Nettles

Nettles

Class	Herbs
Type	Herb
Hunger	-4
Thirst	-
Calories	50
Fresh	6 days
Rotten	10 days
Cook Time	-
Weight	0.1
Location	-
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Nettles`

Nettles are a wild plant that can be eaten or used as a spice in cooking. They are very light at 0.1 weight. They make a small snack and a handy flavouring for soups, salads and hot drinks.

Fresh nettles spoil within a week. They suit a cook who will use them soon after picking.

Nettles grow wild and are gathered rather than bought. The best occupations for herbs are the Fishing Guide and the Park Ranger. Each starts with the same Foraging skill.

Eating

Eating nettles lowers hunger by 4. They hold 50 calories, mostly from 15 grams of carbohydrates, with a little protein. That is a small snack, not a meal.

Nettles are safe to eat raw. They compare closely with Thistles, which lower hunger by 4 with 45 calories. Both are wild greens best used to stretch other food.

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
Nettles	-4	50	15	2	0

Cooking

Nettles count as a spice in evolved recipes. A spice adds flavour without taking one of the dish's ingredient slots.

They add 2 hunger to a Salad, a Soup or a hot drink. Because they take no slot, nettles add a little food to a dish at no cost. A handful of wild nettles can stretch a pot of soup. The Cooking skill makes ingredients go further in evolved dishes.

These dishes take Nettles as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.