Meat Freezer

When it comes to chicken farming, sometimes we bite off more than we can chew. We breed and breed and end up with way more meat 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 Meat Freezer comes to the rescue.

The Meat Freezer allows indefinite storage of Meat (for now only chicken) until they are needed. Like a normal freezer , items stored in this device will be preserved for future use without the worry of expiration.

## Requirements/Restrictions

* Owner only
* beYou Hud required
* Requires 20% hygiene, 20% energy, and 25% wellness
* No level requirement
* Does not break (Need repair)
* Crafted/Sold on the market only

## Freezer Explained

The beYou Meat Freezer allows you to freeze your expiring butchered meat indefinitely until you need it again. It works just like a normal freezer in that all of the things you freeze can be used at a much later date without worry of expiration. Once frozen, your items will be safe in storage ***however they cannot be used in any beYou process***. Once you want to put your item to use you must thaw the item(s) out using the freezer. This process ensures that once you thaw out any frozen items they will then be usable for normal beYou tasks.

The Meat Freezer was designed to assist beYou users who are going to be offline for long periods. By storing meat indefinitely, your meat will not expire. And because you only take out what you need, when you need it, you preserve more of your meat in a way that doesn’t require the use of meat vendors. This is great for those who 1 - don’t sell their meat, and 2 - cannot be online for months at a time.

This is NOT a mandatory item. You can opt to use your meat vendors, 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 assets from one location to the frozen part of your assets.

Items stored by the Storage Freezer cannot be used immediately as they are frozen in time until ready to be used. When you’re ready to use your frozen meats, you will thaw the meat, if any, to use them.

One important thing to remember is that **thawing out your frozen items is a one way street**. Once thawed out those items can no longer be frozen again. So you must ensure that before you thaw out your assets that you plan to use them within 30 days or they will expire on you and cannot be put back into the freezer. They do however still act as the old items did and can be refreshed through the vendor system.

## How it Works

Freezer can only be bought from someone who has crafted it and used by anyone to freeze their own meat on their own freezer.

beYou Meat Freezer (Only Freezes Butchered Chicken Meat at this time) - Freeze Sizes: 1, 2, 4, 8 & 16, In order to freeze you will need Ice Cubes and Chicken Mojo

* Does not break (Need repair),
* Owner Only,
* No level requirement.

Extension packs, once available, will allow more assets to be frozen. Therefore, you don’t need more than one Storage Freezer.

### Required Materials

The amount of ice and mojo required is the amount of items you want to freeze X 3

Example: I want to store 16 of my Chicken Thighs. What do I need to have?

16 Chicken Thighs X 3 = 48 (You will have to have 48 of each item in assets) So you will need the following:

* 16 Chicken Thighs
* 48 uses of Ice Cubes
* 48 uses of Chicken Mojo

You start out with a freezer that can hold 100 items.

### Increasing Storage Capacity

Each Freezer holds 100 items when first purchased. You will only be able to store 100 items initially.  Therefore, you don’t need more than one storage freezer. 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 meat in your storage freezer.  You can store 10 more, which will put you at the 100-item limit. When you recover 10 meat,  you will be able to store 10 more. 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 freezer. The storage limitation is toward your account in total, not per freezer. In other words, you could buy 5 freezers. Your limit will only be 100 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 the nearby chat:

```
*"bY Storage Freezer: Maximum frozen items reached. You can extend the freezer with an extension pack.”*

```

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 freezer to have a higher storage capacity than the initial 100 items.

To increase storage capacity:

1. Make sure you are not sitting on the freezer.
2. Rez the extension pack next to the freezer. REMINDER: You cannot be seated in the freezer.

The freezer's storage capacity will automatically update once the extension pack has been rezzed and registered. When you sit on the freezer next, the new limits will be displayed.

## Reminders

* This is not a mandatory item.
* Once stored, these items will not expire until you thaw them for use.
* thawed 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.

\*\*The same addon packs that work on Meal Storage Freezers can be used as the number of frozen items you can have are shared with the Meat Freezer\*\*