Think I found a bug!

[mikemonger]

Set up an autocrafter next to an outdoor farm with beans and a couple of bee hives, and improved space food isn't coming up as an option to craft.

[avatar.zero]

Have you unlocked the Cooking Station yet? It's a Blueprint that you get from space trading for 10,000 (? IIRC) Terra Tokens. Judging by other threads, Autocrafting that is now dependant on unlocking the oven.

[Delumen]

Yeah it's silly, but you need the cooking station.

[mikemonger]

No, you can make the space food in the biolab.

But...you can't automate production in a cooking station though?

So...still calling this a bug.

[The_Wraith-WYD-]

You can automate the cookies from the Cooking Station. But I'm guessing that's just because they sell for TT.

[nagball]

I have been able to produce the improved food with an autocrafter no problem in two run through's recently. I suspect you have not unlocked something needed to allow it. You need to get the cooking station to unlock recipes but I never actually use it or need it.

[Crescens]

It used to require the Biolab, but when the stuff that was added with the anniversary celebration was integrated further in the game, then the requirements for the food changed. You need to learn the Cooking Station's blueprint from space trading before you can auto craft it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3116525601

It is certainly auto craftable if you meet the requirements.

This isn't the only case of odd requirements for things. There are some really basic things, like Common Larva and Seed Lirma, that you cannot set as supply or demand for drones until you unlock the recipe to craft them.

Originally posted by The_Wraith-WYD-:

You can automate the cookies from the Cooking Station. But I'm guessing that's just because they sell for TT.

Surprisingly, this wasn't possible until 0.9.012, the Quality of Life update. Before this, most of the Cooking Station related items were separate from the main game. The high quality food was the exception since that was originally available in the Biolab.

[kamspokx]

You don't need to create the actual Cooking Station, you just need to unlock the blueprint chip.

[nagball]

Originally posted by kamspokx:

You don't need to create the actual Cooking Station, you just need to unlock the blueprint chip.

Thanks for this it's useful information. In the past I have built the cooker but never used it to create anything. Now there is no need to build the cooker once you have the chip.

[Percale]

Originally posted by mikemonger:

Set up an autocrafter next to an outdoor farm with beans and a couple of bee hives, and improved space food isn't coming up as an option to craft.

Also note that high quality food unlocks at 15 kg insects.