Cooking for Blockheads in All the Mons

Cooking for Blockheads turns your cooking into a multi-block kitchen. The pack ships version 21.1.24 of the mod. If you like building a proper kitchen instead of crafting food one item at a time, this mod is for you.^[1][2]

The heart of it is the Cooking Table. It shows every recipe you can make with the food in your inventory or stored in the kitchen multi-block.^[2]

How the quest line introduces it

The Food and Farming chapter walks you through it in order. It starts with "Making a Kitchen, with a Book" quest, which asks for Cooking for Blockheads I. Next comes "Cooking with the power of Diamonds" quest, where you craft Cooking for Blockheads II. The quest says it gives a Diamond back. After that, "THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD" quest asks for the Cooking Table.^[2]

Once you have the Cooking Table, the quests open up several kitchen parts, and each one needs only that quest finished first:^[2]

• Sink: supplies water to the kitchen, and can also provide infinite water by pumping it out through cables or pipes.^[2]
• Ice Unit: provides Ice and Snow recipes.^[2]
• Heating Unit: lets you attach power to the Stove.^[2]
• Oven: enables smelting recipes in the kitchen multi-block.^[2]
• Kitchen Counter: stores items for cooking. Other kitchen items, like toasters and a Cow in a Jar, can sit on top of it.^[2]
• Cow in a Jar: produces milk over time and enables milk recipes for the kitchen.^[2]
• Kitchen Cabinet: works like the counter, but you can't put things on top of it.^[2]

Beyond cooking: the Sink as a water source

The Sink is useful well outside the kitchen. The quest "Water Coolant" quest in the Mekanism: Reactors chapter hands it to you as a water supply for your reactors. The quest says it has infinite water and can be piped out from practically any mod.^[3]

The Tips and Poke Tricks chapter points the same way in "Infinite Water" quest. It calls the Sink an easy way to automate infinite water, and says that if you need more water you can just make another.^[4]

Unverified The sources don't show this mod on the ATM Star quest path, so don't count on it as part of that route.

Cooking for Blockheads builds a multi-block kitchen. Everything starts with a recipe book, and the pack's Food and Farming quest chapter walks you through it in a sensible order. Here is the path I'd follow.^[2]

Smelt your first book

The first quest is "Making a Kitchen, with a Book". You turn a plain vanilla book into Cooking for Blockheads I by smelting it in a furnace. That book shows you the food you can make right now.^[2][5][6]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Book

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book

Upgrade to the second book

Next, upgrade to Cooking for Blockheads II, the next version of the book. Its tooltip describes it as letting you craft food with what you have available, and the Cooking Table recipe in this pack uses it.^[2][5][6]

Cooking for Blockheads IIMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot
Crafting Table	Cooking for Blockheads I	Crafting Table
Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:crafting_book

If you ever end up with Cooking for Blockheads, the pack lets you smelt it back into the first book.^[5]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Cooking for Blockheads

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book_from_smelting_no_filter_edition

Place the Cooking Table

The Cooking Table is the heart of the kitchen. It shows every recipe you can make with the food in your inventory or stored in the kitchen multi-block. In the quest book, the sink, oven, counter, cabinet, Ice Unit, Heating Unit and Cow in a Jar quests all come after this one, so make it early.^[2][5]

Cooking TableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	Cooking for Blockheads II	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cooking_table

Add the Sink

The Sink supplies water to the kitchen. It also gives infinite water, which you can pump out with cables or pipes. That is why other quest chapters in the pack point you to it as a water source, including for reactor coolant.^[2][3][4]

SinkMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
Terracotta	Water Bucket	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:sink

Storage and cooking

The Kitchen Counter stores items for cooking, and you can place other kitchen items on top of it. The Kitchen Cabinet works the same way, but it goes on the wall above kitchen blocks, so nothing can sit on top of it.^[2][6]

Kitchen CounterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	any wooden chest	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:counter

Kitchen CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta
Terracotta	any wooden chest	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cabinet

For smelting recipes, add the Oven. It enables smelting recipes in your kitchen multi-block.^[2][6]

OvenMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Black Stained Glass	Black Stained Glass	Black Stained Glass
any iron ingot	Furnace	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:white_oven

Optional upgrades

• Ice Unit adds Ice and Snow recipes to the kitchen.^[2][6]
• Heating Unit lets you heat an oven using energy.^[2][6]
• Kitchen Connector links kitchen blocks over corners.^[5][6]

Ice UnitMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Snowball	Snowball	Snowball
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:ice_unit

Heating UnitMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	any iron nugget	any iron nugget
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:heating_unit

Kitchen ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:connector

The Cow in a Jar slowly produces milk and enables milk recipes. To fill it, place the jar in a hole, lure a cow into the hole above it, then drop an anvil on the cow.^[2][6]

Cooking for Blockheads is a kitchen-building mod, and its language file shows how many pieces there are. You get kitchen cabinets, connectors, cooking tables, counters, fridges, ovens, sinks and kitchen floors, almost all in a full range of dye colours. There are also stand-alone blocks: a Cutting Board, Fruit Basket, Spice Rack, Toaster, Tool Rack, Milk Jar and Cow in a Jar.^[6]

Several of these have their own screen: the Kitchen Cabinet, Kitchen Counter, Fridge, Cooking Oven, Cooking Table, Cutting Board, Fruit Basket, Spice Rack and Cow in a Jar, plus a Compressed Cow in a Jar. Treat them as things you open and interact with, not just decoration.^[6]

Getting the Cooking Table

The Cooking Table is built around a book, and the book line has a few steps. Cooking for Blockheads I comes from a smelting recipe. Cooking for Blockheads II is crafted from the recipe book. The Cooking Table then uses the crafting book.^[5]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Book

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book

Cooking for Blockheads IIMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot
Crafting Table	Cooking for Blockheads I	Crafting Table
Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:crafting_book

Cooking TableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	Cooking for Blockheads II	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cooking_table

There is also a Cooking for Blockheads of the book. You craft it from Cooking for Blockheads I, and you can smelt it back into that book if you change your mind.^[5]

Cooking for BlockheadsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cooking for Blockheads I

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:no_filter_edition

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Cooking for Blockheads

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book_from_smelting_no_filter_edition

Storage and connecting blocks

These are the in-pack recipes for the basic kitchen blocks: the Kitchen Cabinet, the Kitchen Counter, the Fridge and the Kitchen Connector.^[5]

Kitchen CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta
Terracotta	any wooden chest	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cabinet

Kitchen CounterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	any wooden chest	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:counter

FridgeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any wooden chest
• Iron Door

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:white_fridge

Kitchen ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:connector

The smaller pieces are the Cutting Board and the Fruit Basket.^[5]

Cutting BoardMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Axe

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cutting_board

Fruit BasketMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab

any wooden pressure plate

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:fruit_basket

Colours and floors

Colour variants are made with shapeless crafting. The pack has 112 shapeless recipes that make this mod's items, and the dye recipes take any block from a matching group: cabinets, connectors, cooking tables, counters, fridges or ovens. The black ones show the pattern, and there is a matching recipe that turns a dyed cabinet or connector back into the plain version.^[5]

Black Kitchen CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any cabinet
• any black dye

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:dye_black_cabinet

Black Kitchen ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any connector
• any black dye

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:dye_black_connector

Black Cooking TableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any cooking table
• any black dye

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:dye_black_cooking_table

Kitchen CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any dyed cabinet
• Bone Meal

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:remove_dye_from_cabinet

Kitchen ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any dyed connector
• Bone Meal

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:remove_dye_from_connector

The plain Kitchen Floor is crafted from concrete and gives 4 per craft. Dyeing it gives 8 coloured floors per craft, like the Black Kitchen Floor, Blue Kitchen Floor and Brown Kitchen Floor.^[5]

4× Kitchen FloorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

White Concrete	Black Concrete
Black Concrete	White Concrete

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:kitchen_floor_from_concrete

8× Black Kitchen FloorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	any black dye	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:black_kitchen_floor

In this pack, Cooking for Blockheads is a short, linear chain in the Food and Farming quest chapter. You start with a book, upgrade it, and then unlock the Cooking Table, which opens up the rest of the multi-block kitchen. Each step is a quest, so just follow the questbook.^[2]

Tier 1: The first book

The quest "Making a Kitchen, with a Book" quest asks you to get Cooking for Blockheads I. You make it by smelting a book in a furnace, and the quest text says exactly that. The pack also has a smelting recipe that turns Cooking for Blockheads into the same first book.^[2][5]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Book

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book

Tier 2: The upgraded book

Next up is "Cooking with the power of Diamonds" quest, where you craft Cooking for Blockheads II. It builds on the first book, and the quest says you get a Diamond back.^[2][5]

Cooking for Blockheads IIMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot
Crafting Table	Cooking for Blockheads I	Crafting Table
Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:crafting_book

Tier 3: The Cooking Table

"THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD" quest gives you Cooking Table. It's the core of the multi-block kitchen: it shows every recipe you can make with the food in your inventory or stored in the kitchen multi-block. Every other kitchen quest comes after this one.^[2]

Cooking TableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	Cooking for Blockheads II	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cooking_table

Tier 4: Kitchen upgrades

Once you have the Cooking Table, the quests branch out. Each of these follows the Cooking Table quest directly, so do them in whatever order suits your base.^[2]

• "The Sink = Infinite Water" quest: the Sink supplies water to the kitchen. It can also provide infinite water by pumping it out through cables or pipes.^[2]
• "Ice Upgrade" quest: the Ice Unit provides Ice and Snow recipes.^[2]
• "Heating Upgrade" quest: the Heating Unit lets you attach power to the Stove.^[2]
• "Honey, there's a Furnace in the Kitchen" quest: the Oven (shown as Oven) enables smelting recipes in your kitchen multi-block.^[2]
• "Need more cooking space?" quest: the Kitchen Counter stores items for cooking. You can also place other kitchen items on it, such as toasters and a Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• "Even More Storage" quest: the Kitchen Cabinet works like the counter, but you can't put things on top of it.^[2]
• "A Cow in a Jar" quest: the Cow in a Jar produces milk over time and enables milk recipes. To get a cow in it, place the jar in a hole, lure a cow to fall in above it, then drop an anvil on the cow.^[2]

Here are the in-pack recipes for the upgrades whose recipes appear in the recipe data.^[5]

SinkMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
Terracotta	Water Bucket	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:sink

Ice UnitMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Snowball	Snowball	Snowball
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:ice_unit

Heating UnitMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	any iron nugget	any iron nugget
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:heating_unit

OvenMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Black Stained Glass	Black Stained Glass	Black Stained Glass
any iron ingot	Furnace	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:white_oven

Kitchen CounterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	any stone	any stone
Terracotta	any wooden chest	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:counter

Kitchen CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta
Terracotta	any wooden chest	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cabinet

Colors and connectors

The recipe data also includes dyeing recipes for the cooking table, counter, cabinet, sink, oven, connector and fridge, plus dyed kitchen floors. The undyed Kitchen Connector has its own recipe too.^[5]

Beyond the kitchen: the Sink as infinite water

The Sink matters outside cooking too. The Mekanism: Reactors chapter has a quest, "Water Coolant" quest, that hands you the Sink as a water source for reactors. The quest says it can be piped out from practically any mod, and that it can be pulled from at a very high rate per tick.^[3]

The Tips and Poke Tricks chapter has its own quest, "Infinite Water" quest. It calls the Sink an easy way to automate infinite water and suggests making another if you need more.^[4]

This pack ties Cooking for Blockheads into two other things: a set of colored kitchen floors, and the Sink as a water source for Mekanism reactors.^[3][4][5]

Colored kitchen floors

The pack adds crafting recipes that turn the plain Kitchen Floor into colored versions. The results come from the dyenamicsandfriends namespace, and each recipe uses a dye of the matching color. Every one of these recipes is marked as added by the pack.^[5]

The available colors are Amber, Aquamarine, Bubblegum, Cherenkov, Conifer, Fluorescent, Honey, Icy Blue, Lavender, Maroon, Mint, Navy, Peach, Persimmon, Rose, Spring Green, Ultramarine and Wine. Here is the Amber one as an example.^[5]

8× Amber Kitchen FloorAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	any amber dye	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor

Recipe id: dyenamicsandfriends:amber_kitchen_floor

The other colors work the same way, each with its own matching dye.

The colored floors are separate items from the base floor, for example Wine Kitchen Floor and Mint Kitchen Floor.^[5]

Mekanism: the Sink as reactor coolant

The Sink is useful outside the kitchen too. The kitchen quest describes it as a block that provides water to the multi-block kitchen and can also provide infinite water by pumping it out via cables or pipes.^[2]

The Mekanism: Reactors chapter uses this directly. In "Water Coolant" quest the quest tells you to graduate from Electric Pumps, because the reactors will need more water, and to use the Sink instead. It says the Sink has infinite water and can be piped out from practically any mod. It also recommends using ID if available, because it can pull over 2 Billion mB of water each tick.^[3]

The Tips and Poke Tricks chapter repeats the idea in "Infinite Water" quest. It calls the Sink an easy item for automating infinite water and notes it can be used as reactor coolant. If you need more water, the quest says to make another one.^[4]

Cooking for Blockheads shows up in three quest chapters in this pack. Most of it is in Food and Farming, where the quests walk you through building the multi-block kitchen. The Sink also turns up as a task in two other chapters, because it gives you infinite water.^[2][3][4]

Food and Farming: building the kitchen

This chapter holds the main questline for the mod. It starts with a short chain, and then the kitchen parts all open up at once.^[2]

1. "Making a Kitchen, with a Book" quest asks you to obtain Cooking for Blockheads I. The quest text jokingly tells you to put the book in a Furnace and smelt it.^[2]
2. "Cooking with the power of Diamonds" quest comes next and asks for Cooking for Blockheads II, the next version of the book. The quest text says you get a Diamond back.^[2]
3. "THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD" quest asks for the Cooking Table. It is the heart of the multi-block kitchen and shows every recipe you can make with the food in your inventory or stored in the kitchen.^[2]

Once you finish the Cooking Table quest, six quests unlock. You can do them in any order, since each one only requires that quest.^[2]

• "The Sink = Infinite Water" quest asks for the Sink. It supplies water to the kitchen and can also provide infinite water by pumping it out through cables or pipes.^[2]
• "Ice Upgrade" quest asks for the Ice Unit, which provides Ice and Snow recipes.^[2]
• "Heating Upgrade" quest asks for the Heating Unit, which lets you attach power to the Stove.^[2]
• "Honey, there's a Furnace in the Kitchen" quest asks for the Oven, which enables smelting recipes in your kitchen multi-block.^[2]
• "Need more cooking space?" quest asks for the Kitchen Counter. It stores items for cooking, and you can place other kitchen parts on it, such as toasters and a Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• "A Cow in a Jar" quest asks for the Cow in a Jar, which produces milk over time and enables milk recipes. The quest text says to place the jar in a hole, lure a cow into the hole above it, then drop an anvil on the cow.^[2]
• "Even More Storage" quest asks for the Kitchen Cabinet. It works like the counter, except it hangs in the air and you can't place things on top of it.^[2]

The Sink in other chapters

In the Mekanism: Reactors chapter, "Water Coolant" quest asks for the Sink again, and it unlocks after the Fission Reactor Port quest. The quest text says reactors need more water, and that the Sink has infinite water and can be piped out from practically any mod. It also claims that one pulling setup can move over 2 Billion mB of water each tick. The writer used Electric Pumps for most of the earlier Mekanism quests so the quests would still work in modpacks without Sinks.^[3]

The Tips and Poke Tricks chapter has "Infinite Water" quest, which also asks for the Sink. It is described as an easy way to automate infinite water and can be used as reactor coolant. If you need more water, the quest says to make another Sink. This quest has no prerequisite.^[4]