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Re: Off The Grid Cooking Needs Revamp

I agree that having to install a mod to cook a birthday cake or other simple baked recipes is nonsense. The solution would seem to be that off grid cooking is a separate skill which would reflect real life, you do need to learn how to make the right type of fire for the cooking you're doing. At it's simplest cooking on top of a stove/heat source would be lower skill than cooking inside an oven. In addition you might need to buy/collect fuel to cook with, in the same way we collect water for all the plumbing items in the house from a body of water we also collect fuel for the fire from trees.

For those who can mod, there are workarounds like mods that disguise eco lifestyle wind turbines as traditional windmills or a mod that expands the number of recipes available for off grid cooking.

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xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
FWIW, I don't know about base game, but if you have Cats and Dogs or Cottage Living, there are venues with public kitchens that I ended up using for my birthday cakes. It's the Pub and... the bar on the Wharf, is the bar named Whiskerman's Wharf or is that the neighborhood? I'm blanking. [Edit: Salty Paws Saloon, I think.] And City Living has one at Myshuno Meadows.
I do understand that this is iimersion-breaking for folks doing a decades challenge, etc.