Favorite Ways to Spend Your Happiness Points

[Schipperke]

You'll get a message saying the memory has become corrupted or something similar.  All it means is that the replicator is empty and you need to store a new dish.  As far as I know, you can keep storing food in it forever.

[LlamaMama]

Oboy!

[jmz95]

In my first legacy attempt, my founder married Christopher Steel. He made it to level 10 in cooking in no time so I had him buy the Food Replicator. It was amazing! Since he was also level 10 in handiness, he upgraded it and I put full servings in it. It takes forever for the thing to run out! I just forgot if when it runs out of memory for a certain food item, if you can take the one you just took out and re-replicate it.

[Schipperke]

jmz95, I don't think you're supposed to be able to replicate replicated food, but occasionally it works.  My favourite replicated food is angel food cake - it gives the "warmed" moodlet just like the original, without having to keep growing flame fruits.

[bshag]

Like you say, no more expensive Lobster Thermador.

I wonder if you can store Ambrosia?

[Schipperke]

Unfortunately, no.  I think I read a post somewhere where someone had been able to store Ambrosia in the bowl, before cooking, but it didn't work for me when I tried it.

[Pam]

I've been able to store Ambrosia in the Food Replicator.  You do all the prep work for the Ambrosia, then cancel the action before it goes into the oven.  Then store it in the replicator.  When it comes out, it will be the fully cooked meal.  The only difference is that the quality will be normal instead of perfect, but that doesn't change any of the results of Ambrosia.  It still resets the lifespan and gives the Divine Meal moodlet.

I've also had experiences where the Food Replicator didn't duplicate a meal exactly.  I've had some bad and foul quality meals come out when the original meal was perfect.  I think this is just some randomness thrown in by EA to keep us on our toes.

[Schipperke]

Pam, that's exactly what I did, and I got a message that the dish couldn't be stored.  How did you get it to work?  Enquiring minds want to know ...

[Pam]

I don't know, Schipperke.  I just cancelled the action after it was mixed up, before the oven.  Then did the storage command.  Swede1992 is the one who discovered it and told us how to do it.  It's possible that it's something that has been changed with a recent update.  Unfortunately, I don't have a food replicator or a Sim who can make Ambrosia at the moment.  Well, maybe I do.  Let me check on that and get back to you.

Edit:  I found a file with a family who can make Ambrosia.  My Sim put the ingredients into the bowl and start stirring.  That's the point where I cancelled the action.  Then I clicked on the bowl and chose "Store Over" because my food replicator was full.  But, yes, it did store the Ambrosia and gave me 20 servings of it in the replicator.  I had it produce one and it was a normal Ambrosia.  I let one of my nearly-elderly Sims eat it.  So, it still works even with the current updates to the game.

[LlamaMama]

Can the non-cook sim buy the replicator and the cook spouse store the meals, or should the highest cook buy the replicator? Not sure if it's kept in inventory or a device on the counter.

[Pam]

Anyone with enough happiness points can buy the food replicator.  It will slow up in your family inventory.  You then place it somewhere in the kitchen.  It stands alone like a stove, too.  It doesn't fit under a counter like a trash compactor or dishwasher.  Anyone in the family can store things in it, as well.  As long as a good cook does the original dish, anyone can store it.

[Calgary_Rose]

My biggest must-have is the collection helper.  I love collecting rocks and gems, fishing, and gardening.

[LlamaMama]

I read that when you tinker with the replicator it unlocks an upgrade that eliminates the degradation of meal quality.

[Pam]

I read that when you tinker with the replicator it unlocks an upgrade that eliminates the degradation of meal quality.

That's very possible, but when tinkering, you also run the risk of the opposite happening.  Sometimes the tinkering results in something negative.

[LlamaMama]

I just found this enlightening bit of info on the wiki:

A lot of people find the Food Replicator confusing, saying that the food randomly spoils. After extensive research, the reason for this has been found - the replicated food is directly linked to the quality of the original, or, to be more exact, the quality of the fridge. Basically, when the food in the fridge goes bad, so does the food in the replicator. For that reason, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that a Sim complete the Culinary Career. This grants the Sim a special refrigerator that causes food to never spoil. By proxy, this will result in food never spoiling in the replicator.