Expanded Foods Crock Fix

<h1>Expanded Foods Crock Fix</h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Disclaimer</strong>: <em>I used AI, specifically Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, to teach me how to create this patch. Everything is written by me, but with guidance as I am still learning.</em></p> <h3>What Does This Do?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In <strong>Expanded Foods version 2.0.0-dev.7</strong>, meals sealed/unsealed within crocks currently transition after a certain amount of time into a crock containing a name similar to "<em><span style="color: #e74c3c;">expandedfoods:recipeingredient-item-agedmeat-instrumentalcase</span></em>", causing the meal to become unusable. It cannot be consumed and has no satiety to speak of. It essentially becomes air that you cannot eat or remove from the crock (at least I haven't tried to remove it, I just delete the crock in Creative Mode).</p> <p>The goal of this patch is to fix this issue by <span style="color: #e74c3c;"><strong>Completely removing Aged Meat</strong></span> and its "Transition" phase from Expanded Foods so that this never becomes an issue as this is where the problem stems from. For some reason it seems when meals containing meat are stored in a crock the aging process is still continuing and it will attempt to transition into Aged Meat after some time (20-ish days). If Aged Meat is removed, then meat cannot age = Problem Solved.</p> <p><strong>Update on Mod Status, February 15, 2026</strong>: My server has been running this mod for 2 in-game years now and there have been no problems so far.</p> <h3>Please...</h3> <p>If there are issues with this mod&nbsp;<span style="color: #e74c3c;"><strong><em>NOT</em></strong></span> fixing the problem from Expanded Foods, report it here within the comment section. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">I've only tested this by using "<strong><span style="color: #8e44ad; text-decoration: line-through;">/time setmonth &lt;month&gt;</span></strong><span style="color: #8e44ad; text-decoration: line-through;"><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: line-through;">" and fast-forwarding time many months, so I have no idea what will happen at a normal rate.</span></span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>This Patch's Future</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>If the authors <a class="mention username mceNonEditable" href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/user/328701FBA81D04141B47" data-user-hash="328701FBA81D04141B47">l33tmaan</a> or <a class="mention username mceNonEditable" href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/user/6836FA505C25815662ED" data-user-hash="6836FA505C25815662ED">Pursec</a> of Expanded Foods wish for this mod/patch be removed, or if the authors correct this issue in future versions of Expanded Foods (which I fully expect), I will happily remove this mod. I created this for my own server and decided to share it as it seems many people are suffering from the same issue.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="spoiler"> <div class="spoiler-toggle">Dependencies</div> <div class="spoiler-text"> <p>Expanded Foods: v2.0.0-dev.7</p> </div> </div>