Slice of Glowing Gâteau

Slice of Glowing Gâteau is a food item obtained from a baked Glowing Gâteau after it has been placed on a surface. Once the gâteau is set down, it can be sliced gradually, functioning in a similar way to a pot of soup: the player takes one slice at a time until the whole dessert is consumed.

Its main purpose is as a portable, portioned food source rather than a single-use meal. Because it is divided into servings, it lets you stretch one prepared Glowing Gâteau across multiple hunger refills instead of eating the whole thing at once. This makes it useful for keeping food in reserve at a base or taking a measured amount of nutrition on expeditions.

At low Cooking Skill, a slice restores 18 Hunger and 6 Thirst. The value increases with Cooking Skill:

• Cooking Skill 0–4: 18 Hunger, 6 Thirst
• Cooking Skill 5–9: 23 Hunger, 8 Thirst
• Cooking Skill 10–14: 26 Hunger, 9 Thirst
• Cooking Skill 15–19: 28 Hunger, 10 Thirst
• Cooking Skill 20: 31 Hunger, 11 Thirst

Because both Hunger and Thirst are restored, the item provides more efficient field sustenance than food that only fills one need. Higher Cooking Skill significantly improves each slice, so a more skilled cook gets substantially more out of the same prepared gâteau. If you are managing supplies carefully, it is worth keeping the full Glowing Gâteau placed until you need individual portions, since the slices can be taken as needed rather than all at once.

The item has no special handling beyond being sliced from the placed dessert. In practice, the important interaction is simply that the original baked gâteau must be left on a surface before slices can be removed.