Corn
| Corn | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Fruits and Vegetables |
| Type | Vegetables |
| Hunger | -14 |
| Thirst | -4 |
| Calories | 88 |
| Fresh | 5 days |
| Rotten | 8 days |
| Cook Time | 10 min |
| Weight | 0.2 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Corn
|
Corn is a fresh vegetable sold as a whole ear. It can be eaten raw, cooked on its own or added to many dishes. It is one of the more filling vegetables, and at 0.2 weight it is easy to carry.
Corn spoils within a week, so it suits a cook who plans to use it soon. It can also be dried for long keeping and later milled into Cornflour or Cornmeal. Corn comes from produce crates, grocery stands and barbecues, and a farm can grow it from its own kernels. It also makes decent bait for small animal traps. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.
Eating
Eating raw Corn lowers hunger by 14 and thirst by 4. It adds 5 unhappiness when eaten plain. It holds 88 calories, with about 27 grams of carbohydrates, 5 grams of protein and 2 grams of fat. That beats a Daikon at 54 calories and a Cucumber at 33.
Corn is good hot, so cooking it and eating it soon after gives a small mood lift. Raw Corn is safe to eat straight from the stand.
Compared with nearby vegetables, Corn is filling. A Daikon lowers hunger by 12, a Cucumber by 10 and Carrots by 8. The small unhappiness cost means Corn is best cooked or mixed into a dish.
The table shows the game figures for one serving. Negative hunger and thirst fill the character up, and negative unhappiness and boredom cheer them up.
| Item | Hunger | Thirst | Calories | Carbs | Protein | Fat | Unhappiness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corn | -14 | -4 | 88 | 26.74 | 4.68 | 1.93 | 5 |
Cooking
Corn cooks in 10 minutes and burns after 30. It can be cooked on its own, but adding it to an evolved dish is the better use.
Corn adds 14 hunger to Soup, Stew, Stir Fry, Rice and Pasta. It adds 7 to a Burger or a Hotdog. In a Salad, a Burrito or a Taco it adds 7, but only once cooked.
Corn can be dried with the Dry Corn recipe. Twenty ears of dried Corn can then be ground into Cornflour or Cornmeal at a Stone Quern or a Stone Mill.
These dishes take the Corn as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.
| Dish | Hunger Restored | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Pasta | 14 | - |
| Rice | 14 | - |
| Soup | 14 | - |
| Stew | 14 | - |
| Stir Fry | 14 | - |
| Burger | 7 | - |
| Burrito | 7 | Cooked only |
| Hot Dog | 7 | - |
| Salad | 7 | Cooked only |
| Taco | 7 | Cooked only |
Farming
Corn is grown by planting the kernels from an ear of Corn. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 ears at harvest. The sowing season runs from March to May, and April is the best month to plant. Corn planted from August through to February does poorly.
As trap bait, Corn gives a 45 percent chance to attract a bird and 40 percent for a squirrel. It gives 35 percent for both a rabbit and a raccoon.
How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.
| Seed | Image | Grow Time | Harvest | Sowing Months | Best Months | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corn (Dried) | 
|
18 days | 2-4 | March, April, May | April | /additem Base.CornSeed
|
Trapped animals it lures as bait.
| Animal | Attraction |
|---|---|
| Bird | 45% |
| Squirrel | 40% |
| Rabbit | 35% |
| Raccoon | 35% |
Storage
Fresh Corn stays fresh for 5 days and is fully rotten by day 8. A fridge slows both counts down. Drying it is the way to keep it much longer.
Locations
Corn is a very common find. Produce crates always hold it. The grocery stands at Gigamart, grocery stores and outdoor supply stores carry it about half the time. Barbecues and propane barbecues in any building hold it more than a third of the time. Chinese and Western restaurant kitchen fridges are good places to check. Produce storage rooms and Mexican, Italian and other restaurant fridges turn it up now and then. A house fridge can hold an ear by luck.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Produce crate | Crate | 100% |
| Gigamart | Grocery stand | 53.3% |
| Grocery store | Grocery stand | 53.3% |
| Outdoor supply store | Grocery stand | 53.3% |
| Any building | Barbecue | 38.1% |
| Any building | Barbecuepropane | 38.1% |
| Chinese kitchen | Fridge | 29.6% |
| Produce storage | Other | 10.7% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Fridge | 8.6% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Fridge | 8.6% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Western kitchen | Fridge | 24.1% |
| Mexican kitchen | Fridge | 9.5% |
| Italian kitchen | Fridge | 7.7% |
| Any building | Fridge | 3.4% |
| Living room | Fridge | 3.4% |
| Hoarder kitchen | Fridge | 2.5% |
Notes
- Corn is one of the more filling fresh vegetables, at 14 hunger.
- It is good bait for birds and squirrels in a trap.
- Dried Corn is milled into Cornflour or Cornmeal, 20 ears at a time.
- Barbecues are a surprising place to find fresh Corn.
- April is the best month to plant it.
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