Favorite food

Favorite food

Type	Trading mechanic

A villager's favorite food is one extra trade that every employed villager gets after its first trade: it buys one serving of a randomly chosen food for an Obol, once. It is the only way to sell most of the pack's foods.

Mechanics

When the data pack loads, it starts a check that runs 3 seconds later and then every 30 seconds. Each check looks at every loaded villager that:

• has a profession (any profession other than none), and
• has more than 0 villager experience, meaning the player has traded with it at least once, and
• has not been given a favorite food yet.

For each such villager, the pack picks a random whole number from 0 to 41 and runs the matching one of 42 food functions. The number is passed to the function name through a macro, food_trades/food_$(num). That function appends one offer to the end of the villager's trade list and tags the villager so it is never picked again:

Villager wants	Villager gives	Uses
1 of the favorite food (4 for a chicken nugget)	1  Obol	1

Every one of the 42 foods has the same 1 in 42 chance. The food in the trade carries the full item data of the pack's current version of that food, so it has to be a food made or found in the current version; older copies with a different format do not match.

Because the check needs the villager to have experience, the favorite food appears only after the first trade with a villager, and never on an unemployed villager or a nitwit. The favorite food is a villager trade only; the Wandering Trader does not get one.

An Amnestic clears the villager's favorite food flag. Since the villager keeps its experience, it is given a new random favorite food shortly after it takes a new profession.

Foods

#	Food	Amount
0	Apple Empanada	1
1	Bokguk	1
2	Brachio Chicken Nugget	4
3	Brownie	1
4	Bruschetta	1
5	Bubbling Mead	1
6	Buñuelo	1
7	Carrot Cupcake	1
8	Cheese Pizza	1
9	Chocolate Chip Cookie	1
10	Crimson Stroganoff	1
11	Fish and Chips	1
12	French Toast	1
13	Gimmari	1
14	Glow Berry Crumble	1
15	Gnocchi	1
16	Honied French Toast	1
17	Ice Cream	1
18	Kontomire-Dandelion Stew	1
19	Latke	1
20	Lumpia	1
21	Mead	1
22	Meat Pizza	1
23	Melon Sorbet	1
24	Mushroom Pizza	1
25	Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal	1
26	Pad Thai	1
27	Ptero Chicken Nugget	4
28	Puerquito	1
29	Pumpkin Empanada	1
30	Toadstool Stroganoff	1
31	Stego Chicken Nugget	4
32	Stroganoff	1
33	Sweet Berry Danish	1
34	Tricero Chicken Nugget	4
35	Warped Pizza	1
36	Green Curry	1
37	Honey Ginger Tea	1
38	Japanese Curry	1
39	Paneer Makhani	1
40	Pumpkin Curry	1
41	Tonkotsu Ramen	1

All 42 foods sell for 1 obol, including the curries and ramen, which take the most steps to cook.

Trivia

• The functions and tags use the internal names favorite_food, trader_update and foodChecked.
• The favorite food trade is added with a data command rather than through the pack's trade sets, which is why it does not appear on the profession pages' trade tables.

See also

• Trading
• Food