[Solved] Food storage in barrel with liquid

[Maga 99]

I can't remember where I got this notion, but I was under the impression that storing a stack of food in a barrel full of vinegar would reduce the decay rate. I tried it last harvest, now a year has gone by and still less than 1% for every stack of food I stored this way (some are at 0%!).  This seems to work almost too good to be true. I then read a forum post that said food stored in a barrel with liquid would not decay forever until it was removed from the barrel at which point it would almost instantly decay into nothing. 

 

Now I am confused, when I removed my food from the vinegar it kept it's decay of less than 1%, contrary to what I read in another thread. I'm not really familiar with all the new preservation mechanics yet and was wondering if this super-storage method is actually an intended feature. 

[Faelanira 3]

Fairly sure you first need to brine the food, then place it in a vinegar barrel. Brine to my knowledge is 90% saltwater 10% vinegar.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

The super-storage method is intended. What you read about in the other thread was the bug that items stored in a large ceramic vessel did not tick. So when the item was removed from a vessel, it caught up with all of the decay ticks that it missed (similar to items in an unloaded chunk, or laying on the ground).

[Maga 99]

Fairly sure you first need to brine the food, then place it in a vinegar barrel. Brine to my knowledge is 90% saltwater 10% vinegar.

I'm pretty sure the process that adds "pickled" to the tooltip is a separate decay rate modifier. The apples I was storing were not even pickled, which is part of what confused me, I didn't know if non-pickled foods would recive a decay buff when stored in vinegar.

 

 

The super-storage method is intended. What you read about in the other thread was the bug that items stored in a large ceramic vessel did not tick. So when the item was removed from a vessel, it caught up with all of the decay ticks that it missed (similar to items in an unloaded chunk, or laying on the ground).

 

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Would keeping it in a large vessel of vinegar be better than a barrel of vinegar or does the container not matter once the thing is pickled and in the right liquid?

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Would keeping it in a large vessel of vinegar be better than a barrel of vinegar or does the container not matter once the thing is pickled and in the right liquid?

 

The container doesn't matter. The only advantage of the barrel is that it holds more vinegar, so you would theoretically be able to keep the item stored for twice as long. However, the amount of vinegar that is consumed while the item is stored is so miniscule, it doesn't really matter.