Development Direction #4

[Penguin]

Food & Farming

• Each time you harvest an ingredient (even if it's milking a cow, collecting eggs, or fishing) there will be a chance that the item will be marked as a quality product. This'll grant a slight bonus if used in a food recipe, and yes, you can stack quality ingredients into one final dish! The higher your farming level, the better odds of quality produce.
  
• Freshness! After a certain duration of a time (maybe a week?) an item will lose its freshness quality, which has the unfortunate consequence of negating the bonuses quality produce grants. If it's been especially long, it'll even begin to rot, though I'm not 100% decided on this yet - what do you think?
  
• Food items will display when they were produced and by who like gear items do.
  
• With milk of course comes new food types! We'll do a large expansion in this area.
  
• Cooking EXP will no longer be on a five hour timer, and use an EXP system based on the item. If you cook with quality produce, you get bonuses.
  
• Categories for food, hidden recipes! You'll start with the basics and levelling up a particular food item will unlock new ones, potentially. Rice balls into sushi rolls, for example.
  

Swimming
Certain parts of the ocean will be made 'diveable' with deep waters that you can interact with, adding another layer of exploration. Make sure to collect the sea stones! Movement is debuffed in these areas unless you're a sirenian.

Finally, MasterChef arc, and beach day episode.
What every good anime needs, food and a beach day, 
God bless you Chance, God bless you.