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Meal Printer

Meal Printer adds the titular meal printers. These are the spacer-tech evolution of nutrient paste dispensers, using protein resequencing and primitive molecular printing to convert raw foodstuffs into filling, wholesome meals.

• The meal printer building. Acting as an advanced drop-in upgrade to the nutrient paste dispenser, printers default to converting hoppered foodstuffs into simple meals - say goodbye to the paste mood debuff without having to chain one of your colonists to a stove! Researchable upgrades can also unlock fine meals and high-efficiency nutrient paste for printing.
  
• NutriBars. A spacer-tech compromise between neolithic pemmican and industrial packaged survival meals, designed specifically to be mass-produced by meal printers. Lightweight, energy dense and inoffensively flavored, one NutriBar is just as filling as a traditional meal and lasts several seasons without refrigeration. Once unlocked via research project, your printers can produce these in bulk - great for emergency supplies or provisioning caravans.

• Meal printers are unlocked through the Meal Printing research project, which requires Nutrient Paste and Fabrication research.
  
• A meal printer costs 75 plasteel, 25 steel and 3 advanced components. Once built, it requires 1000W of power, and functions as a drop-in paste dispenser upgrade.
  
• A printer's desired output meal can be set on its toolbar. To start only simple meals are available; more options can be unlocked through research.
  
  • Simple meals have no exceptional benefits or downsides. They print with identical nutrient efficiency to cooking them manually.
    
  • Fine meals will give a mood buff, but have a disgustingly poor print efficiency - equivalent to lavish meals.
    
  • High-efficiency nutrient paste will consume even less raw food per meal than a paste dispenser, but you'll have to deal with the paste meal mood debuff.
• Colonists will not use a printer if its set meal type is forbidden by their food policy.
  
• Once researched, NutriBars can be printed in bulk from a printer's toolbar. You can print up to 30 in one go, and each bar costs the same amount of nutrition as a simple meal - 0.5, or 10 units of most foodstuffs like rice. Bars last 75 days without refrigeration and are just as filling as a normal meal.

• "Isn't this a lot like Replimat?" Yes! I even used some code from Replimat to ease the process of patching the printer into the game's existing nutrient paste workflow. However, Replimat is a great mod, but it's balanced heavily towards the very "I don't wanna leave the planet" end game of Rimworld. Meal Printer is a cheaper and simpler alternative for Rimworld's mid-to-late game.
  
• "Why add NutriBars instead of just using packaged survival meals?" Primarily because PSMs have a market value of $24, meaning it'd be very easy to churn them out as silver fodder if you could just print them. I could have gone with pemmican, but I wanted something that was "one unit = one meal," so I met in the middle and made NutriBars. (They have a market value of $5, if you were wondering.)

• CURRENTLY NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Animal Controls. Nothing I can do about this AFAIK, only the author can fix his patch.
  
• When looking for a meal, colonists may rarely pick raw food over using the printer. This appears to either be a vanilla bug with food dispensers or a third-party mod conflict, since the same problem happens with regular paste dispensers w/o this mod installed. Forbidding raw food in your colonist's food policies will prevent it, but there's nothing I can do to fix it.

• Github link for non-Steam players is here.[github.com]
  
• Meal Printer should be safe to add to an existing save. You can also remove it mid-save, but deconstruct any printers and get rid of any NutriBars first.
  
• Don't hesitate to leave a comment if you run into a bug, but PLEASE include any relevant information from the debug log if you do so.
  
• Other supported languages:
  
  • Korean translation done by the wonderful isty2e on Github!
    
  • Simplified Chinese translation done by the wonderful IssacZhan on Github!
• If you enjoy Meal Printer, be sure to give it a favorite and a thumbs-up so the Workshop algorithm gives it some time in the limelight!
  
• Oh, and - if you enjoy my mods, consider buying me a coffee on Kofi :) I'll use the money to help me make better mods!

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As required per license[github.com] (CC BY-SA 4.0), Meal Printer uses Harmony and UI code from Replimat by Robin "sumghai" Chang and Dubwise. Your code made my life so much easier - thank you!