Grandpa's Awesome Sauce is pretty useless

Tephra

Refugee
Grandpa's Awesome Sauce used to give +20% to barter, and that was awesome, but now it only gives +10% and that is not so awesome.

Sugar Butts also give +10% and can fairly reliably be purchased from trader vending machines for 300 Dukes. However, Sugar Butts are actually better, because they last twice as long.

You can occasionally find Jen selling Grandpa's Awesome Sauce, and I think maybe Rekt rarely has it too, and if you have things to reduce their prices, you may be able to get them for a lower price than Sugar Butts. In the early game, there could be circumstances where that is worth the exchange.

However in the late game, when you finally have the ability to craft your own Grandpa's Awesome Sauce, 300 Dukes is not that much, and the crafting requirements for Grandpa's Awesome Sauce are comparatively expensive, costing Dukes (which could go toward buying a Sugar Butts instead), large qualities of honey (which are now protected by insect swarms), and super corn (which is also pretty valuable and could be sold to afford a Sugar Butts), as well as the negligible gas and mushrooms.

I used to love harvesting every stump I saw from early game when infection treatment was high priority and into the late game, when Grandpa's Awesome Sauce required four of them (with a point in Master Chef).

Now stumps are a liability, honey is no longer the wasteland treasure it once was, and Grandpa's Awesome Sauce isn't worth the ingredients that goes into it.

tl;dr:
I request that Grandpa's Awesome Sauce be reverted back to +20% barter, or it is just a worse version of Sugar Butts.
 
I guess it's a bummer that its efficacy has been cut in half, but I expect it still has one thing that makes it "better" than sugar butts: its buff stacks with sugar butts.

(disclaimer: I've not been playing unstable, so if it was also nerfed to not stack with other barter foods then I'd have to agree with OP)
 
It does have a couple other advantages - it's a rare loot drop, and you can eventually craft it if you're lucky finding honey, so it's possible to have an extra discount for free. I'd say nearly useless though.

At least they dropped the price. In 1.x it was also 10% but still sold for the old 1500D. It was painful to watch someone play the game and buy an awesome sauce, knowing they didn't do the math and realize they were losing money.
 
I tested them together and Grandpa's Awesome Sauce does still stack with Sugar Butts, so if you managed to get some for cheap, they still have a use I guess.

Still not worth crafting.
 
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