VFP: Portions Overview

As of: mc1.11.2-3.2 (Aug-2017)

Using a bucket of milk as a substitute for a small amount of milk in a recipe for one bread or one drink is odd. Moreover, items like steaks and pork chops are a pretty expensive way to make one sandwich considering you have to kill a cow or pig just to get a couple pieces of it. VFP uses the idea of portions to address both these concerns.

VFP uses portions to standardize its food recipes by normalizing the amount of an ingredient each recipe expects (an expectation that is reflected in the hunger and saturation values assigned to the final edible food item). Using well-defined portions mitigates the inefficiencies of using raw source ingredients that can vary widely in size and quality. Read Food Powders for an example of the pigeon 'egg' versus the chicken 'egg' versus the dinosaur 'egg' dilemma.

VFP also uses portions in many of its recipes to allow you to combine less expensive resources with more expensive ones to make equal or more nutritious food than those items standalone. And portions are not limited to just foodstuffs; we add ways to portion other kinds of resources like lava buckets, leather (or animal hides), bones, and even iron.

Bucket Break-ups

Bit o' Water

Bit o' Milk

Bit o' Heat

Meat, Poultry, Fish Portions

Mod Integration

VFP will automatically add some integration recipes for the Harvestcraft, Animania, and Aquaculture mods. For Harvestcraft, all of its fish are the same as a standard cod, so you will be able to portion up these raw fish into fish portions like you would cod. For Animania, you will be able to portion up its raw steak and bacon cuts as well as its various types of raw whole chicken. Note that you cannot portion the large meat cuts directly as they produce different amounts of steak or bacon per breed. First create the basic steak or bacon item, then portion that. For Aquaculture you will be able to portion their basic fish fillet and whale steak as well as some of the other raw drops like squid. Eventually you will be able to portion up a caught fish based on its weight-- a 15lb brown trout should not give you the same amount of fish as a 3lb one!

Food Powders

Food powders are dehydrated, fixed-size portions of items like cocoa, pumpkins, and milk. Most food powders derive from a single source item, but some are crafted from multiple source items and some are compound powders, called mixes, crafted from other powders.

Rationale

Like all portions, food powders let us create recipes based on a normalized definition of a ingredient like an egg or a potato or a mushroom. Here is an example of why this additional normalization is useful: based on what mods you're running, a Forge registered egg can be anything from a pigeon egg, to a chicken egg, to an ostrich egg, to a huge dinosaur egg! By using the Powdered Egg item, VFP can normalize each of these so that one chicken egg gives you 1 powder, one ostrich egg gives you 2 powders, three pigeon eggs give you 1 powder, and your favorite dinosaur egg gives you 12 powders. Suddenly all kinds of "eggs" become reasonable sources for all the recipes that use powdered eggs.

Food powders are also central to many of the multi-flavored VFP foods like Breads, Gelos, Fizzy Drinks, and Cream Soups, where you use a food powder to create a flavored variant of a base recipe. For instance you can change:

this to this Milk Drink...or,

this to this Gelo...or,

this to this Cream Soup.

Simple Powders

Crafting a simple food powder is straightforward; the recipe always uses one Drying Agent and one or more of the item being dried. Below are some examples of simple food powders recipe from standard Minecraft items. There is a food powder for just about every standard food item and food powders for other items for which VFP has introduced a new food-related use.

-or- Drying 1 item for 1 or more powders

-or- Drying N items for 1 powder

Complex Powders

Some powders are complex powders that you craft from multiple distinct ingredients in varied amounts. You will still need to use at least one Drying Agent to get the final powder.

Tea-Time in Minecraft!

A lot of 'Ow!'

Compound Powders

Some powders are compound powders or mixes that you craft from other powders. These mixes often include other powdered ingredients such as Sugar, Salt, Flour, and Baking Soda.

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Mod Integration

If you play with mods that add many new crops to the game, there are additional simple powders that may become craftable automatically. Depending on the availability of certain common crops, the new powders can include: Powdered Peanut Butter, Black Pepper Powder, Onion Powder, Celery Powder, Tomato Powder, Strawberry Powder, Mango Powder, Coffee Crystals, and others.

(RealWorld)

The recipes for some compound powders can also change when these other mods are present. This is so a mix can still exist, but in a much simplier form, if a crop-providing mod is not present. Below you can compare the simple version of the Frying Batter Mix to the Harvestcraft version which requires Black Pepper Powder.

versus (HarvestCraft)

Finally, some compound powders are available only when all the ingredient powders are present-- they have no simple versions. For example, the Stew Base Mix powder is craftable only if all six of its ingredient powders are present. Those powders aren't craftable unless you include mods that provide black peppercorn, onion, celery, and garlic. Depending on the availability of certain crops and herbs, the new compound powders can include: Stew Base Mix, Citrus Mix, Mocha Mix, Pickling Spice, and others.

(Harvestcraft)

Note that any food items based on these powders will also become available automatically. So, for instance, you will be able to craft citrus flavored drinks and sno-cones if you can craft Citrus Mix.

Non-Food Powders

Food powders are just the largest category of powdered ingredients in the mod. There are other powders you must craft to complete many food recipes but they are not food powders themselves. For example, What-What Powder is an activator you'll need to prepare many ingredients and food, but it's not an food powder per se.

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Miscellanous

Iron Smuggets

Iron smuggets or small nuggets represent a tiny amount of iron. They're used in the various empty jar recipes to represent the metal resource needed for the jar's lid. Note that this recipe is ONE WAY; you cannot recreate a nugget from 4 smuggets as indicated by the Bit Measure. So craft only the amount of smuggets you need. The recipe works for any nugget registered as nuggetIron.

Food Skewers

Food skewers are used in most kebab recipes. You split a wooden stick into 2 skewer packs (of 3-4) per recipe although the recipe requires 2 sticks to make more effective use of the Flint Cutter. The recipe works for any stick registered as stickWood.

Piece o' Leather

Leather pieces let you further divide a single large animal hide (leather or any custom mod animal hides) into smaller equal portions. A single piece is equivalent to one rabbit hide. You use leather pieces to make name tags in VFP but it is also used in the modpack's other mods through its Forge registry id portionHideSmall. The recipe works for any hide registered as leather.

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