YACS - Yet Another Cooking Skill
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #95 of 382 Gameplay Mechanics mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
YACS is a remix / Redux (what ever you want to call it) of ideas from CookingSkill by Spacechase and For the Love of Cooking By Blueberry, tossed into a pan and baked by me in the oven. It'll have similarities to those two but yet differences. I would say my mod will sit in the middle of those two, as it adds it's own custom recipes and gives level up rewards but isn't a complete overhaul to the food system.
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[]Gain EXP from any food you cook.
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]Home-Cooked foods now have a bonus gain on friendship equal to 10% of their edibility.[]Ingredient input quality now affects Cooking food output quality.
[]As you level up, gain access to many new recipes. These recipes all have buffs to them.
[]Choose professions that increase gold gained from foods you cook, increase the power of the buffs you cook, or even gain random buffs from eating.
[]Some foods even have cross mod buffs!
[]Cross-Mod Gift Tastes for every item in the mod, for SVE and RSV.
How EXP works
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[]Gain 2 EXP every time you cook something
[]Gain 50% of the item's edibility as bonus exp for the first 10 crafting.
[]So Cooking a pizza will give 32 exp for the first 10 crafts totaling 320 exp. Then will only give 2.
[]This is to encourage crafting many different foods and can be adjusted in the configs.
[]It takes crafting 7427 fried eggs to reach level 10 cooking if you just cook fried eggs. Get them chickens laying!
- []Level up Bonus: +3% edibility from foods you cooked. Longer duration and stronger effects from the professions below.
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[]Level 5a: Cook - Cooked meals have a chance to have a higher quality.
[]Level 10a1: Caterer - When cooking, chance to receive double the recipe based on twice your cooking bonus
[]Level 10a2: Foodmonger - Home Cooked Foods have an increased selling value based on your cooking level.
[]Level 5b: Foodie - Buff durations from foods last longer (duration based on cooking level)
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[]Level 10b2: Gastronomist - Eating or Drinking gives a Third "Food/Drink" buff that has a random effect.
[]Base exp gained from Cooking: Default 2
[]Bonus exp gained from the Edibility of an item: Default: 50%
[]Bonus exp Limit: 11
[]Vanilla food changes: Turn off all but the pie crust changes to vanilla food.
[]Foodmonger food selling bonus: adjust the value of the sell bonus
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[]Gain 2 EXP every time you cook something
YACS - Yet Another Cooking Skill adds a cooking skill system to the game, allowing players to gain experience and unlock new recipes and professions. With 1,671 endorsements and 159,808 downloads, it's a popular gameplay mod for those who want to expand their culinary options.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust with 1,671 endorsements and over 159k downloads.
- Adds a whole new progression layer to cooking—perfect for players who want more depth.
- Actively maintained, last updated May 2026.
⚠️ Cons
- Potential compatibility issues with other gameplay mods—no compatibility notes given.
For players who love crafting and progression systems and want cooking to feel more rewarding. If you're a completionist who wants to unlock every recipe and profession, this is for you. Skip if you prefer vanilla cooking or don't want extra mechanics.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Check the mod's page for any required dependencies before installing.
- If you use a mod manager, install through it to keep track of updates.
- Start a new playthrough to experience the skill progression from the beginning.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Stardew Valley Mods
- Author
- MoonSlime
- Version
- 1.13.0
- Downloads
- 159,808
- Endorsements
- 1,671
- Category
- Gameplay Mechanics
- Created
- 4/16/2024
- Updated
- 5/26/2026
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