Preservation boxes

[Rebeldad]

Just dont seem worth it do they? the stuff just poofs and for that matter it should stay forever since it is on ice..why bother with the huge cost

[Samantha Raven]

U don't have to make them but i find them very helpful plus when they add the city life system it will be nice to have food stockpiles for thralls and such.

I personally love them its nice to store food in them best part is food when it goes bad only rots 1 of its items in it so its easy to keep a stock pile of food in them and great if u just want to grab a stack of food and just go on a adventure and not take time at that moment too cook stuff.

Also and this is one of the main good things is sieges if you build a castle and get under siege having food storage with preserved food will be a life saver.

But there optional there amazing but if you don't like them u dont have to make them i think the dryer for food worse it does make food last longer but it only works on the type of meats that give u like no hunger fullness and drying the food makes it even worse then just cooking it so like a stack of 20 dryed food would take like 10-15 of it just to fill your hunger all the way...

Any ways preserve lobster in your ice box fish take time to get in traps so u want to always harvest them cook them and place them in the ice box.
As for lasting for ever nothing forzen last forever and ice boxes where diffrent then a refrige ice boxes ice still melts and it dosnt generate cooling it just maintains the cooling but its still melting so in a ice box specialy wouldnt last forever but if u notice the ice in the preservation boxes last a really long time so thats nice =)
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[sycocys]

The design is wrong for them. They should be in the workstation item table. Always on, consume ice or black ice and have a set amount of slots to stall food item decay times.

Also given the relative technology state - they wouldn't have had iceboxes. They would have had ice cellars or shacks - and the equivalent for smoking/drying meats.

[Red River]

just need more slots and fine otherwise....

[Warmonger]

They are great, are you actually putting ice in the box also? You have to put ice in it for it to preserve.

[#Charlotte]

food should last much longer in there and certain foods are decaying way too fast. Such as sausages, soup, meat strips, jerky ect...

[Lord Dralisz]

"when they add the city life system it will be nice" :D

[Rebeldad]

Originally posted by Warmonger:

They are great, are you actually putting ice in the box also? You have to put ice in it for it to preserve.

I didnt put ice in them Heck for only have 5 slots and one of those has to be ice? arg

[AunDrew]

Originally posted by Rebeldad:

Originally posted by Warmonger:

They are great, are you actually putting ice in the box also? You have to put ice in it for it to preserve.

I didnt put ice in them Heck for only have 5 slots and one of those has to be ice? arg

The second tier icebox has 10 slots, a little investment but a time saver. Having five of them filled with cooked exotic meat, for a clan, is very useful. Grab a stack of 20 that takes forever to rot, go off and do something, come back put the meat back in the icebox when you log off, or while working around the base. When it takes 1 piece of meat 8 hous to rot, well 8x20 means you have meat for 6 days, instead of you and every clan member having to harvest it every time you log in. One person harvests meat for 10 minutes, cooks it and you are good for a week.

[Slamz]

Yep, they are "iceboxes" really. You must put ice in them. Everything put in them will decay at 1/10th normal speed, including the ice.

I find them handy. They were almost mandatory before they fixed plant harvesting, which made numbing wraps trivial to make. When numbing wraps were a pain to farm up, I did a lot of blood sausage heals, which were easy to make but decayed too fast. Cook up like 60 of them and stick them in a preservation box and have heals for a couple of days.

I still use them to store food. Do one big food run, cook it all, throw it all in the preservation box and then don't worry about food again for days.

[Mosey]

5 slots is sort of BS when one slot must be ice, but it is better than nothing. What is odd, to me, is that you unlock it well before hardened steel tools.

Truly bizarre that I can make a box out of hardened steel before tools.

[Lord Dralisz]

Just make dried meat/yog meat, and forget the fridge.