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I'm playing with a friends Artisian and I've notice that factory crates are kind of uselses. Tell me if I'm missing something

I make a Bofa Treat with 5 uses from 11 resource that weighs in at 1 unit

I make a schematic of the same stats and have it set to 100 items. I thien have the factory produce the items. What happens is I get

4 crates of 25 bofa treats with 1 use each

Factory crates weigh 5 units each

Factory uses up 1100 units of ingrediants

Factory takes about 15-20 times longer to produce the items

Factory only gives 10% of the xp

So if I make them by hand I get

440xp for General crafting, It cost me 220 units of ingrediants and wieghs in at 20 units when completed

with factory I get

220xp for general crafting. It cost me 1100 units of ingrediants and weighs in at 20 units but the factory crates weight never drops as I ust them up.

Why doesn't food have multiple uses from a factory crate? meds do.

oh just read the FAQ, its a bug.

AAAARG

Yes, you're correct. This is one of the top priorities on the chef correspondent report.

Currently, factories are very useful for

1: mass producing starshine surprises for making tatooine sunburns.

2: mass-producing components which dont give chef experience....carbosyrup, dough, etc.

3: producing other components (alcohol, fruit distillate) because your fingers hurt from clicking so much.

Factories are good for cranking out base ingredients like alcohol, soypro, carbos, etc. Outside of that, I only use it if someone insists on having crated food and is willing to pay out the nose (on a per serving basis) for it,

Exactly... I had my first major run in with this mess this past weekend. A CH wanted a case of food as taking up a bunch of inventory slots with multiple stacks of food was very frustrating for him... until I explained to him that he would get nearly 4X as much food for the same price if he didn't want it in a crate.

Even if I charged only 2cr per resource for a crate of food it was about 2.5k per crate... (and this was for a small DA food...) so he would be paying 100cr per serving..where as he can easily by wastril bread or other foods from the bizaar for ~100 cr a stack of 3-5+.

so so sad

I use factories for components mainly: Sunburns, dough, carbosyrup.