More uses for dough (similar to clay forming)

[GraeGrove]

I would love to see more recipes for dough.
I image it similar to clayforming where you place a dough on a table and shape it into things like:

• noodles -> to be used in stews
• dumplings
• pie crust

After forming, fillings for the pie and dumplings could be added.

 

[Facethief]

There really needs to be a pot meal that uses dough. Maybe stew + dough is dumplings and soup + dough is noodles?

[Entaris]

pierogi

ravioli

pot stickers

wontons

crab rangoon

egg rolls

 

we have the ingredients to make all these things

[Crunchy Chicken]

I would like for Culinary Artillery and Expanded Foods to get included in the base game, and then use the new things those bring to expand foods further. They were such a game changer for me, and then you can still add so much on top of them. Dumplings would be so great.

[Krougal]

7 hours ago, Entaris said:

pierogi

ravioli

pot stickers

wontons

crab rangoon

egg rolls

 

we have the ingredients to make all these things

Only because crab rangoon doesn't contain any crab

Stupid Mongorians ruin my shitty crab rangoon!

6 minutes ago, Crunchy Chicken said:

I would like for Culinary Artillery and Expanded Foods to get included in the base game, and then use the new things those bring to expand foods further. They were such a game changer for me, and then you can still add so much on top of them. Dumplings would be so great.

No. Sometimes too much is too much. I'm happy to see all these things as mods but I just don't feel the need for them.

[Crunchy Chicken]

8 hours ago, Krougal said:

No. Sometimes too much is too much. I'm happy to see all these things as mods but I just don't feel the need for them.

I'm obsessed with cooking in this game. I can't help it man, I just want more LMAO

[Crunchy Chicken]

On 9/12/2025 at 5:37 AM, Entaris said:

pierogi

ravioli

pot stickers

wontons

crab rangoon

egg rolls

 

we have the ingredients to make all these things

Since I just saw this. Pierogi requiers twaróg, or closest thing in english being curd cheese. It's one of the 3 main ingredients, it's absolutely necessary and not-skippable. So that would be a no on that one (if you say cream cheese or cottage cheese can do I will send all of my nation to hunt you down).

[Entaris]

6 hours ago, Crunchy Chicken said:

Since I just saw this. Pierogi requiers twaróg, or closest thing in english being curd cheese. It's one of the 3 main ingredients, it's absolutely necessary and not-skippable. So that would be a no on that one (if you say cream cheese or cottage cheese can do I will send all of my nation to hunt you down).

Yeah, like I said, we have cheese.

Edited September 18, 2025 by Entaris

[Thorfinn]

On 9/12/2025 at 6:11 AM, Krougal said:

No. Sometimes too much is too much. I'm happy to see all these things as mods but I just don't feel the need for them.

QFT. VS is enough of a game that you are spending some amount of time min-maxing. Everyone does. Not many use flax grain for anything except rot or animal feed unless they have nothing else to eat. Those of us who do use flax grain for cooking are also min-maxing. You prefer redmeat to poultry or fish because of the higher nutrition. You cook two pots with identical ingredients to save on crock space. 

If VS were to become more of an activity, more like Stardew, where there is some kind of achievement system keeping track of which recipes you have made, sure. EF could really use a companion mod that did exactly that.

But EF really needs to be modularized. There's just too many options, and its size and complexity drives marginal computers out. Plus, any update to the API can lead to months of patching. Has. I'd probably use stuff like berry drying and baking (which needs the mixing component) but all the simmering and shelving and bottle crossover stuff? Probably not. There's just too much to do in the game without getting all bogged down in the stuff I don't find fun or engaging. 

[Crunchy Chicken]

1 hour ago, Thorfinn said:

But EF really needs to be modularized. There's just too many options, and its size and complexity drives marginal computers out. Plus, any update to the API can lead to months of patching. Has. I'd probably use stuff like berry drying and baking (which needs the mixing component) but all the simmering and shelving and bottle crossover stuff? Probably not. There's just too much to do in the game without getting all bogged down in the stuff I don't find fun or engaging. 

To be completely honest I never used that and forgot it even exists. I like mostly the enhancements to pie making (meat-onion-berry pie may not be tasty but it sure was my favourite nutrition) and things like drying the berries. Berries perish so fast in this game, I like them but struggle to make any use of them outside of rot. The drying was so fun, and I could put the dried berries in pies later too. I wish that was in the base game, that specifically.

[LadyWYT]

5 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

But EF really needs to be modularized.

Currently that seems to be happening...sort of. A few modders have essentially been stripping out the functions of EF they enjoy, such as vinegar, and packaging it into a separate mod so they can have just that function, assuming of course that it didn't already exist as a stand-alone mod. 

[LadyWYT]

On 9/11/2025 at 1:57 PM, GraeGrove said:

• noodles -> to be used in stews
• dumplings
• pie crust

While I like the concept of noodles, I'm a little iffy on including them, as to my knowledge they were more of an Eastern food item during the Middle Ages and not that common yet in Europe. However, at a glance, it also appears that the late Middle Ages is when noodles really started to become popular in Europe, so it does fit.

Rather than dumplings or altering pie crust though, I would vote for pudding as a cookpot recipe instead. Simply include dough for the first two slots, and then fill the other slots with fruit, meat, or vegetables to get a sweet or savory pudding that keeps decently well and can be cut into portions like a pie. This allows players the option of cooking a filling meal while on the road, without needing a bowl or crock to store/eat it.

[Thorfinn]

Dough is currently context-aware. You put it in an oven,  it's bread. On a table, lower pie crust. On a pie, a top crust.

How do you see this working? If you put it on a table, it brings up a selection,  like knapping etc. does? That seems like a lot of tedium.

Maybe a recipe card? Put it in your crafting grid with dough and the output is that form?

[Edit]

Oh, how about changing the table to hold the recipe card? That way whatever final form you want operates like pies currently do? Including using dough and cottage cheese to make pierogis?

Edited September 19, 2025 by Thorfinn

[Teh Pizza Lady]

18 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

While I like the concept of noodles, I'm a little iffy on including them, as to my knowledge they were more of an Eastern food item during the Middle Ages and not that common yet in Europe.

Noodles existed in Europe as early as the 13th century and were a common staple of the Arab and African nations. It was introduce to Sicily at that time and from there it spread across Italy and the rest of Europe. It wasn't until Marco Polo went to China that they realized that noodle were a more global food than earlier realized. The African noodle was, of course, couscous.

2 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

Dough is currently context-aware. You put it in an oven,  it's bread. On a table, lower pie crust. On a pie, a top crust.

How do you see this working? If you put it on a table, it brings up a selection,  like knapping etc. does? That seems like a lot of tedium.

Maybe a recipe card? Put it in your crafting grid with dough and the output is that form?

You mean you don't form your pasta directly on the floor like a real cave man? Preposterous! Pretentious! Pre..pre...Presumptuous! Dare I say it... Predatory?