Food Types

There are 3 food types in Flotsam: Yummy Food, Ordinary Food, and Icky Food. Depending on what a drifter eats, his/her Morale and Pollution increases.

Yummy Food

Yummy Food increases the drifter's morale by +4.

Ordinary Food

Ordinary Food increases the drifter's morale by +1.

Icky Food

Icky Food decreases the drifter's morale by -1.

Food Progression

The following chapter offers a guide how to progess you food production to increase your drifter's morale and reduce pollution.

• Start of the game: Everyones journey starts with the Fishing Chair to catch Bottled Fish, which can be dried with Fish Sticks to receive Dried Bottled Fish.
• First upgrade: One of your first researches should be the Unbottler. Now you can craft your Bottled Fish to Unbottled Fish and dry them with Fish Sticks to receive Dried Unbottled Fish. This will reduce the pollution of your food in half and will be your main food source for the first half of the game.
• Once you have progressed enough through the game and gained enough research points, you should research the Fish Kabob, the Fish Washer and the Food Truck. The Food Truck should be your first choice of food production since it is the only building that can craft Yummy Food.
• End Game: After you researched the Food Truck, you should only fish with a Fishing Boat to catch Bloated Flounder and Oil Gobbler. The Bloated Flounder can be crafted into Flounder Filet with the Fish Washer, and then cooked in the Food Truck to a Quarter Flounder. This is the best food in the game! The Oil Gobbler can be crafted into Gobbler Filet with the Fish Washer. Now you have two choices: Either grill it with the Fish Kabob to Grilled Gobbler Filet*, or craft Gobbler Roll with the Food Truck, which is more tedious since it also requires you to craft Seaweed into Seaweed Sheet.

• *Note that your drifters will always prefer yummy food to ordinary and icky food, so it might not even be necessary to process Oil Gobbler and rather focus on Bloated Flounder. In most scenarios, the Oil Gobbler can just be deleted by right-clicking on it in the invertory bar at the top. So far, there is no way to filter what your drifters fish, and there is no order to only let them bring back Bloated Flounder.

Food Buildings

Fishing Chair

Can fish around the chair.

Fish Sticks

Good for drying fish, on sticks! Can dry 5 items.

Unbottler

This building unbottles fish to clean some of the pollution.

Can also get 1 plastic for every fish unbottled.

Fish Washer

This building cleans fish to remove their pollution.

Chop Shop

Chop up your Seaweed into Seaweed Salad or Seaweed Sheets.

Seaweed Grower

Grows Seaweed Spores into Seaweed.

Fish Kabob

Grills Fish into Cooked Fish. Uses Fire Wood.

Can be upgraded to the Electric Fish Kabob, removing the need to use firewood.

Food Truck

The best food at your favorite truck stop. Serves Cooked Fish and Sushi!

Removed Buildings

As the game continually evolves in development, some structures are temporarily removed or replaced by others.

Fishing Hut

Uses Seaweed to catch Fish deep below the town.