Food and Shelves?

[Undecided Name For Now]

I was thinking of surrounding the outer walls of a dining area with shelves to hold food and eliminate the entire use of a freezer.
I'm wondering if by putting food on a shelf, it eliminates the need to refrigerate. If not, it's cool.

[Rous]

It doesn't. But it's a nice place holder, I find, next to your stove for a stack or two of meats and a stack or two of veggies. I play tribal alot, so all my food's gotta get used up one way or another, and it keeps my cook from having to run around too much.

[Cleftin Twain]

Still have to refrigerate BUT this does remove the Ugly penalty from raw meat and corpses laying on the floor.

[Undecided Name For Now]

I think I'm gonna use that idea Rous. I could just have someone hauling that in.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

I was not aware that shelves removed the "ugly" penalty. That actually makes using them for limited storage indoors a more appealing option.

So far, I only usually use shelves to store finished apparel I've crafted (extra clothes, mostly). If I can use it for corpses/raw meat however, and put those in the kitchen, it will shorten transit times a bit. Or I can just put them in the freezer so I don't need to designate multiple "freezer zones" for what is a minor part of my use of the space.

[Swirler]

I use shelves for placing corpses in freezers to remove the beauty penalty.

They're not necessary outside but I suppose they look nicer than weaponry lying around on the ground.

[Undecided Name For Now]

Since we are talking about freezers by the way, anyone have any suggestions on size?
I usually seperate out my freezers by type.
Vegetables, Raw Meat, Corpses of Animals, Corpses of Humans, and Meals.
All have 25 spaces inside, 5x5.

[ambi]

Depends on how big your colony is. I think rimworld recommends 3 days worth of good per colonist before the "low food" warning comes up. So I think that's equal to 10 meals, approximately (2-3 meals per day)?

1 colonist = 10 meals = 100 units of raw ingredients = 2 to 4 tiles.

So if you have 10 colonists, a 40-tile freezer should be all right. Obv more is better so that you'd have a buffer for emergencies. You can try 10 tiles per colonist just to be safe.

[Radiosity]

This is why I use fridges :) (RimFridge mod if you're interested, super useful)

[Undecided Name For Now]

I like to stockpile a crap ton of crops.
I build 9 5x5 plots and enclose it in wood with a wood floor seperating the crops out and surrounding them.
In future games, I'll probably stick with 6 instead.

[Undecided Name For Now]

Sometimes if there's a nice plot of area for planting that's safe from animals wandering in, I'll wall it off and plant a crap ton of Hops/Devilstrand for myself to stockpile.

[Cleftin Twain]

Originally posted by Samuel:

Sometimes if there's a nice plot of area for planting that's safe from animals wandering in, I'll wall it off and plant a crap ton of Hops/Devilstrand for myself to stockpile.

Think there's a mod (or a couple even) that feature fences. Keeps animals out. If that's your thing you should check on the workshop.

[Undecided Name For Now]

I don't do mods right now, but that sounds cool.
I tend to do it more for organization and faster moving, as I would sometimes build around that actual farm building and have it be a center of sorts. Or I would try to.

[Undecided Name For Now]

Usually don't have a problem with animals eating crops, unless they can haul, then... Elephants eating my healroot... -.- Just... Ugh.

[Varien]

I just use 4 stockpiles for my freezers/cooking

A small 3x2 for meals at the front, so they dont place them in the back of my freezer lol.

2 side by side piles for basic mats with high priority.

Then a large stockpile with basic mats on normal priority.

This way my cook(s) aren't running 20 tiles to cook a single meal, and haulers keep everything neat.

[Undecided Name For Now]

I guess logically I don't need a 5x5 space for meals, unless I'm going overboard on corn. (It happens)