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Rustic Meal Retexture

Heads-up: I’m abroad until late summer, so I won't be able to reply to comments until then. Thanks for your patience!

After playing Medieval Overhaul for a few playthroughs and then returning to VE mods, one of the things that hit me the most was the vanilla meal trays.

Not only do they look subpar compared to the rest of the VE content, but they also don’t thematically fit any colony that isn’t an industrial era cafeteria.

This is a simple patch that replaces vanilla meal textures with ones more fitting for pre-industrial playthroughs.

• Simple Meal
  
• Fine Meal
  
• Canivore Fine Meal
  
• Vegetarian Fine Meal
  
• Lavish Meal
  
• Canivore Lavish Meal
  
• Vegetarian Lavish Meal
  
• Nutrient Paste Meal
  
• Packaged Survival Meal (and Ideology variations)

The new textures follow vanilla’s design philosophy:

• While they’re no longer rectangular, they maintain a round shape for easy recognition at a distance
  
• Their color reflects meal quality and ingredients (mixed, vegetarian, or meat-based).
  
• Includes x2 and x10 stack variants.

• Safe to add mid-game and should be safe to remove.
  
• Textures match vanilla resolution (128x128).
  
• Obviously, if you advance to Spacer tech while using this mod, your Spacer Pawns will still eat from bowls - but that has its own charm, right?

1. Kibble
   
2. VE Cooking: Haute (Investigating)
   
3. Meals from Alpha Bees

• Made using photopea[www.photopea.com]
  
• Inspiration comes from Medieval Overhaul
  
• Above screenshot was made using Vanilla Factions Expanded - Tribals, Vanilla Factions Expanded - Medieval 2, and Clean Textures