Guide:Cellar

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Hunger is likely your primary adversary at the start of a new world, especially if it's your first time using Standard playstyle's settings. The sooner you create a cellar, the better you'll be able to manage

Reed Chest

While a Handbasket requires 10 cattails/papyrus and adds 3 slots of mobile inventory, a Reed Chest requires 24 cattails/papyrus and provides 8 slots of immobile inventory. Some trader wagons feature a Reed Chest or Wooden Chest that the player can use for storage. During cold weather, you might see a significant improvement to food's expiration date in a chest compared to in your mobile inventory.

Storage Vessel

While a clay Storage Vessel takes awhile to make (requires firing in a Pit kiln ), it provides 12 slots of immobile inventory, and significantly reduces the spoil rate of certain food types: vegetables spoil 75% as quickly in Storage Vessels as in mobile inventory, and grains spoil half as quickly as in mobile inventory. In a valid "cellar," these numbers can get well below 30.

Bury

The quickest way to construct a cellar is to dig a small hole in the ground or side of a hill, and cover the entrance so no light gets in. A 1x1x1 hole containing a Reed Chest or Storage Vessel makes a great cellar if covered by dirt (hay is even quicker to break, and less easy to lose track of). But if it's too small for you to be inside with the container, it's not easy to see how well your cellar is performing.

Small room

If a room is no larger than 7x7x7 internal dimensions, it's granted special status for reducing spoilage. A cellar with 100% effectiveness behaves as though the temperature inside is a constant 5 degrees centigrade, unless the ambient temperature is colder than that, in which case the cellar uses the colder value. There's no way to read the air temperature inside a room. To check whether a room you built is a functional cellar, compare the spoil rates on a container inside with a container outside. Unless the ambient temperature is subzero, there should be a difference of at least 10% between the inside and outside containers' reported spoil rates.

A crude door does not work for an effective cellar. A solid wooden door detracts a little from the room's "cooling score" but the spoil rate inside would still be much better than the spoil rate outside. The more wood blocks a cellar contains, the worse the spoil rate. It might still count as a 'cellar' and preserve food better than outside. But you'll get the best rates by avoiding wood blocks as a building material.


Light

While you can add glass windows without 'breaking' the room's ability to preserve food, the more sunlight gets in, the worse the spoil rates would be. Artificial light sources (torches, oil lamps, lanterns) do not affect spoil rates.


This guide by:
T.Read, July 2024


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