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misalignments's avatar
2 years ago

Cupcake Factory Mini/Refresh

I'm making a retail bakery and yet again have to design around the 3x3 Willy Wonka nightmare that is the Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory. I was excited when they moved cupcakes to stoves last year and disappointed when I saw that the Baking recipes got left behind. Outside retail gameplay, basically half of the baking recipes are unavailable to me because the cupcake factory is too large and incongruent design-wise to fit in with any residential lot.

I get it; if everything was moved to stoves, the cupcake factory would be essentially useless. But the observatory/telescope update a couple years back proves it's not impossible to make a new, smaller object without the larger original losing all appeal/usefulness.

If we're ever going to have an alternative to the cupcake factory, everything can't just be moved to the stoves. Instead:

  1. Do a refresh of the current cupcake factory 
  2. Make a new base game object that has most, but not all of the same functionality of the original
  3. (maybe, potentially) Lock all Baking Skill recipes to the Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory and new object and make them no longer available on stoves.

Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory Refresh:

  • Increase Fun to 5 and Food Quality to 10, other stats stay the same
  • Baking Skill recipes are now free to make, like cupcakes currently are
  • Can make up to 3 plates/party size servings at a time (sent to Sim inventory)
  • New colors; Ex: clean versions of swatches; clean and used stainless steel

For a new mini cupcake factory, it would be a freestanding commercial bakery oven. The design would be based on the already existing in-game Schmapple line of products. In order to keep the appeal of the current cupcake factory, none of the proposed refresh ideas would be available on the commercial oven. In addition, several features of the current cupcake factory would also be unavailable.

Cupcake Factory Mini aka "Schmapple Commercial Oven:" 

  • Price: 20,000
  • Size: 2x1 (height and length of two counters)
  • Food Quality: 10
  • Power Consumption Rating: 10
  • Reliability: Unbreakable
  • +Cooking Skill, +Baking Skill

Differences from current Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory:

  • Recipes cost money to make
  • Does not raise Fun Need
  • No instantaneous cooking: recipes must be prepped on a countertop before being put into the oven

6 Replies

  • Your plans for a refresh of the current cupcake factory and for a new mini version of it are great! 🙂  The refresh would improve the current version and the new mini version would suit a home kitchen well.

  • Vyo4's avatar
    Vyo4
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago

    @misalignments Agreed! +Me Too.

    I made a similar request asking for new swatches and providing mockups on my thread covering this same topic - Post: IDEA: Refresh Cupcake Machine

    The baking recipes tied to the factory are too normal and could logically be moved to the stove. In my post, I suggested leaning into the silliness of the machine by re-purposing it to produce Topsy-Turvy Cakes, Oversized Cookies, Theme Cakes, Clown Cakes. Make it truly a wonky factory Cupcake Machine.

  • rosemow's avatar
    rosemow
    Hero
    2 years ago

    Your recipe ideas for a refresh of the cupcake machine are great! @Vyo4 🙂 They are fun and I would enjoy having my sims cooking them. 

  • That's just reminded me I've built a house for my celebrity chef Sim and forgot the cupcake machine! Looks like I'm building her a basement to fit it in! 🤦

  • @rosemow Thanks! I wanted to come up with something that could fit into a home kitchen (both figuratively and literally) and could exist while not making the current cupcake machine useless.
  • @Vyo4Recipes that match the vibe of the cupcake machine is definitely a cool idea! EDIT: Just looked at your mock-ups for different swatches; they're amazing!!

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