MelanieNoToolsFix
Allows custom recipes without tools in Melanie's Crafting Core and Farming and Cooking by leaving the tool field empty.
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Melanie No Tools Fix
Enables custom recipes without tools in Melanie’s Crafting Core and Farming and Cooking mods.
Recipes without tools
Leave the tool field empty:
Product: Amount:: IngredientID;Amount: Priority
Example:
Custom Oven Recipes = Cat: 1:: 30000;1|30001;1|30002;1: 100
This example assumes you have registered these custom ingredient IDs:
- 30000 → Egg
- 30001 → Meat Scraps
- 30002 → Plastic fish
Use your own ingredient IDs if they differ. The output item must exist and its name must match.
Important
- 0 means Hammer—not “no tools.”
- For no tools, write exactly:: with two spaces between the colons.
- Separate multiple recipes with,.
- Save your configuration and restart the game.
Existing recipes with tool requirements remain unchanged.
Compatibility
Targets Crafting Core 1.2.6 and Farming and Cooking 1.5.5. Other versions are not confirmed.
If recipes still fail, check BepInEx/LogOutput.log for patch errors and verify your item names and ingredient IDs.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: