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Tier I · Common

Swiss CheeseFood

Pale cream wedge cut from a wheel large enough to have its own address, shot through with round eyes from pinhole-small to knuckle-wide. Smells mild on the draw, stays on the palate longer than any of the sharper cheeses on the same board.

FoodTypeAlso resource, skilling · Consume action
CommonRarityTier I
55 $KHashValue
0.5 kgCarry1×1 — 1 cell · stacks to ∞
30sWear30s cooldown

Entry

Item

Swiss Cheese
FoodResourceSkillingConsume

Restores health and slightly improves focus. May attract unwanted attention.

StackableConsumableEquipped

Bonuses

Health
20
Focus
2
Rodent Affinity
Yes

The Swiss Cheese is more than a snack, it’s a conversation starter with rodents and a trusted ration of wandering scholars. Aged to perfection, it improves mental clarity (briefly), though it might summon an audience you didn’t ask for.

Aged beneath the Alps or replicated in orbital dairy stations. KBVE Culinary Division classifies it as “edible and stable.”

Made from fresh milk or using modified milk.

  • Restores 20 health
  • Grants temporary +2 focus for 120 seconds
  • Attracts rodent-affiliated NPCs or hidden sewer allies
  • Cooldown: 30 seconds
  • Can be offered to ratfolk traders for discounts
  • Will spoil if exposed to direct gamma radiation

“Every hole in the cheese is a memory. Eat too many and you remember someone else’s past.”

  • The Cheeselord, Issue 3

Some say the holes align when placed under moonlight. Others say that’s nonsense. No one agrees. Everyone eats.

Art by KBVE Pixel Workshop.
Character
Rats in the Walls
You unwrap the cheese.
  • 05/30/2025 - Swiss Cheese added as restorative food with focus bonus and rodent interactions

Chronicle

Lore

Made in the mountain dairies where the cows spend summers on the high pasture and winters in the long sheds below the snow-line, to a recipe the dairymaster guards with a smile that dares anybody to ask again. The eyes are produced by a specific culture that the dairymaster will confirm, and a specific pause in the press that he will not. Every cave in the dairy has its own numbering system, and every wheel that comes out has a story that only the cave-master can explain.

Art by KBVE Pixel Workshop.