Cooking Progression Needs Work

[Lirnaev]

Having unlocked and tried out all of the cooking appliances I gotta say, it doesn't make sense.

The Fireplace, Firepit, and Firplace I'm fine with as is.

When we move on to the Cooking Station, if we fix the description and thumbnail to be accurate to what the station does, I can accept it as a food prep station for more advanced cooking and a place to throw together some meals that don't need fire.

The Potbelly Stove is really where I get annoyed chiefly, as with the fire-adjectives before it, it is meant as an upgrade for cooking when in reality it's more a lateral move since in this new item I can't cook the old recipes. Why in god's name can I not cook raw meat in a literal stove?

This gets even worse as we move on to the Kitchen Bench and Biofuel Stove. The Kitchen Bench is clearly intended as a direct upgrade to the Cooking Station and yet you can't create any of the previous appliance's recipes, and the Biofuel stove continues the trend of not being able to cook lower tier recipes.

While overall not any kind of BIG deal, these are details which really beg to be fixed.

[Tasolth]

Several of the current recipes do not work at all. Cooking station, pastries do nothing, do not decay, cant eat. wonder if those are a precursor for something in the t3-4 kitchen?

I 100% agree though, Progression needs to look something like this:

T1. Campfire -> fireplace. We need a basic food prep station so we can make SIMPLE salads. Also more options.
T2. Cooking station, potbelly stove. Add stew/soup pot?
T3. Kitchen Station, Biofuel stove. Canning machine?
T4 Electic kitchen? Electric stove? MRE's?

Each tier needs to inherit the previous recipes and expand on them.

Also let me use foods from one recipe as an ingredient in another. Cooked meat plus cooked squash, pumpkin, corn = homecooked meal or something. We need more combo meals. We need drinks! Fruit juice, spirits, more in the way of teas or hot coco, cofee. We need access to drinks before we can make glass. Why can I not make ceramic containers with a simple metal lid? Heavier for sure, but wont leak like a water skin.