Food Types
There are 6 food qualities in Flotsam: Icky Food, Ordinary Food, Tasty Food, Yummy Food, Culinary Food, and Holy Food. Depending on what a drifter eats, his/her Morale and Pollution increases. Drifters will also have a favorite food that when eaten will give a +35 moral "I ate my favourite meal" buff instead of the regular quality buff of the food type.
Holy Food
Holy Food increases the drifter's morale by +45.
| Pollution | Crafted in | |
|---|---|---|
| Holy Mackeroli | 0 | Fancy Restaurant |
Culinary Food
Culinary Food increases the drifter's morale by +35.
| Pollution | Crafted in | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Fancy Restaurant | |
| Bouillabaisse | 0 | Fancy Restaurant |
Yummy Food
Yummy Food increases the drifter's morale by +25.
| Pollution | Crafted in | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Food Truck | |
| Fish Tacos | 0 | Food Truck |
| Fish 'n' Chips | 0 | Food Truck |
| Plastic-Wraps | 16 | Food Truck |
Tasty Food
Tasty Food increases the drifter's morale by +15.
| Pollution | Crafted in | |
|---|---|---|
| Ocean Taffy | 0 | Salad Spinner |
| Nib-Kabob | 0 | Grill/Eel-ectric Grill |
| Gob-Kabob | 0 | Grill/Eel-ectric Grill |
| Grilled Flounder | 0 | Grill/Eel-ectric Grill |
Ordinary Food
Ordinary Food increases the drifter's morale by +5.
| Pollution | Crafted in | |
|---|---|---|
| Potato Salad | 0 | Salad Spinner |
| Grilled Nibblers | 0 | Grill/Eel-ectric Grill |
| Grilled Gobbler | 0 | Grill/Eel-ectric Grill |
| Corn on the Cob | 0 | Grill/Eel-ectric Grill |
| Jelly Fishballs | 0 | Fryer |
Icky Food
Icky Food decreases the drifter's morale by -5.
| Pollution | Crafted in | |
|---|---|---|
| Seaweed Salad | 0 | Salad Spinner |
| Polluted Seaweed Salad | 8 | Salad Spinner |
Food Progression (outdated)
The following chapter offers a guide how to progess you food production to increase your drifter's morale and reduce pollution.
- Start of the game: Everyones journey starts with the Fishing Chair to catch
Bottled Fish, which can be dried with Fish Sticks to receive
Dried Bottled Fish. - First upgrade: One of your first researches should be the Unbottler. Now you can craft your
Bottled Fish to
Unbottled Fish and dry them with Fish Sticks to receive
Dried Unbottled Fish. This will reduce the pollution of your food in half and will be your main food source for the first half of the game. - Once you have progressed enough through the game and gained enough research points, you should research the Fish Kabob, the Fish Washer and the Food Truck. The Food Truck should be your first choice of food production since it is the only building that can craft Yummy Food.
- End Game: After you researched the Food Truck, you should only fish with a Fishing Boat to catch
Bloated Flounder and
Oil Gobbler. The
Bloated Flounder can be crafted into
Flounder Filet with the Fish Washer, and then cooked in the Food Truck to a
Quarter Flounder. This is the best food in the game! The
Oil Gobbler can be crafted into
Gobbler Filet with the Fish Washer. Now you have two choices: Either grill it with the Fish Kabob to
Grilled Gobbler Filet*, or craft
Gobbler Roll with the Food Truck, which is more tedious since it also requires you to craft
Seaweed into
Seaweed Sheet.
- *Note that your drifters will always prefer yummy food to ordinary and icky food, so it might not even be necessary to process
Oil Gobbler and rather focus on
Bloated Flounder. In most scenarios, the
Oil Gobbler can just be deleted by right-clicking on it in the invertory bar at the top. So far, there is no way to filter what your drifters fish, and there is no order to only let them bring back
Bloated Flounder.
Food Buildings (Outdated)

Fishing Chair
Can fish around the chair.
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 2 1 |

Fish Sticks
Good for drying fish, on sticks! Can dry 5 items.
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 2 3 |

Unbottler
This building unbottles fish to clean some of the pollution.
Can also get 1 plastic for every fish unbottled.
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 2 2 |

Fish Washer
This building cleans fish to remove their pollution.
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 6 2 2 |

Chop Shop
Chop up your Seaweed into Seaweed Salad or Seaweed Sheets.
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 6 4 1 |

Seaweed Grower
Grows
Seaweed Spores into
Seaweed.
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 6 3 5 |

Fish Kabob
Grills Fish into Cooked Fish. Uses
Fire Wood.
Can be upgraded to the Electric Fish Kabob, removing the need to use firewood.
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 6 4 3 |

Food Truck
The best food at your favorite truck stop. Serves Cooked Fish and Sushi!
| Icon | Building Cost | Produces |
|---|---|---|
| 9 6 6 |
Removed Buildings
As the game continually evolves in development, some structures are temporarily removed or replaced by others.

Fishing Hut
Uses
Seaweed to catch
Fish deep below the town.