Ember Hearth Grills FAQ

Place a wooden stick in your off-hand, hold a raw food ingredient in your main hand, and right-click to thread it onto the stick. You can add up to three ingredients this way to create a raw skewer.

Place a charcoal grill on the ground, light it with flint and steel, then place your raw skewers on top. You'll need to brush them with oil, flip them four times, and add seasoning before they're done cooking.

Use the seasoning bottle station to mix three base spices and extra ingredients together into a handheld shaker. Shake it for four seconds to activate the blend, which gives you multiple uses of custom spice that adds potion buffs to hot food.

Yes, sneak and right-click any raw skewer to break it apart and return the stick and all ingredients to your inventory. This only works on raw skewers, not cooked ones.

If you don't brush, flip, and season your skewers properly before they finish cooking, they'll burn into ruined meat and become inedible.

Place an oil pressing station over fire or magma, then drop an anvil or stone on it along with your crops to extract oils like rapeseed oil, chili oil, or magma chili oil.

Hot food gives you a warm status that boosts hunger and saturation, and it extends the duration of any potion buffs from your custom seasoning blends. The hot status naturally cools over time.

Hold Caps Lock and left-click on matching hot food items in your inventory to merge their stacks and combine their remaining heat timers.

The mod includes nineteen fixed skewer recipes with specific ingredients, but you can also create secret skewers by combining up to three different edible ingredients—the game calculates their food stats and matches colors automatically.

Recipe scrolls automatically craft skewers from ingredients already in your inventory when you right-click them while holding a stick, letting you quickly assemble multiple skewers without manual threading.