My First Cookbook
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38693
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Adds a handful of new recipes, most of them available for characters with a low survival skill. Many items are either burnt/ruined or require cookware. The idea is that you will still have an incentive to raise your survival skill to cook simpler, better food items. Imp's More Complex Needs is supported with an optional patch.

The burnt items which have a vanilla counterpart will only be visible in the crafting menu if your survival skill is too low to make the proper version. Recipes that require cookware will only appear if you have the required utensils; a note listing these recipes will be added to your inventory.

If you are not using the IMCN patch, you will have the choice of whether or not food healing is enabled for the new items. If you are using the IMCN patch, food healing is controlled by IMCN settings.

Installation
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Manual:
Extract the contents of the archive to your Data folder. Check off MyFirstCookbook.esp, and optionally the IMCN compatibility.esp, in the launcher or your utility of choice.
Manual uninstall:
Delete MyFirstCookbook.esp and MyFirstCookbook - IMCN compatibility.esp, as well as the Textures\MFC folder.

Wrye Flash:
Copy the archive to your Bash Installers folder, in the Installers tab select the package and optionally uncheck the IMCN compatibility.esp if you don't want it. Right click the package and select "install", then in the Mods tab check off the .esp(s) and adjust load order accordingly.

FOMM:
I haven't tested it, but creating a FOMOD from this archive should work fine.

Load Order
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It should be safe to load the main .esp anywhere, since it doesn't alter any existing records.
The IMCN compatibility patch must be loaded after Imp's More Complex Needs.esp.

Usage
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Feel free to use this or any part of it in your own project, just give me credit.

New food items
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Burnt items - survival must be < requirement for non-burnt equivilent, if one exists
Burnt Gecko Meat
Burnt Brahmin Steak
Burnt Dog Meat
Burnt Coyote Meat
Burnt Lakelurk Meat
Burnt Rat Meat
Charred Ant Meat
Singed Molerat Meat

Cookware recipes:
Gecko Scramble - survival 15, Cooking Pan
Cram 'n Eggs - survival 15, Cooking Pan
Gecko Broth - survival 15, Cooking Pot
Baked Potato - survival 20, knife or blade
Scavenger's Slurry - survival 20, Cooking Pot
Gecko Steak 'n Eggs - survival 25, Cooking Pan
Wasteland Soup - survival 25, Cooking Pot
Mojave Flatbread - survival 30, Cooking Pan
Flour Tortillas - survival 30, Cooking Pan
Xander Root Tea - survival 35, Coffee Pot
Pan-Seared Molerat Meat - survival 35, Cooking Pan
Cowboy Breakfast - survival 40, Cooking Pan
Corn Tortillas - survival 40, Cooking Pan
Geckos Rancheros - survival 40, Cooking Pan
Bighorner Fajitas - survival 45, Cooking Pan
Carnitas - survival 50, Cooking Pot


Standard recipes:
Roasted Corn - survival 30
Makeshift Tacos - survival 30
Grilled Lakelurk - survival 40

Hm. I like this idea. Downloaded, tell you how it is once I've downloaded the update...Currently going at 33 kbs.

Cool, any feedback would be appreciated. Best of luck with the update, I'm hearing that a lot of people are having issues.

One thing I am kind of on the fence about is adding an options menu to the player's inventory to toggle food healing on and off. My gut feeling is that players are generally going to want one or the other and not switch it mid-game, and I don't want to add inventory clutter for something no one is going to use. On the other hand, it would be simple for me to add and it is a lot more convenient than doing it in the console.

Just posted a small update to this. I fixed an error in the requirements for the Baked Potato recipe, and added the Machete Gladius and the Liberator to be recognized as knives.

Very nice! I was going to start a new toon so ill have to letya know how it goes with this once i can figure out my nvse problem.

Added some stuff, posted an update.

New recipes: Xander Root Tea, Flour Tortillas, Corn Tortillas, Makeshift Tacos, Geckos Rancheros, Bighorner Fajitas, Carnitas
Fix: The Pot item (formid BigPot) is now recognized as a cooking pot :facepalm: