Chef Archive

Make it so Chef's (Or bio-Engineers, whatever)can make little 'Farms'. These would work exactly like a harvester, except instead of requiring Power and Maitanence they require Organic and Water, and just like a harvester they produce Eggs and Milk, depending on the Harvester used.

Easy to make Small, medium, and Heavy. The differences would just be what animal is on the 'Farm'.

Good Idea?

Yea good idea, been brought up a few times, but nothing really big about it. I think they want to make those two items rare because they are special in some manner of the game... I still think milk relates to opening a FS slot somehow

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, as I wasn't in Beta, but I believe that there actually were farms in Beta, made by the Bio-Engineer profession, which was the "Farmer" at that time. For some reason, this was cut just prior to release, leaving us with no efficient way to get milk and eggs. Although I've started to see milk pop up more and more often on the Bloodfin server, I still don't really know for sure where it comes from.

I was in first wave of Beta 3. When I got in the game they had given us 3 structures to test them out (a small tatooine house, a floral farm, and a gas extractor). At the time you had to be online and near the structure when it was done building (they took 24 hours to build). But if you were offline they wouldn't work. I was unable to hook up with an architech by the time they yanked my farming and mining skills (I was a master of both). I did see one or two, but never saw much about them on the forums.

I think you should be able to "milk" female animals. Must like you can search lairs, you could walk up and use the milk command. This of course would be more dangerous if the animals were more dangerous, but the milk would be better!

Farmer was indeed a Beta profession, which was yanked 2 weeks before launch and replaced with Bio Engineer.

I had a thought for a milk processing plant...but I can't think of what you'd put into it to produce milk...and a milk harvestor makes no sense.

I think they need to increase the egg frequency..but not the amount found. AFAIK only BE's absolutely need eggs...or fish for that matter..both of which are too uncommon still.