Refusing to cook

[NINJAF15H]

After getting electricity I decided to make an electric stove and get rid of the old wood fired one. My cook refuses to use it to cook and now they are all bingeing on uncooked food. I have an electric light a space away that has power so I don't think that is the problem. Any ideas?

[dbzholmes]

The E Stove, Advanced Research Desk and Soldering Desk all have a glitch that locks them up. Just like in real life you have to manually turn them off, then turn them back on before the survivors will be able to cook again. Got so annoying I just reverted back to using the wood fire stove.

[Jaggid Edje]

If it's not the power cycling thing that you need to do, two other things that I can think of which can cause this:

Make sure the recipes are in order of required skill level, from lowest to highest, if you are queuing up recipes for which your cook doesn't have high enough skill. If the top recipe requires a skill level that no one can make, and is pending "awaiting resources", it will just sit idle. Survivors do not go down the list in a recipe queue to find things that they are able to make.

This is true for all production benches, not just ovens.

Also makes sure your assigned cooks and the oven are in the same work area if you use area flags. Survivors will not use it unless it has the same work area as they do. Even "global" devices will only be used by "global" survivors.

[NINJAF15H]

Originally posted by dbzholmes:

The E Stove, Advanced Research Desk and Soldering Desk all have a glitch that locks them up. Just like in real life you have to manually turn them off, then turn them back on before the survivors will be able to cook again. Got so annoying I just reverted back to using the wood fire stove.

That worked thanks

[CyberDown]

Never had this issue, however, I only assign women to cook.

[Conan of Oz]

I've had weird things with "powered" stuff. The soldering bench in particular... everything is good to go, the item I want to assemble is at the top of the list "awaiting materials". The materials are available, my toon has the crafting skill... but it refuses to activate.

Then I'll simply "move" the bench, and bam, everything kicks off.

It seems similar to the glitch where if you reconstruct a power pole it disconnects until you move it. I've even had perfectly fine and untouched poles disconnect, and have to actually move it closer to another pole to make it reconnect.

@Jaggid Edje covered most of the usual suspects; just keep moving the bench in your tool kit of trouble shooting skills too.