Cooking and recipes

Craft the Cooking Pot, place it as a station and turn your custom crops into dishes that grant potion effects when eaten. Each recipe always gives a fixed dish with fixed effects.

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The essentials

Craft the Cooking Pot, place it as a station and turn your custom crops into dishes that grant potion effects when eaten. Each recipe always gives a fixed dish with fixed effects.

Key facts

The Cooking Pot is crafted with 7 iron ingots + 1 campfire
It's a placeable station: place it, light it with flint and steel and feed it ingredients

Try this

/cocina open

Opens the recipe book to see every recipe, its ingredients and effects

01 What cooking is Cooking is a station you place on the ground : the Cooking Pot .

Cooking is a station you place on the ground: the Cooking Pot. You feed it ingredients (mostly your custom crops) following a recipe and, after it simmers for a bit, it spits out a custom dish. Eating it grants you potion effects for a while.

There are no levels: each recipe always gives the same dish with the same effects. Variety comes from having many different recipes.

Cooking makes use of your harvests: it closes the loop farm → cook → buff yourself instead of just selling the crop. See Crops and farming.

02 Get the Cooking Pot The Cooking Pot is crafted at the table with 7 iron ingots + 1 campfire (campfire in the center, top-center slot empty): It's a placeable item: you keep it in your inventory until you set up your kitchen.

The Cooking Pot is crafted at the table with 7 iron ingots + 1 campfire (campfire in the center, top-center slot empty):

Iron     ·          Iron
Iron     Campfire    Iron
Iron     Iron        Iron

It's a placeable item: you keep it in your inventory until you set up your kitchen.

03 How to cook 1.

Place the Cooking Pot on the ground (right-click).
Light it with a flint and steel (right-click): it starts burning.
Right-click the lit pot to open the recipe GUI.
Pick a recipe: you'll see the final dish, the effects it grants and the ingredients you need.
Press Cook! and insert the ingredients one by one (with the ingredient in hand, right-click the pot). A hologram shows what's still missing.
Once they're all in, the pot cooks for a few seconds and drops the dish.
Eat it to get the effects.

Quality counts: a higher-star crop (✦ / ✦✦) counts for more toward the recipe, so you need fewer pieces. It doesn't change the result, only how many ingredients you spend.

04 The 7 recipes Ingredients in italics are custom crops (the pot ones); the rest are normal Minecraft items:

Ingredients in italics are custom crops (the pot ones); the rest are normal Minecraft items:

Dish	Ingredients	Effect when eaten
Crimson Tonic	2 Strawberry + 1 Pomegranate + 1 Sugar	Instant heal (+5 hearts)
Stone Stew	2 Corn + 1 Cabbage + 1 Bowl	Resistance II (160s)
Iron Stew	3 Corn + 1 Radish + 1 Cooked beef + 1 Bowl	Resistance II (320s)
Vital Bite	2 Tomato + 1 Lettuce + 1 Bread	+5 golden hearts (absorption)
Restoring Feast	2 Banana + 1 Strawberry + 1 Cooked beef + 1 Bread	+10 golden hearts (absorption)
Reviving Nectar	2 Grape + 1 Strawberry + 1 Pomegranate + 1 Sugar	Regeneration II (320s)
Miner's Banquet	2 Corn + 1 Radish + 1 Cooked beef + 1 Golden carrot	Haste II + Fire Resistance + Night Vision (600s)

05 Your pot is protected The pot respects land protection : nobody without permission in your area (ProtectionStones) can place or use a pot there.

The pot respects land protection: nobody without permission in your area (ProtectionStones) can place or use a pot there. And while you're cooking, nobody can steal your ingredients mid-cook: only you (or an admin) can cancel your cooking, and if it's cancelled the ingredients come back to you.

Hit your pot to cancel the cooking (you get the ingredients back). Sneak + hit to pick it up and store it again.

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