Cut or slice command

[Bushranger]

Why can't craft be used again? Isn't that how we slice FRUIT?

Not all fruit is able to be sliced either. Umm so slice command would make all fruit able to be sliced.

The point is things are sliced in game with the craft command. Adding slice would be redundant.

Then remove the craft for slicing here and there and put in the slice command so staff doesn't have to go through and code everything individually to be craftable to slice.

How is "Slice Bread" any different than "Craft Bread into several slices"?

Both commands will result in you having a few slices of bread in your inventory after their use. For all the new slices of things that can not currently be crafted into slices staff will need to implement new objects for the sliced versions with appropriate long descriptions, short descriptions, medium descriptions, flavour descriptions, scent descriptions, weights and values just like they would if this was done for crafting. Additionally they would have to go through all foods currently in the game to find out which ones can currently be sliced with crafting so they can be removed and transferred to the new slice command. It is a lot more work for staff for no difference in the end result except a fancy alias for "Craft (food) into slices"

Do this:

I think there are food items (bread etc) that can be crafted into slices after you make them?  Not all, but some?  I could be wrong but I'm sure I've sliced bread before. *shrugs*

If not you can always RP slicing it and then share the partially eaten food with someone:

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taste bread (cutting a thin slice from the end of the loaf)

give bread amos (cutting a couple more slices from the loaf)

Not perfect but it still works?

Until this:

I'd like it if there was a cut or slice command. This way you could share breads you cook.

Instead of a new command, you might be able to submit a new crafting recipe through the request tool for each different bread item you want to have be sliceable. 

No new coding command required and by submitting the various crafting recipes you would actively be helping achieve your desire.


Seeker

That saves staff time, allows you to do what you want in game now and eventually brings slices to everything you want sliced.

[ShaLeah]

Why can't craft be used again? Isn't that how we slice FRUIT?

Not all fruit is able to be sliced either. Umm so slice command would make all fruit able to be sliced.

The point is things are sliced in game with the craft command. Adding slice would be redundant.

Then remove the craft for slicing here and there and put in the slice command so staff doesn't have to go through and code everything individually to be craftable to slice.

Redundant. It's like adding shin kick after already having a kick command... or needlepoint to tailoring... make the items slice-able? Sure, I can see that, making another command for something that is already accomplished with another? Waste of time.

Kinda like the "salvage" and "break" commands?

Salvage and break are two different commands that do two different things.

[Qzzrbl]

I think the differences between "break bottle"/"salvage bottle" and "craft bottle into shards" or "craft bottle into broken" would be strikingly similar to the differences between a proposed "slice bread" and "craft bread into slices".

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[Eurynomos]

Slicing would require new objects that are the "sliced " version of whatever is being sliced. This is basically the crafting system. I suggest following Lizzie's advice and ideaing anything that isn't sliceable, but perhaps should be. Creating a slicing command would not be simple.

[BuNutzCola]

Plus, if we implemented slice, we wouldn't be able to keep food production down.

As it is right now, no self-respecting Zalanthan will pick up 2/4 pieces of fruit they dropped on the ground whilst cutting it up and eat them. If the masses began adhering to the "ten second" rule, the populace of Zalanthas would enter into a golden age of minimal hunger and immense prosperity.