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Ah, my server restarts automatically every 6 hours, so maybe that's what fixed it. At least it seems to work most of the time! I'm so happy making my OP pies again.

Finally updated my server to the latest VS version with .net7 and the latest versions of ACA and EF! But... the pies are still not working. When I try to mix ingredients I still get the vanilla error message that you can't mix ingredient types. Is it known to be broken right now? Or do I have a bug? I was so excited for my chicken pot pies. EDIT: Hm... Now it's working, but I didn't change anything. Very strange! But at least I can make my delightful mixed pies again!

Oh my gosh, you're a legend, thanks so much! I will definitely be testing it out plenty!

I understand, and I can imagine it's very complicated to account for everything! But I do think as it stands right now, Xskills really discourages baking with the oven. Even if you're not using Expanded Foods at all, baking 4 loaves of bread in the oven takes a lot more time and effort than cooking porridge or stew in a pot, and it gives almost no XP. So it would be great if XP from baking anything in the oven got a bit of a boost. I could just make a bunch of pots of stew and porridge and level up really fast, but if I want to bake I make almost no progress. Clearly with the expanded foods stuff it's taken to an extreme, but even vanilla baking gives almost no reward compared to the time and effort required to light the oven, wait for the fire to go out, put the dough in, and watch it until it finishes so it doesn't burn. Thanks so much for considering the feedback! I'm having a lot of fun with the mod.

Just to show how unbalanced the XP is for cooking at the moment, I did some cooking and baking on stream today and put together a highlight showing the entire process of making a bowl of porridge (about 3 seconds, 2.64 xp) vs how much time and effort it takes to make 4 muffins (around 6 minutes, 0.20 xp). Even with vanilla baking, it's more work to light the oven, wait for it to heat up, put in the dough, watch it to make sure it doesn't burn, and bake bread, than it is to just make a bowl of porridge or stew, so I'd recommend boosting the xp from baking in the future even for simple vanilla bread if possible. Hope this helps! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1843904091

Is there any chance of a boost to xp from the oven in the future for expanded foods items? As it stands, I can make 6 servings of porridge in a cooking pot and get 2.88 points of xp, but if I make 4 muffins in the oven I only get 0.2 points. Making the porridge is literally just shift-click in the ingredients, add fuel, light, done. Finished the work in just a few seconds and I don't even have to watch it. Making the muffins is: 1) make dough by mixing flour, bone broth, oil, yeast starter, and egg in the mixing bowl (takes a while, gives no xp); 2) mix the dough with berries or candied fruit (takes the same amount of time as step 1, gives no xp); 3) put fuel in the oven, light it, wait for it to heat up (takes a while, gives no xp); 4) put the raw muffins in the oven and stand there waiting for them to bake so they don't burn (finally get 0.2 xp when they're done). The end result has taken ages to make and has far more nutrition than a bowl of porridge, yet it gives almost no xp. I've made many stacks of muffins for my server but I have fewer levels in cooking than another player who's just been making porridge and beef stew the whole time.

Ah, alright, that would explain the bone broth too then - you can't consume it directly so it has no nutrition value. Well, I suppose not too many "foods" give no nutrition, so it shouldn't affect much outside of broth and dough, and since as you say those will be cooked later, they should give some xp one way or another. It's a relief to figure out what the problem is at least!

Oh! Okay, so it IS working for some recipes, just not all! Making candy in the cauldron gave me XP, and putting syrup on berry bread in the mixing bowl also gave me XP. But making dough in the mixing bowl with cassava flour, yeast starter, oil, and bone broth didn't give me anything, and making bone broth in the cauldron also gave me nothing. I thought maybe the bone broth was the issue so I tried making bread with the cassava flour, yeast start, oil, and just water, but that also gave no XP.

Oof.... Well, I deleted the cache folder, which took over an hour because my only access is via FTP, and.... it still doesn't work. Any other suggestions? Am I really the only one having this issue? The full list of mods I'm using is: Acorns; A Culinary Artillery; Advanced Smithing; BackpackPack Standard; Beekeeper; Better Ruins; Bonfires; Bricklayers; Immortal Butterflies; Cairns; CarryOn; QP's Chisel Tools; Copper Coldforging; Evaporite; Expanded Foods; Flint Chisel; Instruments; Less Bears; Lumber Sling; More Piles; More Roofing; More Torch Holders; More Trees More Seeds; Night Watcher; No More Drifter Throwing; Ragnaman's Seeds From Crops; Ruststones; Scarecrow; Teleportation Network; Tiered Soil; Translocator Engineering; Useful Drifter Loot; Vanilla Variants; Wildcraft; Wildcraft Trees; Wild Farming Revival; Xlib/Xskills + Wildcraft Patch; (CommonLib); (Expanded Matter) Thank you for any suggestions! I'm the main chef on my server and trying to level up cooking when the mixing bowl and cauldron don't give me xp is really slow.

Version 1.18.5, yes. I do have quite a few mods on the server but I don't think any of them impact Expanded Foods. I do have Acorns and Wildcraft, which EF is compatible with, but it shouldn't affect the way EF works and I'm not even using ingredients from those mods at the moment. I've just double-checked and yes, it says "Owner" and my username in the blocks tooltip. I'd been assuming there simply wasn't compatibility with EF but it looks like there is supposed to be, so I'm confused now.

Are there any known issues with Expanded Foods compatibility at the moment? I'm not getting any cooking XP from the mixing bowl or cauldron.

Can you maybe share some screenshots? I don't quite follow what is happening. Normally, after you make the broth in a cauldron or saucepan, the cauldron/saucepan goes to the output slot of the fire with the broth in it. You take it out and place it on the ground somewhere, then right-click it with a container (bucket, bowl, bottle) to fill that container with the broth. Bowls and bottles hold 1 liter of liquid, and buckets hold 10 liters max. You can transfer the broth to a barrel or something using a bucket or other container if you want to re-use your cooking vessel without using all the broth. When you fill a container with broth by right-clicking the cauldron/saucepan, then left-click with the container in a slot in a cooking pot, it will transfer 10% of the container's total amount - so buckets will transfer 1 liter at a time, and bowls/bottles will transfer 0.1 liter at a time. I believe this is hardcoded into the vanilla game. Left-click to place the liquid, right-click to pick it back up. (If you're using the mixing bowl, by default left-clicking transfers the full contents of the container up to the maximum - in this case, ctrl+left-click to place just 10% at a time for more precise amounts.) Soup recipes require 1 liter of broth per serving, up to 6 liters. It's easiest to use a bucket for this so you can transfer 1 liter at a time rather than having to click 10 times with a bowl or bottle to transfer a full liter. Most expanded foods recipes require 0.1 liter of broth per serving (for example, making bread dough in the mixing bowl with broth instead of water - you need 0.1 liter of broth per 1 flour), so it's easier to use a bowl or bottle to transfer 0.1 liter at a time. If you're following the above steps and it's not allowing you to put more than 0.06 liters (60 mL) in a cooking pot at once, that sounds like some kind of weird bug. Please share some screenshots if so.

Tried making a pie (1.18.5, latest of ACA and EF) and after putting meat in, it wouldn't let me add non-meat ingredients - it gave me the standard vanilla error message about how you can't mix ingredient types. Has that been changed, or is it a bug? Aside from that the mods are working great for me so far.

Well, I've tested it on 1.18.3 now along with a ton of other mods, and... it works fine? At least in single player (haven't tested on a server yet). I... I have no idea why the problem on 1.17. I'm not sure when I might have time to go back and test now that I'm moving on to 1.18, but in case it helps, the list of other mods on my 1.17 server is: No Drifter Throwing, Acorns, Accessibility Tweaks, CarryOn, More Piles, More Roofing, More Torch Holders, Night Watcher, Teleportation Network, Wildcraft, Wildcraft Trees, Bricklayers, Expanded Matter, QP Chisel Tools

Multiplayer on my server, survival mode, and there were indeed other mods installed (quite a few). I haven't had a chance to test it out more thoroughly yet but I'll try to do that within the next couple days and let you know what I find out. For now, if you want to see an example of this happening, there's a clip here of me showing it on a stream recently (should be queued up to the relevant part):