Njerpez Cookery Mod v2.0 - Dec 2025 Update! [URW 3.87+]

[Bedlam]

Posted v2.02 of the mod today, minor tweaks and fixes.

In the latest URW 3.87 there's now a hardcoded "ember-roasted turnip" recipe, which mods can't update or remove. Of course NjerpCooking mod always  included its own version of this, so I did experiment with using the base game one and getting rid of the one we always had. But sadly, the base game one felt too inconvenient, as you need to burn fires for many hours to get some decent glowing embers and even these go away fast. I dont' feel that's very realistic, I myself successfully cooked root veggies in the embers of an ordinary small campfire in real life before, not to mention that you could dig a small pit for the veggies, cover with earth, and start a campfire on top to slowcook them down there.

Our vision in the mod is that roasting the turnip should be simple and convenient (otherwise why would a player not just eat them one by one, in the raw). So the current version has the original mod's "Roast Turnip" recipe included just under the base game one. You can use both, but the mod's one is recommended since all it requires is a fire and it cooks more turnips at once. It's a little confusing, having two "roast turnip" recipes under Vegetables. I hope future game versions might improve on this by making the base game ember-roasted turnip recipe a normal one, not hardcoded.

And now just for fun, a couple of mod-theme "postcards from the East":

[Bedlam]

Today's small update "NjerpCooking v2.04" introduces fixes, a better PDF guide, and a new recipe: "Villain Stew"



It's a very nice new recipe, as useful as the ubiquitous "Hunter's Borsch", as long as your character has some salted cuts or fish. What makes it unique is that you can make a sour, astringent salty stew in the wilderness (without an oven) from just about anything you had at hand. It can take flowers, leaves, edible wild plants, roots, veggies, berries, mushroom, even normally inedible nutrient rich seeds like clayweed or hemp, and of course extra meat or fish, or leftover fats, if desired. Everything is stewed for 3 hours in the salty stock, and gives you a uniquely flavorful stew to salivate over, with nutrition effects depending on your custom ingredients as always.

I'm enjoying how the recipe has made my character actually bring salted cuts or a small cup-ful of salt on hunting expeditions. It's easier to access Villain Stew via the "Fish" cookery menu, but it is also there under the "Meat" section too (both function the same, it's just there for convenience). Hope you like it!

There are also useful tweaks n' fixes, so definitely worth updating when you get the chance.

[Hildengard]

I love cooking! I'm new to the forum, so meeting amazing mods. Thank you for your hardwork!!!

[Bedlam]

I love cooking! I'm new to the forum, so meeting amazing mods. Thank you for your hardwork!!!

Welcome aboard, cheftain! Here's to many hours of culinary discovery in URW.

[Sidara]

I need help.

I've used this mod in the past and absolutely loved it but haven't played in a couple years. So I downloaded it to my computer to play but I can't get it to work right.  I have tried to install this mod a dozen times; I've uninstalled the mod, even the entire game, and reinstalled it and still I cannot get the Utility Recipes submenu to pop up. The recipes added to the other categories work, but that submenu doesn't appear, so no way to make cheese- and I have A LOT of milk. I've deleted the birch-bark pot from the Diy_glossery. I've downloaded all 3 available files and installed them in order (top to bottom) with each install overwriting files as necessary. I also get a strange message during overwriting that says "please insert disk 2"...I have no idea what that means, so I hit cancel and the files appear to successfully overwrite.

What am I doing wrong?

[Bedlam]

I need help.
What am I doing wrong?

Heya Sidara,

You only need to install either the 2 files for V2 of the mod, or the one file for the older V1 version, but not both of them, not all three files. Doing both is sure to mess stuff up. For V2, it's a multi-part zip consisting of two files, that would be why you see "insert disk two". Are you extracting the zip correctly? You should start extraction from the .zip file, and have the second .z01 file next to it in the same folder, then they will extract together in one go. I've now edited the original post to remove the old version from attachments, hopefully that helps people not get confused. So now the two files you see in the original post attachment are both the ones you need for V2.

NjerpCookery never had cheese making in it btw, so you might be thinking of and wanting to install a different mod and now things are confused.

I'd recommend starting over clean (following the instruction steps from the first post, but you can keep your saves safely), to get a working game with NjerpCookery, and following that you can try to look up which other mod you had that gave you cheesemaking in Utilities, and add that recipe manually by editing the file and copy pasting just that entry in. That should work just fine, sadly just piling everything on top of everything has little chance of working for URW modding, we have to be more intentional and thought-out about each step. Be careful installing the second mod and overwriting, as it may erase some parts of NjerpCookery unintentionally if you let it just overwrite.