Dried Berry Pie

Dried Berry Pie is a dehydrated food item produced from Mixed Berry Pie. It is created in a Dehydrator and can later be restored to its original form in a Rehydrator, making it part of the game’s dried food chain rather than a unique cooked meal with its own separate recipe.

To make it, the Dehydrator consumes 6000 kcal of Mixed Berry Pie and 12 kg of Plastic to produce 6 units of Dried Berry Pie, while also generating 6 kg of Water. This means each unit of dried pie represents one-sixth of the original pie input, and the process returns some of the recipe’s moisture as water. The Rehydrator reverses the process: 1 unit of Dried Berry Pie and 1 kg of Water become reconstituted Mixed Berry Pie.

Because it is a dehydrated version of a prepared food, Dried Berry Pie is useful when storage space, transport, or preservation matter more than immediate consumption. Its production also requires Plastic, so it is typically a mid- to late-game food processing option rather than an early convenience. The water output from dehydration can be useful when planning closed-loop food systems, since part of the mass lost during drying is recovered instead of being discarded.

Practical notes:

• One batch yields 6 units, so the Dehydrator is efficient when processing surplus pies in bulk.
• The recipe is tied to Mixed Berry Pie specifically; it is not a general berry product.
• Rehydration requires only water and the dried item, restoring the original pie rather than creating a new food type.
• Since both dehydration and rehydration move water around, placement in a managed plumbing or storage setup helps prevent spills and wasted labor.

Dried Berry Pie fits best in long-term food reserves or expedition stockpiles, where compact storage and later recovery are more valuable than serving the pie immediately after cooking.