R&D - Archotech Meal Synthesizer
Adds an archotech meal synthesizer, a compact 1x3 food production building that accepts the same raw feedstocks as a standard nutrient paste dispenser but produces Archo Synthetic Meals. These meals never spoil, never cause food poisoning, stack to 100, and grant a +16 mood buff for 1.5 days, beating even lavish meals.
The synthesizer generates its own freezing field to keep adjacent hoppers at -10°C, so your feedstock stays preserved without needing a dedicated freezer. It also runs through solar flares, making it the only food source on the map you can truly rely on when everything else goes dark.
Matching archotech hoppers hold ten times the feedstock of their standard counterparts, compensating for the building's smaller footprint. The synthesizer itself only costs 0.1 nutrition per dispense compared to the usual 0.3.
Requires Advanced Fabrication research.
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