RimWorld Mods

Better Survival Meals Mod

Author of the Better Survival Meals Mod: mlie

The Better Survival Meals Mod expands packaged survival meals by adding quality tiers similar to normal meals, including fine and lavish variants, along with graphical and balance improvements.

Better Survival Meals Features

The Better Survival Meals Mod introduces different quality tiers for survival meals and updates their behavior to better match vanilla mechanics.

Quality tiers

Simple Survival Meal

  • Replaces: Normal survival meal.
  • Work to make: 300.
  • Value: 15.
  • Nutrition: 0.9.

Fine Survival Meal

  • Work to make: 450 / 600.
  • Value: 20 / 32.
  • Nutrition: 0.9.
  • Taste thought: Ate fine survival meal +5.

Lavish Survival Meal

  • Work to make: 800 / 1100.
  • Value: 40 / 64.
  • Nutrition: 1.0.
  • Taste thought: Ate lavish survival meal +12.

Values, nutrition, and work amounts are based directly on the in-game meal classes.

Additional improvements

  • Added 4x recipes for fine and lavish survival meals.
  • Replaced old XML definitions with patching to avoid overwriting vanilla meal and stove definitions.
  • Added stack-version of the meal icon, matching vanilla behavior.
  • Removed duplicate thought definitions to align with standard fine and lavish meal thoughts.
  • If Ideology is active, includes vegetarian and carnivore variants.
  • Updated graphics to make meal tiers more visually distinct.

Supported languages

  • Chinese (Traditional) by tubfan.

Compatibility notes

The Better Survival Meals Mod should work with most other mods and is compatible with existing saves.

If you encounter issues:

  • See if the error persists if you just have this mod and its requirements active.
  • If not, try adding your other mods until it happens again.
  • Always post your log using the Log Uploader.
  • For best support, please use the Discord-channel for error-reporting.
  • Do not report errors by making a discussion-thread, I get no notification of that.
  • If you have the solution for a problem, please post it to the GitHub repository.
  • Use RimSort to sort your mods.
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