Soy Sauce
| Soy Sauce | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Ingredients |
| Type | NoExplicit |
| Hunger | -10 |
| Thirst | 40 |
| Calories | 20 |
| Fresh | - |
| Rotten | - |
| Cook Time | - |
| Weight | 0.2 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Soysauce
|
Soy Sauce is a bottled cooking sauce. It is a spice that adds flavor to rice, pasta, stir fries, salads, sandwiches and burgers. Drinking it straight is a bad idea.
The bottle is packaged and never spoils, so it can sit in a kitchen until it is needed. It is a very common find in Chinese and sushi restaurant kitchens. The Chef is the best occupation for ingredients. It starts with the most Cooking skill. The Burger Flipper also starts with some Cooking skill.
Eating
Soy Sauce can be eaten straight, but the effects are mostly bad. It lowers hunger by 10. It also makes the character much thirstier and adds 50 unhappiness.
It holds only 20 calories. That makes it a poor food on its own. When it is used as a cooking ingredient, its bad effects go away.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soy Sauce | -10 | 40 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
Cooking
Soy Sauce counts as a spice in evolved recipes. A spice adds flavor and does not take up one of the dish's ingredient slots. It goes into a Sandwich, Burger, Rice, Pasta, Stir Fry or Salad, adding 2 hunger to each.
A splash in a stir fry or a rice dish is the natural use.
These dishes take the Soy Sauce as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.
| Dish | Hunger Restored | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Burger | 2 | - |
| Pasta | 2 | - |
| Rice | 2 | - |
| Salad | 2 | - |
| Sandwich | 2 | - |
| Stir Fry | 2 | - |
Locations
Soy Sauce is a very common find in the right places. Chinese restaurant kitchens hold it on most counters and shelves. Sushi kitchen counters hold it more than half the time. Jerky factory shelves hold it close to half the time.
General store shelves turn it up about one time in six. Sushi kitchen fridges, Gigamart and grocery store shelves, food caches and survivor safehouse fridges hold it now and then. A house fridge or dish cabinet is a rare find.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese kitchen | Other | 80% |
| Chinese kitchen | Counter | 74.1% |
| Sushi kitchen | Counter | 61.5% |
| Sushi kitchen | Fridge | 17% |
| General store | Shelves | 15.5% |
| Gigamart | Shelves | 3.9% |
| Grocery store | Shelves | 3.9% |
| General store | Other | 1.9% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Jerky factory | Metal shelves | 42.1% |
| Jerky shipping | Other | 42.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Food cache1 | Food box | 4.8% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Fridge | 3.7% |
| Survivor safehouse | Fridge | 2.9% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Hoarder kitchen | Fridge | 1.2% |
| Any building | Dishes cabinet | 1% |
| Any building | Fridge | 0.8% |
| Living room | Fridge | 0.8% |
Notes
- Never drink Soy Sauce straight; it makes the character thirsty and unhappy.
- Its bad effects go away once it is used in a dish.
- As a spice, it adds flavor without using an ingredient slot.
- Chinese restaurant kitchens almost always have a bottle.
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