YACS - Another cooking skill module
Gain experience points with cooking skills to unlock new recipes and careers!
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Gain experience points with cooking skills to unlock new recipes and careers!
YACS - Another cooking skill mod
🍳 **YACS** is a remastered module that combines the creativity of Spacechase's "CookingSkill" and Blueberry's "For the Love of Cooking"! It retains the essence of these two modules while adding unique customization content, bringing a new experience to Stardew Valley's cooking system.
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✨ Core Functions
- **Cooking Experience System**: Gain experience points every time you cook
- **Friendship Bonus**: Homemade food provides a friendship bonus based on 10% of the edibility.
- **Quality Impact**: The quality of ingredients now affects the quality of the finished product
- **Level Rewards**: Level up to unlock new recipes with buffs
- **Career Selection**: Choose different cooking careers to get gold coin bonuses, gain enhancements or random effects.
📈 Experience acquisition mechanism
- Earn 2 experience points for each cooking session
- For the first 10 times of production, you can get 50% of the extra experience of the item's edible degree.
- For example, if you make pizza for the first 10 times, you will get 32 experience points each time, and then you will only get 2 points.
- Encourage players to try making many different foods
- Experience gain settings can be adjusted in the configuration file
🎯 Skill level and occupation
**Level Reward**: The edibility of homemade food is +3%, and professional effects last longer and have stronger effects.
Level 5 career options:
- **Chef**: The meals cooked have a chance to be of higher quality
- Level 10 Branch 1: **Cooking Master** - Double chance of getting double recipes based on cooking bonus
- Level 10 Branch 2: **Chef** - Homemade food sells for double plus cooking bonus
- **Gourmet**: Food buffs last longer
- Level 10 Branch 1: **Food Connoisseur** - The food buff effect increases by one level
- Level 10 Branch 2: **Gourmetologist** - Gain a third random "Food/Drink" buff when eating and drinking
⚙️ Configuration options
-Basic cooking experience value: default 2 points
- Extra experience for item edibility: 50% by default
- Extra experience limit: 11 times
-Original food changes: All original food changes except pie crust can be turned off
🔗 Compatible modules
**Fully Compatible**:
- All Professions
- Better Crafting
- CJB Item Spawner
- Skill Prestige
- Kitchen Stations
-Original mastery system
**Experience Display Module**:
- Xp Display
- Abilities - Experience Bars
- Experience Bars
- Look Up Anything
🚀 Future plans
- Improved gift preferences for cross-mod content
- Remake original foods and add buffs to more foods
- Added a new large machine: a simple baking oven that can cook pie food overnight
💻 Open source contribution
Feel free to submit pull requests on GitHub!
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🎮 Usage suggestions
This module perfectly integrates into daily life in Stardew Valley, making cooking no longer just about making food, but a skill worth investing in. It is recommended to use it with other life skill modules to create a richer farm life experience!
🌟 **Tips**: Try different recipe combinations, unlock all career branches, and experience the complete growth path of a cooking master!
Install & use Install: SMAPI mod (Stardew Valley standard)
- Install SMAPI first (Stardew Valley's mod loader): download it from smapi.io, run 'install on Windows.bat' and pick your game folder.
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and find the folder that contains manifest.json — that folder is the mod.
- Copy that whole folder into Stardew Valley/Mods/.
- Launch the game through SMAPI (run StardewModdingAPI.exe or set it as the launch option). The console before the title screen lists each mod's load result.
Cheat-style tools may not need SMAPI — unzip and run them as the readme describes. Back up your save before editing it; SMAPI lists failed mods in its console.