Cooking for Blockheads in FTB Skies 2

Cooking for Blockheads is the kitchen mod in the pack. The pack ships version 21.1.24 for NeoForge 1.21.1, and its blocks are all about setting up a proper kitchen: a Cooking Table, an Oven, a Fridge, a Sink and more.^[1][2]

The pack gives the mod its own quest chapter, "cooking_and_brewing". If you like following the questbook, that chapter is the best guide to the order the pack expects you to build things in. The quests have no titles, so each one is just named after the item it asks for.^[2]

Where it fits in the questbook

Everything starts with the Cooking Table quest, "Building Your Kitchen" quest, which asks you to obtain the Cooking Table. Almost every other kitchen quest unlocks after it.^[2]

• Directly after the Cooking Table: the Fruit Basket ("Fruit Basket" quest), the Oven ("Industrial Cooking" quest), the Tool Rack ("Tool Rack" quest), the Spice Rack ("Spice Rack" quest), the Cow in a Jar ("Free Milk!" quest), the Sink ("Infinite Water Source?" quest) and the Fridge ("Fridges" quest).^[2]
• Unlocked by the Fridge quest: the Preservation Chamber ("Preservation Unit" quest) and the Ice Unit ("Ice Unit" quest).^[2]
• Unlocked by the Oven quest: the Heating Unit ("Heating Unit" quest).^[2]

So the pack's path is simple: get the table first, then branch out to the other kitchen pieces. The Fridge leads to the cooling and preservation upgrades, and the Oven leads to the heating upgrade.^[2]

Unverified The sources do not show Cooking for Blockheads on the ATM Star quest path, and they do not describe how its blocks behave or how they are crafted in this pack. Check the in-game recipe viewer for exact recipes. This site does hold FTB Skies 2's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

The quest chapter "cooking_and_brewing" in this pack gives you a ready-made order for Cooking for Blockheads. One quest sits at the root, and every other quest in the chapter unlocks after it, directly or through the fridge and oven branches. Here is how I'd work through it.^[2]

Step 1: the recipe book and the Cooking Table

Your first goal is the Cooking Table ("Building Your Kitchen" quest). Its in-game description says it enables crafting abilities, and every other quest in the chapter comes after it.^[2][3]

In this pack the Cooking Table recipe uses Cooking for Blockheads II (Cooking for Blockheads II), so you need the book first. It describes itself as letting you craft food with what you have available. It is made from Cooking for Blockheads I (Cooking for Blockheads I), which only shows you the food you can make right now.^[3][4]

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 II book is crafted from the I book in this pack.

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

Your first kitchen block and the first quest in the chapter.

Step 2: water, storage and heat

Once the table is down, the next quests unlock. Start with the Sink, which provides water to recipes ("Infinite Water Source?" quest).^[2][3]

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

Next comes the Fridge, which stores ingredients for recipes ("Fridges" quest). The Oven enables smelting abilities ("Industrial Cooking" quest).^[2][3]

FridgeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any wooden chest
• Iron Door

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:white_fridge

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

Step 3: racks and extras

These quests also unlock straight after the Cooking Table, so you can pick them up in any order:^[2]

• Tool Rack provides tools to recipes ("Tool Rack" quest).^[2][3]
• Spice Rack stores spices and ingredients ("Spice Rack" quest).^[2][3]
• Fruit Basket stores fruits for recipes ("Fruit Basket" quest).^[2][3]
• Cow in a Jar slowly produces milk for recipes ("Free Milk!" quest).^[2][3]

Tool RackMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab	any wooden slab	any wooden slab
any iron nugget	Empty slot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:tool_rack

Spice RackMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:spice_rack

Fruit BasketMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab

any wooden pressure plate

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:fruit_basket

Step 4: upgrades

Two quests unlock after the fridge: the Preservation Chamber ("Preservation Unit" quest) and the Ice Unit ("Ice Unit" quest). The chamber prevents the last item of a slot from being used up, and the ice unit provides snow and ice to recipes. After the oven you unlock the Heating Unit ("Heating Unit" quest), which lets you heat an oven using energy.^[2][3]

Preservation ChamberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Redstone	Redstone	Redstone
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:preservation_chamber

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

Cooking for Blockheads is built from a set of kitchen blocks, and this pack's sources only describe part of how they behave. Here is what can be confirmed: how the kitchen pieces are made, how the dye system works, and the one change the pack makes to the mod's book.^[3][4]

The book chain and the Cooking Table

Everything starts with Cooking for Blockheads I, which the pack makes by smelting rather than in a crafting grid.^[4]

Cooking for Blockheads IMod recipe

Smelting

• Book

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:recipe_book

The next step up is Cooking for Blockheads II, a shaped crafting recipe that builds on the first book.^[4]

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

That second book is the key ingredient for the Cooking Table, the block the mod's Cooking Table screen belongs to.^[3][4]

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 no filter edition is disabled in this pack

Cooking for Blockheads can be crafted from the first book, and smelting it gives you the first book back.^[4]

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

The kitchen storage pieces each have their own screen in the mod: the Kitchen Cabinet, Kitchen Counter, Fridge, Fruit Basket, Spice Rack and Cutting Board. The mod also adds Oven, Sink, Toaster and jar blocks, and the Jade tooltips cover the fridge, oven, sink, toaster, milk jar and a preservation chamber.^[3]

• Kitchen Cabinet and Kitchen Counter are both crafted from any wooden chest plus terracotta, and the counter also takes stone.^[4]
• Fridge is a shapeless recipe that combines a door with any wooden chest.^[4]
• Kitchen Connector is a shaped recipe made from terracotta and stone.^[4]
• Fruit Basket and Cutting Board are both shaped recipes that use wooden slabs.^[4]

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

Dyeing and undyeing

Colour variants are handled in the crafting grid. The pack has 112 shapeless recipes that produce this mod's items, and each makes a different result. The black ones show the pattern: a black dye plus any block from the matching mod tag gives the black version of cabinets, connectors and cooking tables.^[4]

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

To undo a dye, the pack has recipes that turn a dyed cabinet or connector back into the plain version using bone meal.^[4]

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

Floors work a little differently. Crafting from the plain Kitchen Floor and a dye gives 8 floors per craft, for example Black Kitchen Floor.^[4]

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

Ingredient tag tweak

The pack adds Farmer's Delight wheat dough to the mod's ingredients tag, so it counts as one of the mod's ingredients. It also adds the dough to the common wheat dough tag.^[6]

Unverified The sources do not explain how the Cooking Table, connectors and kitchen storage link up, how the oven and sink work, or whether any of this can be automated with pipes or hoppers. There is no guidebook or config file for this mod in the pack, so check in-game before building around it.

In this pack, Cooking for Blockheads progression follows the quest chapter called cooking_and_brewing. It starts at one root quest, then branches out into the rest of the kitchen. Each quest simply asks you to obtain one item.^[2]

Step 1: The Cooking Table

The root of the chapter is "Building Your Kitchen" quest, which asks you to get a Cooking Table. Every other quest in the chapter unlocks after it, so this is your starting point.^[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

This is the in-pack recipe for the Cooking Table.

The Cooking Table recipe builds on the upgraded book, Cooking for Blockheads II. That book is made from the first book, Cooking for Blockheads I, so the book upgrade is your first real step.^[4]

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

This is the in-pack recipe that upgrades Cooking for Blockheads I into Cooking for Blockheads II.

Step 2: The first branches

Once the Cooking Table quest is done, a whole set of quests opens up at the same time. Each one asks for a single item:^[2]

• "Fruit Basket" quest asks for a Fruit Basket.^[2]
• "Industrial Cooking" quest asks for an Oven.^[2]
• "Tool Rack" quest asks for a Tool Rack.^[2]
• "Spice Rack" quest asks for a Spice Rack.^[2]
• "Free Milk!" quest asks for a Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• "Infinite Water Source?" quest asks for a Sink.^[2]
• "Fridges" quest asks for a Fridge.^[2]

Here are the in-pack recipes for those items. They are all listed in the pack's recipe dump, except the Cow in a Jar, which isn't covered by the sources here.^[4]

Fruit BasketMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab

any wooden pressure plate

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:fruit_basket

Spice RackMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:spice_rack

Tool RackMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab	any wooden slab	any wooden slab
any iron nugget	Empty slot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:tool_rack

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

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

FridgeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any wooden chest
• Iron Door

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:white_fridge

Step 3: Upgrades for the Oven and Fridge

The last quests in the chapter sit one step deeper. "Heating Unit" quest asks for a Heating Unit and unlocks after the Oven quest. "Preservation Unit" quest asks for a Preservation Chamber, and "Ice Unit" quest asks for an Ice Unit. Both of those unlock after the Fridge quest.^[2]

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

Ice UnitMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Snowball	Snowball	Snowball
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:ice_unit

Preservation ChamberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Redstone	Redstone	Redstone
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:preservation_chamber

Beyond the quests

Some craftable blocks have no quest in this chapter, such as the Kitchen Counter, Kitchen Cabinet, Kitchen Connector and Cutting Board. They all have in-pack recipes, so they are worth making once your kitchen is running.^[2][4]

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 ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:connector

Many of the kitchen blocks can also be dyed with shapeless dye recipes, and the Kitchen Floor has dyed versions too. If you dye a Cooking Table or a Sink and change your mind, there are recipes that turn it back into the plain version.^[4]

Cooking TableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any dyed cooking table
• Bone Meal

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:remove_dye_from_cooking_table

This is the in-pack recipe that turns a dyed Cooking Table back into the plain one.

SinkMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any dyed sink
• Bone Meal

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:remove_dye_from_sink

This is the in-pack recipe that turns a dyed Sink back into the plain one.

Everything from Cooking for Blockheads lives in one quest chapter, "cooking_and_brewing". Every quest in it has a single item task, so each one just asks you to have the matching block or item. The quests are untitled in the pack files, so I refer to them by their IDs below.^[2]

Where it starts

The entry point is quest "Building Your Kitchen" quest, which asks for the Cooking Table. Every other quest in the chapter depends on it, directly or through another quest, so start here.^[2]

Branches after the Cooking Table

Once the Cooking Table quest is done, seven quests open up. You can do them in any order:^[2]

• "Fruit Basket" quest asks for the Fruit Basket.^[2]
• "Industrial Cooking" quest asks for the Oven.^[2]
• "Tool Rack" quest asks for the Tool Rack.^[2]
• "Spice Rack" quest asks for the Spice Rack.^[2]
• "Free Milk!" quest asks for the Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• "Infinite Water Source?" quest asks for the Sink.^[2]
• "Fridges" quest asks for the Fridge.^[2]

Second-tier quests

Three more quests unlock from two of those branches. The Fridge quest leads to two of them, and the Oven quest leads to the third.^[2]

• After the Fridge quest "Fridges" quest, "Preservation Unit" quest asks for the Preservation Chamber.^[2]
• Also after the Fridge quest, "Ice Unit" quest asks for the Ice Unit.^[2]
• After the Oven quest "Industrial Cooking" quest, "Heating Unit" quest asks for the Heating Unit.^[2]