FirmaLife Mod (1.21.1, 1.20.1) – A Cooking Addon for TerraFirmaCraft

FirmaLife Mod is an addon for the popular TerraFirmaCraft Mod, aimed at adding more realism to the fields of cooking and agriculture. You will have various options for both modular and regular ovens, allowing you to prepare many new products and dishes. To grow crops in winter, you will need to use greenhouses, and aspects of bee breeding and their genetics will be added to the beekeeping process.

Features:

Differences from TFC:

• Firmalife makes a few changes to how things operate in regular TFC. This chapter exists to help direct you towards areas where this is very different.
• Cheese Aging: Cheese is made through a more complex process. It can be placed in world, and has the option of aging in a Cellar.
• Bread Making: Bread is made through a more complex process, requiring yeast and sweetener. The regular TFC bread recipe makes flatbread, which is worse nutritionally.
• Sweeteners: Firmalife has a greater emphasis on sugar. While it can still be obtained through sugar cane, consider using honey (from bees) or making sugar from beets!

Cheese:

• Making cheese in Firmalife is a little more involved than in vanilla TFC. There are two new kinds of milk: Yak Milk, and Goat Milk. These are obtained from milking the Yak and Goat, respectively. Milking the Cow still produces the old kind of milk.

Climate Station:

• The Climate Station is a block that manages the Greenhouse and the Cellar. When its corresponding multiblock is built correctly, it will show water on its sides. When it is invalid, it will show ice. The Climate Station must be placed on the first level of the multiblock, touching a wall. If it is not touching a wall, you may Right Click it with a block that is part of the multiblock you are trying to make to tell it what to look for.

Cellars:

• The Cellar is a multiblock device controlled by a Climate Station. The Cellar multiblock’s only requirement is that it be in an enclosed area surrounded by Sealed Bricks or Sealed Brick Doors on all sides. The Climate Station must be placed on the first level of the cellar, touching a wall.

Food Shelves:

• The Food Shelf is a device for storing food. It can only be used in a valid Cellar. Food shelves can contain a full stack of one food item. Adding and removing the item can be done with Right Click. Items in valid food shelves receive a decay modifier that is better than vessels.

Hangers:

• The Hanger is a device for storing meat or garlic. It can only be used in a valid Cellar. Food shelves can contain a full stack of one item. Adding and removing the item can be done with Right Click. Items in valid food shelves receive a decay modifier that is better than shelves or vessels.

Jarbnets:

• The jarbnet is a cosmetic storage block for Jars, Candles, and Jugs. It can be opened and closed by clicking with an empty hand and Shift pressed. If candles are inside, it can be lit to produce a small amount of light.

Greenhouse:

• The Greenhouse is a multiblock device controlled by a Climate Station. It allows growing crops year round. The Greenhouse has an array of types and blocks to choose from. However, building a greenhouse is quite simple. Like the Cellar, it should be an enclosed area of blocks belonging to the same Greenhouse Type. The floor of the greenhouse may be non-air block.
• The walls of greenhouses must be solid faces. Panel walls should be placed so that the face that is on the exterior of the block (eg. the face you can place a torch on) faces into the greenhouse. The same applies for roofs, except that slabs are always considered valid roof blocks. Trapdoors and doors are also always valid and require no special placement.
• Greenhouse Types are families of greenhouse blocks that can be used interchangeably in a greenhouse. Most greenhouse blocks age. For example, Treated Wood greenhouse blocks become Weathered Treated Wood blocks. Since both of those block types belong to the same greenhouse type, your greenhouse will continue to function.

Irrigation:

• The Sprinkler is a device that sprinkles water in a 5x6x5 area centered on the block below the sprinkler block. You know it is working when it drips out water particles. Sprinklers placed facing up irrigate the same 5x6x5 area above.

Planters:

• Planters are used to grow crops inside a Greenhouse. To see the status of a planter, you can look at it while holding a Hoe. Crops in planters consume Nutrients in a similar way to Crops. Planters should be placed inside a valid Greenhouse and activated with a Climate Station. Planters need at least some natural sunlight to work.

Beekeeping:

• Beehives are a place to house bees. Beehives need Beehive Frames inside them for the bees to live. Removing frames from an active hive will cause the bees to attack you, unless done at night, or with a Firepit underneath the hive active. Beehives can share flowers. The benefit of flowers diminishes after 60 flowers.

Stainless Steel:

• Stainless Steel and Chromium are Steel-tier metals added by Firmalife. They are used in the construction of Stainless Steel Greenhouses.

Drying:

• The Drying Mat is used to dry items. It is made with Fruit Leaves, which are obtained from breaking the leaves of Fruit Trees.

Smoking:

• Wool string is used to hang items for Smoking. To place it, just use Right Click.

Ovens:

• Ovens are a great way of cooking lots of food in a way that improves their shelf life. Oven-baked food decays at 90% of the rate of regular food. Ovens are a multiblock structure consisting of a Bottom Oven, Top Oven, and optionally Chimneys. These blocks start off as clay, and must be Cured by raising their temperature to a certain amount for long enough.

Oven Appliances:

• Ovens have a number of devices that interact with them, that extend their functionality. This is because ovens are modular in nature.

Bread:

• To make Bread, one first must get Yeast. To get your first yeast, seal Dried Fruit in a Barrel of Water. After three days, Yeast Starter will form. From now on, your yeast can be fed by sealing Yeast Starter in a Barrel with Flour. This causes it to multiply. 1 flour per 100mB of Yeast produces 600mB of Yeast. That’s a good deal!

More Fertilizer Options:

• Given a greater need for fertilization in Firmalife, there are more options for getting fertilizers.

Mixing Bowl:

• The mixing bowl is a way of mixing items and fluids together in a friendly way. Right Click on it with a Spoon to add it to the bowl, which allows it to operate.

Herbs and Spices:

• In Firmalife, there are a number of small plants you can collect and grow on your own, which have cooking properties. The easiest way to obtain these plants is with a Seed Ball. To use a Seed Ball, just Right Click to throw it, like a snowball. This will spawn Butterfly Grass in the area.

Firmalife Fruits:

• Firmalife adds some fruiting plants on top of those added by TFC.

Berry Bushes:

• Firmalife adds some berry bushes. For information on wild grape bushes, see winemaking.

Chocolate:

• Chocolate-making takes a few processing steps, for not much of a reward. It’s important to remember, when playing Firmalife, that being a chocolatier is for your personal enjoyment and pleasure, rather than for trying to extract maximum value from any given input.

Winemaking:

• Winemaking is the science of turning grapes into alcohol. There is time spent gathering resources, and spending time crafting those resources together, as well as time spent enjoying the product. Please note that wine in Firmalife (on its own) has no special use beyond regular TFC alcohol. You should make it only if you want to have fun.

Wine Consumption:

• The discerning sommelier will be able to detect subtleties in the wine that is produced under different conditions. Indeed, this is possible in the world of Firmalife as well. It starts in the fields in which those grapes were grown — a row of grapes is deeply affected by the ambient environment and soil.

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