How to Feed Your Space Whale [Information]
Feeding your Organic Frigates changes their traits. As fun as it would be to putter around the fleet and lob morsels into their gaping maws, my first picture is NOT the way to do this. Instead:
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- Go to the Fleet Management station of your freighter's console and select Manage Fleet and then the Organic you want to feed;
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- Click the open gray box and select the food you want from one of your inventories;
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- Feed the Frigate and note the change in traits.
Food does not change their base stats. Similar to regular frigates, base stats increase with class, C to S, and then with number of encounters up to their maximum capability. Different Organics will have different base stats. However, feeding Organics changes their traits which changes their overall capabilities. At S-class there are 5 traits which can buff each of the four specialties, or reduce expedition duration or fuel burn.
Some great work by norrinzelkarr showed there are groups of foods which have the same effects, so not every food must be tested. I selected 67 foods which seem to cover the gamut of effects for my 9 Organics. Since each Organic reacts differently, sharing my results would not be useful. However, I did find a subset of 36 items which produced between 80% and 100% of all the benefits for each of my Organics, and is a more manageable size set. I'm providing both lists in text block form for any who want to copy them.
My full list of 67 food items:
Fiendish Roe, Crystal Flesh, Strider Sausage, ProtoSausage, Leg Meat, Dirty Meat, Scaly Meat, Stewed Organs, Seafood Stew, Jade Peas, Chewy Wires, Sweetroot, Grahberry, Fireberry, Hexaberry, Refreshing Drink, Fire Water, Scorching Sauce, Root Juice, Kelp Rice, Pilgrimberry, Pilgrim's Tonic, Wild Yeast, Steamed Vegetables, Meaty Chunks,...