Imperial Cuisine - Immersive Cooking

Food, farming and medical manufacturing in the Akhinnae Empire

”…Imperial food is versatile and nourishing. Sharing meals and recipes with friends and family during long winter nights has been a favourite pastime for as long as the Empire has existed. The diverse cuisines of the original core world provinces were carried outward by colonists and ship crews as reminders of what home tastes like, and they can still be found in recipes across the Empire—from the smallest supply station to the busy capitals of distant Crown colonies…” – from “History of Imperial Food” by Donidas Lenikh

What started as eleven meal packs has grown into an Imperial food production system for my scenarios. with crops, intermediate ingredients, drinks, medical supplies and functional kitchen equipment. Apparently, feeding an Empire involves quite a bit of work!

The mod is built around the Akhinnae Empire and intended to bring its everyday life into my scenarios and your ships and settlements if you want. Food production requires resources, processing and time, giving farmers and cooks something meaningful to contribute.

From planter to plate

Grow vanilla crops alongside two additional crops: Nuts and Legumes. Both have their own seedlings, growth times and water requirements. Nuts can be eaten raw; legumes must be processed before consumption.

Algae remain available through vanilla algae production. The additional crops reuse vanilla plant models, with custom packaging and Akhinnen labels.

Turn your harvest into 16 intermediate products, including:

• Dough, sugar, salt and Gold Pepper
• Vegetable Oil, Nut Oil and Mirasol
• Cultures, vinegar, seasoning and Olla Sauce
• Medra, Ovela, Khesa and Melira
• Biochemical Components, connecting food production with medical manufacturing

Water in recipes is represented by ice.

Imperial meals and drinks

There are now 28 finished foods and beverages, ranging from simple snacks to substantial meals:

Main dishes Verdulas, Medrassa, Pichons, Deladas, Brasaolla, Stractils and Repan da Mianira.

Sweet dishes and smaller meals Brannakh, Salugras, Delecta, Scrambled Eggs and Briaovelas.

Salads Sallita, Salateith and enriched Algae Salad.

Snacks Roasted Bread, Fried Algae, Salatu, Roasted Khesa, Caramel Treat and Honey Roasted Grapes.

Drinks Meruneith, Spibainne, Saillad, Cremath, Avenath, Fruit Juice and Tea.

Different foods offer different combinations of fullness, recovery time and additional benefits. Some restore health; enriched Algae Salad helps reduce accumulated radiation. Raw food provides no healing.

Item descriptions explain the dishes and show their effects. Custom icons distinguish produce, seeds, ingredients, meal categories and beverages, while custom labels and can textures bring Akhinnen packaging into the world.

A proper kitchen

Food Processor Produces all culinary intermediates, finished meals and drinks.

Inset Kitchen A functional kitchen variant that produces all finished meals and drinks at half the Food Processor’s speed. It needs prepared ingredients, so the Food Processor remains an important part of your supply chain.

House Licoran medical manufacturing

Food production also supplies the biochemical foundation for more advanced equipment.

The Multiphoton Lithograph, based on the decorative Lab Equipment block, produces Pharmaceutical Supplies, Nano-Bot Batches and seven medical consumables:

• Basic First Aid Kit
• Combat First Aid Kit
• Advanced First Aid Kit
• Nano-Medical Kit
• Nano-Recharge-Unit
• Nano-Radiation Filter Unit
• Combat Radiation Filter Unit

These provide different levels and speeds of healing, suit-energy restoration, radiation removal and temporary radiation immunity. Advanced treatment requires a substantial production chain.

The Lithograph has a 2,000-litre inventory at 1× settings and consumes 840 kW while operating.

Requirements and compatibility

• Decorative Blocks 2 is required for the Multiphoton Lithograph.
• Decorative Blocks 3 is required for the functional Inset Kitchen.
• This version disables vanilla prepared-food production recipes so they do not bypass the Imperial production system. Existing vanilla food items remain usable.
• The mod changes food-production definitions, raw-food effects and crop settings. Other mods changing the same definitions may conflict; compatibility depends on their changes and load order.
• Custom foods and medical consumables are available in the G-menu for assignment to character quickslots.

“Akhi… Hakhu… what the heck?!” Akhinnae—it’s my own world, with lore, languages and history. I am a nerd, you know?

“Those letters are wonky.” They are. But I developed them and they accompany my world—so I am happy!

“Can you create a Halo/Star Wars/Westworld version?” Possibly? But I will not. I prefer spending my free time building my own world, sorry!

I will always publish all my Space Engineers work for free—but you can support me if you want: Patreon — Akhinnae Empire

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