Animated Kitchen

Heirloom Animated Kitchen adds animated furniture for cooking on your server. Bake on a sliding oven tray, toss food in a skillet, stir a bowl and chop on a board. The stations use Heirloom's recipes, ingredients and quality rules.

Release candidate

This page describes the upcoming Animated Kitchen 1.0.0 candidate. Use its matching runtime and resource files together. Final download details and client acceptance will accompany the public release.

What is included

The default installation contains the oven, boiling pot, frying stove, mixing bowl and cutting board. The pot and heated stations include their bases. Place the bowl and board on a counter built from ordinary blocks.

An optional overlay adds the barista machine, mixology table, juicer, farmhouse press, stomping tub, fermentation vat, distillation still and aging rack. Their cooking behavior requires the gameplay addons listed below. The aging rack belongs to Core; Distillery and Pasture supply aging recipes.

The optional menu theme covers the recipe browser's upper panel and leaves the player inventory unchanged. Players without a loaded resource pack keep ordinary menus. Core 3D Food is a separate optional pack and is not included.

Craft and use a station

Open /hl and select Crafting. Choose a station to see its shaped recipe, ingredients and output. Tin Cans, Farmer's Hoes and supported crafting recipes from installed addons appear here too. Follow ingredient links to trace recipes, then use a normal crafting table to make the item. New Crafting labels fall back to English until your server supplies translations.

The menu shows recipes available on your server. Administrators can change recipes or omit optional content. The default crafting reference is generated from the installation package and lists all thirteen station recipes.

Place the station item as furniture. Leave room for moving parts; the oven needs a clear 2×2 footprint and two blocks of height. Place countertop pieces on a solid counter. Existing block-built Heirloom stations continue to work.

• Insert ingredients with the normal Heirloom controls.
• Empty-hand right-click works the bowl's spoon or board's cleaver. Normal shovel mixing and tool chopping remain available.
• Empty-hand left-click collects contents.
• Heated stations use actual recipe durations. Fire and light effects do not replace the floor or counter.
• Jump inside the stomping tub to mash. Follow the owning addon's bottle and serving controls for fermentation and distillation.

Normal removal returns the station and its recoverable contents once. Denied removal should leave both in place. An interrupted, unfinished batch retains its inputs but restarts processing progress when loaded again. Completed outputs persist.

Requirements

The target is Minecraft Java/Paper 26.2, Java 25, CraftEngine 26.9.1 and the matching Heirloom Core runtime. Different private builds can share 2.11.0, so use the release manifest and checksums to identify the matching JARs. Obtain Heirloom and CraftEngine separately; the artwork ZIP contains no plugin JARs.

Optional workstation	Gameplay requirement
Barista machine	Heirloom Café 2.11.0
Mixology table and juicer	Heirloom Mixology / HeirloomOrchard 1.0.1
Farmhouse press	Heirloom Pasture 2.11.0
Stomping tub, fermentation vat, distillation still	Heirloom Distillery 2.11.0
Aging rack	Core 2.11.0; Distillery or Pasture for their aging recipes

Use the companion builds identified in the release manifest. Visual definitions alone do not install their gameplay addon. This package does not claim Nexo, ItemsAdder, MMOItems or Bedrock support.

Install

1. Stop the server and back up worlds, plugin data and the resource pack.
2. Install the matching runtime, retaining existing configuration and license files. Keep one JAR per plugin.
3. Copy the ZIP's install/plugins/ contents into plugins/. This includes the CraftEngine resource folder and required Heirloom station-visuals/rustic-kitchen.json manifest.
4. Copy optional/addon-workstations/install/plugins/ for the optional stations and install their gameplay addons.
5. Enable CraftEngine's furniture.light-system.enable for cooking light. Set up automatic pack hosting at an address your players can reach.
6. Start the server. Run ce reload all, then ce reload pack. Reconnect, accept the pack, and open /hl → Crafting.

Update or remove

Collect batches and stored items before updating. Remove old ovens without room for the current model, then stop and back up the server. Follow the ZIP's guide to replace the dedicated workstation resource folder and external manifests together. Do not leave an old monolithic rustic_workstations.yml alongside the new Core/addon configuration files.

Restart after changing JARs or station manifests. Rebuild the pack and reconnect; avoid generic plugin hot-reloaders.

Before uninstalling, collect contents and remove furniture while both plugins are active. Stop the server, remove only Animated Kitchen resources, manifests and theme, then restart and rebuild the pack. To disable only the menu theme, remove plugins/Heirloom/gui-themes/animated-kitchen.json and restart.

Troubleshooting

• Missing from Crafting: check that the provider definition, recipe and gameplay owner are installed. Missing content does not receive invented recipes.
• Static furniture or mismatched parts: check matching JARs and external station manifests, then restart.
• Old or missing textures: rebuild the pack, check its hosting address, reconnect and accept the update.
• No cooking light: enable CraftEngine's furniture light system.
• Cannot place or use: check space, permissions and claim restrictions. Test both an allowed area and a denied area before opening to players.

The download includes RECIPES.md, catalog.json, checksums, audio credits and the full installation guide. Keep its release manifest with your backup.