Cooking for Blockheads in FTB StoneBlock 4

This pack includes Cooking for Blockheads 21.1.24, the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1. It adds kitchen-themed blocks such as the Cooking Table, the Fridge, the Oven and the Sink.^[1][2]

Where it sits in the quest book

The pack's quest book places this mod in the "gearing_up" chapter. The first quest there, "The Kitchen Multiblock" quest, asks you to obtain a Cooking Table and lists further item tasks that the sources here do not name.^[2]

Every other kitchen quest in that chapter comes after that first one:^[2]

• "Free Milk!" quest asks for a Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• "Kitchen Extras" quest accepts any one of the Tool Rack, the Spice Rack or the Fruit Basket.^[2]
• "Kitchen Appliances" quest asks for a Sink, a Fridge and a Oven, plus any one of the Ice Unit, the Heating Unit or the Preservation Chamber.^[2]

Unverified The quest sources here do not show whether the ATM Star path uses this mod, so check the pack's quest book in-game if that matters to you.

Welcome to the kitchen! In this pack, Cooking for Blockheads centres on the Cooking Table, and the quest chapter "gearing_up" walks you through the next few kitchen pieces. Here's the order I'd go in.^[2][3]

First: the book and the Cooking Table

The Cooking Table enables crafting abilities, and it is the quest "The Kitchen Multiblock" quest in the "gearing_up" chapter. The other quests in that chapter that use this mod all come after it. The table's recipe uses Cooking for Blockheads II, which lets you craft food with what you have available, so that book is your real starting point.^[2][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

Cooking for Blockheads II is crafted from Cooking for Blockheads I, which is the step before the Cooking Table.

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 Cooking Table recipe in this pack.

Next: the core kitchen blocks

• Once the table is done, "Kitchen Appliances" quest is your next kitchen quest, and it unlocks right after the Cooking Table quest. It also wants one of three upgrade units, covered below.^[2]
• The Sink is one of its tasks. It provides water to recipes.^[2][4]
• The Fridge is another task. It stores ingredients for recipes.^[2][4]
• The Oven is the third. It enables smelting abilities.^[2][4]

Heads up: the pack changed the Sink recipe, so it isn't the mod's default. Use the recipe below rather than what you remember from other packs.^[3]

SinkChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
Terracotta	any water bucket	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:sink

This Sink recipe is changed by the pack.

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

Then: pick an upgrade unit

The same quest accepts any one of three units. The Ice Unit provides snow and ice to recipes. The Heating Unit lets you heat an oven using energy. The Preservation Chamber stops the last item in a slot from being used up. Choose whichever fits your setup.^[2][4]

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

Preservation ChamberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Redstone	Redstone	Redstone
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:preservation_chamber

Finally: storage racks and the milk jar

• "Kitchen Extras" quest accepts any one of three items, and it unlocks right after the Cooking Table quest.^[2]
• The Tool Rack provides tools to recipes.^[2][4]
• The Spice Rack stores spices and ingredients.^[2][4]
• The Fruit Basket stores fruits for recipes.^[2][4]

Spice RackMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:spice_rack

"Free Milk!" quest asks for a Cow in a Jar, which slowly produces milk for recipes. Like the sink, fridge and oven quest, it unlocks right after the Cooking Table quest.^[2][4]

The block tooltips describe a kitchen where each block has one job, such as storing ingredients, providing water, or enabling crafting. The crafting book is described as letting you craft food with what you have available.^[4]

The recipe books

Cooking for Blockheads I shows you the food you can make right now. Cooking for Blockheads II goes a step further and lets you craft food with what you have available. In this pack the upgrade is a crafting recipe that uses the first book.^[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

In the book, you click a recipe and then click again to craft one. Shift-Click crafts a stack, and for cooked items Shift-Click cooks a stack. When something is missing, the book tells you what: ingredients, tools, an oven, or a cooking pot. You can also sort recipes by hunger restored.^[4]

Building the kitchen

The tooltip of the Cooking Table says it enables crafting abilities. In this pack it is crafted using the second book.^[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 oven's tooltip says it enables smelting abilities. If no oven is found, the book shows the message "Missing oven to cook".^[4]

The tooltip of Kitchen Counter says it stores ingredients for recipes. The tooltip of Kitchen Cabinet says it can be placed on the wall above kitchen blocks. The fridge is described as storing ingredients too. Other blocks in the mod are described as storing specific things: a spice rack holds spices and ingredients, a fruit basket holds fruits, and a tool rack provides tools to recipes.^[3][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 CabinetMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta
Terracotta	any wooden chest	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cabinet

Utility blocks

• The sink's tooltip says it provides water to recipes.^[4]
• The milk jar is described as providing milk to recipes, and the cow jar as slowly producing milk for them.^[4]
• The ice unit is described as providing snow and ice to recipes.^[4]
• The tooltip of Cutting Board says it provides a cutting board for recipes.^[3][4]
• The heating unit is described as allowing you to heat an oven using energy, and a tooltip shows the energy stored.^[4]
• The preservation chamber is described as preventing the last item of a slot from being used up.^[4]
• The toaster is described as magically turning bread into toast.^[4]

Cutting BoardMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Axe

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cutting_board

Connecting blocks

The tooltip of Kitchen Connector says it connects kitchen blocks over corners, and the kitchen floor tooltip says it connects kitchen blocks over distances. The floor in its base colour is Kitchen Floor.^[3][4]

Kitchen ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:connector

Colours

You recolour kitchen blocks by crafting them with a dye. In this pack there are shapeless dye recipes for cabinets, connectors, cooking tables, counters, fridges, ovens and sinks, for example black, blue and brown. Kitchen floors work differently: you dye the base floor, for example into Cyan Kitchen Floor.^[3]

Black Kitchen CounterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any counter
• any black dye

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:dye_black_counter

Any counter plus black dye gives a black counter.

8× Cyan Kitchen FloorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	any cyan dye	Kitchen Floor
Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor	Kitchen Floor

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:cyan_kitchen_floor

Automation and options

The mod has settings that change how the kitchen behaves. One can close the oven to automation, so pipes and similar systems cannot insert or extract. Another makes the sink need piped-in water instead of providing infinite water. A third gives kitchen counters twice the inventory space. There are also multipliers for oven cooking time and fuel time: higher cooking values mean slower cooking, and higher fuel values mean longer-lasting fuel. One more option, which needs Pam's Harvestcraft, restricts oven fuel to cooking oil.^[4]

A cow can be squished into a milk jar by dropping an anvil on top, if that option is enabled. The cow jar has a setting for how much milk it generates per tick, plus a multiplier for Ex Compressum's Compressed Cow in a Jar. The recipe book can also exclude specific recipe ids.^[4]

Unverified No config files for this mod are available as a source here, so whether oven automation, the sink's water requirement, large counters, the cow jar or the oven multipliers are changed from the mod's defaults is not shown. Check in game before you build an automated setup.

In this pack, Cooking for Blockheads progression is a short quest chain in the gearing_up chapter. Each step unlocks more kitchen furniture, and everything below follows that chain, starting from the Cooking Table.^[2]

Start: the Cooking Table

The chain opens with "The Kitchen Multiblock" quest, which asks you to obtain the Cooking Table. It also lists further item tasks, but the sources here don't show which items they are.^[2]

The Cooking Table recipe uses the upgraded book, Cooking for Blockheads II (Cooking for Blockheads II). That book has its own recipe, which builds on Cooking for Blockheads I (Cooking for Blockheads I).^[3]

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

The branches

Once the Cooking Table quest is done, several quests unlock. Each of them only requires the first quest, so you can take them in any order.^[2]

• "Free Milk!" quest asks for the Cow in a Jar.^[2]
• "Kitchen Extras" quest accepts any one of the Tool Rack, the Spice Rack or the Fruit Basket.^[2]
• "Kitchen Appliances" quest is the big kitchen quest. It needs a Sink, a Fridge, a Oven, and one of the Ice Unit, Heating Unit or Preservation Chamber.^[2]

Racks and basket

For the rack and basket quest, any one of these items completes it. The recipe blocks show the exact in-pack versions.^[2][3]

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

Fruit BasketMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden slab

any wooden pressure plate

any wooden slab

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:fruit_basket

The kitchen setup

The pack changed the Sink recipe, so don't rely on what you remember from the mod's defaults. The recipe below is the one that applies here.^[3]

SinkChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
Terracotta	any water bucket	Terracotta
Terracotta	Terracotta	Terracotta

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:sink

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

For the last task of that quest, the Ice Unit, Heating Unit and Preservation Chamber each have their own recipe, and any one of them counts.^[2][3]

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

Preservation ChamberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Redstone	Redstone	Redstone
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: cookingforblockheads:preservation_chamber

After the quests: colors

Once the quests are done, the pack still has recipes for recoloring your kitchen. Cooking Tables, Sinks, Fridges, Ovens, Counters, Cabinets and Connectors can be dyed with a shapeless recipe, for example into the Blue Cooking Table or the Black Oven. Kitchen Floors use their own dye recipes, starting from the Kitchen Floor.^[3]

The one link between Cooking for Blockheads and another mod that the pack's recipes confirm is the ME Kitchen Station, the ME Kitchen Station. It is crafted from ME parts together with Cooking for Blockheads items.^[3]

ME Kitchen Station

The recipe is a shaped crafting recipe that mixes items from the ae2 namespace with items from the cookingforblockheads namespace. The ME side includes the 16k ME Storage Component, the ME Chest and the Engineering Processor, so you will be working with ME storage and processors for this one.^[3]

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

The in-pack shaped recipe for the ME Kitchen Station, using items from both mods.

Quests

The quests that use this mod's items sit in the gearing_up chapter, and the ones with item ids shown only ask for Cooking for Blockheads items. "The Kitchen Multiblock" quest starts with the Cooking Table, and three quests unlock after it: "Free Milk!" quest for the Cow in a Jar, "Kitchen Extras" quest and "Kitchen Appliances" quest.^[2]

In this pack, Cooking for Blockheads appears in the "gearing_up" quest chapter. The quests start with the cooking basics and then branch out into the rest of the kitchen.^[2]

The starter quest

Quest "The Kitchen Multiblock" quest is the entry point. Its first task is to obtain the Cooking Table, and it has further item tasks after that. Every other Cooking for Blockheads quest in the chapter unlocks after this quest.^[2]

What unlocks after it

Once the starter quest is done, the remaining quests open up. The quest data only sets them to come after the starter quest, so you can take them in whatever order suits you.^[2]

• "Free Milk!" quest asks for the Cow in a Jar and nothing else.^[2]
• "Kitchen Extras" quest is a pick-any quest. Its task accepts the Tool Rack, the Spice Rack or the Fruit Basket.^[2]
• "Kitchen Appliances" quest is the biggest of the set. You need the Sink, the Fridge and the Oven. The last task accepts any of the Ice Unit, the Heating Unit or the Preservation Chamber.^[2]