Kitchen car

In-game depiction of the kitchen car. (credit: Ashborne Games)

The Kitchen car is used to cook various "bonus foods".

In-game description:

With the kitchen car, soldiers can look forward to meals that are vast improvement on their basic military rations. The car can offer up to three occupation slots, providing space for cooks to work comfortably. This car can also be upgraded to feature superior insulation and a stove.

Function

The Kitchen car serves to research and produce a wide range of consumables. These can fulfill your soldiers' need for food alongside many boons, like morale boost, temporary attribute increase and others.

Soldiers with the Cook role may take occupational slots in the car and be assigned a project each. By default, the Kitchen car comes with one open slot; three additional ones can be unlocked via certain upgrades. The undergoing projects are visualized above the car in the Train View.

Undergoing projects require Resources and a certain time to complete, with crafting projects being repeatable. The assigned Cook's efficiency - as well as the Improved Workplace upgrade - influences the time to complete to project. Workers' stamina is drained as long as they make progress (if production is halted, then they don't lose any).

Maintenance

Like most other cars, the Kitchen car is susceptible to breakdowns on lower durability. Soldiers with the Reckless trait are also more prone to workplace accidents, which can be mitigated by Security Precautions.

Upgrades

• Occupation Slots:
  • The car can be successively added up to 3 occupational slots (to a total of 4).
  • Security Precautions decreases the chance of workplace accidents by 50%.
  • Saving Goods potentially refunds some resources used for a project upon its finish.
  • Improved Workplace increases worker efficiency 10% per occupational slot.

• Heating: the car can be outfitted with an upgradable stove and up to 2 layers of insulation.
• Endurance:
  • Reinforced Chassis adds 200 to total durability.
    • Advanced Framing reduces repair costs by 50% (from 20 wood + 20 metal to 10 wood + 10 metal per repair cycle).
    • Better Accessibility reduces repair time by 30%.
  • Improved Leaf Springs reduces operational damage by 30%.
  • Sturdy Materials reduces malfunction chance by 30%.
  • Metal Plating reduces damage to the train car and soldiers within it by 50%.