Stellarbone

Agreed. Green Hell has a lot of good firestarter kits you can make. I'd personally like to see one of them in TLD.

The Three Meat Chili, Winters Night Soup, and the Miners Mug Cake all sound like they'd be fantastic additions. Potato Pancakes/Latkes Potato, Salt, flour. Requires a hunting knife but doesn't consume it. Ptarmigan and Mushroom Pie Ptarmigan meat, Reishi Mushroom, water, Flour, Salt, Cooking Oil. Probably an oversimplified list.

I posted this on the steam forums a few months ago, don't know why I never thought to just come to the official forums. As I said there, I love games that have cooking and foraging systems in place, and The Long Dark has a pretty good one, but as this subforum is for wish lists, here's some items I had hopes would appear in the enhanced cooking update. Chicory Root- While not native, it can be found in western Canada in the wilds, and makes for a coffee substitute. Ptarmigan Eggs- Ptarmigans specifically make nests in snow banks, meaning we would have to do some digging to find the nests but it'd make a good food source. Dulse- Red Dulse or "Sea Lettuce", a red seaweed commonly found along the northern coastlines. I figure it could be added to beach-combing. Tree Syrup Tapping- The Metal Pail that is already in the game could be changed from a scrap item to be used for Tapping trees, along with a tree tapper that would need to be hammered into the tree. Would be good for later game cooking when bottled maple syrup has run out entirely, and could open up some new crafting recipes, as birch and oak trees can be tapped for syrups. Oak sap can be used as an antiseptic, and Birch sap can be drank and used as a syrup, though in winter it flows slowly. Conifer/Pine needles- Can be made into an herbal tea, or even baked into cookies. Good for antioxidants and building up your immune system. Honey- There may be no bees, but honey is a long standing shelf staple. Genuinely never goes bad, but it does solidify, making it more difficult to use. I imagine it'd be a similar food to crackers, where it doesn't spoil but you find it in various states. Pepper/Spices- Honestly just using the salt container but recoloured would be great. Even if its just for cosmetic purposes or to make a meal more enticing. Pemmican- Honestly shocked this one didn't make it in, given Great Bears draw to survivalists. If made right and stored properly Pemmican can last 20 years at least, just with dried meat and fat. Could have berries for a better version. Bone Broth- We waste a lot when it comes to the existing hunting system. We take the meat but we leave the bones, fat, blood. Bone tools and deeper usage of animal parts would be an interesting thing to see, but bone broth alone would be amazing. Wintergreen Teaberries- It would just be nice to have fruit in the game that isn't canned peaches I think. Wintergreen leaves can also be used for a tea with some home remedy tier benefits, headaches and such. The bushes themselves are very small and produce only a few berries so it wouldn't be overwhelming.