ACA:Tools
A Culinary Artillery is a companion mod to Expanded Foods. It gives you the tools that Expanded Foods uses to create more complex and nutritious meals! The tools used in A Culinary Artillery - and by extension Expanded Foods - are covered under the handbook entry "A Culinary Artillery: Cooking 100 - Your Tools" and "Expanded Foods: Cooking 101 - The Basics".
Bottles[edit | edit source]
Bottles come in two types: clay bottles and glass bottles. They are used to store liquids in 1L increments, and can be stored on the ground, in shelves, or on bottle racks. They can be used to ferment drinks, such as alcohol, or for liquid consumption, such as honey.
Clay bottles are made by clay forming using fire clay or blue clay. You can throw 1 bottle or 4 bottles at a time.
Glass bottles can be made of any color of glass slab, simply craft with a saw above your glass slab of choice. Each craft gives you 4 bottles.
Crafting glass bottles in this way is more efficient than clay forming, and the liquid level is visible at a glance.
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Usable by:
- Yogurt (used in step 3)
- Expanded Liquids
- Alcohol
Bottle Racks[edit | edit source]
Bottle racks are a storage option added in this mod. They are crafted using any 9 wooden planks and hold 16 bottles. You can also bend the wooden frame to fit into corners by crafting a standard bottle rack with any metal saw and hammer to the right.
Single-type wooden bottle racks and corner bottle racks can be purchased from a kitchenware trader, multi-type wooden bottle racks must be crafted by the player
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Meat Racks[edit | edit source]
Meat racks are hung from the ceiling and used to dry age unsmashed meat and boost it's nutritional value. Aged meat and aged sausage used in a few meals, but can be smashed and cut into nuggets, boiled, baked, or charred in a firepit to be eaten.
Non-food items can be hung from the rack, such as small cauldrons, saucepans, and meat cleavers, making them an alternate to tool rack.
Meat racks are created by crafting 4 large hooks of any metal under any two wooden planks. This is a 2x2 crafting recipe, with the wooden planks in the top two slots, and 2 metal large hooks in the bottom two slots.
Each meat rack item can hold 4 pieces of meat, and the meat spoil timer must be less than the cure timer. No one wants to eat rot!
Mixing Bowl[edit | edit source]
The heart of many Expanded Foods recipes! Mixing bowls are crafted by clay forming a saucepan and crafting a stick onto the fired saucepan. The mixing bowl has 6 slots of food or liquid, with a slot to accept a cooking pot for certain recipes. Right click in the UI or on the stick hit box to Mix or Knead together your meal.
The mixing bowl can be locked with a ctrl+Right Click on the bowl hitbox. When locked, it will only accept the ingredients that were in it, and in those specific slots. It cannot automatically accept liquids.
The mixing bowl can be crafted into a powered mixing bowl. The mixing bowl must be crafted above a table and axle, with a saw in the slot next to the table. It can then be powered from the top or bottom of the block, similar to a quern.
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- Kitchenware Trader (both variants)
Used to make:
- Bread
- Breaded Food
- Candy
- Dumplings
- Fruit Bar
- Fruit Bread
- Gozinaki
- Hardtack
- Muffin
- Pasta Dough
- Pemmican
- Sausage
- Soft Dough
- Stuffed Pepper
- Sushi
- Trail Mix
- Yogurt (used in step 2)
- Cold Pasta
- Salad
- Yogurt Meal
- Bread Starter/Yeast Starter (used in step 2)
- Soy Sauce (used in step 3)
- Peanut Butter (used in the last step)
- Peanut Sauce (used in the last step)
- Salad Dressing
- SoulStorm Brew (used in step 1 & 2)
Saucepan[edit | edit source]
The saucepan is made by clay forming with blue clay or fire clay, then baking in a pit kiln. The fired pan can then be crafted into a mixing bowl, or used as-is.
The saucepan can be stored on the ground or on shelves, similar to crocks, but will not fit if the lid is in use.
The saucepan functions similarly to a bucket with a 4L limit and can be placed into a firepit to Boil its contents. It can boil sea water1 into salt crystals, which dry and then grind into salt.
1Sea water is only accessible if oceans are enabled in world generation
Press ctrl+shift+right click to place the lid on it, slightly increasing the shelf-life of liquids stored within it.
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Used to make:
- Boiled Eggs
- Candied Fruit
- Salt
- Boiling Food
- Frying Food
- Breaded Food
- Gelatin
- Yogurt (used in step 1)
- Bone Broth
- Meat Broth
- Seafood Broth
- Vegetable Broth
- Clarified Broth
- Fish Sauce
- Fruit Syrup
- Lard
- Tree Syrup
Cauldron[edit | edit source]
The cauldron is the saucepans larger counterpart, and can Boil liquids in much larger quantities. It can be cast from copper, tin bronze, or black bronze with a small or large mold; and may be purchased in cast iron, steel, or meteoric iron.
Like the saucepan, the cauldron can be ctrl+shift+right clicked to place the lid on it. The small cauldron can be stored on a shelf or meat rack, but the large cauldron is far too big for that.
The small cauldron needs 250 units of copper, tin bronze or black bronze to cast. The large cauldron needs 600 units of the same metal.
The small cauldron has a slot limit of 20, either liters or items. The large cauldron has a slot limit of 50.
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Used to make:
- Boiled Eggs
- Candied Fruit
- Salt
- Boiling Food
- Frying Food
- Breaded Food
- Gelatin
- Yogurt (used in step 1)
- Bone Broth
- Meat Broth
- Seafood Broth
- Vegetable Broth
- Clarified Broth
- Fish Sauce
- Fruit Syrup
- Lard
- Tree Syrup
- SoulStorm Brew (used in step 2)
Spile[edit | edit source]
A spile is a metal peg that can be knocked into trees to extract sap. Spiles can be cast from copper and any brass with 100 units of liquid metal, smithed from steel, or purchased from a kitchenware trader in titanium. While in real life copper is toxic to trees, the type of metal used in Vintage Story does not effect the amount of sap gathered from a tree.
Place a bucket or saucepan directly below the spile to collect either maple sap, birch sap, or fresh resin from maple, birch, or pine trees.
To remove cured resin from a bucket, transfer it into the inventory of a cooking pot, saucepan, cauldron, or other "insert" slot of another item.
| Pine | Acacia | Maple | Birch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Resin | Fresh Resin | Maple Sap | Birch Sap |
| March | April | January | April |
| November | September | March | June |
Note that this mod requires Expanded Foods to function, so installing A Culinary Artillery alone will not generate passive resin.
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Rolling Pin[edit | edit source]
A rolling pin can be crafted from a log with a stick on either side, or smithed from copper, tin bronze, black bronze, iron, meteoric iron, or steel. They are used in Expanded foods to flatten meat and pasta dough, and can be used as a weapon.
As a weapon they are attack tier 1-5 (wood being the weakest, steel being the strongest), deal 1.5-3 hp damage, and have a range of 2m.
The wooden rolling pins can also be used as firewood, burning for 24s at 600C.
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Cleavers[edit | edit source]
Cleavers can be used as an alternative to the knife to chop foods. They can be smithed out of copper, any bronze, gold, silver, iron, meteoric iron, and steel.
They can be used to slaughter any animal over generation 3, or they can be used as a weapon, similar to the rolling pin.
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