Made a patch for Better Storage System
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3571341969

@WormGang
Check my previous post.
It has a link to a forked version of this mod, that is more up to date and has its own dedicated storage.

Love this mod, I don’t really care about balance, all I want to know is what storage do I put pita bread in. I tried expert meal basket, imperial food fridge, food barrel, and food store but I keep getting “invalid container type”. It might just be the load order or another mod messing with it but I’d figure I’d ask

Love the mod but from time to time feels out of place, balance is also a big issue, resolved in the (continued) verison of the mod, used this mod since it released but I feel the game is more immersive without it now, maybe I will change my mind but for now I am removing it from my mod list

@Mr.Unchained
Easily done.
The link is quite literally on the previous page of these comments, posted by Midnight Nix, the one who forked it,
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3412722780
It's called Biome Food Expansion (Continued)

Maybe i am dumb, but i can't seem to find this forked version you're talking about, would you be kind enough to post a link?

@Katelacanth
Probably a mod conflict, if other mods also modify the same storage.
Look for forked/updated version of this mod, "Biome Food Expansion (continued)".
It fixes issues, balances things, and provides dedicated storage, that doesn't mess with stock game storage.

i cant put them in the food barrel

the cactus jooce soothes the throat after a weary day's travel.

bless you, kind stranger. the hive will not forget your contributions.

could use more cannibal dishes around hiver limbs

mmmmmm hostage soup

@rditto48801
Thanks for the quick response.
No, I have yet to find any other missing things. I did realise it's likely a mod conflict, so I moved it all the way down the load order. Sadly, no change.

Thank you also for the info on the forked mod, I'm currently swapping out this one for that one and hopefully it can fix my problem.

@UncaringDuck
Are any other items from the mod missing?
I know one playthrough, I had all of the campfires not be available, so I had no easy way to dry cactus and greenfruit. I can only guess a mod conflict was the isssue.
I think this mod simply modifies one of the base game food storage, which may cause said changes to be overwritten by other mods that alter the same food storage. A simple fix, make sure this mod is below any other food mods you might have.

There is a forked/updated version of this mod, "Biome Food Expansion (continued)"
It includes dedicated food storage for food items from this mod, and also some changes to improve balance.
Check the link from Midnight Nix, it leads to the forked/updated version of this mod.

I for the love of god cannot find storage for vegetable soup. Every container has the "invalid" problem.
I have read through the past 4 years of comments and I find that apparently there is 1 storage medium that should work. The "Food Store".
When building, or Shift+F12 spawning it in, it does not store soup. No container stores soup. I love this mod, I do, but a lot of the content I cannot play with since without storage there's no way to automate.

Oh, it turns out that my cooking skills are so bad

@奧特曼
I would say it is not normal.
I do not recall spices taking 'that' long to make.
Sounds like something is hindering production.

A few things come to mind, to check for.
Low power slowing down powered crafting stations like the cooking stove.
A possible bottleneck in production of ingredients. (e.g., raptors eating some crops and/or the farmers, or a lot of an ingredient that also takes a long time to make. 4x crop drying campfires FTW)
A worker with a low skill
A worker's job priorities causing issues.
A navmesh issue or other obstacle causing workers to regularly get 'stuck' (more evident with fast runners who keep 'over shooting' where they are going and getting hung up on nearby obstacles trying to get turned around)

Is it normal to spend 44 hours making just one bag of spice?

@Samson
Yes, it can be made.
It should be unlocked by the research for Cooking, based on what I see when poking around the mod files.

Does anyone know if and HOW you can make your own Vain Vinegar? I cant find it in the research tabs and also cannot find it in the food, farming tabs any help would be sick

One change this mod makes, that I recently found out about, that I disagree with.
Tripling the base cost of Water.
Due to how Kenshi calculates the prices of things, this causes a 'lot' of stuff to get more expensive.
I had been wondering for some time why prices went up across the board in some ways, but not others. I was surprised when I discovered it was this mod that was responsible.

Only the basic food crops, Greenfruit, Cactus and Rice, don't have Water designated as an ingredient.
The other crops do have water listed in the files as an ingredient.
Which in turn makes stuff like flour and bread more expensive, stuff like Grog gets a lot more expensive. Cotton and hemp prices increase the cost of cloth, increasing the cost of bandages, sleeping bags, etc.
It also causes food and drink items from other mods to get more expensive.

All due to the price of water being increased by 3x.

I just wanted somewhere to put my dried hemp T-T

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3412722780

Need to be able to stack the food, else this is pointless.

Hello. Your mod is great! I used it in my maksimum kenshi mod set, I hope you won't mind. I will definitely indicate your mod in the list of used mods. Thank you in advance.

why is food not introduced into the world spawn? strange

One sad thing, no updates since early 2021, no posts from the mod author since late 2020. The mod could use a few touch ups/TLC, smooth out the rough bits, streamline it, and whatnot. No Cinnamon Sugar mix is sad, that is for sure.

@Maxene
I can agree, digging through that mile long recipe list, looking for a specific thing, can be a bit bothersome at times.
One thing at least one other mod does, that could work here, is have its own 'cook stove', for their recipes (or perhaps even biome specific stoves?), to lessen recipe clutter.

@Bizarro
I've had this issue with mods in general, of odd store inventory behavior, stores not seeming to refresh inventories ever, etc.

@Swindle
For Greenfruit sugar, I can imagine Sugar Beats were the inspiration for that. I like the idea of a swamp plants as a sugar cane alternative. I do wander if the cinnamon plants (which I never really grew it myself), resemble trees/shrubs, since that's what real cinnamon comes from.

I've found how to make hemp pepper. Where THE ♥♥♥♥ is cactus salt man, I hate this crafting menu

Where do we FIND the new ingredients???

I don't fully understand why you've used greenfruits for making sugar but came up with cinnamon which doesn't exist in base Kenshi. There are plants in the swamps I've seen growing that, to me, look like sugar cane/bamboo. Is it possible to re-use that asset on the farms/hydroponics?

Not a complaint, mind you. Great mod!

Most underrated mod for Kenshi. Makes the world so much more immersive and apart from a few issues with containers and character AI, could easily pass for vanilla content.

I can't make noodles anymore. Is that a bug?

@iriemk
I found a problem with this mod, take the cactus for example, because the MOD changes the size of the cactus storage container, and the cactus and dry cactus can be put into the cactus storage at the same time. When the dry cactus at the top left of the container, which causes an NPC to keep take the dyr cactus when it wants to use cactus for food,because dry cactus can't make that food,so NPC will put dry cactus back to container. then the NPC gonna repeats the process over and over again, i recommend not to change the storage size of such containers to avoid this situation.If you encounter this issue, please import this mod into FCS and change the "store size height" and "store size width" of the corresponding container.（My English is not good, so I used a translator to translate part of the content.)

Are you working on this still?

Hi, Hade, you're really great at creating these food icons, greatly enriching the scarce variety of food in the original version. May I use your icons in my mod? Thank you very much.

Awesome foods, but the containers wreck automation.

I read in the comments before that people actually want the food store to double as resource container to draw from, but that wrecks automation when you are trying to craft several different types of food in a repeat chain.
Turning the food store from Resource Storage_NO EMPTYING to just Resource Storage mutates cooks into hoarders, who take stuff from the store they don't need to craft, clogging up the inventory, thus stopping production. Same goes for the bread basket that stores a multitude of different breads.

If anything, I'd want such containers as an additions, but not a replacers for the vanilla food store and single-type storages.

@Billy
It should be unlocked by default. (unless a mod or custom start is a factor)
If you are specifically looking for "Greenfruit Farm" in the build mode, that could be the issue, as it is simply named "Vegetable Farm" in game.

Why i cant make greenfruit farms?

for me, the food store is found under 'vanilla storage', it seems to be a blueprint you can pick up at bars and whatnot. i am not sure if it's researchable or not, but the thing you need to place is called:

Vanilla: Food Store

it stores all modded and vanilla food, for me it's at the bottom of the Storage tab. It has a metal texture wrapped around it, and it looks like an upscaled version of your average food storage barrel.

@PZ
I actually answered that same basic question a few posts down, on Sep 4.
Simply put, the mod has its own food storage, called "Food Store", it looks like a wide barrel that is made of metal type material.

where can I store Meatballs ? I tried every storage but none available

@Raqposus
It should be with the other food recipes. If not there, you might not have done the right research yet.

@kamrem1
For me, it is flour that is 1000 cats.
In Kenshi, crafted items have a value based on the cost of their ingredients. Since some of the new items can have an insane prices, the game might be retroactively changing the prices of said ingredients to compensate. That's my theory anyways. If true, a mod I have that gives 4 bread per flour meaning wheat/flour is not even more expensive for me.

How to produce Cactus Salt?

for some reson the price of wheat becomes 1000 cats for me

The mod's food storage container is named "Food Store", and is located in the Storage section in the build list.
It's hard to miss with the build preview, because it is one very wide looking barrel.
Since there are cannibal food items, it might not be coincidence it looks wide enough for multiple hivers/starving bandits to fit in... standing or otherwise...

It looks visibly different from other food barrels, as it looks to be made out of metal, not wood, has stuff like yellow/white warning stripes on the sides in a few places, grid/X patterns on the lid/sides, etc.

It definitely would be nice if the mod description itself listed the name of included storage containers, or if the build item descriptions in the build mode mentioned the mod said build items are for.
(lack of edit options to fix typos is bothersome...)

I'm going absolutely insane trying to find WHICH general food storage belongs to this mod, because I'm also running a better storage mod and absolutely everything is named the same. Can you confirm the *exact* name and location of the one belonging to this mod? (Naming it as being specific to this mod might help too when figuring out which to build...) I've built three different ones and none seem to let me store the soups.

Unless I am mistaken, this mod does have its own version of food storage.

Getting the invalid container flag when trying to store any food from this mod in the general food storage barrel, would also love to know what you are supposed to use for a storage solution?

what container does this go in?

This mod is nice, but I feel like it adds too much.... It would be neat if there was a few smaller mods with just a few items added.

One of the biggest money printers is a Gin plant in Gut. You have hydroponic riceweed feeding sake production, endless foul raw meat to make vinegar with from said sake, and fertile lands to grow wheatstraw to make gin with, and an easy walk to Heng to dump all the gin into and make hundreds of thousands of catuns a day.

Can you make a spice trade only mod, with just the spice