Applied Cooking in FTB StoneBlock 4

Applied Cooking is a small bridge mod. It lets Applied Energistics 2 and Cooking for Blockheads work together, so your cooking setup can use what is already in your AE2 storage. This pack includes version 6.2.1.^[1][2]

The mod adds one block, the Kitchen Station. Once it is connected, you can consume items from your AE2 network inventory right from your cooking table. Water and milk are pulled from the network too.^[1]

Setting it up

Before you place the Kitchen Station as part of your Cooking for Blockheads kitchen network, you need to configure it as if it were a Wireless Terminal. On Minecraft 1.20 and newer, you do that in an AE2 Wireless Access Point.^[1]

The Kitchen Station shows whether it is connected, linked but offline, or unlinked. The mod's in-game guide is a Patchouli book, so Patchouli needs to be installed to read it.^[1][3]

Unverified The sources here do not show where the pack's quest book places this mod, or whether the ATM Star path uses it, so nothing about its chapter, group or position is stated.

Applied Cooking adds just one block, the ME Kitchen Station. It lets your Cooking for Blockheads kitchen use items from your Applied Energistics 2 network, so you can cook straight from your ME storage. Water and milk come from the network too.^[1][4]

The setup is short: build the station, link it to your network, then place it in your kitchen.^[4]

Craft the ME Kitchen Station

The station is the only item you need to make. Its recipe uses parts from both Applied Energistics 2 and Cooking for Blockheads, so set up a basic ME network and a cooking kitchen first. Here is the exact recipe in this pack:^[5]

ME Kitchen StationMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Toaster	ME Chest	Milk Jar
Fluix ME Glass Cable	16k ME Storage Component	Fluix ME Glass Cable
Cooking for Blockheads II	Engineering Processor	Cooking for Blockheads

Recipe id: appliedcooking:kitchen_station

Link it to your network

Before you place the station in your kitchen, you have to link it, much like setting up a wireless terminal. You do this at an ME Wireless Access Point.^[1][4]

1. Open an ME Wireless Access Point that is on your powered network.^[4]
2. Drop the station into the wireless-terminal slot.^[4]
3. Take it back out. The link is now saved on the block.^[4]

Place it in your kitchen

Place the linked station next to your cooking table, or wire it in through counters. When it is connected, its screen glows purple. It draws a little power from the network while it runs, so make sure your network has enough energy.^[4]

Once it is connected, your cooking table can use items from your ME inventory directly.^[1]

Unverified This pack has no quests for Applied Cooking, so nothing in the quest book will walk you through these steps.

Applied Cooking is a small bridge mod with one new block, the ME Kitchen Station. It lets your Cooking for Blockheads cooking table craft with items from your Applied Energistics 2 network, and it pulls fluids like water and milk from the network too.^[1][4]

Crafting the station

ME Kitchen StationMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Toaster	ME Chest	Milk Jar
Fluix ME Glass Cable	16k ME Storage Component	Fluix ME Glass Cable
Cooking for Blockheads II	Engineering Processor	Cooking for Blockheads

Recipe id: appliedcooking:kitchen_station

This is the exact recipe the pack uses for the station.

Linking it to your network

Before you place the station in your kitchen, you have to link it, much like setting up a Wireless Terminal. On the Minecraft version this pack uses, you do that in an ME Wireless Access Point.^[1][4]

1. Open an ME Wireless Access Point on your powered network.^[4]
2. Drop the station into the wireless-terminal slot.^[4]
3. Take it back out. The link is now saved on the block.^[4]

The saved link works even across dimensions, as long as the Access Point stays chunk-loaded. So if you keep your network in one place and cook somewhere else, keep that Access Point's chunk loaded.^[4]

Placing it in the kitchen

Place the linked station in your kitchen, either next to the cooking table or wired in through counters. Once everything is connected, you can consume items from your network right from the cooking table.^[1][4]

The station can be in one of these states: Connected, Linked but Offline, or Unlinked. When it is connected, its screen glows purple, so you can see at a glance that it's working.^[1][4]

Power use

The station draws a little power from the linked network while it runs. In this pack that is kitchenStation.idlePowerDrain = 5 AE/t, which is also the mod's default. The cost is paid every tick while the station is connected.^[4][6]

Applied Cooking is a very short progression in this pack. The only recipe in the pack's recipe dump that makes an Applied Cooking item is the one for the ME Kitchen Station, so the whole path is a single step: craft it.^[5]

It's a shaped crafting recipe, and its ingredients come from two other mods: Applied Energistics 2 (the ae2 namespace) and Cooking for Blockheads (the cookingforblockheads namespace). You need items from both before you can make it. Here's the exact in-pack recipe:^[5]

ME Kitchen StationMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Toaster	ME Chest	Milk Jar
Fluix ME Glass Cable	16k ME Storage Component	Fluix ME Glass Cable
Cooking for Blockheads II	Engineering Processor	Cooking for Blockheads

Recipe id: appliedcooking:kitchen_station

This is the only recipe in the pack that produces an Applied Cooking item.

Unverified The sources here show no quest for Applied Cooking, so where it sits in the pack's quest progression is not shown.

Applied Cooking is a bridge mod. Its whole job is to let Applied Energistics 2 and Cooking for Blockheads work together, and it adds one new block to do it: the ME Kitchen Station.^[1][5]

What the bridge does

Once the Kitchen Station is connected, you can consume items from your AE2 network inventory right from your cooking table. Water and milk are pulled from your network as well.^[1]

How it is crafted

The Kitchen Station's in-pack recipe mixes parts from both Applied Energistics 2 and Cooking for Blockheads, which fits its role as a bridge. Here is the exact recipe in this pack:^[5]

ME Kitchen StationMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Toaster	ME Chest	Milk Jar
Fluix ME Glass Cable	16k ME Storage Component	Fluix ME Glass Cable
Cooking for Blockheads II	Engineering Processor	Cooking for Blockheads

Recipe id: appliedcooking:kitchen_station

• Applied Energistics 2 parts in the grid: 16k ME Storage Component, ME Chest, Engineering Processor and Fluix ME Glass Cable.^[5]
• Cooking for Blockheads parts in the grid: Cooking for Blockheads II, Cooking for Blockheads, Milk Jar and Toaster.^[5]

Setting it up

1. Before you place the Kitchen Station as part of your Cooking for Blockheads kitchen network, configure it as if it were a Wireless Terminal.^[1]
2. On Minecraft 1.20 and newer, you do that configuration in an AE2 Wireless Access Point.^[1]
3. Once everything is connected, your cooking table can draw from the AE2 network.^[1]

The Kitchen Station shows its status through its Connected, Linked but Offline and Unlinked states.^[1]

Optional mod support

The mod runs fine on its own. For Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge, the project page lists support for JEI, REI, EMI, Jade, The One Probe and Patchouli.^[1]

Applied Cooking has very little to configure. The one option in the sources is the Kitchen Station's power draw, and it lives in the server config file, so it applies to the world you're playing in.^[6]

Kitchen Station power drain

kitchenStation.idlePowerDrain sets how much power the Kitchen Station pulls from its linked ME network every tick while it's connected, measured in AE/t. This pack sets it to 5, which is the same as the mod default, so the pack hasn't changed it.^[6]

The drain is paid every tick, and only if your network can cover it in full. If the network can't keep up, the Station goes offline until power returns.^[6]

Unverified No other Applied Cooking config options appear in the sources I was given, so I can't confirm whether the mod has any more settings in this pack.

FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 ships Applied Cooking 6.2.1. The mod was already in the pack by FTB StoneBlock 4 1.17.0 or earlier, so you may have seen it in older versions.^[2]

Notable mod releases

• 6.2.1 (the version in this pack): fixes the Kitchen Station screen not glowing. The emissive display intended for 6.2.0 was missing from the model, so the screen never lit up. Now it is brightest when online, dimmer when linked but unreachable, and off when unlinked.^[2][7]
• 6.1.0: adds Roughly Enough Items and EMI support. The ME Kitchen Station info page that already appeared in JEI now shows in REI and EMI too. The changelog says there are no gameplay changes, and all three recipe viewers are optional.^[8]