Cheese

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Cheese making is an elaborate and work intensive process in which the player can turn milk into long lasting cheese. It is one of the few dairy foods. Creating cheese requires milk, a pickled vegetable, salt, barrels, and a cellar. Similar to alcohol brewing , the cheesemaking process incurs significant penalties to the food's total satiety in exchange for vastly increased shelf life.

Milk

To procure milk , the player needs to breed bighorn sheep or goats . After giving birth, the female will lactate for several days and can be milked with a bucket. For further info on how to breed animals and obtain milk, check the Animal Husbandry page. Milk will stay fresh for 8 days in a bucket, and can be extended with a cellar . Milk provides 150 dairy satiety per litre.

Curdled Milk

Add pickled vegetables to a barrel of milk to curdle it.

The less efficient curdling recipe.

To make curdled milk, the player needs to add pickled vegetables . Using one pickled vegetable can curdle either 20 or 25 litres of milk, and two can curdle 40 or 50 litres. After placing the pickled vegetables into the barrel, the tool tip will indicate that it can be sealed for 3 days to make curdled milk. Curdled milk will stay fresh for 8 days in a bucket, and can be extended with a cellar .

Tip: To remove 10 litres from a barrel, use an empty bucket. To remove 1 litre from a bucket, use an empty bowl on a bucket.

Cottage Cheese

Add salt to a barrel of curdled milk to turn it into cottage cheese.

To make cottage cheese, the player needs to add salt to a barrel of curdled milk, with one salt for each 5 litres. After placing the salt into the barrel, the tool tip will indicate that it can be sealed for 24 hours to make cottage cheese. Cottage cheese will stay fresh for 10 days in a bucket, and can be extended with a cellar . Cottage cheese provides 140 dairy satiety per litre.

Cheese Ripening

To make cheese, the cottage cheese must be squeezed to remove the liquid.

For more details about the exact conditions for ripening into cheddar or blue cheese, see Room

To make cheese, the player needs a barrel of at least 25 cottage cheese, and one piece of linen - all stitch types can be used. Use linen in hand on the barrel to receive a curd bundle. Place the bundle on the ground, then add a stick to the bundle. This will place the stick as a handle. Twist the bundle until all the liquid is pressed out. Release when the squeezing animation comes to a halt - the stick will swivel back into it's original position, and the player can open the bundle to reveal the raw cheese. Add 5 more salt to turn into raw salted cheese.

This can be picked up and placed as is on a shelf, or combined with one piece of wax in the crafting grid to receive waxed cheese, which will keep fresh longer. Raw cheese takes 14-20 days in a cellar to ripen, depending on local climate. Cooler temperatures result in faster ripening.

Cheddar Cheese

Tip: A shelf is a "Suitable spot for food ripening" if it has a 0.5x food rot speed multiplier or slower. If this is not present in the tooltip, the cheese will rot instead of ripening.

This shelf can ripen cheese.

This shelf cannot ripen cheese.

When raw cheese is aged in a normal cellar, it will turn into cheddar cheese. Normal salted cheddar keeps fresh for about 1.2 years in the inventory, while waxed cheddar keeps for 2.5 years. To eat cheese, place the cheese wheel onto a flat surface and cut up a slice with a knife. Waxed cheddar needs to be cleared with a knife - with the cheese placed in the world - to remove the wax layer, before a slice can be cut from it. Each wheel of cheddar cheese has 4 slices, each providing 240 dairy satiety , for a total of 960.

Blue Cheese

Tip: Because ripening requires a 0.5x rot speed and blue cheese cannot benefit from room/cellar bonuses, temperate and hot climates must wait for the cold season before attempting to make blue cheese. If the weather is too warm, the cheese will rot instead of ripening.

To make blue cheese, the raw salted cheese needs to be kept in a cool, unenclosed place with sun light level below 2. Artificial lights may be used without penalty. Note that this should not be a normal, fully enclosed cellar, instead having at least one opening into the outside. Solid or sleek doors and trapdoors will prevent the shelf from producing blue cheese, while grated trapdoors and fences or fence gates will not. Be aware that leaving such a hole can very easily lead to sunlight from outside reaching the room, even if it is not positioned near a window to the outside. Using a long corridor with some corners or otherwise light-proofing the area is necessary. Blue cheese keeps fresh for 1.6 years in the inventory. One cheese wheel has 4 slices, each providing 200 dairy satiety , for a total of 800.

Tip: If you're not sure whether your design will work, you can use the commands /debug rooms hi and /debug rooms unhi to make sure that the shelf is not inside of a room. The shelf should be inside of a red area.

Video Tutorials

Detailed cheesemaking explanation, including blue cheese tips	Fabrication de fromage [FR]