Blue cheese

[Dilan Rona]

Has anyone managed to make blue cheese? I am currently in the middle of winter, and even when following the guide by Papa Cheddar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UpbrceYb7s&t=248s&ab_channel=PapaCheddar) exactly, I still get cheddar cheese, and not blue cheese.

[gilt-kutabe]

@Dilan Rona

I’ve managed to, though it took a lot of messing around. I don’t know what exactly made it work, but these are some things I tried:

- Completely new cheese wheels (don’t let them cure at all in your normal cellar)

- Make sure the cellar is actually pitch black (I had an issue where replacing the natural stone and dirt blocks with nicer blocks made everything bright down there)

- Try to make the cellar an actual cellar (if you have the Simple HUD Clock mod, it will show if it counts as a cellar) and then knock out one block next to the door/far from the cheese. If you make a tight, spiraling tunnel down, you should be able to make it fit within the right dimensions with it being dark enough.

I can show you screenshots in a few hours when I’m at my computer, if you think it’d help. When I got it to work, the cheese cured a lot faster than normal - check on it once in a while and make sure that it’s curing, and that it’s doing so fast enough to cure before spoiling. 

[Dilan Rona]

Screenshots will help a lot. Treid again yesterday and today, and eventually ended with a twisted 1x1 pipe that ran up, down, and around the building. and one of two things happened. Cheese wasnt ripening, or it ripened into cheddar cheese. Really ugly build that I am not even going to grace with a screenshot, it was that hideous.

[V1ncent]

the key is to limit the light level and do not put the shelf in a cellar, or in other word, the air hole to the outside space breaks the room.

If you aim at the cheese on the shelf shows ripening and not in a room, you are on the right way.

[Dilan Rona]

Still ended up with cheddar . And the air hole ended up being snaked around the building in my attempt to limit the light. Utter failure

[gilt-kutabe]

@Dilan Rona

Do these help? I can count out the dimensions if it's not clear. You can see that the cheese is only taking 14 days, which seems to be a things with blue cheese.

Edited May 11, 2025 by gilt-kutabe

[idiomcritter]

On 5/11/2025 at 1:57 PM, gilt-kutabe said:

Do these help?

They do for me, big thanks on taking the time to screenshot!

[Dilan Rona]

I officially give up. Even when dug into a mountain side, with that 1 block hole. I still get Cheddar cheese, or cheese that spoils.

Not worth the headache to make. Not when there are plenty of other tasks that I need to concentrate on inside the game.

[V1ncent]

From my experience, you either put the raw cheese in a cellar and get Cheddar, or the shelves are in high light level and cheese gets rotten rather than ripen.

Side note, as the raw cheese is not in a cellar and will both get a rippen time and a spoiling time, and the key is get the rippen before rotten so winter may help.

[Irulana]

We have similar problem after testing various places, we checked one of teleports that has steps leading to it it worked there. I just removed lantern there. Now we build cellar that has same amount steps downs, It's open to air and it worked in winter too.

[V1ncent]

1 hour ago, Irulana said:

We have similar problem after testing various places, we checked one of teleports that has steps leading to it it worked there. I just removed lantern there. Now we build cellar that has same amount steps downs, It's open to air and it worked in winter too.

Does this setup work? The raw cheese in the image is not ripening.

[BokuDesuNe]

I think the cheese ripening in 14 days is due to the colder temperatures, not that it is ripening into bleu cheese necessarily. The cheese ripens faster and spoils slower in cold temperatures, so making cheese is just easier in colder environments or in winter. I think ripening into bleu cheese and not cheddar cheese just depends on removing exposure to sunlight while providing access to open air (presumably so airborne mold spores can access the raw cheese and not be killed off by radiation from the sun).

Edited December 16, 2025 by BokuDesuNe

[BokuDesuNe]

Indeed, it appears that all you have to do is remove ALL access to sunlight while providing access to open air. Here is a quick guide:

====================== VINTAGE STORY STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO RIPEN BLEU CHEESE =========================

0. Only attempt to craft bleu cheese in cold environments or winter when there are at least 2 months of sub-freezing temperatures left. (Bleu cheese has to ripen in an unsealed environment, i.e., outside of a cellar. Unless the air temperature is cold enough, raw cheese wheels may spoil before they fully ripen.)

1. Dig or secure a cave, and leave the entrance open. You can block off the entrance with "open" blocks like fences or fence gates

2. Build enough walls in the cave to create twists and turns that reduce the DAYLIGHT at the back of the cave to 0. Check this by removing any artificial lights during the middle of the day and ensure that there is a spot where the cave is almost pitch black. Note: this part is best to do when temporal rift activity is CALM. (See Figure 1, below.)

3. Build a few wooden shelves in the dark spot. Now you can replace any artificial lights.

4. Craft some raw cheese wheels and place them on the shelves. Note: They don't have to be crafted in an area without sunlight, but they have to ripen in an area without sunlight and with open air access. 

5. Wait until the raw cheese wheels ripen (a little more than 14 days depending on the temperature) and you will have fresh wheels of bleu cheese! (See Figure 2, below.)

Figure 1: Cave with light level 0 in the DAYTIME. This is the spot to ripen bleu cheese.

Figure 2: Bleu cheese ripening success!

 

Hmm... I wonder if raw cheese can be ripened partially indoors, but either finish or start the process outdoors, and still produce bleu cheese. This would allow bleu cheese to be produced in warmer conditions.

 

Edited January 4 by BokuDesuNe

[OBAMFSpike]

On 5/11/2025 at 2:02 AM, Dilan Rona said:

Has anyone managed to make blue cheese? I am currently in the middle of winter, and even when following the guide by Papa Cheddar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UpbrceYb7s&t=248s&ab_channel=PapaCheddar) exactly, I still get cheddar cheese, and not blue cheese.

yes I have! I finally lucked out and Im still ironing out the details but I found a ruin in a cave while tunneling for a port near base. so absolutely no organic light and not one single door. just an entrance into it from the tunnel to port. 

notably it only cures as cheese when its cooler. I'm using the freedom mod currently I think the magical number is 50f. so this cheese cellar is valid in the winter but in the summer is only good for storage.