Your first meal

Where this guide ends up

This guide takes you from a fresh world to your first bowl of stew. You only need vanilla materials to start, and the mod’s crops come in along the way. Each step links to a page with more detail.

1. Find wild crops. Farmer’s Delight scatters wild plants across the world. Break them for seeds and crops; each one grows in its own kind of place:

   Plant	For example in
   Wild Cabbage	Beach, Snowy Beach
   Wild Onion	Beach, Birch Forest, Cherry Grove and 23 more
   Tomato Shrub	Badlands, Desert, Eroded Badlands and 7 more
   Wild Carrot	Beach, Birch Forest, Cherry Grove and 23 more
   Wild Potato	Old Growth Pine Taiga, Old Growth Spruce Taiga, Stony Shore and 4 more
   Sea Beet	Beach, Snowy Beach
   Wild Rice	Bamboo Jungle, Beach, Jungle and 3 more

   The full list with chances is on Wild crops & worldgen. Plant what you find on farmland, as described in Crops.

2. Make a knife. A Flint Knife needs only flint and a stick. Knives cut food on the Cutting Board, slice pies, and give extra drops from some animals; see Knives.

   

   

   

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3. Place a Cutting Board. Put an item on it with a right-click, then right-click with the knife to cut it. Raw beef becomes minced beef, fish becomes slices. More on the Cutting Board page.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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4. Build a Cooking Pot and something hot to put it on. The Cooking Pot needs heat from the block below: a campfire works from day one, a Stove is the tidy kitchen version. The rules are on Heat sources.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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5. Cook. Place the pot on the lit campfire or Stove and right-click it to open it. Put the ingredients in the 6 slots in any order. Beef Stew needs only vanilla food: raw beef (or minced beef), a carrot and a potato. The arrow fills while the pot is hot; this recipe takes 10 seconds.

   

   

   

   

   

   

6. Serve it. The finished stew waits in the pot. Put a Bowl in the container slot, or simply right-click the pot holding a bowl, to get a bowl of stew. See Cooking Pot.

7. Eat. Beef Stew restores 6 hunger shanks and gives you 3 minutes of Nourishment: while it lasts, your hunger bar doesn’t go down. You get the bowl back.

Tip

Put a hopper between the heat source and the pot: it still passes the heat up, and it pulls finished meals out of the pot for you. That is the first step to an automatic kitchen; see Cooking Pot automation.

Where to go next

• Grill meat and fish 6 at a time on the Stove, or fry them in seconds with a Skillet.
• Cook a feast and share it out by the bowl.
• Improve your farm with Organic Compost and Rich Soil.
• Browse every dish in the food reference.