Outsourcing to DarkSkies, reports on Canned Food!

We at Weapons and Tactics Research are not to far beyond ourselves to consider only our own R&D centers the pinnacle of innovation and opportunity.  That's why we've sent one of our hard working mining engineers to Industrial Lemon to join DarkSkies town.  Industrial Lemon is a Tekkit world that spans very lossely into the power of Equivalent Exchange, an alchemy styled mod that proves its worth in diamonds... literally.  This world seems more balanced in the sense that Transmutation Tables are only accessible to member+ rank, meaning that a person must still keep an item on them in order to transmute into another. Also, relays don't work here which prevents items being produced from thin air, at least not without reaching very late game in IndustrialCraft.

Our first project has been exploring the EMC values of various foodtypes.  IndustrialCraft has a very powerful machine called the canning machine, capable of purifying lesser foods and storing them in tin cans.  These purified foods not only replenish hunger, but heal as well as consume a good degree faster than regular food.  Zombie meat is capable of replacing two hunger bars but with a great chance of causing Hunger 1 for 30 seconds, sapping those two points away.  Canning the food processes the meat in a way that prevents this from happening!  Spider eyes also are purified in this manner.  Mushroom stew is a filling meal but not very satisfying.  All of these foods are strengthened quite a lot by canning.   But how does this relate to Equivalent Exchange?  EMC values could play more of a role in determining what the best food overall to can is, and what food items should be transmuted into it to gain maximum benefit.  After all, if two mushroom stew become five zombie meats, that fills two whole more cans than just canning mushroom stew- with the added bonus of zombie meats being stackable.

The following table shows our research thus far:

• Mushroom Stew, 70 EMC, Cans 4
• Cooked pork, 64 EMC, Cans 4
• Cooked Steak, 64 EMC, Cans 4
• Bread, 72 EMC, Cans 3
• Cooked fish, 64 EMC, Cans 3
• Cooked Chicken, 64 EMC, Cans 3
• Apple, 128 EMC, Cans 2
• Rotten Flesh, 24 EMC, Cans 2
• Spider Eye, 128 EMC, Cans 1
• Cookie, 22 EMC, Cans 1
• Melon Slice, 16 EMC, Cans 1

From this table, we can see it is very apparent that apples, spider eyes, and bread are among the highest EMC values, while rotten flesh holds the best EMC value for canning at 12 EMC per can.  We would therefore recommend large wheat farms transmuting their contents into zombie parts for canning.  Soylent Green is zombies.