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Onion

Onion
Onion
Class Fruits and Vegetables
Type Vegetables
Hunger -10
Thirst -
Calories 28
Fresh 14 days
Rotten 28 days
Cook Time 30 min
Weight 0.2
Location Containers
Spawn ID /additem Base.Onion

An Onion is a fresh vegetable used in a huge range of dishes. It can be eaten raw or cooked, but its real value is as a cooking ingredient. It adds hunger to soups, stews, pizzas, pies and pasta.

Onions keep well for fresh food. They stay fresh for two weeks and take four weeks to rot. That makes them one of the easier vegetables to stockpile.

Onions are a common find in produce crates, grocery stands and restaurant fridges. A farm can also grow them from Onion Seeds. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

Eating a raw onion lowers hunger by 10. It holds only 28 calories, with a little carbohydrate and almost no protein or fat. That makes it a poor way to keep body weight up.

Onions taste better hot, so a cooked onion gives a small mood lift when eaten soon after cooking. Raw onions are safe to eat.

Against other vegetables, the onion is about average for filling. Carrots lower hunger by 8, a Tomato by 12 and a Potato by 18. The onion's strength is its long shelf life and how many dishes it fits.

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
Onion -10 28 6.54 0.77 0.07

Cooking

An onion cooks in 30 minutes and burns after 60. Cooking it on its own is rarely worth the time. The better use is adding it to a dish.

It adds 5 hunger to a Pizza, Soup, Stew, a Pie, Stir Fry, Rice and Pasta. It adds 2 to an Omelette, a Sandwich, a Burger, a Hot Dog, a Salad, a Taco and a Burrito. The Cooking skill makes each ingredient go further.

Onions also go into three fixed recipes. Make 4 Cabbage Rolls uses one onion with Cabbage, Ground Beef, rice and Marinara. Prepare 2 Breaded Onion Rings turns one onion into two Fried Onion Rings with flour and Baking Soda. Make Guacamole combines an onion with an Avocado, a Tomato, a Jalapeno and salt to make five portions.

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

Dish Hunger Restored Note
Pasta 5 -
Pie 5 -
Pizza 5 -
Rice 5 -
Soup 5 -
Stew 5 -
Stir Fry 5 -
Burger 2 -
Burrito 2 -
Hot Dog 2 -
Omelette 2 -
Salad 2 -
Sandwich 2 -
Taco 2 -

Used in Crafting

These recipes take the Onion as an ingredient or a part.

Recipe Output Image Station Skill Spawn ID
Make 4 Cabbage Rolls Cabbage Roll Cabbage Roll - None /additem Base.CabbageRoll
Make Guacamole Guacamole Guacamole - Cooking: 0 /additem Base.Guacamole
Prepare 2 Breaded Onion Rings Fried Onion Rings Fried Onion Rings - Cooking: 0 /additem Base.FriedOnionRings

Farming

Onions grow from Onion Seeds. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 onions at harvest. The sowing season is short, running through February and March. February is the best month to plant. Onions planted from July through January do poorly.

How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.

Seed Image Grow Time Harvest Sowing Months Best Months Spawn ID
Onion Seeds Onion Seeds 18 days 2-4 February, March February /additem Base.OnionSeed

Storage

An onion stays fresh for 14 days and is fully rotten by day 28. A fridge slows both counts down. That long shelf life means a stock of onions lasts far longer than most fresh vegetables.

Locations

Onions are a very common find wherever fresh food is kept. Produce crates always hold them. Grocery stands at Gigamart, grocery stores and outdoor supply stores carry them about half the time. Spiffo's kitchen fridges do the same. Cafeteria, diner and Chinese kitchen fridges hold them about a third of the time. Hot dog stands, burger, pizza and Western kitchen fridges turn them up about a fifth of the time. Household fridges hold them now and then.

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%
Spiffos kitchen Fridge 48.5%
Spiffos storage Fridge 48.5%
Cafeteria Fridge 33.3%
Cafeteria kitchen Fridge 33.3%
Diner counter Fridge 32.7%
Diner kitchen Fridge 32.7%
Location Container Chance
Hotdog stand Counter 32%
Location Container Chance
Western kitchen Fridge 19.3%
Italian kitchen Fridge 15.4%
Mexican kitchen Fridge 9.5%
Any building Fridge 3.4%
Living room Fridge 3.4%
Hoarder kitchen Fridge 2.5%

Notes

  • Onions stay fresh for two weeks, far longer than most vegetables.
  • An onion fits into more evolved dishes than a carrot does.
  • One onion makes two Fried Onion Rings.
  • Onions have a short sowing season, so planting must start in February or March.
  • Produce crates are a sure place to find them.


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