General -- bY Root Cellar

When it comes to farming, sometimes we bite off more than we can chew. We plant and end up with way more harvests than we think we need and then try to use them within 30 days to keep them from expiring. This is not an easy task, especially if you have to leave SL for long periods. That is where the bY Root Cellar comes to the rescue.

The bY Root Cellar allows indefinite storage of harvests until they are needed. Like a normal cellar, items stored in this device will be preserved for future use without the worry of expiration.

## Requirements/Restrictions

* Owner only
* beYou Hud required
* Requires 10% hygiene, 10% energy, and 25% wellness
* No level requirement
* No perms

## Root Cellar Explained

The bY Root Cellar was designed to assist beYou users who are going to be offline for extended periods (long-term). By storing harvests indefinitely, your harvests will not expire. And because you only take out what you need, when you need it, you preserve more of your harvests in a way that doesn’t require the use of Harvest Vendors. This is great for those who 1 - don’t sell their harvests, and 2 - are unable to be online for months at a time.

This is NOT a mandatory item. You can opt to use your harvest vendor, use this device, or both. The choice is entirely up to you. But keep in mind that this item is for people who are unable to be online for extended periods or who dislike using beYou Vendors because they do not sell anything.

This device doesn’t take anything out of your assets to physically store them. It simply moves the assets from one location to the frozen part of your assets.

Items stored by the Root Cellar cannot be used immediately for everyday beYou processes as they are frozen in time until ready to be used.

> Example: You’ve harvested 50 tomatoes, 40 lettuce, 30 carrots, 23 onions, and 17 ears of corn. For whatever reason, you need to leave SL for 6 months. You know you can only use a portion of these items right now. After converting your harvests in the amount of what you can use right now, you have a bunch of harvests left to store.You will be able to store the rest of your harvests by using the bY Root Cellar (up to a certain amount) until you return.
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When a beYou user is ready to use a harvest that’s been stored by the Root Cellar, they will recover the item and it will be able to be used in everyday beYou processes.

Restoring a harvest from the root cellar is a one-time process. Once the chosen harvest has been recovered from the cellar, the amount restored cannot be placed back into it again. They do however still act as the old items did and can be refreshed through the vendor system. So be warned that once a harvest, in any amount is recovered, you must use it or it will expire/go back to the 30 day expiration cycle. NOTE: you can still use vendors to refresh these assets but this will be a monthly thing again, Plan accordingly.

## How it Works

Before getting started, here are some pieces of information to help you begin.

#### Required Materials

To store items in the bY Root Cellar, you will need:

* Fresh harvests (will say ‘harvest’ at the end)
* Acerbic Acid\* - temporarily available at beYou until the Mixology profession has been activated.
* Diatomite Dioxide\* - temporarily available at beYou until the Mixology profession has been activated.

\*NOTE ON TEMPORARY SALE ITEMS: Temporary sale items, once able to be made by their designated profession, will be available on the local markets page.

You will need three each of both acerbic acid and diatomite dioxide to store one (1) harvest.

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> Example: I want to store 16 of my beYou Strawberry Harvests. What do I need to have?
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> 16 strawberries X 3 = 48 (You will have to have 48 of each item in assets)
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> So you will need the following:
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> * 16 strawberry harvests (must say harvest on the end)
> * 48 uses of Acerbic Acid
> * 48 uses of Diatomite Dioxide
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### Operating Menu

Sitting on the bY Root Cellar will give you access to the following menu:

* Store\* - Brings up the harvests that can be stored.
	+ Harvest - choose your harvest
	+ Main menu - takes you back to the main menu
	+ Uses - tells you how many uses you have available
	+ Store - choose to store items and choose an amount
	+ Back - takes you back the to previous menu
* Recover\* - Brings up the stored harvests that can be recovered.
	+ Harvest - choose your harvest
	+ Main menu - takes you back to the main menu
	+ Uses - tells you how many uses you have available
	+ Recover - choose to recover items and choose an amount
	+ Back - takes you back to the previous menu
* Limit - Tells you what the cellar limit is and where you are relative to this limit. Example: bY Root Cellar: Cellar is at 2 of 500 Limit.
* Poses\* - Look through the list of poses included.
* Support - Used for sending back to beYou staff for issues/fixes. Do NOT use this option unless instructed to do so by support staff via a support ticket as it will remove all contents of the device.
* [ADJUST] - Adjust your position for each pose.

Mostly you will be using the Store and Recover options. Each of these does the opposite task of one another. Anything that has been stored can be recovered. Any harvests that are able to be stored will show up when you choose the Store option on the menu.

### Storing/Recovering Harvests Step-by-Step

To store or recover harvests:

1. Sit on the root cellar.
2. Click it.
3. Choose store or recover, depending on which function you’d like to perform.
4. Choose amount of harvests being stored or recovered: 1, 2, 4, 8 & 16.

There is no confirmation of how much to store or recover so pay close attention.

### Increasing Storage Capacity

Each bY Root Cellar holds 200 items when first purchased. You will only be able to store 200 items initially.  Therefore, you don’t need more than one Root Cellar. Extension packs will allow more assets to be frozen; see below.

Each use added will count toward the item limit.  Each recovered use will give you back some of the space used.

> Example: You have stored 90 harvests in your root cellar.  You can store 10 more, which will put you at the 200-item limit. When you recover 10 of the harvests,  you will be able to store 10 more of something else. However much you recover will be what you have remaining towards your limit.
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You will **never** need to buy more than one root cellar. The storage limitation is toward your account in total, not per cellar. In other words, you could buy 5 cellars. Your limit will only be 200 total items until you buy an extension pack add-on from someone in Refinement.

However, once you have reached your limit, you will see the following message in nearby chat:

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"bY Root Cellar: Maximum stored items reached. You can extend the cellar with an extension pack.”

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To increase storage capacity, you will need to purchase an extension pack add-on. These will be made by the Refinement profession and will be able to be purchased via the local markets page,

Extension packs will be available in varying amounts to allow the cellar to have a higher storage capacity than the initial 200 items.

## Reminders

* This is not a mandatory item.
* Must be beYou harvests (must say harvest on end) to store the item.
* Once stored, these items will not expire until you recover them for use.
* Recovered items cannot be stored again. They turn back into regular items that are on the 30 day vendor system and can be refreshed with vendors.
* Only one is needed; extension packs can be bought.