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Project Zomboid

Serving Plates: Make your plates useful
137 Comments
PlutoMayhem 16 Dec @ 3:46pm 
It is possible to rename the plates with food on them?
Ashiel 18 Nov @ 9:16pm 
This mod makes playing a cook so much more enjoyable. Especially in multiplayer, but it's also so nice to be able to keep individual servings instead of having to hold a (very heavy) frying pan and eat 1/4 at a time. lol
ProbablyAlive 6 Oct @ 1:11am 
People have said it before, but still
This should be vanilla
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 22 Sep @ 11:47pm 
@Shuvok I am happy to hear that you find my mod useful, I am planning to add more stuff like tapewares and other way to conserve food once the big crafting update will be released later this year. Thanks for the suggestion !
Shuvok 22 Sep @ 8:55am 
This is so good, should be vanilla, how annoying it is to carry a full frying pan on my bag for every meal... It'd be awesome if we could add stuff like tapewares to take on long loot trips but that would make this a lot more complex lol
Imagine bottles for soup and stuff like IRL... Anyways, this is plenty, and pretty awesome, thanks bro
Joe78man 29 Jul @ 5:05pm 
Dude, no need to apologize, you are giving us something for free. I'm thanking you for even trying. It's just a sugestion.
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 28 Jul @ 11:32am 
@Joe78man Maybe but i don't plan to update or change the mod for now sorry. I will update it and add what you ask after the big crafting update later this year
Joe78man 28 Jul @ 11:13am 
but you can make 1 bowl of soup with 1 single bowl, that's whay i'm saying, you can use the same mechanic from the bowls and stews
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 21 Jul @ 9:06am 
@Joe79man because this mod use the same code as the soup and stew from the base game, i am juste reusing the vanilla function
Joe78man 21 Jul @ 6:45am 
why 2? i wonder. Can't you make it that the original food container is reduced the amount of 1 plate of food?
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 21 May @ 2:50am 
@KoxinoKlo Yes !
Arlocke 20 May @ 8:55pm 
@KoxinoKlo Yes! I just added it to my own ongoing MP server a couple days ago
KoxinoKlo 20 May @ 12:38pm 
is it possible to install it on an already started server?
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 27 Apr @ 7:09am 
@CrispyChestnuts of course you can make a patch for sapph's mod ! you can also add and DM me on steam if needed
CrispyChestnuts 26 Apr @ 5:50pm 
do you mind if i take a look at your mod and try to make a sapph's patch for the other dishes?
NinKirin 8 Apr @ 11:48am 
I wonder if the mod "Load All Magazines" can give you some insight into how to solve the problem....
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 7 Apr @ 11:19pm 
@NinKirin Yes this is a very plausible cause for this issue
NinKirin 7 Apr @ 11:06pm 
I think from my experience this is due to something related to the items used for the recipe which in this case is the plates. (I believe this is to be the case due to an odd interaction with food and traps that I had found a while back)

For example, let's say you have 4 plates, plate # 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 2 stir fries, stir fry # 1 and 2. If you tried to choose "Make 2 plates of stir fry meals" and you choose the "All" option, I believe that the game would attempt to use Plate # 1 and 2 to plate stir fry # 1, and for some reason since you had chosen the "All" option, stir fry # 2 also attempts to use Plates # 1 and 2 as well instead of Plates # 3, and 4.

However, since Plate # 1 and 2 was used by stir fry # 1 it cannot complete the action and doesn't even attempt to use Plate # 3 and 4, so it halts the process.

That's my guess, but honestly, it's a guess in the end so it may be 100% wrong lol
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 7 Apr @ 10:56pm 
@NinKirin i see what you mean now. I looked into it and not a single error is printed in the log when using the all option. I think this is somehow a limitation of the game. This mod is based on the code for pouring stew into empty bowl and the "all" option is also not working with stew and empty bowl from the base game. So i am not sure how to fix this nor if this is fixable sorry
NinKirin 7 Apr @ 10:36pm 
I only use the right click menu honestly, never actually used the crafting menu before. What I mean is this, shown in the image linked below,

https://imgur.com/a/E6jStrE

The fridge has a few more stir fries, which is why I have this option, and since I usually cook in large batches I end up spending a bit of time plating my food since the "All" option doesn't work
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 7 Apr @ 10:09pm 
@NinKirin I am not sure of what you mean by "all" option because in don't have such option. When plating food, try using the right click menu in your inventory instead of the crafting menu (see the last gif in the mod image)
NinKirin 7 Apr @ 10:56am 
Hi, when plating food, I try to "Make 2 plates of stir fry meals" and when I click the "All" option, it only does it once, making 2 plates of stir fry meals. Is there a way to make this work?
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 24 Mar @ 1:45am 
@Q17 No problem !
Q10 24 Mar @ 1:44am 
@ISuckYourSoul <3 okay thank you very much
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 24 Mar @ 1:42am 
@Q17 you need 2 or 4 bowl in your inventory. Here is the wiki page if you want : https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Bowl_of_Soup
Q10 23 Mar @ 9:58pm 
@ISuckYourSoul <3 really? How? I have a bowl in inventory, I have a pot of soup in inventory as well, and nothing in context menu or crafting menu
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 23 Mar @ 4:51pm 
@Q17 you can pour soup into a bowl in the vanilla game
Q10 23 Mar @ 6:18am 
Any chance you could make it so that it would be possible to pour soup into a bowl? It sucks to eat it from a pot.
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 15 Feb @ 7:07am 
@diabolicdoctor sure !
diabolicdoctor 15 Feb @ 3:33am 
Hi, we are using this mod on our Roleplay-Server "FallenLands" and I would like to ask if it would be ok to add it to our Modpack, of course with full credits given?
Badassky 14 Feb @ 5:54pm 
why it needs 2 plates even the player is one?
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 4 Feb @ 5:12am 
@The Vigilante Also be sure to have 2 or more plates in your inventory
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 4 Feb @ 5:10am 
@The Vigilante You need to cook food inside a Frying Pan, Roasting Pan or Gridle Pan
( https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Griddle_Pan - https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Frying_Pan - https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Roasting_Pan )
The Vigilante 3 Feb @ 8:07am 
What exactly do you need to cook food in that allows it to be transferred to the plates? Because so far I have tried multiple times but no prompt to plate the food doesn't show up.
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 14 Jan @ 8:10am 
@FlyingSquid96 You need to enable both
FlyingSquid96 14 Jan @ 8:09am 
do i have to enable both mods for the nutrient bonus? or just the 2nd mod
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 21 Nov, 2023 @ 9:12am 
@Zoomies That very strange as i thought putting :
"imports
{
base
}"
At the beginning of the script file would prevent this issue.
Anyway, i swapped out "Plate" for "Base.Plate" for the three items.
Thanks you for looking into this, I hope this will fix the issue
Tavoletta 21 Nov, 2023 @ 7:33am 
@Zoomies that's it! the dread bug I too was searching for!

Mod author, the fix Zoomies suggests completely fix the "cannot empty plate by eating" problem we were talking about days ago, I just tried it and now it gives back the normal empty plate, also I did not turn off any of my mods :steamhappy: :steamhappy: :steamhappy:

Waiting for your official fix to thumb up your amazing lorefriendly work @ISuckYourSoul <3
Zoomies 21 Nov, 2023 @ 4:09am 
There is a bug in this mod: PlateStirFry, PlateRoasted and PlateOmelette have their ReplaceOnUse set as "Plate" but this item does not exist in the module ServingPlates, so when the plates are put in a composter, after 2 weeks they begin causing errors. In singleplayer this causes a crash to menu, in MP it just spams the server logs.

You need to change "ReplaceOnUse = Base.Plate" for these three items.
Tavoletta 20 Nov, 2023 @ 2:16am 
Yeah, I've tested it again and it's the same deal with @Jackd44 and @Alexandra Erenhart
but I don't have Calm before the storm, so I need more time to try finding what's going on
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 14 Nov, 2023 @ 8:49am 
@Tavoletta the issue may come from another mod you are using
Tavoletta 14 Nov, 2023 @ 4:10am 
Recooking and putting into the plate allowed me to eat it, plus with a fork it uses it
I'm not sure what happened with the other 2 plates, they didn't even show me the Fullness bar like every food, but now they show it
Tavoletta 13 Nov, 2023 @ 12:34pm 
I was able to put stir fry food into the plates, but I cannot eat them
MSamopyat 27 Oct, 2023 @ 12:30pm 
Bro I recommend you to remove the character photos or dress them cuz steam took ur mod down for nudity and sexual content.
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 23 Oct, 2023 @ 8:02am 
@GO$HA Sure, you can do that. Just be sure to make your modifications mod requires this base mod
GO$HA 22 Oct, 2023 @ 6:27pm 
Hey! Is it alright if I pack your mod and make some modifications to it? (Just making the stat bonuses scale off of cooking instead of being a flat bonus).
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 7 Oct, 2023 @ 4:52pm 
@jtgibson Sorry, this mod got locked my steam for 2 days and I forgot about your comment.
I will not change the bonus stat mod as I want it to be very generous and OP. The goal of this additional mod was to make the game easier for new players. I might create a new additional mod with the change you asked as they are good, but I have another project for now so I will delay it.
jtgibson 30 Sep, 2023 @ 3:39am 
Come to think of it, after doing all of that unnecessary algebra, it's also quite easy to balance as:

result:setBaseHunger(item:getBaseHunger() / 2 * 1.15)

I'm both good at math and terrible at math, heh.
jtgibson 30 Sep, 2023 @ 2:55am 
The bonus stats mod could probably be more easily described by simply saying "When using the optional Bonus Stats mod, serving the food on a plate gives a +33% bonus to nutrients."

Incidentally, that seems a bit too generous. it takes Cooking 10 to unlock ~50% bonus nutrition in vanilla, whereas this can be done at Cooking 0 to gain two-thirds of the same benefit.

The generic divisor is (portions / (1+percent)) -- e.g., 1.5 = (2 / 1.333333) -- and Lua will happily accept a calculated divisor, which is easier to balance with. I figure the best percentage benefit would be a 15% bonus (0.15), or (2 / 1.15) for 2x recipes and (4 / 1.15) for 4x recipes.

For instance, result:setBaseHunger(item:getBaseHunger() / (2 / 1.15)) --calculates a 15% benefit
ISuckYourSoul <3  [author] 18 Sep, 2023 @ 8:09am 
@Jackd44 Everything should be working now, I also added a new stuff to the mod so now the plates with food will have the name of the ingredient in it.