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Harald387

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Cooked Food, Wasted
« on: December 05, 2006, 11:27:00 am »

Would it be at all possible to have the last step of the food-cooking process be:

Does cook also have Food Hauling?
If yes, is there a Food Stockpile with a free space?
If yes, haul the newly-cooked food to that location.

It happens fairly often in both the early and late game that my cook's speed outstrips the available food-haulers - even when I should have more than enough haulers to be covering the problem.

Alternately, could kitchens preserve food the same way that food stockpiles do?

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Re: Cooked Food, Wasted
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2006, 01:11:00 pm »

I've posted about this before:
I think kitchens should have a barrel (read: fridge) in the same way that stills do.
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Re: Cooked Food, Wasted
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2006, 12:45:00 am »

Stills don't end up preserving anything.  There's an issue with turning the kitchen into the food stockpile, in the same way that the depot ends up as an abusable stockpile.  I could have the kitchen fill up sooner, and eventually be completely unusable, then it would work.  If the cook turns into a hauler, that would need to be optional, since it would slow down forts that have adequate food hauling.
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