Recipe Book
The Recipe Book is a placed block that stores discovered recipes, progression tier, and appearance. It is the central planning interface for A & A Cooking.
Current catalog
Section titled “Current catalog”The v0.4.0-alpha.1 playtest build contains 233 discoverable Recipe Book entries across eight categories.
| Category | Recipes |
|---|---|
| Meals | 82 |
| Soups & Stews | 16 |
| Sides | 30 |
| Baking | 23 |
| Desserts | 16 |
| Drinks | 18 |
| Sauces & Condiments | 38 |
| Other | 10 |
See the Complete Recipe Index for every entry.
Placing and persistence
Section titled “Placing and persistence”Place the Recipe Book on a full solid support or compatible kitchen connecting block. Using the placed book opens the recipe interface.
The placed book stores its discovered recipes, tier, and appearance. In Survival, breaking it drops a Recipe Book item carrying that progress.
Browsing
Section titled “Browsing”The interface provides:
- category filtering
- search
- recipe pages
- ingredient quantities and preparation states
- station and cooking information
- prerequisite links
- recipe pinning
- quantity controls
- appearance cycling
- a Recipe Book sound toggle
Pinning and quantity
Section titled “Pinning and quantity”Pin Recipe selects the recipe used by the pinned HUD and compatible Load Pinned station features.
Quantity represents recipe executions, not raw output count. Values range from 1-64. The quantity button cycles through 1, 5, 10, 20, 32, and 64, while increment/decrement controls can adjust between those limits.
Stations with bulk queue support can repeatedly process valid executions as ingredients and output space permit.
Prerequisites and station loading
Section titled “Prerequisites and station loading”The preparation planner can trace a final recipe backward through intermediate recipes, washing, cutting, processing stations, liquids, cookware, and connected storage.
Supported station loading preserves existing valid inputs and pulls only missing requirements for the explicitly pinned recipe. Oven loading can also source required bakeware.
Discovery
Section titled “Discovery”Recipes can be discovered through experimentation or by using a valid Recipe Note.
When a valid A & A Cooking recipe finishes at a cooking or processing station and the recipe is not already known, the nearest Recipe Book on the connected kitchen network learns it automatically. If no connected book is found, a Recipe Book within 8 blocks can receive the discovery instead.
The closest player within 8 blocks of the station receives an action bar message such as Recipe Discovered: Fried Egg when a new recipe is added. Recipes that are already known do not show the message again.
Experimental discovery works with the Skillet, Wok, Saucepan, Stockpot, Oven, Blender, Mixing Bowl, Mortar and Pestle, and Fermentation Crock. The crafted Cream recipe also uses the same discovery behavior.
Recipe Notes remain another discovery path. They are found in Villages, Shipwrecks, and Stronghold libraries and can also be copied from known recipes for sharing.
See Recipe Notes & Discovery for exact structure chances and category pools.
Tier is based on discovered recipe count relative to the full 233 recipe catalog.
| Tier | Completion | Current recipe threshold |
|---|---|---|
| Iron | 0% | 0 |
| Stainless Steel | 25% | 59 |
| Diamond Coated | 50% | 117 |
| Netherite | 75% | 175 |
| Culinary Compendium | 100% | 233 |
Thresholds use ceiling rounding for percentage tiers.
Appearances
Section titled “Appearances”Each tier unlocks its matching appearance:
- Iron
- Stainless Steel
- Diamond Coated
- Netherite
- Enchanted Culinary Compendium
The interface can cycle through appearances already unlocked by the current tier. When a new tier is earned, the book switches to that tier’s default appearance unless a later player selection changes it.
Recipe Book sound
Section titled “Recipe Book sound”The interface speaker control toggles Recipe Book sounds. The client setting is saved to config/aandacooking-client.json as recipeBookSounds.
Administration commands
Section titled “Administration commands”Permission level 2 commands can set the targeted book tier, discover one recipe, discover all 233 recipes, or reset the book. The player must look at the Recipe Book within 8 blocks.
See Commands for exact syntax.
Related pages
Section titled “Related pages”Village kitchens and trading
Section titled “Village kitchens and trading”Some Chef and Baker trades can offer prepared food or Recipe Notes. The available trade candidates are influenced by the equipment installed around the villager’s workstation. See Villages & Markets.
Connected kitchen capacity
Section titled “Connected kitchen capacity”The Recipe Book can query the connected kitchen inventory capacity while you are using it nearby. It reports the total number of storage slots reachable by the kitchen network. Nearby Cabinets and Counters, Cold Storage, and other attached storage are part of the same connected kitchen system.