Caupona FAQ

Place a Clay Pot on a heat source, add water and ingredients, and let it cook into a soup. Once it's done, you can serve it into a Bowl or pour it into a Bread Bowl to carry it with you.

You need a lit fire under your pot, such as a Brick Stove, Brick Hypocaust Firebox, or a Clay Portable Brazier for cooking on the go. The Brick Chimney Flue and Chimney Pot let you vent smoke from an indoor stove setup.

The most common cause is no active heat beneath the pot, or the pot isn't a valid cooking vessel for that recipe. Make sure the fire is actually lit and the pot is placed directly on or above the heat source.

Soups and stews are the cooked liquid dishes you make in a pot, while aspic is a jellied form made by setting a stew with Bone Gelatin. Aspic holds its shape, making it handy for portable meals and decoration.

Add Bone Gelatin to a finished stew and let it set, turning the liquid into a solid jellied block. You can then eat it directly or use it as a decorative food block.

Bone Gelatin is produced by processing bones, typically by boiling them down in a pot. It's the key ingredient that turns liquid stews into aspics.

A Bread Bowl is an edible container you can fill with soup or stew to make a portable meal like Bisque in Bread Bowl or Borscht in Bread Bowl. You can carry and eat it without needing a separate Bowl.

Yes — pour your stew into a Bread Bowl to make a portable meal you can eat on the move. Regular Bowls work too, but Bread Bowls double as the container and part of the meal.

Caupona adds decorative building pieces like Column Capitals, Plinths, Shafts, Lacunar Tiles, Spoked Fences, and Mosaic Pieces in Calcite, Quartz, Stone, and Felsic Tuff variants. They're purely cosmetic and let you build Roman-style or classical architecture around your kitchen.

Caupona is designed around its own pot, stove, and stew system, so other mods' foods generally won't plug into its recipes unless a compatibility patch exists. You can still run them side by side, but expect each mod's cooking to stay in its own lane.

Caupona is an immersive greco-roman style food cuisine mod based on heat. It adds a heat-based cooking system with stoves, pots, braziers and pans, plus new plants, trees, building materials and a hypocaust bath system.

The Modrinth project page lists Minecraft versions 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.4, 1.21, 1.21.1 and 26.1.2.

Caupona is available for Forge and NeoForge.

Yes. It adds a large amount of food-related content, including soups and stews like borscht, acquacotta, congee, egg drop soup, fish chowder and cream of mushroom soup, along with aspics and bread bowl versions.

Yes. It adds fig, wolfberry and walnut trees to plains, hills and forest biomes. Fig and wolfberry are bushes that yield sticks, while walnut has its own wood, planks and wooden products.

Cooking relies on stoves instead of furnaces and requires fuel to generate heat. That heat warms the contents of pots, braziers and pans, where ingredients are placed and processed over time into new dishes.

Yes. It adds decorative building materials such as pumice, opus incertum and felsic tuff, along with brick counters, chimneys, caliducts, mosaic pieces and column blocks.

Caupona implements a Roman-inspired hypocaust heating system for immersive gameplay, alongside its cooking content.

The mod supports Patchouli books and JEI.

Volcanic fumaroles generate in desert biomes and Extreme Hills. They consist of a small basalt plate, a fumarole vent and decorative fumarole boulders, and the second block below a fumarole decides its properties.