Can't find a Cooking Pot

[GoreTiger]

I'm starting to get a little desperate. Started in Desolation point, Made my way back to CH. I've searched 3/4's of the houses on the map and no Cooking pot. Does anyone know of a high chance of one on CH?

[Ogre]

I usually find one in the houses around the Quonset

[PowerOn]

Look inside kitchen sink.

[iwasa]

Don't want to discourage you but, after starting in Desolation, I went through Coastal Highway, Timberwolf Mountain (didn't expect to find any there, btw), and most of Pleasant Valley before I found my first cooking pot on the counter in the farmstead kitchen. That cooking pot was also the only cooking pot in all of Pleasant Valley. When I got to Mystery Lake, I found cooking pots in Carter Hydro (1), Camp Office (3) and Trappers (2). I do not consider the Mystery Lake result to be typical (the camp office also had like eight cans laying around).

In another somewhat older sandbox (all of this is in Pilgrim sandboxes), cooking pots have been hard to come by and generally never in any area that had previously been searched prior to the introduction of New Cooking. Like one in the farmstead (seems reliable spawn) and one at the camp office. Note that in this sandbox, excepting Broken Railroad, Mountain Town (and now Hushed River Valley), all other regions had been searched.

May you have better luck than I did especially in my older sandbox.

[bili00777]

Pfff, you just dodnt have luck i think. On my longer loper run i found 3 in camp office in ML and alltogether 5 in PV but dont really remember where, i just know i have 5 on the stove :D and i think trappers had one also in ML.

On the same note, i started one new loper run in DP and didnt find any pot until i died in CH...

[JiffyPopKids]

I assume you're playing Interloper? If not, that's pretty darn unlucky.

I usualy find most of my pots on the kitchen counter or in the sink. sometimes there's a chance (small chance) to find one in one of the cabinets.

I'm doing an Interloper run right now just for fun and I seem to be doing "alright" (not regarding the complete and utter lack of hammer and clothing) and I have three cooking pots. left two at my perma base and bring one aswell as a can with me just in case.

Good luck!

[GoreTiger]

I'm actually on whatever difficulty has the wolf symbol.

But it's kind of dumb when I search all these house kitchens with electric stoves And none of them have a cooking pots. It's really crippled my survival plans at this time because I'm running out of food and have used up all my Antibiotics eating raw food out of desperation. They should of made it where you can create a cooking pot at the forge, at the very least.

[JiffyPopKids]

Hm, you are on stalker then, if it has the wofl symbol. But yeah, that's really really unlucky that you have not found one.

There's no need to eat your food raw, you can cook it on the fire without a cooking pot. You have a camp fire going right? you drop the meat on the ground and right click it. this will pick up the meat with your mouse and from here you need to place the meat on one of the burners just like you would a cooking pot or recycled can. This cooks maybe 10 - 15 minutes slower than using a pot, but still works just the same. Just know that you can't cook liquids like tea, coffee, water, without a can.

Tip; when you drop teas, coffees and soup cans, (peaches, tomato soup, porn 'n beans,) near a fire they will start warming up. it's not as fast as if they were on a burner, but they also can't burn! so if you have a fire going just drop your coffees / teas (or any soup you might want to heat up) near the fire and it will warm up without taking a burner plate! Too bad you cannot cook meat like this. :(

Good luck finding a pot! :D

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

Hm, you are on stalker then, if it has the wofl symbol. But yeah, that's really really unlucky that you have not found one.

There's no need to eat your food raw, you can cook it on the fire without a cooking pot. You have a camp fire going right? you drop the meat on the ground and right click it. this will pick up the meat with your mouse and from here you need to place the meat on one of the burners just like you would a cooking pot or recycled can. This cooks maybe 10 - 15 minutes slower than using a pot, but still works just the same. Just know that you can't cook liquids like tea, coffee, water, without a can.

Tip; when you drop teas, coffees and soup cans, (peaches, tomato soup, porn 'n beans,) near a fire they will start warming up. it's not as fast as if they were on a burner, but they also can't burn! so if you have a fire going just drop your coffees / teas (or any soup you might want to heat up) near the fire and it will warm up without taking a burner plate! Too bad you cannot cook meat like this. :(

Good luck finding a pot! :D

So just to clarify, I move the meat to the rocks beside the fire, and it'l still cook even tho it'l take longer? It doesn't advance the spoil percentage?

[JiffyPopKids]

Originally posted by KrayToast (KlaxosaurSquad):

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

Hm, you are on stalker then, if it has the wofl symbol. But yeah, that's really really unlucky that you have not found one.

There's no need to eat your food raw, you can cook it on the fire without a cooking pot. You have a camp fire going right? you drop the meat on the ground and right click it. this will pick up the meat with your mouse and from here you need to place the meat on one of the burners just like you would a cooking pot or recycled can. This cooks maybe 10 - 15 minutes slower than using a pot, but still works just the same. Just know that you can't cook liquids like tea, coffee, water, without a can.

Tip; when you drop teas, coffees and soup cans, (peaches, tomato soup, porn 'n beans,) near a fire they will start warming up. it's not as fast as if they were on a burner, but they also can't burn! so if you have a fire going just drop your coffees / teas (or any soup you might want to heat up) near the fire and it will warm up without taking a burner plate! Too bad you cannot cook meat like this. :(

Good luck finding a pot! :D

So just to clarify, I move the meat to the rocks beside the fire, and it'l still cook even tho it'l take longer? It doesn't advance the spoil percentage?

You are correct. Just like you would place a pot or can on the stove / campfire, (does not matter which) you also place the meat on there. It cooks it just like it would with a pot, just takes longer.

When you are placing a pot and can on a stove, you know how it sort of snaps into place and it has green to signal that you are able to place it? it does the exact same thing with meat. it just takes maybe 10 or 15 game minutes longer to cook. it does not spoil the meat any, it actually boosts it condition. when you cook something, the item will gain 50% condition back after cooking. So let's assume you have a 0% condition raw rabbit. you cook this and it's condition will go up to 50% and it will be edible again. :)

[GoreTiger]

crisis averted. Finally found a Cooking pot in a little house on the coast. Thanks for the tips tho guys.

[Тертий Калач]

This is just ridiculous. Wow. It's harder to find a cooking pot in any house than a flare shell in a children's room. I'm playing the story mode now: interiors are full of dozens of unusable pots - are they also damaged by the storm?

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by avenjar:

This is just ridiculous. Wow. It's harder to find a cooking pot in any house than a flare shell in a children's room. I'm playing the story mode now: interiors are full of dozens of unusable pots - are they also damaged by the storm?

Nice necro, first. And second, this thread is posted in general discussions, which is used to discuss Survival Mode and Challenge Modes. If you need help finding recycled cans or cooking pots in Wintermute Story Mode, please visit the dedicated Wintermute subforum, whee people who have actually played Wintermute Story Mode may be willing to tell you locations they found some in.And some of what you are seeing as "pots" may actually be basins, not cooking pots.

[Тертий Калач]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Originally posted by avenjar:

This is just ridiculous. Wow. It's harder to find a cooking pot in any house than a flare shell in a children's room. I'm playing the story mode now: interiors are full of dozens of unusable pots - are they also damaged by the storm?

Nice necro, first. And second, this thread is posted in general discussions, which is used to discuss Survival Mode and Challenge Modes. If you need help finding recycled cans or cooking pots in Wintermute Story Mode, please visit the dedicated Wintermute subforum, whee people who have actually played Wintermute Story Mode may be willing to tell you locations they found some in.And some of what you are seeing as "pots" may actually be basins, not cooking pots.

I googled for my issue and found this topic among the first results. Maybe next time - please don't mind.

My point - if recycled cans can be used for boiling water - why metal basins can't? or any other utensil like metal pots, teapots, buckets?

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by avenjar:

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Nice necro, first. And second, this thread is posted in general discussions, which is used to discuss Survival Mode and Challenge Modes. If you need help finding recycled cans or cooking pots in Wintermute Story Mode, please visit the dedicated Wintermute subforum, whee people who have actually played Wintermute Story Mode may be willing to tell you locations they found some in.And some of what you are seeing as "pots" may actually be basins, not cooking pots.

I googled for my issue and found this topic among the first results. Maybe next time - please don't mind.

My point - if recycled cans can be used for boiling water - why metal basins can't? or any other utensil like metal pots, teapots, buckets?

Because game mechanics. The devs give us recycled cans and pots to use, to add some challenge to the game, and encourage us to explore to find them, or to find tools to open cans with to obtain new recycled cans. If we could use every plate, basin, tray, ect., in the game, we would have no reason to go explore the world to find something to use. And you only need a cooking pot to make liquids, to cook meat, fish, canned goods, ect... you can place them directly on a cooking stone by a campfire, or on a burner on a stove, or on a cooking slot in a fireplace.Cooking pots weigh a ton too. I prefer to carry 2 recycled cans when traveling and completing quests in Wintermute, and in Survival Mode. Cooking pots get left behind at bases.

[iwasa]

In newer save games, pots should be available but the RNG is not necessarily your friend or fair. In some, people are practically swimming in pots, in some, like one of mine, (it was an older one) I went through four or five regions before finding my first pot. I guess it did make me appreciate the pot that I did find more but I was almost despairing of finding any pot.