How to Press Cooking Oils and Preserve Food Heat

Operating the Oil Pressing Station

Cooking oils are essential for brushing skewers on the grill and preparing meals in cooking pots.

1. Cultivate rapeseed crops and use grain milling to gather pressing materials.

2. Set up an oil pressing station.

3. Place an anvil or a stone above the station and drop it down onto the press to mechanically crush the ingredients.

4. Collect your pressed liquids into wooden basins or containers.

Depending on the ingredients used, you can produce standard rapeseed oil, spicy chili oil, or magma chili oil. These oils can then be stored in an oil pot to brush onto cooking skewers or used directly in cooking pots.

Preserving and Merging Hot Food

Freshly cooked skewers and dishes possess a temporary hot food status that decays over time. Eating meals while hot grants bonus hunger, higher saturation, and extended durations for active positive status effects.

To manage items cooling down at different rates in your inventory:

1. Open your player inventory screen.

2. Hold down the Caps Lock key.

3. Left-click matching hot food items onto each other.

This merges the identical items into a single stack and combines their remaining heat timers, ensuring your hot meals stay warm for longer trips.