Solar Cooker for Minecraft

Review Solar Cooker

Cook on Solar Panels

In Minecraft, many players use stoves to roast food or melt down certain types of resources by default, with coal, kelp or wood being their main fuel. In addition, a lot of mods have been developed for the game, offering alternative energy sources, including nuclear reactors, gasoline, and so on. But different types of build, where you have to study a lot of additional crafts and recipes, are often integrated in industrial mods. But in this review, we decided to tell you about the Solar Cooker add-on, which adds a kind of solar stove into the game, which allows you to cook food anywhere. This is a versatile unit that you can carry with you wherever you go.

The Solar Cooker add-on offers an absolutely new solution for cooking food – using the sun. This is, actually, quite a realistic option, which really exists in people’s lives, so you can add this mod to make the game more realistic if you collect such packs. Here, interesting mechanics are implemented, so, if you want to understand it in more detail, as well as get the main advantages of the Solar Cooker mod, we suggest reading our detailed review, where we’ve done our best to highlight the most important aspects of this add-on. After reading the article, you’ll be able to «deploy» your automatic cooking system in any biome in a couple of clicks.

A versatile unit added in the Solar Cooker mod is something like a «solar cooker» that runs on solar energy and at the same time allows you to cook any kind of food. The unit looks like a combination of a standard chest and a refrigerator. You just put all the necessary products, such as meat, into it and leave it in the sun to start the cooking process. It will stand open by default, but the chest will close as soon as the cooking is completed. This is a very convenient system, because you can visually check that the solar device has cooked all the food that was inside. So, you won’t have to run to it every 10 minutes: just use binoculars to check and that’s it!

To craft the solar cooker, you’ll need 4 glass panels, 4 iron ingots and one chest. The design significantly resembles a standard chest from vanilla Minecraft. At the same time, there should be no extra elements above the block added by the Solar Cooker mod, and it will be great if the player stays in the solar biome with the direct sunlight. In this case, the cooking process will go faster, although it’s still generally slower than the one in the melting furnaces in the standard game version. But it’s up for every player to decide: if you need to do it quickly, then you should use the old options, and if you have no resources and plenty of time, then you can easily use Solar Cooker and all its basic mechanics for cooking food.

By default, this item allows you to cook food only during the daytime, but the Solar Cooker mod adds another unique block to the game – a kind of a diamond cooker, which allows you to cook at night. You just heat it up during the day and then use it at night. A convenient technology, which allows users to cook at any time of the day in Minecraft, but you need to consider all time zones and your work schedule in advance to always have such a block available. So, you’ll need to take the diamond block with you on march, so that you can use it for heating at night.

Besides, the Solar Cooker add-on introduces small solar panels, or reflectors. They can have different names. These are additional structures installed to the sides of the main item. They increase the load on the solar cooker so that it heats the food faster and cooks it. This option is only suitable if you have the panels with you and the sun is clearly visible from the point where you are at the moment. In general, the mechanics are absolutely comprehensible and interesting for any user who has decided to play with alternative energy sources.

In our article, you can find all the crafting recipes, so that you can understand how to create certain items even before installing the Solar Cooker mod. It can become a great tool for using alternative sources of cooking in the future, which has always been an important topic for Minecraft, since the player always has to carry food to restore HP and replenish satiety reserves at any moment. In the comments, please let us know, whether you knew about existence of this mod or not, and whether you will use Solar Cooker in your build to slightly diversify the standard cooking principle in Minecraft.

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