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Potato

Potato
Potato
Class Fruits and Vegetables
Type Vegetables
Hunger -18
Thirst -7
Calories 70
Fresh 28 days
Rotten 280 days
Cook Time 10 min
Weight 0.2
Location Containers
Spawn ID /additem Base.Potato

The Potato is a starchy root vegetable and one of the best keepers among fresh food. It stays fresh for 28 days, far longer than most vegetables. That makes it a reliable food to stock for the weeks ahead.

A raw potato lowers hunger by 18 and is a bit dull to eat. Its real value is in the kitchen. It goes into soups, stews, pies, stir fries, salads and omelettes, and it can be preserved in a jar.

Potatoes come from produce crates, grocery stands and restaurant kitchens. A farm can also grow them, and they make good bait for rabbit and raccoon traps. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

A raw potato lowers hunger by 18 and thirst by 7. It holds 70 calories, with 15 grams of carbohydrates and 3 grams of protein. That is a modest meal for something that weighs only 0.2.

Eating a plain potato adds 5 unhappiness. Potatoes are better hot, so a freshly cooked one gives a small mood lift. Raw potatoes carry no danger.

Compared with other vegetables, a potato is filling. A Radish lowers hunger by only 3. A Pumpkin lowers hunger by 40 but weighs 1.0, five times as much. For its weight and shelf life, the potato is one of the best vegetables to carry.

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
Potato -18 -7 70 15 3 0.15 5

Cooking

A potato cooks in 10 minutes and burns at 30. An oven, a microwave or a fire all work.

Potatoes go into Soup, Stew, Pie and Stir Fry, adding 18 hunger to each. In an Omelette they add 9. Once cooked, a potato can go into a Salad for 9 hunger. That high hunger value makes potatoes a strong base for a pot of soup or stew. The Cooking skill makes each ingredient go further.

Potatoes can also be preserved. The Make Jar of Preserved Food recipe puts 3 potatoes into a jar with vinegar, salt and water. The jar keeps far longer than the fresh vegetable.

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

Dish Hunger Restored Note
Pie 18 -
Soup 18 -
Stew 18 -
Stir Fry 18 -
Omelette 9 -
Salad 9 Cooked only

Used in Crafting

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

Recipe Output Image Station Skill Spawn ID
Make Jar of Preserved Food Jar of Bell Peppers Jar of Bell Peppers - Cooking: 0 /additem Base.CannedBellPepper

Farming

Potatoes grow from Potato Seeds. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 3 to 4 potatoes at harvest. The sowing season runs from February to April, and March is the best month to plant. Potatoes sown from August through January do poorly.

As trap bait, potatoes give a 35 percent chance to attract 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
Potato Seeds Potato Seeds 18 days 3-4 February, March, April March /additem Base.PotatoSeed

Trapped animals it lures as bait.

Animal Attraction
Rabbit 35%
Raccoon 35%

Storage

A potato stays fresh for 28 days and is fully rotten by day 280. A fridge slows both counts. That long life makes potatoes one of the safest fresh foods to stock in a base.

Locations

Potatoes are a common find. Produce crates always hold them. Counters in cafeteria, fish and chips, crepe, seafood, western and Jay's Chicken kitchens always hold them too. Restaurant kitchen counters carry them more than half the time.

Grocery stands at Gigamart, grocery stores and outdoor supply stores carry them about half the time. Barbecues outside houses hold them more than a third of the time. Home fridges can turn one up 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%
Cafeteria kitchen Counter 100%
Jayschicken kitchen Counter 100%
Kitchen crepe Counter 100%
Seafood kitchen Counter 100%
Restaurant kitchen Counter 60%
Fancy restaurant kitchen Counter 60%
Gigamart Grocery stand 53.3%
Grocery store Grocery stand 53.3%
Outdoor supply store Grocery stand 53.3%
Location Container Chance
Fishchips kitchen Counter 100%
Western kitchen Counter 100%
Western kitchen Fridge 24.1%
Deepfry kitchen Counter 20%
Mexican kitchen Fridge 9.5%
Hoarder kitchen Fridge 2.5%
Any building Fridge 1.9%
Living room Fridge 1.9%

Notes

  • Potatoes stay fresh for 28 days, which makes them a top vegetable to stockpile.
  • A potato adds 18 hunger to soups and stews, more than most vegetables.
  • Three potatoes fill one jar of preserved food.
  • A plain potato adds 5 unhappiness, so it works best inside a dish.
  • They attract rabbits and raccoons at 35 percent as trap bait.


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