Cricket
| Cricket | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Insects |
| Type | Insect |
| Hunger | -1 |
| Thirst | - |
| Calories | 20 |
| Fresh | 14 days |
| Rotten | 21 days |
| Cook Time | 5 min |
| Weight | 0.1 |
| Location | - |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Cricket
|
A Cricket is a small insect that can be eaten, cooked or used as bait. As food it is a desperate choice, since eating one makes the character very unhappy. Its real worth lies in fishing and trapping.
A Cricket makes good bait for a stick trap, where it lures small birds. It also baits a fishing line and can be mixed into chum. Crickets are gathered by foraging outdoors. The best occupations for insects are the Fishing Guide and the Park Ranger. Each starts with the same Foraging skill.
Eating
Eating a raw Cricket lowers hunger by only 1 and adds 20 unhappiness. That is a heavy mood cost for almost no food. It holds 20 calories, with about 4 grams of protein and 1 gram each of fat and carbohydrates.
Cooking it fills the stomach a little more, but the unhappiness stays the same. A Cockroach carries the same 20 unhappiness with 30 calories. Between the two insects, the Cricket is the slightly weaker meal.
A Cricket makes sense as food only when nothing else is left.
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 | Calories | Carbs | Protein | Fat | Unhappiness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cricket | -1 | 20 | 1.34 | 3.6 | 1.32 | 20 |
Cooking
A Cricket cooks in 5 minutes and burns after 25. Cooking one gives no Cooking experience.
In the kitchen its only dish is chum. A Cricket can be added to chum as bait for fishing.
These dishes take the Cricket as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.
| Dish | Hunger Restored | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Chum | 1 | - |
Farming
As trap bait, a Cricket gives a 50 percent chance to attract a bird. It goes into a stick trap for catching small birds.
Trapped animals it lures as bait.
| Animal | Attraction |
|---|---|
| Bird | 50% |
Storage
A Cricket stays fresh for 14 days and is fully rotten by day 21. A fridge slows both counts down. That long shelf life makes a small stock of them practical as bait.
Locations
Crickets are gathered by foraging. They turn up on grass, sand and gravel, most often in forests and other areas with plenty of plants. They cannot be found in winter or in snow. The Fisherman occupation and the Angler trait make them easier to spot.
Notes
- A Cricket is a 50 percent bird bait in a stick trap.
- It baits a fishing line for bass, catfish, crappie, perch, sunfish and trout.
- Eating one adds 20 unhappiness, so it is a last resort as food.
- Cooking one gives no Cooking experience.
- The Fisherman occupation and the Angler trait help find them while foraging.
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