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Auto Chores

From Dawn of the Dead Wiki

Alleviating repetitive tasks with auto chores, usage tips.

πŸ–° Accessing Auto Chores

Right-click on the ground or on a compatible item and select Auto Chores from the context menu.

πŸ“ Available tasks

Including but not limited to:

  • Sawing logs into planks.
  • Cutting down nearby trees.
  • Dismantling electronics.
  • Ripping fabric into rags and strips.
  • Reading every useful book.
  • Reloading mags.
  • Repairing clothes.
  • Cooking.
  • Sterilising bandages.
  • Washing.
  • Wringing out wet clothes.
  • Clear grass and bushes.

The mod will ignore items you currently have equipped or favourited.

πŸ’‘ Usage tips

🍳 Auto Cook

Auto Cook has three tabs, so you can run your whole kitchen from one window.

Prep Board

  • Raw, cooked and stale food are now separate rows, and leftovers are told apart from full portions.
  • Choose how leftovers get spent in Options > Mods, under Auto Cook spends leftovers.
  • Right-click a stack to pick the exact item you want used
  • Sort by hunger, thirst, boredom, unhappiness, weight or spoiling.
  • See a dish's nutrition before you cook it, you see more as your Cooking goes up, and all of it with Nutritionist.
  • Dry pots now show as Needs water, click one to fill it at the nearest tap.
  • Right-click a dish you have to rename it or empty it.
  • Food with no hunger value now reads NO FOOD VALUE and won't be used, it could break a dish's nutrition.

Cooker

  • Every oven, microwave, barbecue, fireplace and campfire in reach, all in one list.
  • Turn them on and off, set temperature and timer, light fires, add fuel and swap propane tanks.
  • Add food, take it out, and a bar shows how close it is to burning.

Recipes

  • Cooking recipes with what each one needs, pick how many and hit Make.
  • Your favourites and anything you're holding are never used.

βœ‚οΈ Auto Rip

Picking what to rip

  • Type how many pieces of fabric you need and hit Pick, it ticks your most worn clothes first until you have enough.
  • Cotton, Denim and Leather filters, so you can go straight to the fabric you want.
  • Sort by most worn, most fabric, nearest or heaviest

Clean or dirty rags

  • Each row shows how likely its rags are to come out dirty, and the preview shows roughly how many of each you'll get.
  • If you finish with dirty rags and a tap close by, hit Wash on the finished message, you'll walk over and wash just the rags.
  • The finished message now counts dirty rags too, they were being left out before.

Keeping your clothes

  • Right-click a row and pick Never rip to protect that kind of clothing for good, All and Random will skip it too.
  • It's saved on your PC, so it carries over to new characters, right-click it again to allow it.


🌱 Clear grass and bushes

  • Clears the nearest grass and bushes, out to the same distance as cutting down trees.
  • Grass is pulled by hand, bushes need a knife, machete or axe. It never uses a scythe and skips anything you're growing, so your crops are safe.
  • It stops by itself when your back gets too stiff or your bags are full.

See also

Custom ModsOther mods made for the server by staff or volunteers.