We cook with fire (updated)

by DreadEye2020·v2.1·Updated 2025-09-21

Now all cooking stations with wood fires actually have fires. No more "going out" cooking fires.

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About this mod Machine translation

Now all cooking stations with wood fires actually have fires. No more "going out" cooking fires.

Original address:

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Far Harbor

Nuka World DLC

Updated on September 19th:

Version 2.1

Improved visuals for Super Mutant Stew; fixed some sub-optimal vanilla placement for Super Mutant Cauldron

Updated to version 2.0 beta on September 5th

This really bothers me. Cook with a fire that is "out" or even without fire, but you can still cook on it.

2.0 beta update

2.0 is a beta version and requires DLC Far Harbor and DLC Nuka-World

This mod does not change or even break the pre-composition.

All "outdoor" cooking stations now have campfires.

All Cooking Fires have bonfires (implemented in version 1.0)

All Cooking S pits now have bonfires, even craftable ones

All Cooking G Round Pots now have campfires

Cooking pots can now be crafted at workstations

New stew in the pot (hopefully it doesn't look like vomit)

The Super Mutant Cauldron (not the Cooking Station) now has glowing wood and favorite Super Mutant stews

ESL tagged ESP.

"Cooking Stations" have been renamed to the corresponding types of stations, "Cooking Fire", "Cooking Spit" and "Cooking Pot".

compatibility

Definitely incompatible with any mod that changes the cooking station grid.

Compatible with PRP as it does not contact pre-composition.

Patch available

Lootable patches for workbench and federation caves.

The COTC patch is not strictly necessary, it only contains some visual improvements.

More information

New cooking kebabs:

For some reason, Todd decided to make fireless cooking kebabs, but then he personally placed various types of doused campfires under the kebabs ("it worked"). And the fires are all put into the pre-combine and mostly placed like one as well.

Since I didn't want to destroy/edit/create a new pre-combine, I had to manually place the new cooking grill tip exactly on the pre-combine fire. Now there is more wood and half of the wood is not glowing because you can't make it glow without breaking or creating a new pre-combine.

So it is what it is. IMHO still much better than no fire at all.

New cooking pots:

Also "Todd's thing", there was no fire at all in the pot and no stew.

Crafting it requires 3 Steel, 2 Wood, and 1 Cloth, and requires the Local Leader Perk 2.

There is no stirring sound when stirring in the pot. Sounds may have been missing from Ground Pot's original script.

New Super Mutant Cauldron:

Since it's not a cooking station, I haven't added fire yet, just glowing wood. I may add fire in the next version.

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File & checksum

Filename
We Cook With Fire-95735-2-1-1758288953.7z
File size
13.5 MiB