confused about the drying rack changes

[lowercase skye]

21 minutes ago, Dyzrespect said:

Also what does it even matter if after 6 days you have 120 jerky, basically enough to last an entire year on hunger alone.

Meat doesn't materialize out of thin air, how in the world are you casually getting 120 regular big meat in 6 days? Are you wiping whole beefalo herds on the regular? Do you have the biggest pig farm ever?

[Dyzrespect]

10 minutes ago, lowercase skye said:

Meat doesn't materialize out of thin air, how in the world are you casually getting 120 regular big meat in 6 days? Are you wiping whole beefalo herds on the regular? Do you have the biggest pig farm ever?

Where are you getting your materials for any other food, for your meaty stews, pierogis, bacon and eggs, cooked tomas? Also you know you can dry morsels, monster meat, and seaweed right?

[lowercase skye]

8 minutes ago, Dyzrespect said:

Also you know you can dry morsels, monster meat, and seaweed right?

Not really relevant as we're talking about hunger and all of those give way smaller amounts. I ask again how you're casually getting 120 jerky in 6 days, to the point that it would invalidate all other food options if you could keep it from spoiling.

[cybers2001]

35 minutes ago, Dyzrespect said:

I don't get the point you're trying to make. This issue is a way bigger problem for any other method of food processing. Farms require more attention, non-jerked foods spoil faster, even in an ice box. If you left any food in your base for 12 days, it would all go stale, in fact the jerky would be the only thing probably left intact.

Also what does it even matter if after 6 days you have 120 jerky, basically enough to last an entire year on hunger alone. 60 seconds of work over 6 days for a year of food doesn't really seem that hard.

I kinda thought the math speaks for itself, but my point is that people are saying this update is a straight upgrade for drying racks when really this seems like a sidegrade at best. Drying racks had the benefit of being a tool that didn’t require micromanagement, which was handy when you want to do things away from your base. Yes, gardens are more work, but it’s designed as a mini game that lets you do more than sitting and watching the paint dry (or meat dry in this case).  
  
And once a giant crop grows, it can sit there in the soil for 24-60 days before you have to harvest it.

[Dyzrespect]

Just now, lowercase skye said:

Not really relevant as we're talking about hunger and all of those give way smaller amounts. I ask again how you're casually getting 120 jerky in 6 days, to the point that it would invalidate all other food options if you could keep it from spoiling.

I don't know what to say if you didn't comprehend the previous discussion. In terms of player time spent processing practically any food, jerky now requires possibly the lowest. Over six days of time spent waiting, and probably a minute or two of player time spent processing, that is the output. Compared to however much active time you would spend farming, feeding birds, and using crockpots on a similar amount of food, you'd probably get a lot less processed and a lot less raw stats of recovery. I don't think anyone said anything about rushing 120 meat in the first 5 days.

[Mayson71]

35 minutes ago, Well-met said:

if only klei had just tripled the count for free...

You're funny

[Dyzrespect]

2 minutes ago, cybers2001 said:

I kinda thought the math speaks for itself, but my point is that people are saying this update is a straight upgrade for drying racks when really this seems like a sidegrade at best. Drying racks had the benefit of being a tool that didn’t require micromanagement, which was handy when you want to do things away from your base. Yes, gardens are more work, but it’s designed as a mini game that lets you do more than sitting and watching the paint dry (or meat dry in this case).  
  
And once a giant crop grows, it can sit there in the soil for 24-60 days before you have to harvest it.

Math? Micromanagement? Dude just go click on the rack. I don't understand why you're intentionally being dense about this, it's very obvious that it's not hard to harvest a drying rack, especially if you see it's raining, or you for some reason set up your racks underground where there's acid rain. If your problem is you can only go to your base once every 30 days then idk what to tell you.

And 3x the output being a "sidegrade" is a wild statement.

[lowercase skye]

9 minutes ago, Dyzrespect said:

I don't know what to say if you didn't comprehend the previous discussion. In terms of player time spent processing practically any food, jerky now requires possibly the lowest. Over six days of time spent waiting, and probably a minute or two of player time spent processing, that is the output. Compared to however much active time you would spend farming, feeding birds, and using crockpots on a similar amount of food, you'd probably get a lot less processed and a lot less raw stats of recovery. I don't think anyone said anything about rushing 120 meat in the first 5 days.

This continues to not answer my question as to how you are getting 120 jerky in 6 days. I didn't say anything about it being in the first 6 days, I am simply asking you through what method you would be obtaining 120 meat and drying it into jerky in 6 days of gameplay.

[cybers2001]

19 minutes ago, Dyzrespect said:

Math? Micromanagement? Dude just go click on the rack. I don't understand why you're intentionally being dense about this, it's very obvious that it's not hard to harvest a drying rack, especially if you see it's raining, or you for some reason set up your racks underground where there's acid rain. If your problem is you can only go to your base once every 30 days then idk what to tell you.

And 3x the output being a "sidegrade" is a wild statement.

Again, this requires me to be at the base as soon as the drying finishes. Who’s the one being dense here? You never got far enough into the game to find yourself spending more than 2 days away from your base?  
  
I can put meat on the racks, run over to fight toadstool, and be back in time for all the meat to have rotted from an acid rain. 3x the meat is cool, and can get rot 3x faster!

Edited July 29, 2025 by cybers2001

[Dyzrespect]

14 minutes ago, lowercase skye said:

This continues to not answer my question as to how you are getting 120 jerky in 6 days. I didn't say anything about it being in the first 6 days, I am simply asking you through what method you would be obtaining 120 meat and drying it into jerky in 6 days of gameplay.

There are an insane amount of sources of meat and seaweed, and I wasn't really trying to be this specific I was just using the numbers as an example, but just assume you have been stocking it up in bundling wraps or you have a 20 house pig farm that you harvest every couple nights during moonstorms. No matter what amount of food you have, whether its enough to stock the racks for 2 days or 60 days, the efficiency doesn't change.

12 minutes ago, cybers2001 said:

Again, this requires me to be at the base as soon as the drying finishes. Who’s the one being dense here? You never got far enough into the game to find yourself spending more than 2 days away from your base?  
  
I can put meat on the racks, run over to fight toadstool, and be back in time for all the meat to have rotted from an acid rain.

??????? Literally nothing that you're describing is any different for any other form of preparing food, unless you legitimately are trying to tell me the only way you can amass food is by growing giant crops and leaving them there for 20-60 days. You're also acting like it becomes inedible or rots instantly if you don't make it to it in 2 days sharp, there's still a giant grace period and you'll have most of the freshness if you get to it within a few days. Hanging your meats during acid rain or spring just isn't a great idea, and that hasn't really changed with this update.

Edit: I'll assume you're kinda implying you forage food while you're away from base, and going back isn't really necessary, and that's fair, but really I'm just talking about this in relation to how efficient it is compared to any other form of food processing.

Edited July 29, 2025 by Dyzrespect

[cybers2001]

10 minutes ago, Dyzrespect said:

?????? Literally nothing that you're describing is any different for any other form of preparing food, unless you legitimately are trying to tell me the only way you can amass food is by growing giant crops and leaving them there for 20-60 days. You're also acting like it becomes inedible or rots instantly if you don't make it to it in 2 days sharp, there's still a giant grace period and you'll have most of the freshness if you get to it within a few days. Hanging your meats during acid rain or spring just isn't a great idea, and that hasn't really changed with this update.

Hanging meats in spring used to be perfectly fine. The only downside was it took longer to dry. This is a nerf.  
  
And no, you don’t have a few days. Acid rain will 100-0 anything in less than 3 minutes. One in-game day is 8 minutes. So you either have to be right there as soon as it pops or only use it during the summer when there is no acid rain.  
  
And, funny enough, you can let crops sit fully grown in their plots or cooked food sit in the pot for a full day of acid rain and it will still be fine.

[SilverSpoon]

The previous Drying rack took up a ridiculous amount of space for just a single piece of Jerky. Considering that we can store 51,539,607,552 pieces of Meat into a Tall Scaled Chest in the same amount of space, frankly it was nonsense.

Edited July 29, 2025 by SilverSpoon

[Popian]

2 hours ago, lowercase skye said:

Meat doesn't materialize out of thin air, how in the world are you casually getting 120 regular big meat in 6 days? Are you wiping whole beefalo herds on the regular? Do you have the biggest pig farm ever?

Volt Goats, Tallbirds, Marotters, Beefalo, Bunnymen can be automated, and you get some from bosses.

Still not good to overproduce because it's like creating your own storage problem.

[Captain_Rage]

On 7/29/2025 at 12:23 AM, Dingle said:

Now they're 3 times more fine.

I stopped using drying racks way back, just too much cost in materials. That and the sprawling size they took up, real estate wise. An awful lot of pain for jerky, which gets outclassed bad once you learn crock pot recipes.

Once Walter got his perk tree, the dog got a 3 slot drying rack.

That gave people the idea to ask for drying racks to have 3 slots.

And here we are.

It's an insane boost to sailing early game. Fish meat dries to jerky in one day and so does kelp. Space is at a premium on boats. This means you almost double the boat size in regards to food sustainability.

 

On 7/29/2025 at 12:15 AM, WhackE said:

Can someone try to explain to me why it need to be buffed, I'm just trying to understand why they needed to be changed I'm genuinely confused because I thought they were fine before?

Same. Now you don't even need to bother building a Crock Pot or an Ice Box when sailing at the start of the game since fish meat will sustain you with all those extra drying slots.

[Bumber64]

11 hours ago, Dyzrespect said:

Where are you getting your materials for any other food, for your meaty stews, pierogis, bacon and eggs, cooked tomas? Also you know you can dry morsels, monster meat, and seaweed right?

Monster jerky, lol.

Not even Webber benefits from that. (I guess Walter can eat Woby Snacks if he's desperate?)

Edited July 30, 2025 by Bumber64