Chocolate Redeux

A complete rework of chocolate production!

Cocoa is now harvested as raw beans instead of finished chocolate bars. Roast the beans, mill them into chocolate liquor, then use that to make chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate milk, fruity milks, and even chocolate cakes with the right mods loaded (see below).

Want more realism? Enable sugar as an input in the settings!

Production Chain

New resources: Raw Cocoa Beans, Roasted Cocoa Beans, Chocolate Liquor, Milk Chocolate, Chocolate Milk, and optional fruity milks.

• Cocoa trees yield Raw Cocoa Beans
• Roast beans at a campfire or stove
• Mill roasted beans into Chocolate Liquor
• Cook Chocolate Liquor into Chocolate
• Chocolate Liquor + Milk = Milk Chocolate
• Chocolate + Milk = Chocolate Milk
• Optional fruits + Milk = Fruity Milks
• If Vanilla Cooking Expanded is loaded, Chocolate Syrup can also be used for Chocolate Milk
• If Vanilla Cooking Expanded - Bakery is loaded, you can make chocolate cakes from simple to gourmet

Mod Settings

Most features can be adjusted in the settings menu.

• Allow milling at stoves, or require dedicated mills/grinders
• Choose sugar mode: none, Medieval Overhaul sugar, or Vanilla Cooking Expanded sugar
• Enable or disable Chocolate Milk
• Let Chocolate Milk use compatible chocolate/cocoa items from other mods
• Enable or disable automatically generated fruity milks
• Toggle individual fruity milk flavors
• Adjust crafting/cooking skill requirements
• Choose whether milk products rot or simply deteriorate

Optional Integrations

• Vanilla Cooking Expanded: Chocolate Syrup can be used for Chocolate Milk, and Chocolate Liquor works as a condiment where appropriate
• Vanilla Cooking Expanded - Bakery: adds chocolate cake batter and chocolate cakes in simple, fine, lavish, and gourmet tiers
• Medieval Overhaul: adds sugar support, millstone support, and automated cocoa milling through windmills/watermills
• Processor Framework: used for automated milling with Medieval Overhaul windmills and watermills
• VGP Garden Gourmet: grind stone support
• Comigo's Adequate Cooking Continued: electric mill, crushing spot, and quernstone support

Cross-Mod Ingredient Support

The recipes try to work naturally with other food mods.

• Chocolate Milk accepts compatible chocolate, cocoa, or syrup from other mods
• Milk recipes can detect and use compatible milk items from other mods
• Chocolate cake batter can accept compatible baking chocolate/cocoa products
• Alcoholic liquors, finished desserts, beans, milk products, and likely false positives are filtered out

Fruity Milks

If enabled, your active modlist is scanned for raw fruit items and matching milk flavors are automatically created. Similar fruits are grouped where appropriate, such as berries, to avoid cluttering your bill menu with too many near-identical recipes.

Detected flavors can be toggled individually in the settings menu.

Compatible / Supported Mods

• Vanilla Cooking Expanded
• Vanilla Cooking Expanded - Bakery
• Medieval Overhaul
• Processor Framework
• VGP Garden Gourmet
• Comigo's Adequate Cooking Continued

All of these mods are optional. The chocolate production chain can be used by itself.

Should be compatible with other mods; I've ~500 mods in my game.

Feedback

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please let me know!

Permissions

Just reach out if you want to redistribute mod. Feel free to modify for personal use.

Credits

Made by UnblestMATT with help from ChatGPT, Codex, &/or Claude Code; all work is reviewed, edited, and finalized by me. Thanks to the amazing Rimworld modding community for inspiration!

Thanks to the Medieval Overhaul, Vanilla Cooking Expanded, Processor Framework, VGP Garden Gourmet, and Comigo's Adequate Cooking Continued teams for the mods this integrates with.

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