Spice grinder worth it?

[psusi]

So I built the new spice grinder to see what you could do with it and none of it really sounds appealing.  Am I missing something?

 

[Gurgel]

It is a gadget, not something you critically need. 

[Tranoze]

6 hours ago, psusi said:

So I built the new spice grinder to see what you could do with it and none of it really sounds appealing.  Am I missing something?

 

yeah it is a waste of time, it have more down side than up side, the time wasted to farm seed and grind spice is quite equal to the time saved by skill point bonus, and if you convert them right, not using spice actually give more exp for needed job as the work time is longer.

 

[asurendra]

Freshener spice is OP. With it food can be stored in refrigerator forever without complicated builds like deep freezer. And with freezer it could even restore fresheness of almost spoiled food

[Primalflower]

freshener spice is amazing. It allows for one to store food inside a fridge and it will have 0% spoilage rate. Great for space travel, great for certain food sources. Rocketeer spice is nice too.

[Gurgel]

Nice! Was still broken when I tried it, but if really makes food keep forever in a fridge then this actually justifies the effort. Not OP though, Berry Sludge is not hard to make and also keeps forever and without any requirements like being in a fridge.

[SharraShimada]

On 10/9/2022 at 1:00 AM, psusi said:

So I built the new spice grinder to see what you could do with it and none of it really sounds appealing.  Am I missing something?

 

Worth is a factor you always have to define for yourself. 

For me: The whole new Update is worthless. Why? Because nothing in there i ever asked for, and i do not need anything for it. Do i complain? No, not at all. I wish everyone else as much fun with it as they can possibly have. 

[pether]

I find slug morphs super cool and their extended diet very much needed.

Kitchen was long requested, and it's good to have it, even if it wouldn't have any bonus effect.

Spices and stories are nice additions but I agree those have little impact on the game balance. I am super excited for future story traits, I hope they will encourage for space exploration and colonization more

[blakemw]

On 10/9/2022 at 7:14 AM, asurendra said:

Freshener spice is OP. With it food can be stored in refrigerator forever without complicated builds like deep freezer. And with freezer it could even restore fresheness of almost spoiled food

That's good. The dominance of Berry Sludge is boring.

[SharraShimada]

The fact i do not need the update is, because i´ve come around with solutions for all of this already with some mods. 

I use a fridge-mod that stops the stuff from spoiling at all.

I use a rooms-mod that give me so much more rooms to play with. 

Yeah its nice they build it into the base game. But i had no need for that anymore. 

[pether]

40 minutes ago, SharraShimada said:

The fact i do not need the update is, because i´ve come around with solutions for all of this already with some mods.

I understand your possition, but I'd say it's good that devs sometimes get inspired by mods and implement them to the game if they are good. IMO mods should be required only if a player wants some wacky changes to their game, and any mod that seamlessly adds features that the game needs should be treated as an experiment to check if those ideas are good and implemented to the game if they are.

What I mean is that the game should be great without any mods. Players should not need to use mods to add missing QoL, features, performance improvements etc. Ofc I don't blame the devs that such mods exist - as I said, those are great experiments to see what the game really needs.

So in the end I am really happy that devs implemented the Kitchen, even if it already was in the mods, it still a great step foward and many people who don't like playing with mods will now have access to it.

I wish more great mods were incorporated to the game soon

[Sasza22]

On 10/10/2022 at 2:12 PM, pether said:

it's good that devs sometimes get inspired by mods and implement them to the game if they are good. IMO mods should be required only if a player wants some wacky changes to their game, and any mod that seamlessly adds features that the game needs should be treated as an experiment to check if those ideas are good and implemented to the game if they are.

Yeah sometimes i feel that when i come up with an interesting idea to add something to the gameplay it`s already done via mods and ppl say the devs shouldn`t bother. But i feel that basic qol stuff should be in the base game. Updates shouldn`t be just focused on adding big flashy stuff but also adress some annoyances.

[sirloxley]

I am not sure this was intended, yet freshener spice unspoils spoiling food:

(later on with a deep freezer this is no longer of interest, but currently I need to be very careful with heat as I don't have plastic yet)

[NewWorldDan]

On 10/10/2022 at 5:19 AM, pether said:

I find slug morphs super cool and their extended diet very much needed.

Kitchen was long requested, and it's good to have it, even if it wouldn't have any bonus effect.

Spices and stories are nice additions but I agree those have little impact on the game balance. I am super excited for future story traits, I hope they will encourage for space exploration and colonization more

Yeah, they're great. Until a loose sponge slug starts injecting polluted water into your petroleum line. Don't let your slugs get loose. On the other hand, once you tap a metal volcano, you ranching them for power is viable, so that's nice.