Lets Cook

Vanilla's kitchen converges on one meat, and most of its stations are the same station at different speeds. This gives foods reasons to exist that are not the size of the bar they restore: a smoked meat you can eat when full, a stew that carries an effect its ingredients would have told you about, a cheese that gets sharper the longer you forget about it.

Server-side; Pandorical carries the client's half. Nothing here needs a new station. The smoker, the furnace, the campfire, the barrel and the crafting grid do all of it.

Smoking Is Not A Faster Furnace

A smoker burns wood, and only wood. Smoke is the whole mechanism, so what goes in the firebox matters. Anything in the log tag counts, so another mod's wood works without being listed; coal, planks and every other fuel are refused.

Smoking makes something else of meat. The seven vanilla smoking recipes for meat and fish now produce a smoked version instead of the cooked one. Smoked meat carries two more points of nutrition than cooked, and because smoking is how you keep meat rather than how you serve it, it can be eaten when you are already full. That second part is the point: a bigger number only shifts which food everyone carries, and being edible when full is a different thing to reach for.

Smoked foods wear their cooked counterpart's look. It is the same meat, kept differently.

Only ingredients smoke. A stew or a pie put in a smoker comes out exactly as the furnace would have made it. Smoking is something you do to an ingredient, not to a dish.

Meat Is Named For What It Is

Four vanilla meats are renamed, and every animal that plausibly has meat on it drops some.

Vanilla item	Now called
Porkchop	White Meat
Beef	Fatty Red Meat
Mutton	Lean Red Meat
Chicken	Poultry

Beef is the fatty one because its picture is: the marbling is right there on the icon, and mutton's is the leaner cut. The names follow the meat through cooking and smoking: Raw Fatty Red Meat, Cooked Fatty Red Meat, Smoked Fatty Red Meat. Rabbit, cod and salmon keep their names raw and cooked and become Smoked Small Game, Smoked Whitefish and Smoked Oily Fish.

Every animal worth butchering now gives meat, and the big ones give two cuts. A carcass is not one thing: an animal's main cut comes off it in quantity and a little of its second cut comes with. Which way round depends on the animal rather than on how many you killed.

Animal	Main cut	Second cut	Still drops
Cow	Raw Fatty Red Meat 1-3	Raw Lean Red Meat 0-1	0-2 leather
Mooshroom	Raw Fatty Red Meat 1-3	Raw Lean Red Meat 0-1	0-2 leather
Panda	Raw Fatty Red Meat 1-2	Raw Lean Red Meat 0-1	1 bamboo
Sniffer	Raw Fatty Red Meat 1-2	Raw Lean Red Meat 0-1	nothing else
Sheep	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	its wool
Goat	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	nothing else
Horse	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	0-2 leather
Donkey	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	0-2 leather
Mule	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	0-2 leather
Camel	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	nothing else
Llama	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	0-2 leather
Trader Llama	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	0-2 leather
Wolf	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	nothing else
Polar Bear	Raw Lean Red Meat 1-2	Raw Fatty Red Meat 0-1	0-2 cod, 0-2 salmon
Pig	Raw White Meat 1-3	-	nothing else
Hoglin	Raw White Meat 2-4	-	0-1 leather
Parrot	Raw Poultry 1-2	-	1-2 feather
Chicken	Raw Poultry 1	-	0-2 feather
Fox	Raw Rabbit 1-2	-	nothing else
Armadillo	Raw Rabbit 1-2	-	nothing else
Cat	Raw Rabbit 1	-	0-2 string
Ocelot	Raw Rabbit 1	-	nothing else
Rabbit	Raw Rabbit 1	-	hide, foot
Squid	Raw Cod 1-2	-	1-3 ink sac
Glow Squid	Raw Cod 1-2	-	1-3 glow ink sac
Nautilus	Raw Cod 1-2	-	its shell

Only the red meats come in two cuts, because only red meat has two. Pork and poultry are one thing each in this mod's vocabulary, so a pig gives white meat and nothing else, and no red meat ever comes off one. The small animals are one cut because they are one mouthful.

Lean is the default for anything that runs. Horse, camel, goat, llama and wolf are all lean meats in life, and a polar bear is lean with fat laid over it. The two that go the other way are the ones that spend their lives eating: a cow and a panda are mostly fat, with some lean on them.

The small ones are small game. Foxes, armadillos, cats and ocelots give raw rabbit, which this mod smokes into Smoked Small Game - a name that was already in the game for a whole class of animal and, until now, only ever came off a rabbit.

The squid are whitefish. Squid, glow squid and nautilus give raw cod, which smokes into Smoked Whitefish. A nautilus is worth killing for the first time: its shell is a one-in-twenty drop and only to a player, so until now most of them were worth nothing at all.

Looting adds up to one more per level, the way it does on a cow, and that goes for second cuts as well. Every drop here comes out cooked if the animal died on fire - and for the polar bear that goes for its fish too. Nothing an animal dropped before was taken away; the meat is added beside it. Chicken, pig, rabbit and hoglin are in the table for completeness and are entirely untouched.

Wolves, cats and ocelots are in that table, tame ones included. If you keep companions, that is worth knowing before you swing at one.

Dishes

Cooking that puts something in a bowl. Every dish is shapeless in the crafting grid, stacks to sixteen like honey, and hands the bowl back when eaten. Nutrition stays inside vanilla's stew range on purpose: what cooking buys is the trip home you do not have to make, not a bigger number.

Savoury dishes carry an effect. Short, always level one, and always something the ingredients would have told you.

Dish	Ingredients	Effect
Vegetable Soup	bowl, carrot, potato, beetroot	Night Vision, 30s
Meat Stew	bowl, any cooked or smoked meat, carrot, potato	Strength, 45s
Potato Chowder	bowl, two baked potatoes, milk bucket	Resistance, 45s
Fish Chowder	bowl, any cooked or smoked fish, baked potato, milk bucket	Water Breathing, 45s

Puddings are always edible. There is always room for pudding, which is worth more than a number when your hunger bar is full and you want to top up before a fight.

Pudding	Ingredients	Effect
Bread Pudding	bowl, bread, egg, sugar	none
Fruit Salad	bowl, sweet berries, melon slice, apple	none
Ice Cream	bowl, two snowballs, milk bucket, sugar	none
Berry Ice Cream	ice cream, sweet berries	Speed, 30s
Melon Ice Cream	ice cream, melon slice	Regeneration, 8s
Glow Berry Ice Cream	ice cream, glow berries	Glowing, 30s
Cookie Ice Cream	ice cream, cookie	Haste, 30s

Two of them are not really dishes. Nether Chili is crimson fungus, warped fungus and nether wart in a bowl: edible in the sense that you can put it in your mouth, and it poisons you for it. Cooking it is the point. Smelt it and out comes the Nether Loaf, the one thing here that leaves the bowl behind because the bowl went in the furnace too. The loaf stacks to sixty-four and grants Fire Resistance for forty-five seconds, since it is made entirely of the nether.

Sugar also smelts from beetroot, two at a time, so a sugar farm is a beetroot farm.

Cheese

Milk in a dark barrel becomes cheese. Put a milk bucket in a barrel that is underground, with no sky above it and a block light of seven or less, and a day later it is a Bucket of Cheese. Pour it out and it is a wheel: right-click to cut a slice, seven slices to a wheel, and the bucket comes back when the wheel is placed.

Smoked cheese keeps. A bucket of cheese through the smoker becomes smoked cheese, which is richer and, like smoked meat, can be eaten when full.

Forgetting about it is rewarded. Cheese left three times its minimum comes out Aged. The tier rides on the bucket and is spent when the wheel is placed: every slice from an aged wheel is sharper and richer than a slice from a plain one.

Drinks

Beer, a wine for every fruit worth pressing, mead, and one spirit. Each is made twice.

Crafting gets you a starter. A water bottle, sugar and the source: wheat for beer, or an apple, sweet berries, glow berries, a melon slice or chorus fruit for the wines.

Mead is the one that takes no sugar. Two water bottles and a honey bottle, and nothing else. Every other starter needs something for the yeast to work on that the fruit alone will not give it; honey already is that, so asking for sugar beside it was asking twice for the same thing.

And mead is the one that makes two. Honey is thick enough to let down, so the three bottles come out as two of mash and the honey's empty glass, which is the same three bottles you put in. Every other starter is one bottle in and one out.

A starter is not a drink and does not pretend to be. It has no food value at all, and its name says so.

A cellar makes it a drink. In a barrel that qualifies (underground, dark, see Cheese), beer is ready in half a day, and wine and mead in a day and a half. Every finished drink restores a little, is always drinkable on a full stomach, hands the bottle back, stacks to sixteen, and takes the edge off: Nausea, Weakness and Mining Fatigue are cleared by any of them. Poison and Wither are deliberately not, because being able to drink off real damage is a different power.

Drink	Starter recipe	In the barrel	Effect
Beer	water bottle, sugar, wheat	half a day	Strength, 45s
Apple Wine	water bottle, sugar, apple	a day and a half	Regeneration, 6s
Berry Wine	water bottle, sugar, sweet berries	a day and a half	Speed, 45s
Glow Berry Wine	water bottle, sugar, glow berries	a day and a half	Night Vision, 45s
Melon Wine	water bottle, sugar, melon slice	a day and a half	Absorption, 60s
Chorus Wine	water bottle, sugar, chorus fruit	a day and a half	Slow Falling, 45s
Mead	two water bottles, honey bottle (makes two)	a day and a half	Resistance, 45s
Beetroot Vodka	water bottle, sugar, beetroot	three days	Fire Resistance, 45s

Beetroot vodka is the long one. Three days in the dark, which is twice any wine, and the barrel says (Distilling) rather than fermenting while it works. It is the only drink here you set out to make rather than one that happened to a fruit, and the only one that carries Fire Resistance - which, given what it is, it ought to.

A wine, mead or vodka left three times its minimum comes out Aged, and its effect lasts twice as long. The same drink, and what you waited for is having to drink fewer of them.

How A Barrel Works

One rule for cheese, beer, wine and mead, so they are one mechanic with different tables rather than three that drift.

Underground and dark. Sky light must be zero and block light seven or less. Both are read in the room beside the barrel, the brightest of its six sides, not at the barrel itself: the light inside a solid block is always nought, so reading it there would make a barrel in a sunny field a cellar. Sky light rather than the combined brightness, because the combined figure falls at dusk: a barrel in a field would qualify every night and stop at dawn, and the rule would look random to anyone who found it by accident.

The name tells you where it is. A barrel is opaque, and milk that is working looks exactly like milk that is not. So the stack says so: a starter reads (Starter) in your pack, (Brewing) or (Fermenting) once a barrel has it, and milk reads (Ageing). The moment the barrel stops qualifying the suffix goes and the clock resets, so a mistake is visible the next time you look.

With block-tip installed, a closed barrel can be read. Looking at one names the first thing fermenting in it and what it is becoming, and how it is getting on: Ageing 40% (or Brewing, Fermenting) while it works, Ready: open it once the minimum has passed, and Too bright to age when the room will not do. Anything in a dark barrel is working from the moment it goes in, so there is always a percentage to read.

Nothing has to stay loaded. Time is counted from a stamp on the stack rather than by ticking the barrel. Come back in a week and it finished a week ago. The barrel is checked when it is opened, closed or filled (a hopper counts), and when somebody looks at it with block-tip, which between them cover every moment anything goes in or anyone could care, and a barrel with nothing fermenting in it costs nothing at all. A hopper hands a barrel one item at a time; starters of one kind that arrive within half a minute of each other are one batch, and stack as one.

Nothing collects it for you, which is why the wait past the minimum is real and worth paying for. Whole stacks finish together: they all went in together and they all had the same week.

Pies, And A Cake

A pie is made in its tin. A bucket, the fruit, sugar, an egg and wheat make a raw pie, which is not food: it is a bucket of wet filling, and the oven is the point of it. Smelt it for a whole pie. Put that down and it is a block you cut slices from, seven to a pie, three points of hunger each, and the bucket comes back.

Pumpkin, sweet berry and glow berry. The glow berry pie gives off light, because the berries did.

Vanilla's pumpkin pie is now the Pumpkin Tart. It is unchanged in every other way - same recipe, same food, still a thing you hold in one hand. The rename is so the two can sit next to each other and say which is which: a tart is the single serving you carry, and a pie is the block on the table that seven people cut a slice from.

Chocolate Cake is a cake and cocoa beans, and is its own block with its own seven slices.

A slice is never refused: cake, cheese and pie are cut whether or not you are hungry, vanilla's cake included. Every slice cut off a block, cake, cheese or pie, makes the eating sound and throws crumbs off the face just cut. Vanilla's own cake gets the same, since it was the one food in the game eaten in silence.

Snacks

Food you carry, that is not meat and does not come in a bowl.

• Hardboiled Egg: an egg through the furnace, the smoker or over a campfire. Vanilla has no way to eat the most obvious food an animal makes, and being food at all is the point. The smoker boils it rather than smoking it: an egg in its shell takes no smoke.
• Meat Sandwich: bread, any cooked or smoked meat, and kelp. A packed lunch with no effect. The effects live on the bowl dishes, which cost a station and a bowl.
• Sushi: dried kelp and raw cod or salmon. No wheat: the kelp is the wrap and the fish is the rest of it.
• Pretzel: two wheat and dried kelp. Dough and salt, twisted and baked - the kelp is the salt, because the sea is where the game keeps it. A snack, and the reason one exists at all is that Hemp Craft's rope icon spent a while being mistaken for one.
• Caramel Apple: apple, sugar and a stick. A pudding, so there is always room for one.
• Cactus Juice: crouch and right-click a cactus with an empty glass bottle. A cactus is a plant full of water standing in the one biome with none. It must have grown a little first, and tapping it sets its growth back to nothing, which is a price you can see in your farm rather than a hidden timer. Always drinkable, bottle back, stacks to sixteen.

Every Recipe

The whole menu in one place. Everything in the grid is shapeless, so the ingredients go anywhere in it. Where a recipe says "any", it means a tag, and another mod's item in that tag works too.

In the crafting grid

Makes	From
Vegetable Soup	bowl, carrot, potato, beetroot
Meat Stew	bowl, any cooked or smoked meat, carrot, potato
Potato Chowder	bowl, two baked potatoes, milk bucket
Fish Chowder	bowl, any cooked or smoked fish, baked potato, milk bucket
Nether Chili	bowl, crimson fungus, warped fungus, nether wart
Bread Pudding	bowl, bread, egg, sugar
Fruit Salad	bowl, sweet berries, melon slice, apple
Ice Cream	bowl, two snowballs, milk bucket, sugar
Berry Ice Cream	ice cream, sweet berries
Melon Ice Cream	ice cream, melon slice
Glow Berry Ice Cream	ice cream, glow berries
Cookie Ice Cream	ice cream, cookie
Chocolate Cake	cake, cocoa beans
Raw Pumpkin Pie	bucket, pumpkin, sugar, egg, wheat
Raw Sweet Berry Pie	bucket, sweet berries, sugar, egg, wheat
Raw Glow Berry Pie	bucket, glow berries, sugar, egg, wheat
Meat Sandwich	bread, any cooked or smoked meat, kelp
Sushi	dried kelp, raw cod or salmon
Caramel Apple	apple, sugar, stick
Beer Starter	water bottle, sugar, wheat
Apple Wine Starter	water bottle, sugar, apple
Berry Wine Starter	water bottle, sugar, sweet berries
Glow Berry Wine Starter	water bottle, sugar, glow berries
Melon Wine Starter	water bottle, sugar, melon slice
Chorus Wine Starter	water bottle, sugar, chorus fruit
Mead Starter (makes two)	two water bottles, honey bottle
Beetroot Vodka Starter	water bottle, sugar, beetroot

"Any cooked or smoked meat" is fatty red meat, lean red meat, white meat, poultry or rabbit, cooked or smoked - remembering that the smoked ones are Smoked Small Game rather than Smoked Rabbit. "Any cooked or smoked fish" is cooked cod or salmon, or Smoked Whitefish or Smoked Oily Fish.

In the furnace or the smoker

Makes	From	Where
Whole Pumpkin Pie	raw pumpkin pie	furnace or smoker
Whole Sweet Berry Pie	raw sweet berry pie	furnace or smoker
Whole Glow Berry Pie	raw glow berry pie	furnace or smoker
Nether Loaf	nether chili	furnace or smoker
Hardboiled Egg	egg	furnace, smoker or campfire
Sugar (two)	beetroot	furnace
Smoked Cheese	bucket of cheese	smoker
The seven smoked meats	the raw meat or fish	smoker

Remember the smoker only burns wood. The pies and the loaf come out of a smoker exactly as the furnace would have made them: smoking is something you do to an ingredient, not to a dish.

In a barrel, underground and dark

Makes	From	How long
Bucket of Cheese	milk bucket	a day
Beer	beer starter	half a day
Apple, Berry, Glow Berry, Melon and Chorus Wine, and Mead	the matching starter	a day and a half
Beetroot Vodka	beetroot vodka starter	three days

Left three times as long, cheese comes out Aged and a wine or mead comes out a vintage.

With no station at all

Cactus Juice: crouch and right-click a grown cactus with an empty glass bottle.

Pandorical

Pandorical is required on the server; the mod will not load without it. Let's Cook registers every item and block through Pandorical's content sync, with its model and its stack size, so Pandorical clients draw the food and agree with the server about how deep it stacks. The cheese wheels and pies are registered as interactive, so a client does not predict a block placement when a right-click is really a bite.

The Pandorical mod must be installed client-side to see any of this. Without it the server still cooks, ages and pours everything, but a connecting client has no models for the new food and draws it as the missing-texture placeholder.

The butcher will teach you

With village-quests installed, a butcher takes apprentices, and the six lessons are the six things this mod changed that the game will never mention: that the smoker has stopped taking coal, that smoked meat goes down on a full stomach, that a bowl carries the effect its ingredients implied, that there is always room for pudding, that a barrel in a dark cellar is a cheese press, and that the one dish which poisons you is meant to be cooked twice.

They are lessons rather than recipes. The apprenticeship is spaced by days, the butcher hands over a barrel when the cheese lesson comes due, and finishing it gets you a smoker of your own.

And the village will ask you to cook

The rest of the menu comes up as work. A villager asks you to make something for a neighbour, and says the recipe as they ask: the farmer wants a vegetable soup taken to whoever keeps walking into things on the late watch, the fisherman a fish chowder for the one who dives off the jetty after dropped hooks. You cook it, hand it over, and the neighbour tells you what it did to them, which is the effect or the twist the dish carries, said by somebody it just happened to. Then the asker wants to hear how it went.

Each trade asks for what it would know: soup and pumpkin pie from farmers, chowder and sushi from fishermen, ice cream and potato chowder from clerics, a glow berry pie from librarians, beer from the smiths once they trust you, a chocolate cake from leatherworkers once they trust you more. Any one of the dish will do, and none of them repeat a butcher's lesson.