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Collaborating UFO Evidence for Small Cookbook Model of Recipe Storage and Management

The new bug reported by OiOiAussie involving the Alien Artifact recipe for the UFO store has great relevance for our investigation here. A recipe ID for the UFO store was changed midstream, and now those running those recipes are getting fatal loading errors !

This gives more evidence that the Big Cookbook Model (see below) of recipe storage and management cannot be correct. If that model applied, those recipes and their rewards would have been stored in their entirety (in the Big Cookbook) and the bug would not happen.

The game must store and manage your Recipes-in-Progress using a very Small Cookbook, always finding needed info from your in-game files in a just-in-time fashion.