do you need an oven? im running a primitive/forest survival game and this would be perfect, but i wouldnt be able to get/make any sort of oven for a while. does this work with campfires?

I know it's been years since this was updated, but I LOVE THIS MOD and the idea behind it. idk if you're at all still into modding PZ, but this mod is SO GOOD, it'd be great if it were returned to!

needs avocado pots, and some compatibility with Mo' Crops

That could be a great idea!
I'd wait for the next huge patch to see all the new things with the crafting, and improve it at this moment : )

wouldnt need a magazine and a trait to make more interesting, good work bro

@RamboTurkey: nope! it's only made to keep food :)

can i cook in a clay pot

I was looking for a mod to speed up cooking. Not at all looking to add recipes, or anything else to the game. That being said, I am SO glad that I stumbled upon this mod. Not only are jars far too rare to be realistic, but I love that there is another option! I love the idea of both jarred and potted food. Furthermore, I was reading the comments, and it would be SO awesome to preserver full meals. I was just watching a YouTube video on 'Meals in a Bag', where the woman, who owns a homestead and is a prepper, used a freeze dryer to dehydrate certain things, and then jarred other things, and put everything together in bags so she'd have 'grab and go' meals to make. Genius.

great work. underrated mod.

Either way, I would not ask you to ever go over the realistic amount in such containers can naturally carry. If it cannot be reduced, then I am ok with it as-is. This is quite exciting to have ceramic pots in the game. I envision the days of ancient Greece or even the modern days in some places in the world still using them. I know in a real apocalypse I will be learning methods like this mod. You will find me in the library. I will have guns and a shopping cart with foods and finding all kinds of books.

Nope! Not at all, I know the size of the pots/jars in real life (since I grew up seeing my grand parents and parents using them), I just made an "approximately realistic" estimate based on how much vegetables you could put in it. ( a lettuce is big, a potato is tinier )

This is definitely a great idea, I don't see why you couldn't put any kind of amount in a ceramic pot to preserve them, even if the pot/jar is not full.

The problem is more because of the way the game allows you to make recipes. I'll dig a bit more to see if it is possible to create recipes that will allow you to put less of the needed ingredients to make a jar... but I fear it might be impossible.

That said !

It gave me an idea : I could make ceramic pots that would perfectly fit several cooking recipes ( stew, roast etc...), with the exact amount of ingredients needed to make a full meal.

I just need to figure out what would be the best way to avoid duplicating dozens of recipes.

I don't think I have the heart to ask you to reduce the amount that realistically pots are made to hold. I am a big fan of realism heavy on the role playing. I prefer your approach if it is true to real life. I never jarred anything before and I have never potted food before. I just presumed in real life that I can decide how many items I prefer to jar/pot. I know it is a waist of room to jar/pot 1 or 2 items but isn't it my jars/pots to waist? Vanilla never gave this option. Maybe your pots can have a choice of minimum and maximum choice I can make to preserve? Unless in real life you must jar/pot to its brim. I don't know if in real life a person has a choice. I wish to choose how many I want to pot. Can that be done, and if so, can you provide that option for your pots?

That is what I am saying. I find 5 tomatoes or 5 of anything from vanilla glass jars go to waist by the end of 2 days when everything goes stale. If I want to make an elaborate meal, the meals require a fraction of the required amount to be preserved, so by the end of 2 days, when everything goes stale, I find myself with leftover ingredients.

@magborg : I made the pots kinda like if it was in real life ( size of the pot + size of the vegetable), so for instance, based on the tiny ones, they can hold 8 tomatoes, or 10 carrots, or 3 cabbage.

Big ones old 50% more than the tiny ones. ie : 8 tomatoes becomes 12. 3 cabbage becomes 5 (rounded high).

This is something that might be balanced.

What you say is that you'd want to make a pot / jar with less than the required amount ?

I am super curious. How many items does the small pot hold and the large pot hold? I ask because the vanilla jars must hold 5 items when in truth, I want it to sometimes hold less but I have no choice in the matter. Your mod might be the answer that I am looking for.

very nice!