it says i need material to cook

[Borror]

im trying to cook but it says i need material but i have lots of rice to use help

[WiseOdin]

Do you also have meat? Most meals require both a veggie/grain, as well as a protein.

[M.K.]

Simple meals can be made out of one ingredient, either Veg or Meat.
All other meals require multiple ingredients of different classes.

So either you are attempting to make rice into fancier meals, or your cook does not have access to the rice. (possibly due to zoning, or forbidding, or the cooking bill specifies a different allowed stockpile, or the cooking ingredient radius is to small)

Or possibly you defined the cooking bill to explicitly use an ingredient other than rice? If your cooking bill say to use Iguana Steaks, then it won't matter if you have lots of rice.

Small ps. Also look to your cooking tool's fuel. Campfire must be burning, woodburning stove must be fuelled, electric stove must be powered)

[Clapped]

Is it possible for your cook to not have the ability to haul things? Not sure if that applies to getting food from the freezer to the stove.

[Borror]

Originally posted by horrortail:

im trying to cook but it says i need material but i have lots of rice to use help

i have fixed it when it says range unlimited its broken for me so i have to set the range to it

[M.K.]

Originally posted by horrortail:

Originally posted by horrortail:

im trying to cook but it says i need material but i have lots of rice to use help

i have fixed it when it says range unlimited its broken for me so i have to set the range to it

That's a bug...... i think
It is literally months since i've ever made a work bill without explicitly setting the ingredient radius, so honestly i could be wrong.

Why the heck would you *ever* want to have ingredient radius set to infinity? That inevitably results eventually in your cook/tailor/whatever setting off on a great trek across the landscape, leaving his workbench abandoned while he tiptoes though the minefields and tunnels to go fetch that *one* blob of insect jelly in the insectoid Caves of Doom(tm)

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by M.K.:

Originally posted by horrortail:

i have fixed it when it says range unlimited its broken for me so i have to set the range to it

That's a bug...... i think
It is literally months since i've ever made a work bill without explicitly setting the ingredient radius, so honestly i could be wrong.

Why the heck would you *ever* want to have ingredient radius set to infinity? That inevitably results eventually in your cook/tailor/whatever setting off on a great trek across the landscape, leaving his workbench abandoned while he tiptoes though the minefields and tunnels to go fetch that *one* blob of insect jelly in the insectoid Caves of Doom(tm)

Or, you just make sure your haulers do their job, or you keep your cook confined to an area, independent on the bill area. There are quite a few ways to avoid the "cook goes on walkabout". Sure, setting an ingredient radius is one way, but by no means the only way.

[sbmarauderman03]

A screenshot (with stove bill open) and/or modlist would be mighty helpful.

Help us help you...

[WiseOdin]

Originally posted by Clapped:

Is it possible for your cook to not have the ability to haul things? Not sure if that applies to getting food from the freezer to the stove.

No. Hauling is point A to point B, not to carry to work station. That'd mean inability to haul would make a pawn... Most useless.

[Borror]

its ok i just made the bill i didnt mean to cause anger

[sbmarauderman03]

Originally posted by horrortail:

its ok i just made the bill i didnt mean to cause anger

Dude, if you think this is anger, then I'd advise you stay away from any "Y NO SALE" threads...

[Borror]

Originally posted by sbmarauderman03:

Originally posted by horrortail:

its ok i just made the bill i didnt mean to cause anger

Dude, if you think this is anger, then I'd advise you stay away from any "Y NO SALE" threads...

lol ok

[WiseOdin]

Now I've gotta look up "Y no sale"..
.. Looks like I'm going to spend more time on the Rimworld forum, than on Rimworld XD

[M.K.]

Originally posted by WiseOdin:

Now I've gotta look up "Y no sale"..
.. Looks like I'm going to spend more time on the Rimworld forum, than on Rimworld XD

Um. just don't try to read *all* the messages with that topic.
There are more than 80 000 of them by now, in some 800 distinct threads.

[WiseOdin]

Originally posted by M.K.:

Originally posted by WiseOdin:

Now I've gotta look up "Y no sale"..
.. Looks like I'm going to spend more time on the Rimworld forum, than on Rimworld XD

Um. just don't try to read *all* the messages with that topic.
There are more than 80 000 of them by now, in some 800 distinct threads.

my eyes bled