Variations on a Meal is a Vintage Story mod by Echoweaver. Variations on a Meal expands vanilla cooking with extra ingredient choices for stews, soups, porridge, pies, and more.
Why this mod is worth installing
This mod suits players who want more flexible vanilla recipes without replacing the cooking system. It is especially useful when farms, animals, or foraging provide ingredients in uneven quantities.
What Variations on a Meal adds
Variations on a Meal adds optional grain to stews and lets vegetable stew accept an egg. Soups can use milk, wine, cider, or ale as their liquid base, with nutrition adjusted to fit the chosen ingredient.
Milk, cheese, and eggs become optional additions to porridge, while mushrooms can be used in pies. A pie made with several mushroom types is treated as a vegetable pie, and poisonous mushroom effects remain relevant after cooking.
The mod changes recipes as a complete package rather than through individual settings. Its egg handling also recognizes eggs from several animal-focused mods, while egg pies are deliberately left to a dedicated quiche mod.
Where to download Variations on a Meal
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.
Download the Variations on a Meal mod on mods.vintagestory.at