🍳 Better Cooking
📖 Short Description
Better Cooking expands and improves the existing cooking mechanics in the game.
This mod lays the foundation for a deeper and more balanced cooking system with improved recipes, better resource management, and future progression features.
⚠️ Important Note:
This mod is only the beginning. More recipes, new meals, and additional cooking mechanics will be added in future updates.
🍖 Updated Recipe Changes (v2.5)
🧪 Biome Survival Drinks:
• 🧪 Black Lung Serum
• 🌞 Sunstroke Tonic
• ❄️ Scorcher Stew
• ☢️ Fallout Flush
📦 Utility Items:
• 🫙 Empty Drink Jar
• 📦 Raw Meat Bundle
🥤 Drinks:
• 💧 Boiled Water
• 🍺 Beer
• 🧪 Pure Mineral Water
• ☕ Coffee
• ☕ Black Strap Coffee
• 🌼 Goldenrod Tea
• 🍯 Honey Tea
• 🧴 Grandpa’s Awesome Sauce
• 🧪 Grandpa’s Learning Elixir
• 🥃 Grandpa’s Moonshine
• 🌸 Red Tea
• 🌵 Yucca Juice
• 🧊 Yucca Juice Smoothie
🍖 Food:
• 🥓 Bacon & Eggs
• 🥔 Baked Potato
• 🥧 Blueberry Pie
• 🥧 Pumpkin Pie
• 🍰 Pumpkin Cheesecake
• 🍞 Pumpkin Bread
• 🍲 Boiled Meat
• 🥫 Sham in a Can
• 🔥 Charred Meat
• 🌭 Chili Dog
• 🍞 Cornbread
• 🌽 Corn Meal
• 🌽 Corn on the Cob
• 🥚 Boiled Egg
• 🌮 Fish Tacos
• 🔥 Grilled Meat
• 🍲 Hobo Stew
• 🍲 Meat Stew
• 🍖 Honey Glazed Sham
• 🍖 Honey Brisket
• 🍲 Gumbo Stew
• 🥧 Shepherd’s Pie
• 🍝 Spaghetti
• 🍞 Tuna Fish Gravy Toast
• 🍲 Sham Chowder
• 🥩 Steak & Potato
• 🥕 Vegetable Stew
🔄 Differences & Advantages Compared to Vanilla
Better Cooking rebalances cooking to be more realistic, logical, and rewarding compared to the vanilla system.
🥩 Realistic Meat Usage
- In vanilla, cooking often requires unrealistic amounts of meat (e.g. 5 raw meat for one meal).
- Better Cooking follows a more realistic approach:
- One piece of raw meat results in one cooked meal.
- This better reflects real-life cooking and survival logic.
🧂 Meaningful Use of Salt (Nitrate)
- Salt is no longer just a flat requirement.
- It represents preservation, curing, and preparation.
- With higher cooking skill:
- Less salt is required
- Cooking becomes more efficient
- This makes salt a strategic ingredient, not just a tax.
⏱️ Skill-Based Cooking Time
- In vanilla, cooking time is static and ignores player progression.
- With Better Cooking:
- Cooking time scales with cooking level
- Experienced cooks prepare food faster
- This creates a natural and logical progression system.
📈 Better Progression & Balance
- Early game: Cooking takes longer and uses more resources
- Mid to late game:
- Faster cooking
- Reduced ingredient usage
- More efficient survival gameplay
🔥 Overall Benefits
- More immersive survival experience
- Better balance between realism and gameplay
- Cooking feels like a skill, not a chore
- Strong foundation for future recipes and systems
Better Cooking turns cooking into a logical survival mechanic, not a resource sink.
🔥 Features are complete - (Planned features v2.6 are listed below)
- Reworked cooking recipes foods and drinks
- Improved balance for ingredients like nitrate and water
- More efficient cooking for survival-focused gameplay
- Prepared for an extended cooking and leveling system
🔮 Planned Features
- Additional recipes
- Expanded cooking progression
- More advanced food preservation mechanics
