Turnip

Turnip

Class	Fruits and Vegetables
Type	Vegetables
Hunger	-18
Thirst	-7
Calories	70
Fresh	28 days
Rotten	280 days
Cook Time	30 min
Weight	0.2
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Turnip`

A Turnip is a hardy root vegetable that can be eaten raw, cooked or added to a pot. It is light and filling, and it eases thirst as well as hunger. It is a strong ingredient for soups, stews, pies and stir fries.

Turnips keep for a long time, staying fresh for four weeks and taking months to rot fully. That makes them an excellent vegetable to store. They are rare in loot, but a farm can grow them from Turnip Seeds through most of the year. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

Eating a turnip lowers hunger by 18 and thirst by 7. It holds 70 calories, mostly carbohydrates, with a little protein and almost no fat. That is a decent snack, though too light on calories to keep weight up alone.

Turnips are better hot, so a cooked turnip gives a small mood lift if eaten soon after cooking. Raw turnips are safe to eat. Compared with a Tomato, which lowers hunger by 12, a turnip is more filling for the same 0.2 weight.

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
Turnip	-18	-7	70	14.52	2.88	0.15

Cooking

A turnip cooks in 30 minutes in an oven, a microwave or over a fire, and burns after 60. That is a long cook for a vegetable, so it suits a slow pot.

Turnips go into Soup, Stew, Pie and Stir Fry, adding 18 hunger to each. In a Salad they add 9. A pot of stew with a few turnips and some meat makes a filling meal from stored food.

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

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

Farming

Turnips grow from Turnip Seeds. A plant takes about 12 days to grow and gives 3 or 4 turnips at harvest. The sowing season runs from May to October, and June and September are the best months. Turnips planted from November through February do poorly.

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

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Turnip Seeds		12 days	3-4	May, June, July, August, September, October	June, September	`/additem Base.TurnipSeed`

Storage

A turnip stays fresh for 28 days and is fully rotten only after 280 days. A fridge slows both counts down even further. That makes a harvest of turnips a reliable store of food through the winter.

Locations

Turnips are a rare find in loot. Restaurant kitchen fridges, including those in fancy restaurants, hold them a few times in a hundred. Growing them is the dependable way to get a supply.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container.