Crop-Out

The Crop-Out is a Treatment machine, used only in Farmacology by a Nurse to cure patients with Distrawed. It is first made available in Old Newpoint, which requires the Off The Grid DLC.

Appearance
This machine has five distinct sections; at one end is a yellow excavator bucket on a hinge. This tips into a green and red lawnmower-style box with a top-mounted blower, mounted with a flexible fitting to a red block with a green top. Next is a combine-style roller mounted between two green blocks with red outer panels and red triangles on top. The final two sections are mounted on another red base with green top, bracketed by two blue blocks. On another flexible fitting can be seen a miniature barn, with irregular door and window shapes and a bluish-grey roof. Finally, a tall cylindrical corn bin, in light blue with darker blue bands, is topped by a silver dome and features a door in the side with a silver slide for the patient to be released.

The Crop-Out II adds two large yellow bins, one either side of the lawnmower box's base.

The Crop-Out III further adds a pair of smaller corn bins either side of their larger brother, each mounted on a red and green base.

Function
As the nurse mans the Console, the patient will take approach the Crop-Out and take a seat on the bucket. The nurse will use the throttle and the joystick to begin the process, which starts by flinging the patient into the lawnmower box, where the patient seems to be shredded. Several bundles of straw are expelled from the front, while the blower turns to deposit the remainder into the combine blades. A further pull on the throttle will cause the barn to bounce for a few seconds, upon which the patient is deposited, with their regular appearance restored, out of the corn bin, their treatment complete.

Maintenance
The Crop-Out loses 5-10% of its maintenance gauge with each use. Once the gauge falls below 50%, a Janitor will automatically be called to repair it. A janitor can be summoned manually by the player by pressing the appropriate button.

Should the maintenance gauge fall below 15%, the machine will catch fire. A janitor will need to use an Extinguisher to put this out before the gauge reaches zero; if it is allowed to do so, the machine will explode, leaving wreckage which must be sold and replaced with a new machine before the room can resume functioning.

Upgrades
Upgrades are performed by a Janitor with the Mechanics Qualification. The machine will not be accessible while this work is being done, although it can be interrupted and resumed without losing progress.

Staff
The following Staff is required before Farmacology, and by extension the Crop-Out, will function correctly:

Additionally, the following staff is required to both maintain and upgrade the machine: Janitor (with Mechanics Qualification for upgrades)