Cooking & Dairy Development Changelog

24 August 2026

Cooking Profession Development

The Cooking profession entered development with around 70 new items, including crafting components, ingredients, foods and other profession items.

The first food set is mostly inspired by English tavern food, with room for more styles and expansions later on.

Cheese Making

Cheese making was one of the first major systems added. The profession uses a Dairy Station and an Aging Barrel so cheese is made through its own process instead of one normal crafting recipe.

Behind the scenesA lot of Blockbench and texture work went into the first Cooking pass. After several days of cheese, pies, bottles and cornbread, cornbread may never look the same again.

27 September 2026

Cooking & Dairy Changelog

The next Cooking pass expanded the profession with a fuller dairy loop, cheese quality, meal categories and supporting profession updates.

Dairy & Cooking

Cooking now has two unique crafting stations made with vanilla blocks: the Dairy Station and the Aging Barrel.

These stations let players turn milk and other ingredients into cheese, yoghurt, butter and more. The dairy ingredients then feed back into other Cooking recipes.

Cheese Quality, Aging & Adapting

Cheese has a star quality rating that improves as it ages. Different cheeses age in different ways, so the best time to take one out of the barrel depends on what you are making.

Higher quality cheese can give useful buffs such as Resistance, Regeneration and Strength, along with other positive bonuses.

Why Eat the New Food?

The new food system is split into snacks, light meals and hearty meals. This gives bigger meals a reason to exist next to simple food like bread or golden carrots.

Light and hearty meals give active regeneration and higher saturation. Meals can also be eaten when you are not hungry, so you do not have to wait for your hunger bar to drop before topping up saturation.

Cooking & Dairy Preview

These screenshots show the Cooking and Dairy build from 25 September 2026, including cheese aging and some of the new food assets.

Gouda cheese aging for 11 hours and 10 minutes inside an Aging Barrel — Gouda Cheese aging inside the Aging Barrel.

Washed Curds inside an Aging Barrel — Washed Curds at the start of the aging process.

A collection of new Cooking profession food item textures — A selection of new cheese, dairy and food items.

A large collection of Cooking profession ingredients, bottles and meals — Ingredients, prepared foods, bottles and meal components.

A collection of finished Cooking profession dishes — Finished meals and dishes from the new Cooking set.

Other Updates

Consistent UX

Professions, mechanics and other server systems now follow the same general UX style, so menus and feedback should feel more consistent.

Tutorials

All professions now have tutorials to help players understand the main mechanics without needing to guess how the system works.

Mining Fossils?

Mining has also picked up fossils. What they are for is staying a mystery for now. Dinosaurs, perhaps?

Completed Wiki Pages

The following profession guides are now available:

A recent player suggestion has also been implemented as part of the latest round of server changes.