Dehydrator
| Dehydrator | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Pierre's for 10,000g |
The Dehydrator is an artisan machine that dries fruit and mushrooms in batches of five. Five matching fruits become a pack of Dried Fruit, five mushrooms become Dried Mushrooms, and five Grapes become Raisins. Each batch is ready by the next morning. Pierre sells the recipe, and farms that choose mushrooms for the Farm Cave get one machine for free. Its strength is volume rather than value per fruit, which makes it a good home for large piles of cheap or surplus produce.
Recipe
Pierre's General Store sells the recipe for a large sum. Once it is learned, any number of Dehydrators can be built. Wood and Clay are everyday materials, and Clay turns up when tilling soil or digging Artifact Spots. The Fire Quartz is harder to find. It lies on the floors of the deep Mines, below level 80, and in the Skull Cavern. Magma Geodes sometimes hold one too. A Crystalarium loaded with a single Fire Quartz copies it in under a day, which helps when building several machines.
There is also a free machine on offer. After the farm has earned a set amount of gold, Demetrius asks to use the cave on the farm for research. Choosing mushrooms over fruit bats fills the cave with mushroom boxes and adds a Dehydrator.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
30 |
| Clay | 
|
2 |
| Fire Quartz | 
|
1 |
Use
A Dehydrator only accepts a full batch. Five of the same fruit, or five of the same mushroom, go in together. The next morning, the machine holds a single bag of dried goods. Grapes are the exception among fruits, since they always become Raisins instead of Dried Fruit.
Star quality makes no difference to the result. The dried bag is always plain quality, whatever went in. That makes plain-quality produce the best input, and it means silver, gold and iridium crops are often worth more sold raw.
Notes
The Dehydrator trades value per fruit for speed and volume. Five Blueberries, for example, make one bag worth noticeably more than the five raw berries. Turning those same berries into Jelly in a Preserves Jar would earn more in total, but it would take five jars or five separate batches. The Dehydrator handles all five overnight in one go, so it suits a big harvest that would otherwise sit waiting for jars or kegs.
The mushroom cave makes a natural partner for the machine, since it keeps supplying mushrooms to dry. A spare batch of four or fewer cannot be processed, so it pays to collect mushrooms until a full set of five is ready.
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