Cooking multiple dishes

[Annahri]

I thought we would be able to cook multiple dishes now. Am I missing something? Or is it gated behind a quest?

[kitsuneblue]

it is an ancient machine in the dlc.you have to unlock it.

[wesnef]

And it's not the "I can batch cook!" people were hoping for.

It's just an automated cooking machine - pick a recipe, tell it to make 10, 'fuel' it with some Mist (the Isle version of Dreamlight), and it'll slowly cook those 10 dishes while you do other stuff.

At least, that's how the 'basic' version I've made works. No idea if the bigger ones are faster, or just let you cook more than 10.

[Annahri]

Ah ok, thanks! Can I unlock it with the hourglass?

[Annahri]

Originally posted by wesnef:

And it's not the "I can batch cook!" people were hoping for.

It's just an automated cooking machine - pick a recipe, tell it to make 10, 'fuel' it with some Mist (the Isle version of Dreamlight), and it'll slowly cook those 10 dishes while you do other stuff.

At least, that's how the 'basic' version I've made works. No idea if the bigger ones are faster, or just let you cook more than 10.

Seriously??? That sounds very disappointing! Why on earth would they do that??

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Annahri:

Ah ok, thanks! Can I unlock it with the hourglass?

The ancient machines (cooker, gardener, vacuum) are built at the Timebending crafting station. Merlin has a tutorial quest about the thing.

Seriously??? That sounds very disappointing! Why on earth would they do that??

No idea. Yeah, I was certainly hoping for something better.

[ZirradenTTV]

Gotta love corporate greed

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Zirraden:

Gotta love corporate greed

How is "making a lousy multi-cook function", corporate greed? It's not like there's a "and you can pay $ to make it work *right*!" option.

[GrailQuest]

Originally posted by wesnef:

And it's not the "I can batch cook!" people were hoping for.

It's just an automated cooking machine - pick a recipe, tell it to make 10, 'fuel' it with some Mist (the Isle version of Dreamlight), and it'll slowly cook those 10 dishes while you do other stuff.

At least, that's how the 'basic' version I've made works. No idea if the bigger ones are faster, or just let you cook more than 10.

If they didn't want us to have batch cooking, they should just say so and explain why.
<.<
At least people who don't have the DLC aren't really missing out on batch cooking locked behind a paywall <.<

[wesnef]

I'll have to do a test, and see if it works while you're logged out, or if it just pauses.

edit: it's just that the Ancient Machines use Mist as fuel. And as long as there's biomes to unlock and upgrades to get at the Timebending station, wasting Mist on the machines seems unwise.

[wesnef]

Ok, yeah, it does cook while you're away from the game.

So you can queue up some food before you quit and it'll be ready when you log back in.

(not sure about the cooking speed - I think the lv2 cooker works a bit faster, but I hadn't used the lv1 one recently enough to really compare.)