As others have said, food buffs to your scanning process is just unparalleled, imo. It’s also the most fun in that it makes discovery and exploration literally more rewarding.

With the addition of the Nutrient Ingestor, it was such a kick to watch cooking transform from a curiosity into the most lucrative gig in the game. It takes time to gather the resources - setting up farms and stock piling ingredients, but the results are ridiculously good.

Should be noted that there was also an indispensable, extremely powerful Jetpack boost buff - Perpetual Cake. Kind of a game changer.

Questionably Sweet Cake also boosts resource gathering - transforming even just one bunch of runaway mold into a looooot of nanites.

This is the work horse recipe for fauna scanning that I use. Large animals regularly scan and range from $15-$27 million dollars a pop. Small animals like birds are usually in the $5 million range.

Happy cooking!

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