Guide
Machine Upgrade Guide
A machine planning guide for choosing early upgrades, avoiding idle machines, and preparing for recipe expansion.
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Upgrade rules
- Buy machines that support more than one recipe before narrow specialty upgrades.
- Watch for idle time: a machine that waits for ingredients is not the real bottleneck.
- Upgrade only when the next few days of crop and recipe demand can use the extra capacity.
Data to collect
- Machine cost, unlock condition, processing time, and supported recipes.
- Whether the machine speeds up an existing route or opens a new recipe group.
- Which ingredients become the next bottleneck after the upgrade.