A chef's island is an item that compliments a kitchenette, requiring a kitchenette installed in the same location and for groceries to be stocked within the kitchenette.
This item allows for characters to make customized food dishes with the ingredients found in stock items bought from grocery stores (see: help kitchenette), i.e; if your kitchenette has two items stocked and those two items have between them four ingredients, you may mix and match those four ingredients.
Ingredients are sub-components of grocery items stocked in kitchenettes and not every item may contain ingredients or output formats (ie. plate of %recipe, %recipe cake) for using with a chef's island, so looking through options at a grocer in-game and what they provide when buying groceries may be necessary.
Chefs islands require an appropriate skill to properly use and food and beverage creations are able to be more involved the more advanced.
Chefs islands hold three prominent commands, found with examine chefs: craft prepare forget
CRAFT WITH CHEFS ISLAND
Crafting a recipe will begin the creation process of choosing a custom name (in the initial command), an outcome format for the recipe (eg. salad, bowl of noodles, soda, etc.) from the options unlocked by your available grocery items (more can be acquired by buying the necessary grocery items), and then choosing from all the possible ingredients available. Ingredients are chosen all at the same time with a comma-separated list when prompted (ie. 2,4,25,100 for a four ingredient recipe). If the crafting process succeeds the recipe is saved to the character's available recipes to make, and can now be prepared. These recipes are character-specific and different characters will each have different recipes saved to any chefs island.
When you have a custom recipe, it will be available only when all the ingredients it uses are stocked.
PREPARE WITH CHEFS ISLAND
Use prepare on the chefs island to make up a numbered amount of those dishes which will then appear in the listed items when your character uses the kitchenette, as it shows up in the options they can choose. This is ONLY available to the person who prepared the item from the chefs island, characters who didn't prepare the item will not be able to select it from the kitchenette list.
When done, use the kitchenette to select and create the physical food/beverage item to become an available coded object to eat or drink.
FORGET WITH CHEFS ISLAND
This command will provide a list of all crafted recipes that your character remembers how to make, allowing them to be deleted when no longer wanted or to make new versions. This is also a quick way to reference what recipes you may have saved and now don't remember the names of.
SEE ALSO: help kitchenette *Last Updated: 02/25/26 by Fengshui*
