PR Machine I
The PR Machine I raises your zombie limit. Load it with 2 Charged hypno-devices and the limit goes up by 10 for a week. You cannot build it. There is only ever one PR Machine, the one that appears by the Astrologer’s house at the Port, and you improve it in place up to PR Machine V.
Gunter sets it up for you in Congregation Trouble, after you have charged a hypno-device for him and held a sermon. The same quest marks Gluttony day on the day wheel, because that is the only day the machine can be loaded.
How it works
- On Gluttony day, open the machine and choose a recipe. On any other day it only tells you when it will be available.
- The limit goes up at once, by the recipe’s amount, and the Excessive zombies penalty is checked again.
- At the end of the run the bonus is taken away again and the penalty is checked once more. A run ends at the end of a Wrath day, the last day of the week, so the machine is always free again for the next Gluttony day.
Crafted here (2)
| Ingredients | Outputs | Mastery | Duration | Tech points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  1 | 3 | — | |
 Oiled Plank ×10  Iron Detail ×8 | — | 1 | 0 | — |
Notes
- The limit is almost nothing without it. The room where zombies are raised has no quality of its own, so the limit comes almost entirely from this machine, plus 10 from the Good fellow perk. See The zombie limit.
- Going over the limit never stops a resurrection. It gives you the Excessive zombies penalty, which makes your sermons bring in less, until you are back under it.
- The penalty is only rechecked at certain moments: when a machine run starts or ends, and in a few quests. Raising a zombie over the limit does not bring it on straight away.
- Upgrading it to PR Machine II takes 10 Oiled Planks and 8 Iron Details, with no technology. Each level keeps every run of the levels below it.
- Each run counts toward the PR Manager inspiration.