Salty´s Manual: Dough is a Vintage Story mod by SaltyWater. Salty’s Manual: Dough lets you knead flour into dough by hand at a water container, with sounds, animations, and support for compatible modded flours.
Why this mod is worth installing
This utility is useful for players who want dough-making to feel like a world interaction instead of a crafting-grid shortcut. It also suits kitchens using flour from compatible content mods.
What Salty´s Manual: Dough adds
Hold flour in your hand and aim at a barrel, bucket, or another water container with at least one liter available. Holding the right mouse button starts kneading and consumes one liter of water for each dough.
The process follows the same one-liter-to-one-dough ratio as the regular recipe, but turns preparation into a short in-world action. Sounds and animations make the task feel more physical.
The mod can recognize flour and produce the corresponding dough by following the usual item naming pattern. This allows compatible flours and doughs from other mods to work, including blood doughs from Butchering and doughs from Ancient Tools.
The standard grid recipe is disabled by default, while an option can restore it. The duration of kneading and its cooldown can also be adjusted through the mod configuration.

Compatible with blood doughs from Butchering
The screenshot introduces the Manual mods approach, which turns routine tasks into more immersive world interactions. It also highlights compatibility with blood doughs from Butchering.
The mod also supports dough types associated with Ancient Tools.


Sounds and animations make kneading feel physical
Kneading includes audiovisual feedback, while the naming-based conversion can support compatible modded flour and dough. The configuration can control preparation time and cooldown.
Where to download Salty´s Manual: Dough
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.
Download the Salty´s Manual: Dough mod on mods.vintagestory.at