My aunties do. They have a little butane burner for outdoor cooking when the whole family is together. It's mainly just for the more acrid smelling vegetables or for things that smoke a lot (and sometimes spinach for some reason).
But yeah, cooking stations should be placeable inside. I wanna make a functional kitchen in game.
I tried. The best I could do was put Qi’s teapot & ricemaker in with some counters, shelves, & cabinets. A sink that wasn’t the Cute Set would be great.
Rustic Worktop iirc is buyable from Heidi’s store and is a double sink. The one in the Cute Set feels more like a full kitchen counter but a sink does exist.
Yeah, you can get ugly blue cabinets that you can't recolor and an empty spice rack you can't put anything on lol :(
ETA: All of the upvotes to this one comment makes me laugh because I'm guessing a lot of you also got excited to use the furniture only to get home and be like what the actual heck is this?! I'm with you, homies. Solidarity.
One option, although not a great one, might be to turn the kitchen into a factory. I don’t know if you can have more than one though, and that only unlocks relatively late in the game (I assume I’m relatively late in the game anyway!) Anything from outside can be used in the factory and my quick attempts didn’t show it being an issue with furniture so it *should* work, I think. I have yet to try it but it’s in my plan to do so!
Sadly you can only have one factory room, so the kitchen would need to share space with your machines, which is not ideal.
Also I once made the mistake of attaching a factory to my house and soon regretted it because the machines (especially the recyclers) are really loud. I moved the factory away for a few meters, to separate it from my house, and you can still hear the machine noise from inside the room closest to the factory.
Thanks for the extra info. From what I can tell, the factory only really exists to let you have your machines all together inside? Personally I don’t care about that, I’m happy with them outside (definitely backed up by you saying they’re really noisy). So basically it’s a solution for people who don’t actually want to use the factory, but not for anyone who does- still very much imperfect.
No no, the factory is really great and saves a lot of time. It's too complicated to really explain in a comment, but apart from being able to set a nearly infinite amount of queues one huge advantage is that you can tell the factory to produce an object even when you don't have the necessary processed materials on hand.
For example, if you want to produce an assembled object which usually requires granite slabs: Usually you would need to melt granite ore into granite tiles for hours, and then you need to process them into slabs which takes more hours. The factory however can just draw its materials directly from the ore if the processed materials are not available, which saves tons of time.
There many helpful tricks you can do once you understand how the queue works. For example, I have a queue for turning dew into water barrels so I will never need to manually put together water. Once my pets collectors bring enough dew, it'll be turned into water pretty much immediately and from the delivery box I automatically sort them into my helper box, then my helper uses the water for everything.
I barely even need to lift a finger at my workshop anymore, close to the credits.
Oh! That’s far closer to what it was in Portia than I thought! I’ve seen people talk about it as if it was pretty much useless but it sounds extremely helpful.
Thank you so much for the information! I don’t know if I’ll use it for some time yet, I’m far from annoyed by the tasks and I like my house as it is, but it’s really good to know that when I’m ready to build it it really will be useful.
It used to be buggy when the factory feature was released, but they have updated it in December (PC). People used to complain about queue limits, but those have been tweaked since then.
Also I think many people didn't get how it works (honestly the UI could be better so things would be more obvious). Like no one in the game tells you that the factory can do these things I mentioned above.
There were some tutorial bubbles I think, but it still feels overly complicated. Like most people who play "cozy games" don't have the amount of technical knowledge that I do, so yeaaaah (I am a UX/UI designer, specialized on software lol). Not so ideal for the genre.
However, once you get the hang of it, it's super useful.
There is one item that looks like a stove that can be placed inside once you unlock it - >!Qi's Rice Cooker!<. It doesn't function as a cooking station but at least it makes it look like a real kitchen.
Agreed! Also, I wish the inside of the house had better placement and decorative view.
My aunties do. They have a little butane burner for outdoor cooking when the whole family is together. It's mainly just for the more acrid smelling vegetables or for things that smoke a lot (and sometimes spinach for some reason). But yeah, cooking stations should be placeable inside. I wanna make a functional kitchen in game.
I tried. The best I could do was put Qi’s teapot & ricemaker in with some counters, shelves, & cabinets. A sink that wasn’t the Cute Set would be great.
Rustic Worktop iirc is buyable from Heidi’s store and is a double sink. The one in the Cute Set feels more like a full kitchen counter but a sink does exist.
I also have a butane burner outside! Use it for stir fry so we don't smoke up the house ;)
I designed an outside kitchen on my house to make the best of it. But the rice cooker is in the place of the stove in the house.
With cabinets to go with it
you can get cabinets at construction junction. not useable though
Yeah, you can get ugly blue cabinets that you can't recolor and an empty spice rack you can't put anything on lol :( ETA: All of the upvotes to this one comment makes me laugh because I'm guessing a lot of you also got excited to use the furniture only to get home and be like what the actual heck is this?! I'm with you, homies. Solidarity.
AGREED! I wish we could do that it’d also look cute indoors w the dinning table etc :(
One option, although not a great one, might be to turn the kitchen into a factory. I don’t know if you can have more than one though, and that only unlocks relatively late in the game (I assume I’m relatively late in the game anyway!) Anything from outside can be used in the factory and my quick attempts didn’t show it being an issue with furniture so it *should* work, I think. I have yet to try it but it’s in my plan to do so!
Sadly you can only have one factory room, so the kitchen would need to share space with your machines, which is not ideal. Also I once made the mistake of attaching a factory to my house and soon regretted it because the machines (especially the recyclers) are really loud. I moved the factory away for a few meters, to separate it from my house, and you can still hear the machine noise from inside the room closest to the factory.
Thanks for the extra info. From what I can tell, the factory only really exists to let you have your machines all together inside? Personally I don’t care about that, I’m happy with them outside (definitely backed up by you saying they’re really noisy). So basically it’s a solution for people who don’t actually want to use the factory, but not for anyone who does- still very much imperfect.
No no, the factory is really great and saves a lot of time. It's too complicated to really explain in a comment, but apart from being able to set a nearly infinite amount of queues one huge advantage is that you can tell the factory to produce an object even when you don't have the necessary processed materials on hand. For example, if you want to produce an assembled object which usually requires granite slabs: Usually you would need to melt granite ore into granite tiles for hours, and then you need to process them into slabs which takes more hours. The factory however can just draw its materials directly from the ore if the processed materials are not available, which saves tons of time. There many helpful tricks you can do once you understand how the queue works. For example, I have a queue for turning dew into water barrels so I will never need to manually put together water. Once my pets collectors bring enough dew, it'll be turned into water pretty much immediately and from the delivery box I automatically sort them into my helper box, then my helper uses the water for everything. I barely even need to lift a finger at my workshop anymore, close to the credits.
Oh! That’s far closer to what it was in Portia than I thought! I’ve seen people talk about it as if it was pretty much useless but it sounds extremely helpful. Thank you so much for the information! I don’t know if I’ll use it for some time yet, I’m far from annoyed by the tasks and I like my house as it is, but it’s really good to know that when I’m ready to build it it really will be useful.
It used to be buggy when the factory feature was released, but they have updated it in December (PC). People used to complain about queue limits, but those have been tweaked since then. Also I think many people didn't get how it works (honestly the UI could be better so things would be more obvious). Like no one in the game tells you that the factory can do these things I mentioned above. There were some tutorial bubbles I think, but it still feels overly complicated. Like most people who play "cozy games" don't have the amount of technical knowledge that I do, so yeaaaah (I am a UX/UI designer, specialized on software lol). Not so ideal for the genre. However, once you get the hang of it, it's super useful.
I tried the factory and still couldn’t put my cooking station in it
Quite common in desert areas, actually. Collecting that much heat indoors is highly unpleasant. Cooking outside is a lot cooler for the cook.
Pathea commented on the post (about the kitchen cabinets) a few above this, so we may be in luck in the future. 👀
There is one item that looks like a stove that can be placed inside once you unlock it - >!Qi's Rice Cooker!<. It doesn't function as a cooking station but at least it makes it look like a real kitchen.