Cooking Riot (TTW)
🟡 Updated this year⚠️ Install Order · 6 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.3% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #288 of 441 Gameplay Effects and Changes mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Adds a full stack of recipes for existing and missing creatures, working ovens across wastelands and last, but not least, 3 campfires on the Capital Wasteland for a complete immersive cooking feel.
Campfires
Added 3 Campfires aside the Water beggars:
Ovens
Add Cooking functionally to 36 Oven types:
- Descriptive dialog text box.
- Oven's Pilot light icon added.
- Pilot light will be extracted automaticaly from player, if is not inside the ovens.
Recipies
Adds 39 recipies:
Boiled Ant Egg
Boiled Ant EggBoiled Fire Ant Egg
Boiled Lakelurk Egg
Cooked Ant Meat
Cooked Fire Ant Meat
Cooked Rat Meat
Cooked Giant Rat Meat
Cooked Human Flesh
Cooked Radraoch Meat
Cooked Salisbury Steak
Cooked Mirelurk Meat
Cooked Hatchling Mirelurk Meat
Cooked Softshell Mirelurk Meat
Cooked Radscorpion Meat
Cooked Barkscorpion Meat
Grilled Lakelurk Meat
Grilled Nightstalker Tail
Grilled Deathclaw Meat
Grilled Yao Guai Meat
Grilled Cazador Meat
Prepared Blamco Mac&Cheese
Prepared Cram
Prepared InstaMash
Prepared Pork N' Beans
Arizona Victory Pie
Baked Potato
Brahmin Meat Pie
California Quartz Pie
Creepy Crawly Skewers
Fire Roasted Corn
Grilled Carrot
Hearty Soup
Capital Stew
Scotch & Nuka
Wasteland Skewer
Whiskey & Nuka
Fried CrabAdditional features:
- Compatible with Food Sanitizer / Old World Gourmet Perk
- Cannibal recipes correctly hidden (if perk is not available)
- Missing creatures food items added (using scripted level list)
- Some Ingestibles will be distributed to NPCs
- NightstalkerTail now restores starvation
2. Installation
File is a FOMOD installer, just use any mod organizer tool and select the option you want.
Notice
- Always keep a clean savegame, in case you what to ro
Cooking Riot (TTW) adds new recipes, working ovens, and a campfire to the Wasteland. It's a gameplay expansion for Tale of Two Wastelands players who want more survival crafting options. With 431 endorsements and frequent updates, it's a community favorite.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid community backing with 431 endorsements and over 129k downloads.
- Actively maintained—last updated May 2026, so it's fresh.
- Fills a real gap: cooking is often underused in TTW, and this makes it viable.
⚠️ Cons
- Requires Tale of Two Wastelands, so it's not for vanilla Fallout: New Vegas or Fallout 3 players.
- Potential compatibility issues with other mods that alter crafting or survival mechanics—check your load order.
For TTW players who want to make survival crafting more meaningful and immersive. If you're tired of hoarding food items that just sit in your inventory, this mod gives you a reason to cook. Skip if you're not playing TTW or prefer combat-focused mods.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have TTW installed correctly before adding this mod—it won't work on vanilla New Vegas or Fallout 3.
- Use a mod manager like Mod Organizer 2 to keep your load order clean and avoid conflicts with other crafting mods.
- After installing, check the in-game crafting menus to see the new recipes—they might be under a new category.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- New Vegas Mods
- Author
- Alo Bautist
- Version
- 3.0
- Downloads
- 129,372
- Endorsements
- 431
- Category
- Gameplay Effects and Changes
- Created
- 5/24/2020
- Updated
- 5/23/2026
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