Simple Portable Cooking
⚪ Last updated 2024⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.2% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #20 of 162 Immersion mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
What it does?
Allows your character to cook at campfires or any other heat sources when using a cooking pot from the inventory.
An animation will play while the crafting menu is open.
How it works?
The "Cooking Pot" can be crafted at a forge by using two "Iron Ingots". You can also repurpose the vanilla "Cast Iron Pot" items at a forge.
To use the cooking pot, just stay near a heat source and use it from the inventory. If the mod recognizes the heat source, the animation
will play and the crafting menu will be opened.
There's also a "Makeshift Mortar and Pestle" misc item. You can craft it by repurposing a "Wooden Bowl" at a forge. Use the newly crafted item from the inventory to perform "Field Alchemy". P. S.: There's an alchemy penalty when using the item.
If you have Inventory Interface Information Injector and The Handy Icon Collection Collective for I4, new icons will be added to the cooking pot and mortar and pestle.
If you have Description Framework, flavor text will be added to the cooking pot and mortar and pestle.
If you have Dynamic Animation Replacer or Open Animation Replacer installed, an animation with the player holding the cooking pot will be
played, otherwise, the player will kneel down near the heat source.
For now, it's just a simple cooking idle, but I have some ideas that I might implement in the future.
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Heat sources
Formlist Manipulator can be used to add new heat sources to the FormLists, just add them to the Portable Cooking_FLM.ini file.
Included heat sources from Campfire, Rest By Campfire BOS, Rain Extinguishes Fires and Diverse Campfires - Base Object Swapper.
The "sizes" of the heat sources are just to determine how much closer the player needs to be when cooking, but I want to trigger different animations in the future.
Inspiration
The mod was inspired by the Primitive Cooking from Hunterborn.
Credits and Thanks
Special thanks to Elsawir for the cooking animation.
Simple Portable Cooking lets you cook at campfires or other heat sources by using the cooking pot directly from your inventory. It's a lightweight immersion mod with 709 endorsements and over 412,000 downloads, last updated in March 2024.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge download count (412k) shows tons of players dig this QoL tweak.
- 709 endorsements from a niche immersion mod — solid community approval.
- Does exactly what it says: no bloat, just portable cooking.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated March 2024 — might not be patched for the latest game version.
- Only works with cooking pots, so if you're expecting other portable crafting, this ain't it.
For survival players who hate menu-hopping just to cook a meal. If you're tired of dropping your pot on the ground or fiddling with campfire menus, this mod streamlines the process. Skip if you want a full crafting overhaul — this is a focused QoL tweak.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have a cooking pot in your inventory and a lit campfire nearby — the mod triggers from the inventory screen.
- Check if your game version matches the mod's last update (March 2024) to avoid conflicts.
- If you use other cooking mods, test them together — this mod might override or be overridden by similar features.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- GiraPomba
- Version
- 1.4.4
- Downloads
- 412,515
- Endorsements
- 709
- Category
- Immersion
- Created
- 9/24/2023
- Updated
- 3/30/2024
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