Ancient Machines

[Stickie Keyboards]

I don't really get the point of two of the machines. The watering garden machine is awesome, love that one. The other two seems pointless to me. I have to pay currency to do something I can easily do for free? Auto cooker? What's the point in that one? The auto vacuum, I have to upgrade and pay to use when I can just walk up to something and pick it up or get rid of it. I don't understand...

[wesnef]

The one I've been using the most is the auto-cooker. To make my 'standard food' that I always use to top up my yellow stamina bar. Every time I play the game, I pick up the finished food, and queue up 30 more. It'll keep cooking when I'm not playing. And avoiding the whole "pick recipe, auto-fill, cook, click to reset, auto-fill, cook. . ." tedium is great.

(I can probably stop now, my chest of Blueberry/Raspberry/Gooseberry is almost empty, and I've got 700+ finished Berry Salads.)

[PixieGirrl]

The auto cooker was the first one I created and have now advanced it from basic to regular. I use it for the same reason of not having to load ingredients and cook one by one by one etc to keep my stamina bar in the yellow. I alternate doing that with cooking a bunch of pumpkin puffs to sell.

[NibbBiscuit]

Each ancient machine is great in their own rights.

[Tilarta]

The AutoCooker I found the most useful, when I want a lot of meals.
I do not like making 25 or 30 meals one by one, so just set the machine running and come back later to collect my batch.

I initially liked the idea of the Gardener Machines with the intent of fully automating my crop watering.
But when I discovered the game only allowed 4 active Gardeners per biome, I lost interest, as my plan involved more then that many.

I never created/used an Vaccum.

[wesnef]

The vacuum is a bit lackluster. But I'm thinking of putting the one I made in the Forgotten biome, just so I never need to search for the dark wood in the grass again.

[Zekkyuri]

Ancient Vacuum is actually pretty helpful with gathering materials quickly for the biomes. As someone that logins daily just collect materials and such, it makes the trek around the biomes a lot quicker because I don't have to go and collect everything on the ground. Now I can just visually look for chests or anything breakable that I want to collect (which, I think the Vacuum should be able to clear out the breakable stuff if your character has the appropriate upgrades).

[Stickie Keyboards]

ah okay, I didn't realize folks were making that many meals for the yellow stamina bar. I usually log in, check the Scrooge store then pick the orchard. I only make 2 to 4 meals for the yellow bar, so I didn't really think about that. Putting the Vacuum in the Forgotten Zone is an awesome idea, just for the dark wood hidden in the dark purple grass, thanks for that idea. Wonder if the vacuum can clean up the Sunlit Plateau? That area is a real pain in the back-side. There's flowers, bones (mud), spice, wood, rocks, what did I forget? that zone is terrible to clean. Thank you for all the replies, that helps a lot.

[wesnef]

Unfortunately, the vacuum (even at lv3) won't break up rocks/bones/etc. I just hoovers up loose stuff & thorns.

(and it's particularly bad on the Isle, because it doesn't work across slopes. So all the zones that have multiple levels, it will only suck up stuff on one level at a time.)

[Lisa Mockingbird]

Originally posted by wesnef:

The vacuum is a bit lackluster. But I'm thinking of putting the one I made in the Forgotten biome, just so I never need to search for the dark wood in the grass again.

I agree but if they added picking fruit from trees/bushes it would be nicer. Also would love if it could break up daily spawned rocks/ice/bones/corals/giantshrooms... Clean-up can be so tedious I only do it if I'm blocked.
I would also like a Ancient Miner machine (and maybe it could dig up the sparkly holes for black and pink shards).
And Ancient Fisher machine would be cool as well.

I've reached a point where I want to spend time decorating and crafting for decorating not doing more tedious cleanup.