CummyTummy

Food and the kitchen

Three cooking mods are on the list so meals are worth making. The kitchen rule is older than the mods: do not empty a pot you did not fill.

Project Cook, Vanilla Foods Expanded, and Sapph’s Cooking add dishes, ingredients, and steps on top of build 42’s nutrition. Hunger is not the only bar. Calories, protein, and a badly planned all-cabbage week will still sand you down. Read the tooltip on the dish you are about to cook. The exact ingredient list is in the item, and it changes when mods update, so this page will not pretend to be a recipe card that rots.

A workable loop

  1. Keep water in containers while the taps are safe, and boil after they are not. A pot is a tool. Leaving it outside because the grid was full is how the base drinks from a toilet.
  2. Cook in batches when the power or the generator is already on for something else. A cold stove and a single egg is a waste of a match.
  3. Use the oldest perishable first. The fridge is not a museum. If it is close, stew it or eat it. Rot in a shared fridge is everyone’s debuff.
  4. Label crates in chat or with a sign people can read: “eat me,” “seed,” “cook tonight.” A cabbage looks like both lunch and next month’s field.
  5. Farming is allowed and encouraged on claimed ground. Do not plow the strip someone is using as the only path to the van.

The community pot

The current kitchen habit is written on the Thursday pot thread. Short version: if you eat, you replace or you wash. A bowl left on the counter with a spoon in it is not a cultural practice. It is a mouse attractor, and build 42 does not need your help to be gross.

Canned food you carried in from a run can go in the pantry if you say so. Canned food you silently remove from the pantry for a solo trip needs a note. People plan days around those cans. Opening all of them into a stew on a whim is generous. Taking all of them to a watchtower is not.

What the mods do not do

They do not make spoiled meat safe because the icon is new. They do not let you ignore a bloody counter. Rain Cleans Blood handles the street better than it handles your cutting board. Common Sense will offer a few actions that feel obvious. Use them. They are not a substitute for a clean bandage and a closed door while you eat.

If you are experimenting with a new Sapph dish, do it with your own ingredients first. The shared crate is not a test kitchen unless you replace what you ruin.