Termites
| Termites | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Insects |
| Type | Insect |
| Hunger | -1 |
| Thirst | - |
| Calories | 2.5 |
| Fresh | 14 days |
| Rotten | 21 days |
| Cook Time | 5 min |
| Weight | 0.01 |
| Location | - |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Termites
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Termites are a small insect that can be eaten as emergency food or used as bait. They weigh almost nothing, so a handful costs nothing to carry. As food they are a last resort, because they barely touch hunger and make the character much sadder.
Their better use is as bait. Termites lure birds into traps and can be mixed into fishing chum. They stay fresh for two weeks. Termites come from foraging on open ground. The best occupations for insects are the Fishing Guide and the Park Ranger. Each starts with the same Foraging skill.
Eating
Eating termites lowers hunger by only 1. The same mouthful raises unhappiness by 20, which is a heavy price for so little food. They hold 2.5 calories, with a trace of protein and fat and no carbohydrates.
That makes termites useless for keeping body weight up. A character would need to eat a great many of them to feel any benefit, and the mood loss would stack up fast. Termites are only worth eating when nothing else is left and starvation is close.
Cooked termites are just as unpleasant as raw ones. The unhappiness stays the same, and so does the food value.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Termites | -1 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 20 |
Cooking
Termites cook in 5 minutes and burn after 25. Cooking them changes little, since the mood penalty stays the same. Their only evolved recipe is fishing chum, where each one adds a small amount of bait.
These dishes take Termites as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.
| Dish | Hunger Restored | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Chum | 1 | - |
Farming
As trap bait, termites give a 50 percent chance to attract a bird. That makes them a cheap way to set bird traps from foraged insects.
Trapped animals it lures as bait.
| Animal | Attraction |
|---|---|
| Bird | 50% |
Storage
Termites stay fresh for 14 days and are fully rotten by day 21. A fridge slows both counts down. Their long fresh window means a stock of them can sit in a bag while traps are being set.
Locations
Termites come from foraging rather than from loot. They turn up on natural outdoor ground such as grass, sand and gravel. They are more likely to be found at night. They are equally common in every foraging zone. Termites can be found from March through November, though they are scarcer in March and April. The Fisherman occupation and the Angler trait both make them easier to find.
Notes
- Termites are good bird bait, so foraged insects can feed a line of bird traps.
- Cooked termites cause the same unhappiness as raw ones, so cooking them wastes fuel.
- Foraging at night turns up termites more often than foraging by day.
- A foraged batch stays fresh for two weeks, long enough to bait traps for many days.
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