Uses: Cooking meat Recipe:
• Iron x3
• Chain x3 Requirement: Forge
Source: Hammer crafting menu ItemID: piece_cookingstation_iron
Iron Cooking Station is an advanced version of the regular Cooking Station that lets you cook the meat of larger monsters.
How to Craft
To craft an Iron Cooking Station, you will need a Hammer, as well as 3 Iron, 3 Chains, and a Forge nearby
An Iron Cooking Station needs a large source of fire to work. This means a Hearth or several Campfires stacked underneath
Here are some pointers for the necessary resources:
Iron is primarily mined from Muddy Scrap Piles inside Sunken Crypts dungeons in the Swamp, and then smelted in a Smelter
Chains can be found in chests inside Sunken Crypts, and dropped by the Wraith monsters in the Swamp
The Iron Cooking Station is essentially an upgrade over the regular Cooking Station. It can still cook all the regular meats but can also prepare the meat of larger monsters like Serpents, Lox, and Asksvins.
The materials you’ll need to build an Iron Cooking Station can be found in the Swamp biome. Iron is the primary reason for visiting that biome. You’ll be mining it with your pickaxes inside the Sunken Crypts dungeons from Muddy Scrap Piles. To get into those dungeons, you will need the Swamp Key dropped by the Elder, the boss of the Black Forest biome. The Scrap Iron you get by mining the piles will then also need to be smelted in a Smelter (Stone x20, Surtling Core x5) to become usable again.
Sunken Crypts dungeon entranceYour main source of IronSmelting Scrap Iron into Iron
As you’re exploring the Sunken Crypts, you’ll find numerous chests. Some of them will have Chains inside. And if you run around the Swamp biome at night, you’ll also occasionally encounter Wraiths. These monsters are guaranteed to drop some chains when slain.
The Sunken Crypts chestA Swamp Wraith
When you have 3 Iron and 3 Chains, you’ll be able to create an Iron Cooking Station. However, to place it, you will need to have a Forge (Stone x4, Coal x4, Wood x10, Copper x6) nearby. When all that is ready, open your Hammer crafting menu, go to the Crafting tab and select the Iron Cooking Station. Then, place it over a large source of fire.
Building an Iron Cooking StationAnd then a Hearth
The main intended way to power an Iron Cooking Station is the Hearth (Stone x15). It’s found in the Misc. tab of the Hammer’s crafting menu. In order to place a Hearth down, you’ll also need to have a Stonecutter (Wood x10, Iron x2, Stone x4) nearby. However, you don’t actually have to use a Hearth and can instead stack several Campfires (Stone x5, Wood x2) under an Iron Cooking Station to make it work.
A working Iron Cooking StationYou can also use multiple CampfiresBut you can place a Hearth inside
How to Use
Light a Hearth or multiple Campfires under an Iron Cooking Station
Interact with that station with raw meat in your inventory
Give the meat some time to cook (it sizzles and changes texture when it’s ready)
Interact with the station again to collect your food before it turns into Coal
You use an Iron Cooking Station in much the same way you use a regular one. With cookable meat in your inventory, approach your Iron Cooking Station and interact with it. If there’s a fire burning under the station, the meat will be placed on one of the hooks and begin cooking. You can cook up to 5 pieces of meat on an Iron Cooking Station at a time.
If the fire under the station has gone out, you will need some Wood in your inventory to start it up again. If your Iron Cooking Station is outside and it’s raining, you won’t be able to use it. The solution is to build a roof over your cooking area. Alternatively, if you’re using a Hearth for fire, you can place it inside buildings to never have to worry about rain ruining your cooking again, and to add some extra Comfort to your Viking home.
When cooking meat on an Iron Cooking Station, it’s important to not overcook it, or it will turn into Coal. The cooking times for the meats you could cook on a regular Cooking Station remain the same. Most of the advanced meats that can only be cooked on an Iron Cooking Station take 60 seconds to cook. The one exception is the Asksvin Tail that only needs 25 seconds. When a food is cooked, you’ll hear a sizzling sound and see it change color, so you don’t have to manually time it.
Serpent Meat roastingCooked Serpent Meat crisp and goldenThat very same meat overcooked into Coal
Helpful Tips
Most of the meat you need an Iron Cooking Station for is too precious to waste on Coal, so make sure not to overcook it
When setting up your Iron Cooking Stations and Hearths you’ll need to have a Forge and Stonecutter nearby, but you don’t need them for the stations to work
Hearths can and should be built inside houses, but when you do it, don’t forget to create a chimney for the smoke to escape
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