🍲 Asynchronous Station Orders & Kitchen Slate

The Kitchen Slate & Asynchronous Orders engine completely rethinks traditional RedM crafting, letting players batch-cook and brew without standing frozen in place.

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🍳 1. How Station Orders Work

Instead of forcing a player to stare at a progress bar for 10 minutes while brewing 10 pots of coffee or stew:

1. Submit Order: Open the compendium at any active station (e.g. Valentine Saloon or Blacksmith).
2. Select Quantity: Choose quantity (e.g. 5x Camp Stew).
3. Queue Batch: Click "Queue Batch". Ingredients are safely deducted upfront.
4. Walk Away Freely: Close the book and ride away to hunt, duel, or roleplay.
5. Background Server Timer: The station cooks each item one-by-one on the server tick.
6. Notification: Once finished, an on-screen alert notifies the player:
   "Your batch of Camp Stew is ready for collection!"
7. Collection: Return to the station anytime, interact, and claim your ready items with a single click.

Persistence Across Server Restarts

All station orders are stored securely in dynadev_station_orders. If the server restarts while stews are simmering, orders safely resume right where they left off!

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🤝 2. Saloon & Trade Employee Collection

In high-traffic roleplay businesses like Saloons and Gunsmiths:

• When Config.StationOrders.anyoneInShopCanCollect = true, any authorized employee working at that shop can collect finished orders from the counter to serve waiting tavern patrons.
• Promotes realistic division of labor between bartenders, cooks, and servers!

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🛡️ 3. Campfire Anti-Theft Protection

Wilderness campfires are community hubs where multiple cowboys gather:

• When Config.StationOrders.campfirePrivateOrders = true, multiple players can place orders in the same campfire simultaneously.
• Private Queues: A player can only see and collect their own food and remedies. Strangers sitting at the same fire cannot steal your slow-cooked steaks or tonics!

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⚙️ Configuration Reference

Inside config/config.lua:

Config.StationOrders = {
    enabled                       = true, -- Enables background batch queueing
    defaultTimePerItem            = 60,   -- Default production time per item (seconds)
    anyoneInShopCanCollect        = true, -- Fellow employees can collect finished items
    campfirePrivateOrders         = true, -- Anti-theft: players only see their own items at campfires
    maxConcurrentOrdersPerStation = 12,   -- Max batches in queue per station
    notifyWhenReady               = true, -- On-screen alert when item finishes
}