Food refrigeration

[battl3hamm3r]

After 55 hours +, I finally was able to make it to cycle 30 with everything under perfect control; food, oxygen, stress, no sickness...

But I'm still unable to know how the heck I can make my guys pick up food and keep it in the fridge, it seems I have to manually order the command every time

And also something new, I'm finally free to explore the map and I have no idea what side to go first! lol

Also, whats your ideal number of workers?

thanks

[cswiger]

Use Auto-Sweepers near your Refrigerator and/or in the Dining Room, if that doesn't have your fridge there already.

With the original game, around a dozen dupes is fine. With Spaced Out DLC, you have more bases and probably want to go with ~4 - 8 each.

[Cotaks]

simply set food storage priority to 6, dupes will now be happy to store food.

[The Queen Salis]

you really need to make unimportant buildings like regular storage boxes low priority as you build them.
if you want your dupes to do something and they're doing something else, you can lower the priority of that less important thing you want them to stop doing.
it takes tweaking and experience.
i build my priority from bottom up. i paint everything as priority 1-2 when built, then up the priority of things I see them struggling with.

[JadeFalcon]

Almost everything can be set with a priority you can use it to help remove some micro managing. Set fridges to 6 or say something like your egg incubators to 6 and the egg cracker to 5 so the incubator takes priority and extras go to the cracker just as one example.

[Bobucles]

you really need to make unimportant buildings like regular storage boxes low priority as you build them.

Oh nonono, don't ♥♥♥♥ around with storage priority. That's a disaster in the making.
ONI storage uses a double priority system where not only does priority control the order of tasks, items will also be forced into the highest priority storage. Changing a single value will create a deluge of work orders as dupes forcefully move items around, or if you lower the priority they will empty it out and never use it ever again.

There's even more disasters around the corner, because storage automatically tags new resources as they're discovered. Any level of custom priority will turn your carefully planned storage into a mess.

Keep your basic storage all at priority 5. Do not touch it, do not look at it, it does not exist as a game mechanic. Fridge storage is the only priority that won't immediately cause a disaster, but try to keep them all the same value.

[The Queen Salis]

Originally posted by Bobucles:

you really need to make unimportant buildings like regular storage boxes low priority as you build them.

Oh nonono, don't ♥♥♥♥ around with storage priority. That's a disaster in the making.
ONI storage uses a double priority system where not only does priority control the order of tasks, items will also be forced into the highest priority storage. Changing a single value will create a deluge of work orders as dupes forcefully move items around, or if you lower the priority they will empty it out and never use it ever again.

There's even more disasters around the corner, because storage automatically tags new resources as they're discovered. Any level of custom priority will turn your carefully planned storage into a mess.

Keep your basic storage all at priority 5. Do not touch it, do not look at it, it does not exist as a game mechanic. Fridge storage is the only priority that won't immediately cause a disaster, but try to keep them all the same value.

haha, you're silly. you just need to work with the storage system. you're being kinda superstitious here

[J]

Originally posted by Bobucles:

you really need to make unimportant buildings like regular storage boxes low priority as you build them.

Oh nonono, don't ♥♥♥♥ around with storage priority. That's a disaster in the making.
ONI storage uses a double priority system where not only does priority control the order of tasks, items will also be forced into the highest priority storage. Changing a single value will create a deluge of work orders as dupes forcefully move items around, or if you lower the priority they will empty it out and never use it ever again.

There's even more disasters around the corner, because storage automatically tags new resources as they're discovered. Any level of custom priority will turn your carefully planned storage into a mess.

Keep your basic storage all at priority 5. Do not touch it, do not look at it, it does not exist as a game mechanic. Fridge storage is the only priority that won't immediately cause a disaster, but try to keep them all the same value.

You just don't know how to do it properly. The only way for it to ♥♥♥♥ up is if you ♥♥♥♥ it up

[The Queen Salis]

any storage box is at 1 unless it's an important one. most other buildings are either at 2 or 3 depending on what they are. A couple rare things are at 9
and ♥♥♥♥ is running SMOOTHLY

[Bobucles]

Originally posted by J:

Originally posted by Bobucles:

Oh nonono, don't ♥♥♥♥ around with storage priority. That's a disaster in the making.
ONI storage uses a double priority system where not only does priority control the order of tasks, items will also be forced into the highest priority storage. Changing a single value will create a deluge of work orders as dupes forcefully move items around, or if you lower the priority they will empty it out and never use it ever again.

There's even more disasters around the corner, because storage automatically tags new resources as they're discovered. Any level of custom priority will turn your carefully planned storage into a mess.

Keep your basic storage all at priority 5. Do not touch it, do not look at it, it does not exist as a game mechanic. Fridge storage is the only priority that won't immediately cause a disaster, but try to keep them all the same value.

You just don't know how to do it properly. The only way for it to ♥♥♥♥ up is if you ♥♥♥♥ it up

I just told you how to eff it up. It's a simple as changing any number or finding any resource. Storage priority is an all or nothing system, if you aren't going absolute cracked sicko mode across the board, then the best move is don't touch it at all. "Priority" - I.E. placing resources where you want them- is more easily handled via enabling/disabling resources and by using conveyors.

[battl3hamm3r]

Originally posted by The Queen Salis:

you really need to make unimportant buildings like regular storage boxes low priority as you build them.
if you want your dupes to do something and they're doing something else, you can lower the priority of that less important thing you want them to stop doing.
it takes tweaking and experience.
i build my priority from bottom up. i paint everything as priority 1-2 when built, then up the priority of things I see them struggling with.

that's actually good advice and I dont know why I never though about it, my dupes often store random not needed materials on the ground instead of food and such

And I believe I found the main problem as to why my dupes are not storing food even on high priority, I have a fridge but no food storage box and I assumed that everything edible could go in the fridge, but I guess not... I still have to test it

[The Queen Salis]

Storage boxes - LOW priority
Sweeping orders - HIGH priority

[PepeMilagro]

Here's my setup. Hope it can inspire you to find your own
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3204409897
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3204410032
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3204410135
You still end u with the occasional hiccup, like forgetting to add waffles to the selection for the dining fridge. And I am amazed there is still muckroot around so late in the game ...

[快乐地吸猫]

As store food in fridge is supplier task in NOI, a solution is recruiting a supplier dup to handle this work, and you should set the supplier priority of this guy to the highest in the right-up 'priority' buttom.

Another solution is Auto-Sweepers. Here's my setup, hope it can inspaire you. Storing food in cryogenic gas (below -18 degrees Celsius) keeps it permanently fresh(by the way, hydrogen is a good choice). Here I used the property that the microgram gas exchanges heat very slowly with the environment, so once the microgram gas is lowered to a very low temperature, it stays at a low temperature for a very long time, thus keeping the food permanently fresh.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3210664981

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3210665152

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3210665270

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3210665484

More dups can be more efficient, but they also require you to build more facilities to meet their survival needs. For newbies consider an 8-12 dups setup first, then move up to 16,20,24 or even 32 as you become more proficient.