Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26007341-20150427225931

Potatoes
My idea is the Potato. I think that survival 303 needs more of a variety in foods. The basic meats and berries don't really make much variation. The job of cook has gone completely useless and leaders can really quickly make lots of bread and have no need for a cook. If the cook has done his job right there should be a variety of foods but usually it is the same old bread and pie.

Solutions
I think the solution is to add more food to the game. The food I am going to be talking about are potatoes. Potatoes have a lot of different ways they can be cooked(Baked, Fried, Cut, etc.). Adding these makes it easier for the cook to make a variety of foods.

Statistics
The regular potato would have 2 portions and it would be 2/1/0. Then if you put it next to a fire it will turn a darker brown and will become a cooked potato. The cooked potato has 3 portions and it is 5/3/0. If you took the potato and made this recipe '''Raw Potato + Stovetop = Baked Potato. '''The stats for that would be 2 portions but 20/5/0 for each portion. Then if you did '''Raw Potato + Herbs + Stovetop = Peppered Baked Potato. '''And this would make it 25/5/5. If you made this recipe '''Raw Potato + Glass of Water + Stovetop = Boiled potato. '''This would make the stats 20/15/0. There could also be a new tool called the Masher purley used to mash the potatos. Recipe would be Handle + Small Stone = Mahser. Use the masher on a cooked potato and it would be mashed potatos which would have 3 portions 5/1/0 each. Made by NoBanana:

Farming
Potatoes will be obtained by finding them on the mainland mountains. They will be half stuck in the ground half up. To farm them you need a small compost. It will take lvl 2 farming. You just use a raw potatoe and plant it in the compost. It will grow into 4 potatos half stuck into the ground. The potatoes will be as big as berries. They will grow at the same rate as onions.

What this will add.
This will add a more variety of food for cooks to make and for farmers to farm. It adds an alternative to messy berry and apple farming as there will be no potato leaves. Having extra food like these for some of the islands makes them more tribe friendly. As Nobanana has stated that tribes are underpowered, things like easily accesible and very utilitarian will help tribes not need to focus on food but instead on mining and defences. 