Kitchen 3d printer: the seconding

[Midaychi]

 

I've made this suggestion sort of before a long time ago, guess I'll refine it and try again?

 

Basically, either a machine that the kitchen starts with and can be upgraded, or a machine that R&D can provide the board for, that's placed instead of a wall much like a smart fridge.

 

The device at base will print some basic space food, and you have to fill it with nutriment and certain other chemicals. The filling can only be done by someone with a chef access id level or better. An emagged or hacked version will accept additional chemicals and lace the result with it.

 

It's basically a learning vending machine that prints certain kinds of food and uses chemicals as a resource.

 

However, the blueprints in it can be upgraded. How? Through observation of course!

 

When the printer is in range of kitchen implements such as the deep frier, microwave, etc, and these objects are successfully used to create food (microwave obviously gives a *lot* more progress than just stuffing stuff into deep frier), it generates kitchen exp for the printer. A chef-level id can access the printer and choose cooking types to level it up into, to unlock new and exciting space food to print (that could potentially require a wider variety of chemicals and/or solids).

 

Optional: Chef can program in prices, but the stuff defaults to free. Money gathered goes into the linked id's account.

 

When I say space food though I mean new types of food that are wonderfully strange and not normal, like cubes and tubes and weird shit.

 

Edited December 30, 2014 by Guest

[Midaychi]

 

I'm horrible at coming up with this stuff, but I'll try anyways. These all can ONLY be made in the 3d printer, and teir-ups are gained via cooking near it. You'd have to do a bunch of successful microwave cooks near it to get to tier 6. Chef research, basically. Unless otherwise said, all reagents are in liquid form, and the end result contains the reagents required to make it.

 

Anything that says it has a random flavour means that the item gains a random prefix or prefixes in its name from a list of prefixes as a 'flavour'.

 

Any other ideas are welcome

 

Possible examples:

 

Teir 1:

 

Space Tube - 10 nutriment - Food in a tube! The classic way to eat food in zero-g. - Random flavour

 

Space Cube - 15 nutriment - 6 different sides to stuff your face on! - Random flavour

 

Nt Cola - water (assuming water is infinite) 5 nutriment and 5 units of sugar - Nutritious soda in a bag!

 

Teir 2:

 

Space Balls - 10 nutriment 5 sugar - It's like a doughnut hole, but better! - Random chance to be printed with sprinkles.

 

Soylent Space Balls - 10 nutriment 5 sugar 5 soymilk - A doughnut hole for the space vegan inside of you.

 

Chef's Choice Ramen - Water and 15 nutriment, 15 dry ramen - Ramen 2.0, in a tube! - Comes out as a random flavour and has 30 nutriment instead of only 15 via turning the dry ramen into nutriment.

 

Chef's Special Ramen- Water and 15 nutriment, 15 dry ramen, 5 hell ramen - Ramen 2.0, in a tube! This one is smouldering! - Same as above, but only one flavour: 'Chef's Special Ramen'.

 

NtFlurry - 20 nutriment, 5 cream, 5 ice - A deliciously fattening cold drink.

 

Deluxe space tube - 20 nutriment - Food in a tube! The classic way to eat food in zero-g. This one is deluxe sized. - Random flavour

 

Hyper cube - 30 nutriment - 24 different sides to stuff your face on! - Random flavour

 

 

Teir 3: This is where the chef has to start branching out and asking the bartender/botanists for help.

 

Nt Code Blue - Water, 5 nutriment, 5 units berry juice and 5 units coffee. - Nutritious soda in a bag, with a berry zip!

 

Nt Code Green - water, 5 nutriment, 5 units of lemon lime, 5 units of banana juice - Nutritious soda in a bag! This one's practically honking.

 

Nt Code Red - Water, 5 nutriment, 5 units tea, 5 units watermelon juice - A limited edition nutritious soda in a bag!

 

Puffed Space Ball cup - 20 nutriment, 5 units of sugar, 5 units of rice. - Tiny colourful puffed space balls, barely contained by a thin walled cup. It's like your job, only safer.

 

Chocolate Space Balls - 15 nutriment 5 sugar 5 cocoa powder - Chocolate is molecularly infused into the very structure of this doughnut hole. - Random chance to be printed with sprinkles

 

Personal space-pizza - 20 nutriment, 5 units ketchup, 5 units soymilk - No matter what button you pressed, the pizza always came out as the plain space cheese variety!

 

Nt Burger - 10 nutriment, 5 units ketchup, 5 units sodiumchloride - The choice of comdoms everywhere!

 

Double NT burger- Same as above but double the required amounts - A burger fit for a true captain.

 

Triple NT burger - Same as above, but double again the required amounts. - Dear lord singuloth, please save our station! - Has a chance to also contain a small amount of potassium chlorophoride.

 

Nt Fries - 5 nutriment, 5 units sodiumchloride, 5 units potato juice. - The ideal side of choice for comdoms everywhere! - End result loses the potato juice but contains 15 nutriment through the magic of space.

 

Nt Chili fries - Same as above but also 10 units of capsaicin - The ideal side of choice for comdoms everywhere! Spicy edition.

 

Nt Chilly fries - Same as above but 10 units of frost oil instead of capacin - The ideal side of choice for comdoms everywhere! Packed with real space crystals!

 

 

Tier 4: More advanced stuff

 

Engineer's special - 5 units carrot juice, 5 units sugar, 5 units welding fuel, 10 units nutriment. - A wrench-shaped pastry. - result contains imidazoline and loses the welding fuel

 

Amanitin Cube - 10 units nutriment, 5 units amatoxin - A six sided delight - Result contains some anti toxin.

 

Nt Code Gamma - water, 5 units nutriment, 5 units radium, 5 units screwdriver cocktail. - An ultra rare edition of soda in a bag! This one glows in the dark. - Result contains some hyronalin

 

Deluxe Donk pocket - 20 units nutriment, 5 units carbon, 5 units soymilk. - An extra-large edition of donk pockets, fortified with science! - Result starts warm and contains tricord like normal donk pockets. Replaces carbon and soymilk with 10 units tricord.

 

Space Potato Man - 20 units nutriment, 5 units frost oil, 5 units doctors delight, 10 units potato juice - A commemoration of the hard work put into potato station 13; In the end though, you're still just a potato. - Result contains a small bit of ryetalyn.

 

Tier 5: pro tier

 

Traitor's demise - 10 units nutriment, 10 units cyanide, 5 units ice, 5 units gin. - The true fate of all traitorous scum, in easy pill form! - Result removes the cyanide and replaces it with like 10 or 20 units of zombie powder.

 

Chemist's Triage - 10 units nutriment, 5 units polytrinc acid, 5 units unstable mutagen - A beaker-themed cup full of mystery and suspense. - Result doubles and replaces polytrinic acid and UM with bicadraine, tricord, and anti toxin. Also a little condensed capsaicin, for realistic screaming action.

 

Miner's Melody - 10 units nutriment, 10 units gold, 10 units uranium, 10 units manly dorf - A drill-shaped pastry; a miner's only true reward is MORE mining. - Result replaces non-nutriment and dorf reagents with leporazine, dermaline, and synaptizine. Random chance to be diamond-drill coloured and also contain a small amount of ethylredoxarine (or whatever that anti-alcohol medication was)

 

Spaghetti Attack! - 10 units nutriment, 10 units slime jelly, 10 units holy water, 10 units blood. - A strange noodly mess in a bag that jiggles like its alive! - Result replaces slime jelly and blood with a little bit of mind breaker and some alchdranine

 

Bluespace cube - 20 units nutriment, 5 units singulos, 5 units plasma, 10 units welding fuel. - So many sides to stuff your face on, it'd take a scientist to count, so eat it anyways! - Replaces singulos plasma and welding fuel with 30 units of nutriment, for an extremely dense nutriment experience. Chance for a monkey cube to fly out onto the ground while you're eating it.

 

NtBlizzard - 20 nutriment, 10 ice, 5 sugar, 5 plasma, 5 frost oil. - A limited edition extra-cold NtFlurry. Contains real space crystals! -

Every bite has a small chance to either freeze the player or turn them into a statue, and the 5 plasma is replaced with 10 extra frost oil in the result.

 

Tier 6 Ultimate tier

 

Nt Code Delta - water, 5 units nutriment, 10 units uranium, 10 units iron, 10 units inacusiate - An ultra limited edition of soda in a bag! This one's bag is etched with circuitry, and gives you a strange urge to worship the machine overlords. - Replaces the uranium and iron with 10 units of random healing chems. Drinking it has a chance to create an emp pulse around you.

 

Lord Singuloth - 20 units of nutriment, 10 units of plasma, 10 units of singulos, 10 units of radium. - A delicious pastry that spins constantly. All hail lord singuloth! - End result replaces radium and plasma with arithrazine and hyperzine. Every bite has a chance to pull unanchored objects towards you.

 

Super Matta - 10 units of nutriment, 5 units of plasma, 15 units sugar 10 units capacin and 10 units carpotoxin - This yellow rock candy washes you with an eerie chaotic glow, and urges you to lick it just one. more. time... - End result replaces plasma with alchdranine, and carpotoxin with mind breaker. The candy has many small bites. Each lick also has a small chance to cause you to ethereal jaunt, BUT also stuns you in place so you can't move.

 

Strange artichoke - 10 units of nutriment, 10 units of singulos, 5 units of plasma, 5 units of banana juice. - This mechanical approximation of a leafy green earth vegetable seems to vibrate with a blue glow. Delicious! - Replaces plasma with more nutriment. Has a number of extra bites, and biting this food can cause you to teleport around, but uses xenoarcheology bluespace code that has a chance of implanting you within the contents of objects.

Either needs a way to escape eventually or a way to move around as that object, or a mary sue code for eating that allows you to just directly use the object to eat it.

 

Edited December 30, 2014 by Guest

[Midaychi]

 

Additional possible idea: Food and harvested produce can be loaded into the printer as well.

Chef can either set it to be vendable like out of a smart fridge (With an optional price or free), or grind it up. Grinding up transfers the result reagents into the printer's reagent stock.

 

Additional possible idea: Upgrading the printer with better parts enhances its learning rate, cook time, and reduces required reagent amounts ala the same way it works for protolathes. Device must be unlocked via an id or emag before a screwdriver can be used on it. Device can accept condiment bottles and beakers when hacked or emagged, which don't show up unless the device is screwdrivered open. Reagents in said bottle/beaker gets laced into the food.

 

Optional building onto previous optional idea: If a cryostasis beaker is used, the reagents don't react when transferred to result food, and won't react until eaten and processed normally in the victim.

 

Optional possible idea: hacked device can also accept specific objects. These objects are: Deathnettles, cuban pete meat specifically, various coins, spider meat/eggs, and carp meat, deep fried toddlers etc. Inserting such objects could temporarily unlock special recipes to be printed, that don't show up when that object is in the fridge normally, but still require certain tiers to be unlocked before it shows even then.

 

[Sparkyninja]

I love the creativity, its made me go from, ehhh.... To, Yes I want This Now!

[Midaychi]

 

I figure a good place to put such a machine would be on the bar-side of the kitchen, and replace a table with it. Or put it on a table. IDK.

 

OR! Maybe the machine itself is in the kitchen, and it has its own tiny personal disposal pipe setup. You order on a console in the bar/kitchen lounge and the machine prints it out and shoots it through the mini disposals to a stop near the console.

 

Bonus points for clowns removing the windoor or something so that food shoots out as projectiles at people.

 

[Eldrin-Kanthos]

I love this a lot.... except the emp pulse drink. That would kill IPC. >.>

[Fj45]

 

I figure a good place to put such a machine would be on the bar-side of the kitchen, and replace a table with it. Or put it on a table. IDK.

 

OR! Maybe the machine itself is in the kitchen, and it has its own tiny personal disposal pipe setup. You order on a console in the bar/kitchen lounge and the machine prints it out and shoots it through the mini disposals to a stop near the console.

 

Bonus points for clowns removing the windoor or something so that food shoots out as projectiles at people.

 

Sushi train anyone?

 

Really like the idea but it would need a good number of sprites.

 

[Midaychi]

 

Herp derp I'm midaychi look at me make stupid suggestions.

 

Sushi train anyone?

 

Really like the idea but it would need a good number of sprites.

 

Heh, an actual miniature train that runs on the tracks and delivers the goods.

 

Let's see.

Sprites you'd need for example food:

I'm assuming you can recolour something in code rather than making separate sprites for each colour, and just make the base object grey.

 

1. cube

2. sphere

3. Bag with liquid and straw

3. Hypercube

4. Tube

5. Tube with ramen symbol

6. Futuristic dessert cup

7. Nt burger single/double/triple and nt fries, if they're different from normal ones sprite-wise

8. Potato man

9. Jiggling Spaghetti attack

10 Bluespace cube

11. an artichoke

 

Yeah it would need a lot of sprites. I bet we could cheat though by putting the majority in it in generic food tubes and stuff.

 

[Fj45]

Aye, greyscale, but I'm not sure if it looks that good.