Cooking for Blockheads in All the Mods 10: To the Sky

Cooking for Blockheads turns food into a proper kitchen project. You build a multi-block kitchen, and its Cooking Table shows every recipe you can make with the food in your inventory and in the kitchen's storage. This pack ships version 21.1.24 of the mod.^[1][2]

Where it fits in the pack

The mod has its own questline in the Food and Farming chapter, and it starts with Cooking for Blockheads I in the quest "Making a Kitchen, with a Book" quest. Two quests unlock from there. "No Filter Cookbook" quest gives you Cooking for Blockheads, which shows how to make every food in the game instead of only the ones you can make right now. "Cooking with the power of Diamonds" quest asks for Cooking for Blockheads II, the next version of the book.^[2]

After the second book, the quest "THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD" quest asks for the Cooking Table, the heart of the kitchen. Every other kitchen block unlocks from that quest.^[2]

Kitchen blocks the quests cover

• Sink: supplies water to the kitchen, and can also give infinite water when you pump it out with 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 your kitchen multi-block.^[2]
• Kitchen Counter: stores items for cooking, and you can place other kitchen items on it, such as a Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• Kitchen Cabinet: works like the counter but hangs in the air, so nothing can be placed on top of it.^[2]
• Cow in a Jar: produces milk over time and enables milk recipes for the kitchen.^[2]

Not just for cooks

Even if you don't care about food, you will probably meet the Sink anyway. The Mekanism: Reactors chapter hands it to you in "Water Coolant" quest as a water source for fission reactors, and the Tips and Tricks chapter lists it in "Infinite Water" quest as an easy way to automate infinite water.^[3][4]

Cooking for Blockheads turns your base into a multi-block kitchen that shows every recipe you can make from the food you own. In this pack the Food and Farming quest chapter walks you through it, and the order below follows those quests. Good news: you can start with a plain Book and a furnace.^[2]

Smelt a Book into your first cookbook

The first quest is literally to put a Book in a Furnace and smelt it. You get Cooking for Blockheads I, which shows the food you can make right now. Every later step builds on it, so do this first.^[2][5][6]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Book

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book

Cooking for BlockheadsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cooking for Blockheads I

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:no_filter_edition

Upgrade to the second book

Next, craft Cooking for Blockheads II, the next version of the book. Its in-game description says "Craft food with what you have available", and the Cooking Table recipe needs 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

Build the kitchen around a Cooking Table

The Cooking Table is the heart of the multi-block kitchen. It shows every recipe available from your inventory and from food stored in the kitchen. The quests for the sink, counter, cabinet, oven, Cow in a Jar and the ice and heating upgrade units all come after it.^[2][6]

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 core kitchen blocks

The Sink supplies water to the kitchen. It gives infinite water, and you can pump that out through cables or pipes. Other quest chapters in the pack also use it as a water source 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

The Kitchen Counter stores items for cooking, and you can place other kitchen items on top of it, like a Cow in a Jar. The Kitchen Cabinet works like a counter but 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

The Oven enables smelting recipes inside 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.^[2][6]
• Heating Unit lets you heat an oven using energy.^[2][6]
• Cow in a Jar slowly produces milk and enables milk recipes. Per the quest, place the jar in a hole, lure a cow to fall in above it, then drop an anvil on the cow.^[2][6]
• Kitchen Connector links kitchen blocks around corners.^[5][6]

Kitchen ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:connector

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

One more quest in the chapter accepts several cutting boards, including the Cutting Board from this mod, as its goal.^[2]

Cutting BoardMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Axe

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cutting_board

Cooking for Blockheads is a kitchen-building mod. Instead of one machine, you get a whole set of kitchen blocks. The sources I have for this pack cover what those blocks are, which ones open a screen, and how the pack handles their crafting. They do not explain how the blocks link up with each other, so I will stick to what is confirmed.^[5][6]

The kitchen blocks

The mod's block list includes the Kitchen Cabinet, Kitchen Counter, Fridge, Oven, Sink, Kitchen Connector, Cooking Table, Cutting Board, Fruit Basket, Spice Rack, Toaster, Tool Rack, Milk Jar and Cow in a Jar. Kitchen Floor is also in the set, as a decorative block.^[6]

Several of these open their own screen. The mod's screen text has containers for the Kitchen Cabinet, Cooking Table, Kitchen Counter, Cutting Board, Fridge, Fruit Basket, Spice Rack, Cow in a Jar and the Cooking Oven. If you want to put something in one, or craft with it, you right-click it like a chest.^[6]

If you use Jade, it has dedicated displays for the Fridge, Milk Jar, Oven, Preservation Chamber, Sink and Toaster.^[6]

Getting set up

The mod's own recipe books come first. Cooking for Blockheads I is made by smelting, Cooking for Blockheads II is the upgrade from it, and the Cooking Table needs the second book. There is also a no-filter edition made from the first book, and smelting that edition gives the first book back.^[5]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Book

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book

The first book is made by smelting.

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

The second book is the upgrade of the first.

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

The Cooking Table is built around the second book.

Cooking for BlockheadsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cooking for Blockheads I

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:no_filter_edition

The no-filter edition is a shapeless craft from the first book.

Storage and cooking blocks

The Kitchen Cabinet, Kitchen Counter and Fridge are the storage-style blocks. In this pack they all have ordinary crafting recipes, and the Fridge is a shapeless craft.^[5][6]

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 Kitchen Connector has its own recipe.

The Cutting Board and Fruit Basket are single-block crafts that each open their own screen.^[5][6]

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

Dyeing and floors

Cabinets, connectors, counters, fridges, ovens, sinks, cooking tables and floors all come in many dye colors. Dyeing a cabinet, connector or cooking table is a shapeless craft that takes a dye and any block from the matching group. The black cabinet recipe below is one example.^[5][6]

Black Kitchen CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any cabinet
• any black dye

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:dye_black_cabinet

There are separate recipes that strip the dye off a cabinet or connector and give you the plain block back.^[5]

Kitchen CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any dyed cabinet
• Bone Meal

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:remove_dye_from_cabinet

The pack changed the recipe for Kitchen Floor. It now uses storage blocks of coal and quartz and makes 12 floors per craft. This is the pack's recipe, not the mod default. Dyed floors are made from the plain Kitchen Floor, and each craft gives 8 of the colored floor, for example Black Kitchen Floor.^[5]

12× Kitchen FloorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any coal storage block	any quartz storage block
any quartz storage block	any coal storage block

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:white_kitchen_floor

Changed by the pack.

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

Toaster and jars

The mod's option description says that toasting already toasted bread turns it into charcoal, but only when no other mod adds toast, and that setting it to false turns this off. The same language file mentions a Compressed Cow in a Jar and a milk-per-tick multiplier for it, which is a compatibility option for Ex Compressum.^[6]

Unverified The sources here do not show this pack's config values for Cooking for Blockheads, so whether very toasted bread is enabled and what the compressed cow jar multiplier is are not confirmed. They would be set in the mod's config file, and the sources here do not include it. How the Connector links blocks into one kitchen, and what the Oven, Sink and Toaster need to run, are also not shown in these sources.

Cooking for Blockheads progression in this pack is a short, linear chain in the Food and Farming quest chapter. You start with a smelted book, upgrade it with a diamond, and then build a multi-block kitchen around a cooking table. Here's how each step works.^[2]

Stage 1: The first book

The chain starts with "Making a Kitchen, with a Book" quest. You get Cooking for Blockheads I by smelting a regular book in a furnace.^[2][5]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Book

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book

"No Filter Cookbook" quest is a side branch that unlocks right after. It asks for Cooking for Blockheads, which shows how to make every food in the game instead of only the recipes you can currently make. It's crafted from the first book.^[2][5]

Cooking for BlockheadsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cooking for Blockheads I

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:no_filter_edition

You can also smelt the no-filter book back into the first book if you want to switch.^[5]

Stage 2: The diamond upgrade

"Cooking with the power of Diamonds" quest asks you to craft Cooking for Blockheads II, the second version of the book. It upgrades the first book using a crafting table and a diamond. This is the book you need for the next stage.^[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

Stage 3: The cooking table

"THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD" quest gives you the Cooking Table. It is 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.^[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

Stage 4: Kitchen upgrades

Once you have the cooking table, five quests unlock from it, plus the sink and the two units below. You can do them in any order.^[2]

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

The in-pack recipes for the sink, ice unit, heating unit, oven, counter and cabinet are below.^[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

Unverified The recipe for the Cow in a Jar was not available in the sources, so check it in the recipe viewer in-game. This site does hold All the Mods 10: To the Sky's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Extras and side notes

The sink also shows up outside this chapter. A Mekanism reactor quest hands it out as a water source for reactor coolant, and the Tips and Tricks chapter calls it an easy way to automate infinite water: if you need more, make another.^[3][4]

There is also an untitled quest in the Food and Farming chapter. It accepts a Cutting Board among several other cooking items from another mod. It isn't tied to the book chain.^[2]

Cutting BoardMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Axe

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cutting_board

For decoration, you can dye the kitchen blocks. The pack has dye recipes for cabinets, connectors, cooking tables, counters, fridges, ovens and sinks. Combining a dyed cabinet, cooking table, counter or sink with bone meal gives you the plain version back. The Kitchen Connector is not part of the quest path, but it has its own recipe.^[5]

Kitchen ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:connector

Cooking for Blockheads is mostly a self-contained kitchen mod, but the pack ties it into a few others. The links below come from in-pack recipes and quests, so they show how this pack actually uses the mod.^[2][3][4][5]

Dyed kitchen floors

The pack adds recipes that turn the Kitchen Floor into coloured variants. The variants live in the dyenamicsandfriends namespace, and each colour has its own shaped crafting recipe that uses a matching dye from the c:dyes tags. These recipes are added by the pack.^[5]

Here are two examples. The other colours follow the same pattern, including Aquamarine, Bubblegum, Cherenkov, Lavender, Mint, Navy and Wine.^[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

Result: Amber Kitchen Floor

8× Wine Kitchen FloorAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	any wine dye	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor

Recipe id: dyenamicsandfriends:wine_kitchen_floor

Result: Wine Kitchen Floor

Farmer's Delight

In the Food and Farming questline, the quest a quest in "Food and Farming" accepts any one of several kitchen items. Those are the Cooking Pot, Stove, Cutting Board, Skillet and the Cutting Board. So the Cooking for Blockheads cutting board counts the same as the Farmer's Delight one for this quest.^[2]

The Sink and infinite water

The Sink is the part of this mod that other mods use most. Its quest "The Sink = Infinite Water" quest says it provides water to the kitchen multi-block, and that it can also give infinite water when you pump the water out through cables or pipes.^[2]

The Mekanism: Reactors chapter builds on this in the quest "Water Coolant" quest. It points you to the Sink when your reactors need more water, and says the water can be piped out from practically any mod. The quest also recommends ID if available, because it can pull over 2 Billion mB of water each tick.^[3]

The Tips and Tricks chapter agrees in "Infinite Water" quest. It describes the Sink as an easy way to automate infinite water, usable as reactor coolant. If you need more water, you just make another Sink.^[4]

Most of the Cooking for Blockheads content sits in one chain in the Food and Farming chapter. The Sink also turns up in two other chapters as an infinite water source. Here is the chain in the order the quests unlock.^[2][3][4]

Food and Farming chapter

1. "Making a Kitchen, with a Book" quest is the starting point. You hand in Cooking for Blockheads I, and the quest text jokes that you should put a book in a Furnace and smelt it.^[2]
2. "No Filter Cookbook" quest comes after the first quest. It asks for Cooking for Blockheads, which lets you view how to make every food in the game, not only the recipes you can already make.^[2]
3. "Cooking with the power of Diamonds" quest also follows the first quest. You craft Cooking for Blockheads II, the next version of the book, and the quest text promises a Diamond back.^[2]
4. "THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD" quest follows the Diamonds quest and asks for the Cooking Table. The quest describes it as part of a multi-block kitchen that shows every recipe you can make from your inventory and the kitchen's stored food.^[2]

Once the Cooking Table quest is done, seven quests open up. Each one asks you to obtain one kitchen block:^[2]

• "The Sink = Infinite Water" quest wants the Sink. It supplies water to the kitchen and can also give infinite water when pumped out through cables or pipes.^[2]
• "Ice Upgrade" quest wants the Ice Unit, which provides Ice and Snow recipes.^[2]
• "Heating Upgrade" quest wants the Heating Unit, which lets you attach power to the Stove.^[2]
• "Honey, there's a Furnace in the Kitchen" quest wants the Oven, which enables smelting recipes in the kitchen multi-block.^[2]
• "Need more cooking space?" quest wants the Kitchen Counter. It stores items for cooking, and you can place other kitchen items on it, such as toasters and a Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• "A Cow in a Jar" quest wants 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 wants the Kitchen Cabinet. It works like the counter, except it hangs in the air and nothing can be placed on top of it.^[2]

There is also a quest in "Food and Farming", an untitled quest in the same chapter. It accepts any one of several items, including Farmer's Delight cooking items and the Cutting Board. No prerequisite is listed for it.^[2]

The Sink in other chapters

"Water Coolant" quest in the Mekanism: Reactors chapter asks for the Sink again, after the Fission Reactor Port quest. The quest says reactors need more water, and that the Sink has infinite water and can be piped out from practically any mod.^[3]

"Infinite Water" quest in the Tips and Tricks chapter is the same idea. It calls the Sink an easy way to automate infinite water, and suggests making another if you need more.^[4]