Packaging and preservation

Add new machines to pack produce into crates and preserve meat and fish in cans to improve shipping and storage.

Pack and Preserve

✨ **Enhanced farm transportation and storage systems! **

The **Pack and Preserve** mod introduces two new machines to Stardew Valley for **optimizing bulk shipping** and **extending the shelf life of farm products**. No more haphazardly throwing items into shipping boxes, this mod lets you pack produce into crates and preserve fish and meat in cans, making your farm operation more structured and immersive.

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✨ Features

📦 Packing station

Tired of shipping fruits and vegetables individually? **Packing Station** allows you to neatly pack farm produce into **crate** for a more efficient shipping experience.

• **Pack 5 units** of **fruits, vegetables, foraged items, crafts and animal products** into sturdy **crate**
• **Pack 15 coffee beans** into a **crate** for easy bulk shipping
• **Total value of crates is higher than items sold individually**, rewards bulk sales

🥫 Canning machine

Keep farm-fresh produce longer! **Canner** allows you to **seal fish and meat in durable cans**, preventing waste and increasing profits.

• **Supports all fish and meat types**, preserve them in long-lasting canned products
• **Canned products are mainly used for transportation**, not for consumption
• **Craftable Cans** ensure the system remains balanced

🤖 Automatic cartoning machine

A fully automated production station designed by Maru to streamline your packaging workflow.

It makes crates, cans, and other storage components used in this mod - perfect for farmers who want to integrate with the Automate mod and keep their production lines clean and hands-free.

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🔧 Making Recipe

**Packaging Station:** 10 Iron Ingots, 5 Refined Quartz, 1 Battery Pack

**Canning Machine:** 10 Iron Ingots, 5 Refined Quartz, 2 Gold Ingots

**Automatic packing machine:** 10 iron ingots, 5 refined quartz, 2 gold ingots, 2 battery packs

**Wooden Crate:** 1 wood = 2 crates, 1 hardwood = 5 crates

**Cans:** 1 iron ingot = 5 cans

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⚙️ Additional details

✅ **Dynamic Crate Naming System**

• **Crates are now named based on their exact contents** and instead of a generic name (like "Wine Crate"), they now show the **category and specific type** (like **"Cider Crate"**)
• Support for **flavored crafts** such as wines, jams, pickles, juices, as well as **dried and smoked products, tinned fish and canned meat**
• Automatically identify items using **contextual tags** without having to manually define them for each individual product
• **Mod flavor items are also supported** as long as they use the correct contextual tags

✅ **NO INFINITE PACKING LOOP**: Crates **cannot be infinitely repacked** to ensure a fair balance

✅ **Flavored Items**: Crates and canned fish **dynamically adjust their appearance** based on their contents

✅ **COMPATIBILITY**: Works seamlessly with **Mod Meat** and **Extra Produce Mod**

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📬 Unlock recipes via email

Blueprints for these machines and related items are sent by NPCs based on your progress:

📧 **Packaging Station (from Lewis)**

• Unlocked after earning 10,000 gold, reaching Farming Level 2, selling 50 items via shipping crates, and reaching Friendship Level 2 with Lewis

📧 **Crate Blueprint (from Robin)**

• Unlocked after receiving the packaging station blueprint

📧 **Hardwood Crate Blueprint (via Robin)**

• Unlocked after the player chops down 15 large tree stumps

📧 **Canner (from Willy)**

• Unlocked after earning 15,000 gold, reaching Fishing Level 3, reaching Friendship Level 2 with Willy and catching at least 50 fish

📧 **Canning Blueprint (via Clint)**

• Unlocked after receiving the canner blueprint and reaching friendship level 2 with Clint

📧 **Automatic Cartoning Machine Blueprint (from Maru)**

• Unlocked after receiving all blueprints and reaching friendship level 3 with Maru

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🔮 Future plans (possibly!)

☕ More crate variants with enhanced tex …