TS3 Creator's Camp: Day 4, 12:30
Time for me to spill the beans about another feature of the game for those folks hungry for more juicy details about the game. Ok enough clues.. Food! Food and groceries actually, another deep feature of the game for which details are only just starting to emerge.
I already blogged about gardening so you know that Sims can harvest fresh ingredients already, but they can also obtain them from the grocery store. They can also buy goods for the home and fish to restock their goldfish bowl should 'swimmy' meet an untimely end. The list of ingredients that you can load into your cart at the store is impressive. I listed 24 so far which include anchovy, links (sausages), cheese, potatoes, steak, roast (turkey), tuna, eggs and all of the harvestable items too.
After buying all these ingredients I sent my Sim to stop by the library on the way home. Here I was able to acquire 3 skill books; Cooking Volume 1: Too much salt, Cooking Volume 2: Why you need baking soda and Cooking Volume 3: Yummy and delicious. I also picked up recipe sheets for some popular dishes like Fish & Chips, Cookies, Fruit Parfait, Cheese Steak, Eggs Machiavellian, Baked Angel Food Cake and Ambrosia. Some of these require higher cooking skills as well, but once your Sim reads one of these recipe books they have the required knowledge to be able to make it in their kitchen, as long as the current food stocks allow.
The Sim food looks great, and there are far more variants of dishes that can be prepared than in previous base games. I think the process of obtaining individual ingredients rather than just stocking the fridge with an undefined $50 worth of food is a welcome detail for my game too.
Other items that you can buy from the store for your home include Worlds Brew Bubble Bath, Mood-Lite Candles, the Birthday Inferno Birthday Cake and the Ducksworth of Bathington (a little rubber ducky).
/Steve