charred bread (maybe include salt in the grid recipie it to make the difference like expanded foods does?), dried fruit, meat & mushrooms would work too. It's not like the ancient Romans/Greeks/Egyptians/Chinese...etc carried their food cellars with them, they had preserved food options (though to be fair a lot of those were just carrying grain stores with them and eating porridge + whatever they could scavenge.)

Anyway, as someone who is on a long-term long-month long-distance world (60k blocks from spawn to equator) I really would love a bit more variety in travel rations that aren't just salted meat, grain, and hoping my apples don't go mouldy during the trip. lol

[DarkGold]

1 hour ago, EnbyKaiju said:

Technically the best long-term travel foods we've currently got are salted meat, grain and jam, as they have the best travel pack life.

I've also found soybeans to be extremely good, both raw and preserved, if you can find them.

There was some discussion around travel rations in this thread too, though pemmican and hardtack come up on the forums many times independently.

[Zaph42nd]

Definitely like the idea, while charred breads and salted/preserved foods aren't bad as last-resort/long storage options, would be nice to have something like hardtack or pemmican fill the niche of travel-rations or foods that you produce starting mid-game for long-term storage. Perhaps these could come with a trade off of low-saturation/satiation in exchange for longevity and mass-production potential? Regarding fruits and nuts for travel foods, I think it'd be interesting if fruit-leathers were also added since pulp/mash is already a byproduct of fruit-pressing and a key ingredient to making fruit-leathers... 

[Cedric the Silent]

17 hours ago, Vexxvididu said:

Likewise, give us a way to make medieval style Hardtack biscuits.  Way more trouble and way less satiety then existing ways to eat grain, but great for travel.

New hardtack bread mod just dropped a few hours ago, think I'll give that one a try.

[EnbyKaiju]

There was a really good long-term food mod that did hard tack of a sort (you bake the bread, take it out, slice it, then put it back to dry as rusks), as well as pemmican and vintage beef.

Unfortunately it then went off script and started adding new crops and stuff that actually affected the game world, so I had to stop using it.

But something similar to that I think would be a good idea. And given the scale of the kind of additions the devs have already added I don't think would be asking too much.

But then they have a LOT of thing they wanna add, I'm sure cooking revamp is in there somewhere.

[Facethief]

On 7/7/2026 at 7:10 AM, EnbyKaiju said:

maybe include salt in the grid recipie it to make the difference like expanded foods does?

A lot of the process with hardtack is being able to minimize moisture, so a recipe for dough with less water (or, god forbid, a dough “alloying” system for making regular/dry/wet dough) and a long-term, low-temperature baking process would be most realistic.

Going back to the metallurgy-for-dough idea, if the devs insist on having post-metal flour, then I think the whole system would be cool to see as a thing you can do with flour on a table. Heck, maybe they could go all-in and make honey, milk, and the like work to make dough.

…I actually think I’m getting somewhere with this idea. Maybe I’ll flesh it out for a full post.