The perplexing Food Storage Nerf

[Smithe37]

52 minutes ago, 0xFADE said:

That would be good.  There is a fridge, and there could be a freezer as well.  Deep freeze could be a status that preserves the food but also requires it to be thawed to not have a debuff.  So you would add another building to do that.

Then on the other hand, since doing everything in the environment is better, you could build a freezer to store stuff and send them to a low quantity hot box to be eaten from that day.

Here's an idea. One of the issues with food production/storage is that dupes do not prioritise food that is stale.
What if we had a freezer building as long term storage/automation alongside a "pie warmer". Dupes can't eat frozen food and instead get food from the "pie warmer"

[psusi]

On 6/10/2021 at 1:18 PM, Gurgel said:

I think it should be modified like this: 

1. Cools to deep-freeze level, i.e. -20C or so (or make 4C/-20C a building setting)

2. Draws realistic cooling power (e.g. same as aquatuner for the same cooling)

3. Outputs heat from cooling, i.e. does not delete heat anymore

4. Let it draw, say, 1000W and store 10'000kg.

Still needs to be put into inert atmosphere or vacuum to get 0% spoil rate.

 

I have to disagree with the last two points.  By the time you are at the point where you can expend that much power and want that much storage, you can just go with an actual AT and a frozen room.  The fridge should be for early to mid game.  As such, it needs to only store a limited amount of food, and use low power.  Since it is early/mid game and uses low power, I don't mind still having some spoilage rate, but it should not depend on the atmosphere as well or use nearly as much power as it currently does.