What is up with the refrigerator?

[numberyellow]

couldn't find any topics covering this, and the wiki is absolutely worthless..

so i'm playing, i built a refrigerator, only half of it is being used, i keep getting messages about insufficient storage space for raw and cooked food (only stuff allowed in the fridge), cooked food is being dropped on the floor, they won't put anything in the other half of the fridge, the game won't let me change any fridge options (checkboxes about slots)...i change them, click off the fridge, click back on, and the options are reset.

Is this a bug, or am i doing something wrong?

[Nightowl]

Try rebuilding it or moving it. Idk about the options resetting, but sometimes the game tells me I don't have the storage space even when I do. Rebuilding w/e storage it is, or building another one usually fixes the problem for me. Idk if it's the same as what your dealing with.

[starkmaddness]

Make sure you have no mods installed as the recent patch broke most of them.

[numberyellow]

literally started playing the game a few days ago, so no mods yet. i built another fridge, designated it for raw food, then moved the original fridge, and designated it for cooked food. settings work now too. everything appears to be working correctly now.

Guess it was a bug.

[Jaggid Edje]

Did you perhaps check the check-box to allow only "1 slot per item"? At that point for any specific resource only one single stack is allowed in it.

[KaylaKaze]

I just started playing the game and am having the same problem.

[Cougarific]

TBH I doubt seasoned players use refrigerators or freezers at all.

Just make a walk-in freezer using shelves and an air conditioner set to its coldest temp (I actually set it a bit higher to avoid the "frigid temperature" unhappiness when somebody goes to grab some food...anything below freezing should be fine).

[Stimpacker]

I guess I'm "seasoned" and I do use refrigerators or freezers.

1) Space-wise, it's more efficient to put refrigerators/freezers (that are turned off) in cold rooms (what Cougarific said above) instead of storage shelves. I think the guides here mentioned that.

2) I always have 1 freezer for cooked food. This is right beside the dining table. So folks just run to it, get a meal, sit down and eat. No need to visit the freezing pantry.

3) In Saltu, I find cold rooms don't work well. It's a hot jungle and even with the best carbon cold rooms, the cook going in/out all day long to get ingredients means that AC heat pump(s) can't keep up.

[Flin Fredstone]

Storing cooked food and drinks in a freezer room only becomes unprofitable if you needlessly want to cook higher than simple dishes.
Once you have enough leisure items/activities, anything above a simple dish is a waste or resources and time.

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[Cougarific]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

Once you have enough leisure items/activities, anything above a simple dish is a waste or resources and time.

But monster spaghetti is so delicious!

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

Once you have enough leisure items/activities, anything above a simple dish is a waste or resources and time.

But monster spaghetti is so delicious!

yeah i let them prepare a few of those on occasion since Emelin brought the reciepe hehe

edit, i was not fast enough to add the screenshots before you replied.

[Jaggid Edje]

I always make the best food I can in my playthroughs.
It's not a matter of 'needing it", it's just a matter of being a foodie myself, so I want my survivors to enjoy great food too.

[Flin Fredstone]

I like good food too, and in my earlier playthroughs i went all out with the cooking in the game. Multiple cooking stations, all the dishes, busy busy bee's.
But it is not needed, if that helps people.

[Stimpacker]

Eh, somehow I am silly in that I'd always play my city-building games as if they were RL (to some degree).
I'd make sure they get enough sleep, relaxation and food. I'd make sure each idiot gets their favorite food. Quick meals in Year 1, Tasty meals in Year 2 and Chef's meals Year 3 and after.
By Year 2, they'd all be living in a nice brick house with largest rooms for everyone. No wooden cabins.
By Year 3, they'd all be decked out in full syn or carbon armor.

[Flin Fredstone]

Just to clarify, in no way did i mean that you shouldn't go all out on your buildings, leisure, comfort and meals. It's awesome if you do and when things go smooth it's good fun too.
I just implied that for those players that struggle a bit that some things aren't needed to spend to much time on early/mid game.