Cooking Update

Today you can cook, brew, and press new products and recipes in Faire Trade using some new crafting options and an old familiar. Let's run down the bullet points of all that is new this update and cover them in a bit more detail further down the post. Finally, you can check the patch notes to make sure that you didn't miss anything.

Major changes

• 3 New Crafting Stations

• 68 New Products

• 68 New Recipes

• 5 New Rooms

• New Cooking & Baking skills

• Tavern Cooking Requests

• Tavern Visual Overhaul

• New Wood Parquet Floor (2 color variations)

• New Stone Mosaic Floor (8 color variations)

• New Colors for the Haaften Floor (20 color variations)

• New Colors for 7 Displays in the Ekehaar Set (5 color variations)

• Resized 2x1 Crafting Stations

• Resized 1x1 Small Cupboards

• Grid Snap from 25cm to 10cm Increments

• Forge & Smelter VFX & Audio Feedback Improvements

• Improved room reflections

It has been roughly 2 months and about 200 project changes since the last Employee Update - Milestones - Terrain & Snow Rework because this cooking update turned out to be much bigger than expected. Let's get into the new changes to see what's in this update.

3 New Crafting Stations

Cooking was long requested and we there were several things that we were excited to add before we thought it was ready to include. Stove

The Stove is a fond fan favorite from Winkeltje. It looks similar, but the model and materials still required quite some work to convert it from the old handpainted style to the new material style that allows for much richer colors and reflections. You can also see several smoke and fire particle effects which are easier to include and use a more performant method than was possible before.

Wine Cask

Bring your vineyard fantasy to life by growing grapes and vinifying wine.

Basket Press

Make delicious jams by adding some sugar and your favorite fruit.

New Products, Recipes, and Skills

Discover 68 new products and recipes spread across 2 new skills. Cultivate ingredients with planters and turn that produce into something delicious to serve up to customers. With the new Cooking and Baking skills you can achieve new masteries with pristine cuisine.

New Rooms

Build and decorate 5 new rooms to give a little boost to your craft.

Tavern Requests and Visual Overhaul

Wolfaert's Tavern in town has received a visual overhaul to celebrate a new activity that you can work up to which aligns with the cooking and baking theme.

Below is a comparison carousel of images to appreciate the improvement to the Tavern as you flick through the imagery.

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New Floors and Display Colors

Mix and match new floors and displays in fresh new colors. There's a new wooden parquet floor in 2 colors and and mosaic stone tile floor in 8 new colors.

In addition, you can also play around with a total of 20 new color variations for the Haaften floor tiles bringing up the total colors for Haaften to 24.

There are 5 new color options for the Ekehaar display set bringing up the total to 8 colors.

Resized Furniture and Tighter Grid Snap

Some cupboards and crafting stations have been resized in order to fit in a 1x1 or 2x1 space when we noticed shopkeepers try to fit in those spaces and were disappointed when this wasn't possible.

Grid snapping was also improved by lowering the snap increments from every 25cm to every 10cm.