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Meaty Chunks
Meaty Chunks
Category Consumable
Type Raw Ingredient
Total Value 1,000 Units
Updated WorldsTwo

Meaty Chunks is a consumable.

Summary[]

Meaty Chunks is a consumable and one of the Raw Ingredients.

Game description[]

A nutritious meat product, harvested from the corpse of the creature that once contained it.

Process in a Nutrient Processor to generate edible products.

Source[]

This ingredient can be sourced by killing many types of fauna. Each creature killed will yield between 5 and 25 Meaty Chunks.

Meaty Chunks can be cooked using a Nutrient Processor with the following ingredients:

  • PRODUCT.PLANT.DEATHWILD Meat Flakes x1  →  PRODUCT.MEAT.RAW Meaty Chunks x1  ("Incinerate Flesh", 2.5 sec./unit output)

Recipes[]

Meaty Chunks is used as an ingredient for cooking the following products using a Nutrient Processor:

Fishing Bait[]

When applied as bait, Meaty Chunks gives the following bonus towards your next catch:

  • Catch Rarity Improvement: 6%
  • Catch Size Improvement: 2%

Additional information[]

  • Restores one (1) Core Health square when consumed.
  • Despite possibly sounding like a lower-grade ingredient than Raw Steak, the two ingredients are completely interchangeable in all recipes except for the Proteinous Doughnut which requires Chunks specifically.
  • Processed Meat is also interchangeable with Meaty Chunks in almost all recipes, except for the Creature Pellets and Ground Meat bait-recipes which specifically require Steak or Meaty Chunks.

Release history[]

  • Beyond - Added as a consumable.
  • SentinelUp - Effect on consuming added to an info panel
  • Aquarius - Added fishing bait bonuses.

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