Jeremy Betts Posted February 15, 2020 Report Share Posted February 15, 2020 Snow/ice from lakes can be collected and compressed into ice slabs, which you can line a cellar with to keep it cooler and preserve things longer. Needs to be replaced every week or so, perhaps. Perhaps also an icebox/"freezer" which if filled with snow can preserve food for much longer. Carryable like a backpack, for long trips. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggie Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 Packing the ice in hay or sawdust might prolong the life of the ice. This is done in ice chests to insulate the ice somewhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysander Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 There is an icebox and also an icepick to collect blocks of ice in the mod ZEEkea. No portable cold storage, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daretmavi Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 And Hay blocks could isolate the storage room, so the ice could stay longer (for several months). This could help with food spoilage on multiplayer servers, if you don't play every day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setne550 Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 Honestly it is pretty possible. But it will be resource intensive. (As it was pretty stated that people did use freezing to preserve their meals in the middle ages, but mostly in the northern areas). Something like an Ice Box, or making a cellar dedicated as an "freezer" with winter ice or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorfinn Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 I don't know. This strikes me as more of a case where it's realism for realism's sake. Maybe I'm just not getting how a change like this would improve the game rather than just another box to check off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pestilence Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/22/2022 at 2:51 PM, Thorfinn said: I don't know. This strikes me as more of a case where it's realism for realism's sake. Maybe I'm just not getting how a change like this would improve the game rather than just another box to check off. If you play on a multiplayer server, time passes always, whether you are connected or not. That means every time you log on, odds are good that all your stored food will be rotten. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorfinn Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 Yeah, that can be a problem for sure, @Pestilence. I think the solution has to be something more like stuff within land claims only "ages" while that player is logged into the world. Something other than what it is now, anyway. Multi-player is really counter-intuitive. And that's just the beginning of the problem. Assuming the point of multi-player is to form a little community, latecomers have to either be given seeds from existing players or go increasingly far to find wild crops and berry bushes. And, of course, surface copper. Once you are canning jam and putting grain in your cellar, the dozen or so year shelf life makes that less important. By the time you could implement the ice box, you don't really need it, and because the ice presumably melts through the summer, doesn't solve the problem anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daretmavi Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 19 hours ago, Thorfinn said: I think the solution has to be something more like stuff within land claims only "ages" while that player is logged into the world. Exactly, this would be the best solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DX65 Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) I wish there was away to have world recognize underground like lower areas to either form heat via lava, or ice from water freezing due to lack of light or at least small enclosure recognizing the level of ice or snow as colder than the surface area. I am not sure if this would be away to make a cold room though. Anyone test this already? Edit: Zeeka has fridge that uses ice that suppose to work but I am using currently 1.6.3 and mod is for 1.6.0. So I guess someone has figured out how to get storage to stay cold but I can't figure out how to go back to that version. Edited February 25, 2022 by DX65 adding words about a fridge I can't use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoto_hino Posted April 19, 2022 Report Share Posted April 19, 2022 In a world without refrigerators, an ice cellar would be a very good substitute. Just like rock salt, which you just don't know where to find, ice has to wait for the water to ice over the winter or be found somewhere else. My point is that not everyone can salt or cellar with ice. I know this is not the main point of this topic, but it would be nice if there was an easier way to smoke it. I wonder if the order of shelf life would be something like this, taking into account storage in a mod. Ice cellar + salted > ice cellar + smoked > cellar + salted > ice cellar + smoked > ice cellar > cellar > salted only > smoked only > dried > aged > raw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setne550 Posted April 20, 2022 Report Share Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/19/2022 at 9:20 AM, macoto_hino said: In a world without refrigerators, an ice cellar would be a very good substitute. Just like rock salt, which you just don't know where to find, ice has to wait for the water to ice over the winter or be found somewhere else. My point is that not everyone can salt or cellar with ice. I know this is not the main point of this topic, but it would be nice if there was an easier way to smoke it. I wonder if the order of shelf life would be something like this, taking into account storage in a mod. Ice cellar + salted > ice cellar + smoked > cellar + salted > ice cellar + smoked > ice cellar > cellar > salted only > smoked only > dried > aged > raw Very clever. Of course that just applies to meat/fish. Don't forget that vegetables, fruits and grains also benefit in the cold storage method too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoto_hino Posted April 20, 2022 Report Share Posted April 20, 2022 1 hour ago, setne550 said: Very clever. Of course that just applies to meat/fish. Don't forget that vegetables, fruits and grains also benefit in the cold storage method too. Vegetables and grains have more time to decompose than fresh meat, so I didn't think preservation was that important. Come to think of it, I have never heard of smoking vegetables or grains. Then again, cellars and ice cellars are important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setne550 Posted April 20, 2022 Report Share Posted April 20, 2022 2 hours ago, macoto_hino said: Vegetables and grains have more time to decompose than fresh meat, so I didn't think preservation was that important. Come to think of it, I have never heard of smoking vegetables or grains. Then again, cellars and ice cellars are important. Well from my experience as someone living in a farm, keeping vegetables and grain in good preservation is important so yeah. While they last longer than meat, usually it is much best to keep them "fresh". Although vegetable and fruits do get the benefit of the cold storage, while grains don't even need it, just put them in a cellar and they last really long 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufferto Posted April 20, 2022 Report Share Posted April 20, 2022 Try Mr1k3's Preservation mod. Still works fine through 1.6.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DX65 Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 I have used this stuff called cellar ice on MoonDrop server, the only thing it sucks is it disappears and if you're in place that is hot and far away from any glacier ice its a hassle to keep a supply of it. Plus if you put it on certain way it injures your avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l33tmaan Posted April 28, 2022 Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 Oooh, that sounds great, though! Can you not use ice from mountaintops? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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