Room sanitation: AKA separate the stove and butcher table This is one good reason to always start a new game with at least one pawn with cooking above level 4. The chance continues to dwindle as you get into the higher levels.
The lower a pawn's cooking level is, the higher the chance the food they will prepare will be contaminated.Ī pawn with 1 skill level in cooking has a 10% chance to prepare sickness-inducing foods, while a pawn that's at cooking level 9 has a mere 0.30% chance for their foods to cause food poisoning. It also affects how sanitary the food is. Pawn cooking levelĪ pawn's cooking level doesn't just affect how quickly it can prepare food and the sorts of foods it's able to make. There are some aspects of the game you're just not going to figure out on your own right away, and this is one of them. We're going to go over the three factors that could be causing mass food poisoning in your colony. There are several variables that could be affecting the sanitation of your cooking.