Drying Rack

Drying Rack
Drying Rack
Description
Also known as	Meat Rack Food Rack
Added in	v0.08
Building Type	Food
Upgradable	No
Custom	No
Variations	None
Attachments	None
Uses	Stores and dries certain Meat
Restrictions	Takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to dry all meat Cannot dry Small Meat
Stores	Meat Fish Rabbit Meat Lizard Meat Leg Arm Head
Other Effects	Dried Meat never expires
Stackable	No
Buildable on	Most surfaces & all boats
Durability	Weak
Other	*

The drying rack is a meat storage and drying building that was added in update v0.08 of The Forest. It can be found under the food section of the survival guide.

Gameplay

It is used to make raw meat edible, as well as store multiple pieces of meat. Raw meat will become "dried" after 8 minutes and 20 seconds. The process cannot be influenced by the player such as building a roof or a floor on top, or by placing fire below the drying rack. The time of the day and the weather won´t affect the drying. If the meat is removed beforehand, it resets the timer. All large meat items, including cannibal body parts, are able to be placed and dried. The meat appears to never expire, though it will go black after a prolonged stay on the drying rack. It can hold 7 items of meat at a time.

The drying rack can be built on rafts, large rafts, and houseboats

These items are the list of what is currently placeable on the drying rack:

• Meat (Not small meat)
• Lizard Meat
• Rabbit Meat
• Fish
• Cannibal arms/legs/head (Will turn into Bones/Skulls after a period of time.)

Noteworthy, cannibals, particularly the skinny variants, can steal and eat hung meat from drying racks before potentially attacking it. Thus, it is best to put drying racks within buildings and away from enemies.

Building

1	=	5
Drying Rack		Stick

 

Known Bugs

• Meat can turn black, and provides the benefits of burned meat if eaten off the rack. However, once collected it will revert back to its original quality.
• Multiplayer: It sometimes occurs that meat won´t dry and spoil. It is unclear what causes this bug.
• Multiplayer: Sometimes when spamming different meats from generic to fish drying rack may appear to stack meat and fish in same slot, but it is just a visual bug.-nox 5/29/18
• Attempting to give dried meat to a teammate with the metal tin will revert its dried status.
• Repairing a drying rack on a boat might render it unusable.

Gallery

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  As it appears in the Survival Guide

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  As it appeared in the Survival Guide

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  The Old Version of large drying rack with one raw and one "cooked" piece of lizard meat.

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  Two Drying Racks

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  Drying Rack

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  Lizard meat on the drying rack

Update History

Version	Changes
v1.05	Fixed drying rack showing log icon instead of stick icon in the book
v0.67	Fixed head on drying rack not pickupable for a long time before turning into skull
v0.62	Grabbing items from food holders and skin rack type of storage while full will now attempt to drop the item on ground if a pickup exists for that item
v0.61	Fixed drying rack leaving icons visible if destroyed while targeted
v0.57	Fires, Drying rack, Armor mannequin, Skin rack, food holders, weapon rack, explosive holder, stick, rock and log holders, arrow and bone baskets, and gardens all have a new UI
v0.54	Drying rack “rotate icon” now is properly positioned to avoid enter the meat placed on the rack
v0.53	Drying rack size was reduced, Large Drying Rack removed from the game Replaced drying rack with a “lite”, single row version. Costs 5 sticks. This version should alleviate the targeting issues last version of the drying rack had. (This update is not retroactive; previously made racks will still be the old version.)
v0.49b	Fix drying rack items remaining selectable even when player moved away from rack
v0.49	Added whoosh sfx when adding items to fire and drying rack (Building) Drying rack has been revamped to use slots for each drying meat piece
v0.48	(Building) Centered drying rack repair trigger (Building) Added new way to interact with drying rack: it is now possible to store meat without holding it, when prompted press the “Rotate” button to select which meat you wish to add for drying. Holding the meat item you wish to add still works, and will lock the targeted meat type to whatever meat is currently held (Building) Not yet dried food on the drying rack can now be picked back up without waiting (it may be cooked on fire or relocated this way)
v0.46	(Multiplayer) Fixed arrow basket, bone basket, ceiling skull light, drying rack, rabbit skin, snack holder, meds cabinet, skull light, trophy, wall plant pot, explosive holder, catapult and water collector not following supporting dynamic structure for clients Dried meat can now be properly put back on drying rack and retain decay status
v0.45	Dried meat on rack can now be collected with a simple press of the “Take” action (instead of holding it for 0.5s which will still eat it) (Multiplayer) Fixed meat client gets on drying rack always fresh regardless of actual decay state meat had for host Arrow basket, bone basket, drying rack and skull light can now be nested with dynamic structures (i.e.: houseboat) (Multiplayer) Fixed client adding edible/spoilt meat on rack turning to fresh meat
v0.43	Mutants will now attempt to eat food from drying racks, once there is no meat left they will destroy the rack
v0.39	It is no longer possible to add meat to drying racks built in water (like fires) (Multiplayer) Fixed adding lizard on drying rack taking a long time to show up client side
v0.37	Meat placed on drying rack by clients no longer goes away when client disconnects Fixed meat on rack not properly syncing status updates with clients
v0.27	Fixed missing collision on drying racks, rock holder, cannibal village old fires, pig head sticks, and hollow logs
v0.17	Arms & legs can now be dried on the drying rack !
v0.16	Fixed drying generic meat
v0.15	(multiplayer)Fixed bug where items from cabinet/racks/shelves could vanish when host ends session, at random, or on loading the game.
v0.08d	Fixed Drying Racks food positioning
v0.08b	Fixed fish cooking instantly on drying rack
v0.08	Drying Rack added to the game (Large Drying Rack) New buildable item: Meat drying rack