General -- bY Storage Freezer

Did you have a big dinner party and are now stuck with the leftovers? Catering a large event and needing to store things for a while? Heading on a sabbatical from SL and want to make sure your meals don’t expire. Then the bY Storage Freezer is exactly what you are looking for.

The bY Storage Freezer allows indefinite storage of cooked meals and sides 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 10% hygiene, 10% energy, and 25% wellness
* No level requirement
* No perms

## Storage Freezer Explained

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

This is NOT a mandatory item. You can opt to use your cooked food 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 eat your frozen meals, you will thaw the meal and its sides, if any, to use them.

Restoring an item from the freezer is a one-time process. Once the chosen item has been recovered from the freezer, 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 an item, 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

Each bY Storage Freezer holds 200 items when first purchased. You will only be able to store 200 items initially. Regardless of whether it’s a main dish or a side dish, each serving added will count toward the item limit. Each serving removed will give you back some of the space used.

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

### Required Materials

To store items in the bY Storage Freezer, you will need:

* Cooked meals (main dishes and side dishes).
* beYou Water - you can buy from others via the local markets page or harvest your own using any beYou Water Source.
* beYou Power - you can buy from others via the local markets page or harvest your own using any of the beYou Power Sources.You will need three each of both beYou Water and beYou Power to store one (1) harvest.

> Example: I want to store 16 of my beYou Soup Ladys French Onion Soup SG. What do I need to have?
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> 16 soups X 3 = 48 (You will have to have 48 of each item in assets)
> So you will need the following:
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> * 16 Soup Ladys French Onion Soup SG (must be a meal or main or side dish, no preps)
> * 48 uses of beYou Water
> * 48 uses of beYou Power
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### Operating Menu

You will use the Freeze and Thaw menus more than any other functions on this device. Sitting on the bY Storage Freezer will give you access to the following menu:

* Freeze - Brings up the course menus that can be stored.
	+ Breakfasts\* - B Main, B Sides, Bagels, Grits, Toasts
	+ Dinners\* - Beef, Pasta, Poultry, Seafood, Pork, Veggie, Stews, Frozen, Meal Sides
	+ Family Style\* - FS Main & FS Sides
	+ Snacks\* - Sammich, Canned Snacks, Salads, Eggs Snacks
	+ Soups\* - Homemade Soup, Canned Soup
* Thaw - Brings up the frozen meals & sides that can be thawed.
	+ Breakfasts\* - B Main, B Sides, Bagels, Grits, Toasts
	+ Dinners\* - Beef, Pasta, Poultry, Seafood, Pork, Veggie, Stews, Frozen, Meal Sides
	+ Family Style\* - FS Main & FS Sides
	+ Snacks\* - Sammich, Canned Snacks, Salads, Eggs Snacks
	+ Soups\* - Homemade Soup, Canned Soup
* Limit - This tells you what the freezer limit is and where you are relative to this limit. Example: bY Storage Freezer: freezer 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.

### Storing/thawing Harvests Step-by-Step

To store or thaw harvests:

1. Sit on the Storage Freezer.
2. Click it.
3. Choose freeze or thaw, depending on which function you’d like to perform.
4. Choose which cooked food category you’d like to use for freezing or thawing.
5. Choose the number of servings being stored or thawed: 1, 2, 4, 8 & 16.

There is no confirmation of how much to freeze or thaw so pay close attention.

Below is an example of a message once a meal and its sides are stored.

> *[21:38] beYou Storage Freezer: Your assets for beYou Power, and beYou Water were adjusted.*
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> *[21:38] beYou Storage Freezer: Successfully froze (4) of Breakfast Main BM Pancakes SG*
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> *[21:38] beYou Storage Freezer: Freezer is at 4 of 200 Limit.*
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As a reminder, your storage fluctuates with every serving stored or thawed.

### Increasing Storage Capacity

Each bY Storage Freezer holds 200 items when first purchased. You will only be able to store 200 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 meals and sides in your storage freezer.  You can store 10 more, which will put you at the 200-item limit. When you recover 10 of prepared meals and sides,  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 storage 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 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 the nearby chat:

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*"bY Storage Freezer: Maximum frozen items reached. You can extend the freezer 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 freezer to have a higher storage capacity than the initial 200 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.