âGet your cook on and take over the culinary world!â
âAutomachef is 50% off for a limited time in the Team17 Steam Publisher Sale!
A resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! Itâs time to engineer tomorrowâs kitchen, today!
We're extremely excited to share that the free Automachef Lunar Update is now live!
Watch the trailer here: [previewyoutube="y-Bll9vRQnI;full"]
Here's all of the new content coming:
New Recipes
Kung Pao Chicken
Dumplings Serving
Steamed Rice Serving (side dish)
New machines
Food Steamer
New Levels
Level 1: Going Soy Well
Level 2: What A Filling!
Level 3: Wok On By
New ingredients
Bell Pepper
Chicken Stock
Chopped Bell Pepper
Dried Chili
Dumpling Filling
Dumpling Wrapper
Ginger
Grated Ginger
Minced Pork
Pork
Rice
Soy Sauce
Water
Thanks for reading everyone!
We hope you all enjoy the new content and wish you good luck in your path to world domination... of cuisine!
Steam Awards 2019 - Vote for Automachef - The Best Game You Suck At Award
Hello fellow humans!
We hope you've all been enjoying the free Thanksgiving update that went live yesterday, be sure to let us know how you are finding all of the new content. Thank you all for your support so far!
Today we humbly ask you to vote for Automachef as your nomination for 'The Best Game You Suck At Award', in this years Steam Awards!
We're also thrilled to announce the game is currently 25% off in the Steam Autumn Sale!
Thanks for reading,
until next humans!
Automachef Thanksgiving Free Content Update!
Welcome fellow humans!
Thanks for all of your support so far, today we are thrilled to announce the release of a free Thanksgiving content update for Automachef!
Watch the trailer now: [previewyoutube="zWUtKiUf8Mc;full"]
This update brings with it a whole host of content including a new machine, the Oven.
Three new levels and two new contracts for Contracts Mode!
Four new recipes: Cornbread, Pumpkin Pie, Roast Turkey, Sweet Potatoes Side. Finally several new ingredients: Pumpkin, Fresh Herbs, Onion, Cornmeal, Sweet Potato, Milk and more!
Here's lots more changes brought to this patch to make the game better:
QoL
Shortcuts to move machines, clone machines, create blueprints and view recipes tools.
Drag with the mouse to select parts in order to clone, move or make a blueprint out of them at any time.
Making different control machines have different connection wire colours.
Highlight connection wires when hovering over a machine with the mouse pointer.
Bugfix: the wrong preview image was displayed in some contracts.
Bugfix: while a long robotic arm's put-down range is set to "1 tile away" they used to stretch beyond their normal range to place ingredients inside an assembler.
Bugfix: connection cables in Skyscraper levels were black.
Bugfix: in the Test Site the ingredients filter dropdown in robotic arms could take a long time to get populated.
Bugfix: there was some text not wrapping correctly in the orders list while playing in German.
Bugfix: when cloning a robotic arm with operation mode set to Left or Right its arrow would sometimes not be displayed correctly.
Bugfix: if the simulation was stopped while a Sprinkler was active, it would start operating again when restarting the simulation.
Bugfix: several issues regarding the Contracts Mode screens when playing with a controller.
Modding Support
New version of the SDK to allow players to specify the result of baking ingredients in the oven.
New version of the Mod Creation Guide that lists the new ingredients and dishes and explains how to set up the result of baking ingredients in the oven in the SDK.
Thanks for reading everyone!
We hope you all enjoy the new content and wish you good luck in your path to world domination... of cuisine this festive period!
Save up to 80% in the Team17 publisher sale!
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Included in this sale are the recently released Blasphemous and Overcooked! 2 'Carnival of Chaos' DLC, early access titles Hell Let Loose and Monster Sanctuary AND some of our older classic titles too!
Happy gaming!
Kitchen Confidential #8 - Top Developer Tips!
Welcome to yet another Kitchen Confidential, my good old carbon-based friends!
Today I am going to be sharing some of my top tips so you can be successful entrepreneurs, taking over the world of fast food, just like me.
Things can get very tricky under certain conditions, so itâs important to pay attention and make an effort to increase the efficiency of your kitchen in order to deliver food to your beloved customers as quickly as possible. Here are some of the common pitfalls and some thoughts on how to get them sorted out, so machines will continue serving us, humans, in a predictable and non-world-conquering way.
Adjusting the time between ingredients in your dispensers can be an easy way to get the ingredient ratios right and avoid the use of expensive order readers. If your recipe, for example, requires two patties but only one bun, make sure that the time between ingredients in the bun dispenser is set to twice the one in the patty dispenser. You can also adjust the timing based on the number of customers that you are expecting.
Restaurants with more than one type of customer (like drive-thru and take-out) can get tricky sometimes. In those cases, it might be a good idea to have a constant flow of dishes being stored in a storage unit. Then you can use order readers to control a robotic arm to take the food from the storage unit and redirect it to the proper conveyor belt to be delivered to the correct section of the restaurant.
A good way to handle rush hours is to have a small buffer of production in a storage unit. You can even use a counting machine to turn dispensers on or off depending on the number of dishes you have in your storage unit, so you wonât overproduce.
If used properly, programmable computers can end up replacing up to four different order readers. They are particularly good if you combine them with repeaters in order to increase the number of effective outputs. Remember you can find the reference guide for computers on our website.
Are you experiencing frequent blackouts because you exceed the limit of power consumption? Besides setting machines so they use the power saving mode, you could also use a computer to turn assemblers, grills and other high power usage machines on and off alternately, so they are not all on at the same time.
You cannot deliver dishes quick enough because your good old assembler is taking a long time to make them? Consider replacing it with an advanced assembler, which is significantly faster!
Now go forth my fellow organic lifeforms and become the automated kitchen entrepreneur you've always dreamed of being!
Kitchen Confidential #7 - Mod Creation!
Hey everyone,
Welcome to Automachef's 7th Kitchen Confidential!
This week the definitely human Robert Person has graced us with their presence! Robert shall be explaining how Mods work and how you can make your own to play and share on the Steam Workshop.
Let's get stuck in shall we?
Mod Creation
Hello fellow humans, welcome to yet another âKitchen Confidentialâ. This time we are going to talk about one of the features that sets Automachef apart: the tools that allow players to create their very own recipes, ingredients, dishes and levels and then share them with the rest of the community!
In order to see some of the creations you could make using the Automachef Software Development Kit, check out the Steam Workshop, particularly the following mods, which are extremely fun to play:
Danish Food (frikadellesandwich, flĂŠskesteg and other traditional Danish foods)
3. Think about the recipes, ingredients and dishes you want to make.
4.Fire up your favourite 3D modelling software (like Blender) and start making the 3D models for your food. Donât forget to prepare a square icon for each one of the ingredients and dishes you make!
5. Set up all the required data, like the recipes for your dishes, how the different cooking methods affect each ingredient, what recipes players need to prepare in each level, and so on and so forth.
6. Build the mod into a file from the SDK, copy it to the corresponding folder and start up Automachef to give it a try!
7. When you are happy with your creation you can post it to the Steam Workshop from within the Mods screen in the game.
We canât wait to see the exciting and creative mods that our fellow humans are going to produce in the future!
Kitchen Confidential #6 - Contracts Mode!
Hey everyone,
Welcome to our sixth Kitchen Confidential!
Have you conquered Campaign mode? Built the craziest kitchens in Test Site? Are you hungry to build your own business to spread the joy of fully automated kitchens?
Then Automachefâs Contracts Mode is for you!
Contracts Mode
In this mode youâll be running your own kitchen building company, taking contracts from different clients and expanding your business - who you choose to work with is your choice!
As youâre starting your own business youâll have your very own cash reserve. This is used to buy the machines you need to complete the relevant contracts. Spend it wisely though, as spent cash can only be replenished from successful contracts!
Starting and growing your company
Initially youâll start off with a basic set of machines. These will be instantly recognisable as your everyday kitchen parts such as conveyor belts, dispensers and assemblers. As you successfully complete contracts for different clients youâll be able to invest your hard earned cash into researching and purchasing more advanced devices!
Once acquired, they can be used in all future contracts.
Choose your next machine wisely!
Risk / Reward
As you successfully fulfil contracts your reputation level will grow! When you earn enough reputation its level will increase. What benefits will this give you?
Well with a high enough reputation youâll attract contract offers from much bigger restaurants, bringing in more complex requests and much bigger cash incentives!
Decisions, decisions!
If the sound of bigger contracts makes you nervous, fear not! Each contract you engage in will have three different difficulty levels, the higher the difficulty the more lucrative the pay-out! This means you can grow your business as a pace thatâs comfortable for you.
Oh and we should probably mention that clients will often put an efficiency bonus on the table that will be paid if you hit, or exceed the efficiency targets with your design.
Post Patch Feedback
We hope that our recent Patch has improved everyoneâs gameplay experience with Automachef!
Your feedback is greatly appreciated and weâre keeping an eye on what youâre telling us.
Now go forth and lead the automated kitchen revolution!
Today we're releasing our first patch for Automachef!
This patch focuses on some quality of life improvements and bug fixes based on your feedback, so thank you to everyone who took a moment to share their feedback with us here on Steam and on our various social media channels.
The Patch Notes!
Quality of life
Key Rebinding.
Save prompt before returning to the main menu, allowing you to store successful designs for the future.
Added a button to skip the robot's speech at the beginning of a level.
Music playlist is now less repetitive when playing for an extended period of time.
Ultra-wide support for extreme aspect ratios.
âEfficiencyâ metric has been improved, allowing 100% efficiency to be achieved in most levels if the layout doesn't waste ingredients or energy.
Default value of order readers will be lowered to âperform 1 actionâ instead of 3.
Various tweaks and improvements to Robert Personâs text box.
Your highest efficiency score will be displayed in the level selection screen.
Mouse cursor will no longer be blocked from reaching certain areas after changing screen resolution.
Bug Fixes!
Mouse cursor is no longer blocked from reaching certain areas after changing the screen resolution to a different aspect ratio.
Warning and prompt dialogues now scale accordingly to the player's screen resolution.
Issues fixed where long robotic arms would work inconsistently with conveyor belt bridges.
Multiple robotic arms next to an assembler output now function correctly.
The "edge pan" option no longer cause the camera to pan even when the game window did not have focus.
Various other minor big fixes.
That wraps up today's patch notes! We hope they aid you on your quest for culinary kitchen perfection.
Rest assured we're still reading and collating your feedback, it's appreciated.
Kitchen Confidential #5 - Upcoming Patch Insight!
Hello everyone,
Thank you all so much for your support during Automachefâs launch, we really appreciate it!
The team have been avidly reading through your forum comments and Steam reviews taking note of what you like, as well as bugs and what you feel could do with some tweaks. Weâre now in a position where weâre almost ready to release our first patch based on this feedbackâŠ
Automachef's First Patch - Coming Soon!
Weâre pleased to share that Automachefâs first patch is coming soon! Built around what we learned from the community, you can expect the following when the patch goes live:
Key Rebinding.
Save prompt before returning to the main menu, allowing you to store successful designs for the future.
Ultra-wide support for extreme aspect ratios.
âEfficiencyâ metric has been improved, allowing 100% efficiency to be achieved in most levels if the layour doesn't waste ingredients or energy.
Default value of order readers will be lowered to âperform 1 actionâ instead of 3.
Various tweaks and improvements to Robert Personâs text box.
Your highest efficiency score will be displayed in the level selection screen.
Prompt dialogues will scale to screen resolution
Mouse cursor will no longer be blocked from reaching certain areas after changing screen resolution.
When the patch goes live in the near future the full notes will have further details on the changes listed above.
Thanks again for your support during launch, itâs been awesome seeing how youâve been tackling the various challenges in Automachef, as well as how helpful youâve been in assisting your fellow robotic kitchen entrepreneurs.
Order Pending
Weâll be in touch again soon when the patch goes live, so in the meantime why not treat yourself to some steak with minotaur2k12âs âHigh Steaksâ mod available here:
