Growthcraft Milk: Mixing Vat

Overview

The Growthcraft Milk Vat is used to mix fluids and items to process them into either fluid-based or item-based results such as cheese and cheese curds. Fluids are added to the mixing vat by right-clicking on the block with a filled bucket of fluid. There are two fluid handlers that are accessible by either the top face of the block or the sides. Items are added by dropping them into the bucket area of the vat or if the GUI is enabled items can be placed manually. In order for the mixing vat to start mixing the ingredients, it must be right-click activated by the activation tool listed in the recipe. This is generally a wooden sword. If the recipe results in an item, there will be a secondary activation tool that will be consumed upon drawing the item (cheese curds require a cheesecloth).

Cheese Making

The process for making cheese involves mixing ingredients in the Mixing Vat, draining the cheese curds, pressing the drained cheese curds, and finally aging/waxing the cheese.

Cultured Milk

Cultured Milk is the basis for making cheese. This is created by adding fluids and ingredients to the mixing vat.

Add 4 Milk Buckets (4,000 mb), 1 Rennet Bucket (1,000 mb), and 1 Starter Culture to Mixing Vat and activate it by right-clicking on the mixing vat with a wooden sword. After an amount of time, the mixing vat will consume the fluids and the starter culture to produce Cultured Milk (4,000 mb) and Whey (1,000 mb). The whey will need to be extracted, using an empty bucket from the top of the vat.

Input Fluid	Reagent Fluid	Ingredients	Activation Tool	Process Time
Milk (4000mb)	Rennet (1000mb)	1 Starter Culture	Wooden Sword	60 secs

Cheese Curds

Cheese curds are produced in the Mixing Vat by combining cultured milk with up to three item ingredients. Similar to making the cultured milk, the processing is activated with a wooden sword. In order to draw out the resulting cheese curds, a cheesecloth is used to "pull" the curds out of the mixing vat and will be consumed during the process.

Ingredients	-	-	Result Item
1 Salt	1 Orange Dye		Cheddar Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 Purple, Red, or White] Grape		Gorgonzola Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 Wheat		Emmentaler Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 [Purple, Red, or White] Grape	1 Bayanus Yeast	Appenzeller Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 Salt	1 Yellow Dye	Asiago Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 White Dye		Parmesan Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 Red Dye		Monterey Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 Yellow Dye		Provolone Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 Gray Dye		Gouda Cheese Curds
1 Salt	1 Rotten Flesh		Casu Marzu Cheese Curds

Before you can press the curds into cheese, the resulting curds from the vat must be hung on a block. After a couple of seconds, there will be a visual dripping effect that will last 30 seconds until the curds are drained. Right-click activating the hanging curds will result in a "Drained" variation of the given cheese that is being made.

The drained curds now need to be placed into the Cheese Press so that the curds will be formed into a wheel shape.

Waxing and Aging Cheese

After the cheese has been pressed, it will need to either be dry-aged or waxed. Dry aging is completed by placing the cheese wheel into the world and eventually it will change in color and become aged. Waxing is done by activating the cheese wheel block with the respective wax. Note that only aged and waxed cheeses are able to be sliced into a consumable food item.

Recipe File Format

The Mixing Vat Recipe serializer has two formats: fluid and item.

Mixing Vat Fluid Recipe

The mixing vat fluid recipes allow for combining two fluids and up to three ingredients. After activating the mixing and waiting for the processing duration a resulting fluid and potential waste fluid will be produced. The activation tool will not be consumed when activating the mixing process.

Mixing Vat Fluid Recipe Schema

processing_time Amount of ticks to complete the recipe. (20 ticks/1 sec)

result_type Set to fluid to tell the serializer which schema to parse.

input_fluid Fluid and Amount of fluid needed. (Max 4000mb / 4 Buckets)

reagent_fluid Fluid and Amount of fluid needed to react with the input fluid. (Max 1000mb / 1 Bucket)

ingredients An array of items for the recipe. (Max 3 Items in the array)

result_fluid Fluid and Amount of the resulting fluid. Will be placed into the Input FluidTank. (Max 4000mb / 4 Bucket)

waste_fluid Fluid and Ammount of the waste fluid. Will be placed into the Reagent FluidTank. Can be set to Air for no waste. (Max 1000mb / 1 Bucket)

activation_tool Item tool that needs to be used to activate the block. This item will not be consumed by the process.

Mixing Vat Fluid Recipe Example

{
  "type": "growthcraft_milk:mixing_vat_recipe",
  "processing_time": 1200,
  "result_type": "fluid",
  "input_fluid": {
    "fluid": "growthcraft_milk:milk_fluid",
    "amount": 4000
  },
  "reagent_fluid": {
    "fluid": "growthcraft_milk:rennet_fluid",
    "amount": 1000
  },
  "ingredients": [
    {
      "item": "growthcraft_milk:starter_culture",
      "count": 1
    }
  ],
  "result_fluid": {
    "fluid": "growthcraft_milk:cultured_milk_fluid",
    "amount": 4000
  },
  "result_fluid_waste": {
    "fluid": "growthcraft_milk:whey_fluid",
    "amount": 1000
  },
  "activation_tool": {
    "item": "minecraft:stick"
  }
}

Mixing Vat Item Recipe

{
  "type": "growthcraft_milk:mixing_vat_recipe",
  "processing_time": 1200,
  "result_type": "item",
  "input_fluid": {
    "fluid": "growthcraft_milk:cheese_base_fluid",
    "amount": 4000
  },
  "ingredients": [
    {
      "item": "growthcraft_milk:salt",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "item": "minecraft:orange_dye",
      "count": 1
    }
  ],
  "result_item": {
    "item": "growthcraft_milk:cheese_curds_cheddar"
  },
  "activation_tool": {
    "item": "minecraft:stick"
  },
  "result_activation_tool": {
    "item": "growthcraft_milk:cheese_cloth"
  }
}