Finding a Cooking Pot

[NatureMage]

I cannot for the life of me find a freakin' cooking pot. I haven't played the game in over a year, but it used to be that you would find a campsite and scavenge the cooking pot from there. I've now hit five campsites and none of them have real campfires - just cosmetic ones. I've got more cloth than I need, but no cooking pot.

What's the deal? Where do I find this thing? I need the pot for clean water.

[TheNaptown317]

You can always craft one using the forge.

[Splatter58]

Originally posted by NatureMage:

I cannot for the life of me find a freakin' cooking pot. I haven't played the game in over a year, but it used to be that you would find a campsite and scavenge the cooking pot from there. I've now hit five campsites and none of them have real campfires - just cosmetic ones. I've got more cloth than I need, but no cooking pot.

What's the deal? Where do I find this thing? I need the pot for clean water.

Find the wasteland with all the busted down houses. look in ovens and cupboards. I always find pots in there.

[Splatter58]

Originally posted by vv FuMM:

Originally posted by Nate:

You can still cook meat and water, just need to put the water in cans and char the meat

I killed a bear and I have no option to cook the meat. Chared or otherwise... How do I cook meat now? I'm sure alpha 13 let me char meat. :/ I think I'm missing something obvious. When I select the meat and choose recipies (after selecting the campfire) there is no option to char or at least it says I need a pot/grill etc. I'm only up to 10 leather so making a bellows at the moment is not feasable.

Forge bellows takes 20 animal hide not leather, 2 pipes and 50 clay and 50 small stone. if you have no option to cook/ char anything you must place fuel in your campfire first.

[Splatter58]

Originally posted by NatureMage:

I cannot for the life of me find a freakin' cooking pot. I haven't played the game in over a year, but it used to be that you would find a campsite and scavenge the cooking pot from there. I've now hit five campsites and none of them have real campfires - just cosmetic ones. I've got more cloth than I need, but no cooking pot.

What's the deal? Where do I find this thing? I need the pot for clean water.

If you use cans for water remember they dont stack after cooking, but will before you cook them if you are short of space or nomadding it just boil as much as you need at a time. Snow also works with cans and jars now too. I`ll dig a whole lot of snow and have an easy water source while on the move .

[vv [FuMM]]

Originally posted by Splatter58:

Originally posted by vv FuMM:

I killed a bear and I have no option to cook the meat. Chared or otherwise... How do I cook meat now? I'm sure alpha 13 let me char meat. :/ I think I'm missing something obvious. When I select the meat and choose recipies (after selecting the campfire) there is no option to char or at least it says I need a pot/grill etc. I'm only up to 10 leather so making a bellows at the moment is not feasable.

Forge bellows takes 20 animal hide not leather, 2 pipes and 50 clay and 50 small stone. if you have no option to cook/ char anything you must place fuel in your campfire first.

Thanks, I know how to make a forge. I have been playing since A11 or so. My confusion stems from the "you must have fuel in the fire" when you go to select recipies. I think it also needs to be active. This kind of goes against how all their other devices work. Unless the forge is that way now? Burning things and then deciding what to cook is a bit wasteful and the older way with A12 was a little more optimal. I do agree that reducing teh amount of items in the long run is a better approach though. I think the current system just needs a little tweaking.

[kkitts]

Originally posted by vv FuMM:

Originally posted by Nate:

You can still cook meat and water, just need to put the water in cans and char the meat

I killed a bear and I have no option to cook the meat. Chared or otherwise... How do I cook meat now? I'm sure alpha 13 let me char meat. :/ I think I'm missing something obvious. When I select the meat and choose recipies (after selecting the campfire) there is no option to char or at least it says I need a pot/grill etc. I'm only up to 10 leather so making a bellows at the moment is not feasable.

You need a campfire for cooking. Beyond that, it's mostly finding a cooking pot and a beaker (which occasionally drop randomly beyond the spots I mentioned). You almost never find cooking grills, and you need a forge to create a cooking grill.

[Nimbull]

Certain camp sites have them but not all do. Also you can find them in some row homes sitting on the kitchen stuff. Finally gas stations have them laying around inside or in the back area sometimes when you find the larger gas stations.

"You almost never find cooking grills, and you need a forge to create a cooking grill."

No lie one time I had two grills drop on a loot pickup. It was like rolling natural 20's twice in a D&D game rarity but it happened once to me.

[Totally Not A Gamer Girl]

Originally posted by Nimbull:

Certain camp sites have them but not all do. Also you can find them in some row homes sitting on the kitchen stuff. Finally gas stations have them laying around inside or in the back area sometimes when you find the larger gas stations.

"You almost never find cooking grills, and you need a forge to create a cooking grill."

No lie one time I had two grills drop on a loot pickup. It was like rolling natural 20's twice in a D&D game rarity but it happened once to me.

Got 2 grills and 6 pots this morning. Managed to meet up with my buddy for night one and found out he had also gotten 6 pots and 4 grills. All before either of us found a house. Burning forests and wastelands are great places to find these things it seems. Either way we found a base and settled in for the night.

[kkitts]

The grills aren't all that necessary. Bacon and eggs will boost your health and wellness fine by themselves, and boiled meat you can cook without eggs.

[vv [FuMM]]

Originally posted by kkitts:

Originally posted by vv FuMM:

I killed a bear and I have no option to cook the meat. Chared or otherwise... How do I cook meat now? I'm sure alpha 13 let me char meat. :/ I think I'm missing something obvious. When I select the meat and choose recipies (after selecting the campfire) there is no option to char or at least it says I need a pot/grill etc. I'm only up to 10 leather so making a bellows at the moment is not feasable.

You need a campfire for cooking. Beyond that, it's mostly finding a cooking pot and a beaker (which occasionally drop randomly beyond the spots I mentioned). You almost never find cooking grills, and you need a forge to create a cooking grill.

Thanks I know. My issue was more related around how the context menus work. like it won't pickup that you have all the ingredients for something if the campfire is not burning/stoked with fuel. The confusion comes from 2 ways to access the recipies menu for food. one from the item and one from the campfire and then item. Context is key if it's not all that clear.

I've found one or two cooking grills but yes they are rather rare. It'd be nice if you found them from smashing up cards as any bit of flat heat resistant meterial will do such as stone or metal.

[vv [FuMM]]

bacon and eggs are good travel food due to the lack of smell. Zombies obviously don't like bacon.

[Splatter58]

Originally posted by kkitts:

The grills aren't all that necessary. Bacon and eggs will boost your health and wellness fine by themselves, and boiled meat you can cook without eggs.

Bacon and eggs now use a cooking pot. Not much left for grill to do except grilled meat. They could do away wwith the grill and use the pot and call it fried meat instead, same perks.

[Boresight]

Camp sites, wasteland, brick houses in town, bunkers and they can also be crafted.

[LokitheWeaver]

Originally posted by vv FuMM:

bacon and eggs are good travel food due to the lack of smell. Zombies obviously don't like bacon.

Be careful - recent changes to food made bacon / eggs smelly. Also, with the context menu, you don't actually need to ignite the fuel. Just placing a single item that "can" be fuel is enough for the cooking context menu to show options. Select the item in the left hand column, adjust the quantity in the middle column and press "cook". This will automatically start burning fuel. Add fuel as needed.

You can also cancel cooking either through the context 'X' as you mouse over the lower left que, or turning off the fire. (If you had not discovered that already. It is a bit of a change. It still catches me off guard, when I forget to add fuel and think I can't forge / cook anything : )

[CatPerson]

Originally posted by Splatter58:

Originally posted by kkitts:

The grills aren't all that necessary. Bacon and eggs will boost your health and wellness fine by themselves, and boiled meat you can cook without eggs.

Bacon and eggs now use a cooking pot. Not much left for grill to do except grilled meat. They could do away wwith the grill and use the pot and call it fried meat instead, same perks.

Some people still really like baked potatoes, which requires a grill.
But yeah...I dunno why they made bacon/eggs use a pot instead of a grill. I mean, I think you'd want a frying pan (fried eggs on most grills would fall through), but since there is no frying pan...guess they went with the pot instead, now. Boiled bacon? :D