Nutrient Paste Meal too expensive

[MagDux]

I just noticed the numbers are off for the nutrient paste meal.

• A simple meal is made from 10 ingredients, a packaged survival meal from 12, and I think nutrient paste from the dispenser needs 8 (although I couldn't find confirmation of that on the wiki).
• If you use QEE though its 20 ingredients -> 10 nutrient solution -> one meal. That makes the nutrient paste as expense as a lavish meal.
• I think it should be between 8-12 ingredients. Even with 12 it would still be useful, because you can store nutrient solution indefinitely without cooling and there is no risk of someone getting ill, regardless of cooking skill and cleanliness of the kitchen.

Current Version: 1.4

[KongMD-Steam]

Yes, it's expensive for exactly the reason you described earlier: nutrient solution can be stored indefinitely. If your colony starts to starve, making nutrient paste meals is a way to fill in the hunger gap with the nutrient solution that you already have.

I didn't want these meals to be too imbalanced by being a similar cost to other meals. Thank you for your input, though, because I can see why you'd feel this way. If you feel strongly enough about it, you can change the meal ingredients yourself with some basic XML editing, after copying the mod to you local mods folder.