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Butter and Cheese-making in the recipe screens

I absolutely love the nested crafting screens to make recipes for everything, they're just delightful. "You have 2 lemons [make more?]" etc.

My only problem is that I cannot make butter and cheese with them, presumably since they do not take tools to do so, I have to awkwardly exit out of everything, find the milk in my massive inventory, find the butter it makes and sends to some other random part of my inventory, make cheese with that. Very laborious and takes me out of the swing of things. I would really prefer to be able to make dairy products within the crafting/recipe screens, like all of the other ingredients!

Posted 17 months ago by hollow Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Yep, I am still wishing for this.
    Posted 17 months ago by larky lion Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • me too
    Posted 17 months ago by Crucial Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would agree, except that I am afraid this would eliminate the need for players to discover how to make butter and cheese through experimentation. One of the coolest aspects of the game is that you have to experiment to find out about some cool new things (or be told how to do it by a friend, which is less fun, but quicker). It would be sad if all the experimentation were made useless by too much automation. I would be more in favor of this idea if the option to do this only appeared after the first time butter and cheese were discovered manually.
    Posted 17 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh yeah, by the way, @hollow: you don't have to exit out of everything to make the butter and cheese. You can do this with the kitchen utensil screen still open. You can also eat with the screen open, which is helpful when making energy-intensive items.

    The only annoyance I find with it is the fact that I have to search through all of my bags to find the milk, then again to find the butter that ended up in a different bag when I made it, then again to find the cheese that went into a completely different bag.
    Posted 17 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Shepherdmoon, agreed about only if the option came up later. Or it could just be like with the alchemical powders: You'd go to make something requiring cheese, but when you click to make the cheese, it's grayed out and says "You don't know this recipe yet."
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I didn't learn about butter & cheese through experimentation--I cheated and looked it up in the wiki. I have to be honest and say I look most things up in the wiki of whatever game I am playing. Do other people? I don't know.
    Posted 17 months ago by Crucial Subscriber! | Permalink