TeaStory Basics Guide Testing

This project is currently in beta testing. Some parameters may affect gameplay experience and will be continuously improved. If you have any suggestions or ideas, feel free to contact me to make corrections. Thank you!

Credits & license: This adaptation is made with full respect for the original work and follows its license.
Original project and license: Tea-the-StoryCore summary: The TeaStory main loop is "harvest -> wither -> process -> ferment/finish -> brew/pour -> residue recycle". All primary processing and brewing happen on five custom machines — right-click a machine to open its GUI, load ingredients, and it processes automatically along a progress bar.

The Five Machines

Tea processing no longer relies on vanilla campfires/furnaces. Instead, craft these five machine blocks at a crafting table and right-click to open their GUI:

Machine	Role	Fuel	Weather
Tea Pan (Teapan)	Wither / Soak / Rescue / Yellowing	None (open air)	✅ clear/rain/thunder change output
Frying Pan	Fixation / Pan-firing / Scorch	Vanilla fuel (coal, charcoal…)	❌
Fermentation Barrel	3-stage fermentation	Baking Powder only	❌
Tea Stove	Roasting / Baking / Steaming	Vanilla fuel	❌
Tea Table	Cup/kettle brewing + pouring	None	❌

Common controls

• Tea Pan: input slot 12, output slot 14.
• Frying Pan / Tea Stove: input slot 2, fuel slot 20, output slot 15.
• Fermentation Barrel: input slot 12, baking-powder slot 13, output slot 14.
• Tea Table: six input slots (tool / sugar / cup / water / leaf) -> output slot 15, see "Tea Table Brewing".
• Sneak + right-click a machine to open its internal storage and retrieve misplaced items.

Quick Parameters

Stage	Machine	Parameters
Withering (clear)	Tea Pan	graded fresh leaf -> matching withered leaf, ~5 s
Soaking (rain/thunder)	Tea Pan	fresh leaf -> Wet Tea Leaf (loses grade); rain 3 s / thunder 2 s
Rescue (clear)	Tea Pan	Wet Tea Leaf -> ungraded withered leaf, ~7 s
Yellowing	Tea Pan	Green Tea Leaf -> Yellow Tea Leaf, ~8 s
Fixation	Frying Pan	withered leaf -> Green Leaf (Single Bud / One Bud One Leaf yield 2, others 1), ~5 s
Pan-firing	Frying Pan	Green Leaf -> Green Tea Leaf, ~6 s
Scorch	Frying Pan	Wet Tea Leaf -> Scorched Leaf (trap), ~4 s
Grinding	crafting table (mortar)	1 Green Leaf -> 3 Broken Tea Leaf; mortar loses 1 durability per use
3-stage fermentation	Barrel	broken -> semi -> full -> deep, each consumes baking powder
Roasting	Tea Stove	semi->oolong / full->black / deep->pu'er
Baking	Tea Stove	Green Leaf -> White Tea Leaf
Steaming	Tea Stove	Green Tea Leaf -> Matcha Leaf
Empty Tea Bag	crafting table	1 String + 5 Paper -> 3 Empty Tea Bag
Finished Tea Bag	crafting table	1 Empty Tea Bag + 6 matching leaves -> 1 Tea Bag
Fill water (batch)	crafting table	9 empty pots + 1 water bucket -> 9 filled pots
Boiling water	furnace/blast furnace	Furnace 8 s, Blast Furnace 4 s
Residue recycle	crafting table	any 2 residues/scorched leaf -> 1 Baking Powder
Tea Whisk	Tea Table matcha recipes	loses 1 durability per brew (total 120)
Mature rice drop	—	Only drops Rice Seed (currently 1~3)
Rice processing	crafting table (mortar)	Wooden Mortar & Pestle + Rice Seed -> Rice

Quick Flow

Quick note

All crop growth is affected by season, solar terms, and environment.

1. Get Tea Seeds from world loot chests (or as a chance drop from breaking jungle leaves), plant them on farmland; wild tea trees may also generate naturally.
2. Wait for the tea tree to mature, then harvest Fresh Leaf (random quality and quantity).
3. Wither (Tea Pan): in clear weather, put Fresh Leaf into the Tea Pan to get matching Withered Leaf.
   • Rain/thunder soaks it into Wet Tea Leaf (loses grade); putting that back in the pan on a clear day rescues it into an ungraded withered leaf.
4. Fixation (Frying Pan): fry withered leaves (needs fuel) into Green Leaf; wet leaf only scorches.
5. Process tea: pick a route — pan-firing (green) / mortar + fermentation (oolong/black/pu'er) / baking (white) / steaming (matcha) / yellowing (yellow). See "Processing Routes".
6. Make tea bags (optional): Empty Tea Bag + matching leaf x6 -> matching tea bag (for kettle brewing).
7. Prepare kettle & water: craft a kettle blank and fire it into an empty kettle; fill a water pot and boil it into a boiled water pot.
8. Brew (Tea Table): leaves/bags + boiled water pot + cup or empty kettle -> cup or kettle drink. See "Tea Table Brewing".
9. Pour (Tea Table): full kettle + empty cup -> cup drink (porcelain 4 cups / zisha 8 cups; returns empty kettle when drained).
10. Recycle: any residue/scorched leaf x2 -> Baking Powder x1 (feeds back into fermentation).

Processing Routes

Tea Tree ──harvest──> graded fresh leaf (bud / bud+1 / +2 / +3 / old leaf)
                   │
     [Tea Pan · Wither (clear)] -> matching withered leaf   [Tea Pan · Soak (rain/thunder)] -> wet leaf
                   │                                                 │
     [Frying Pan · Fixation] -> Green Leaf         [Tea Pan · Rescue (clear)] -> ungraded withered -> (fixation) -> Green Leaf
                   │                                [Frying Pan · Scorch (wet leaf)] -> Scorched Leaf
   ┌───────────────┼────────────────┬──────────────┐
[Frying Pan·firing]  mortar(table)  [Tea Stove·bake]  (Green Leaf)
  -> Green Tea Leaf   -> Broken x3    -> White Tea Leaf
   │                     │
[Tea Pan·Yellowing]  [Barrel] 3-stage fermentation (baking-powder driven)
  green -> yellow     broken -> semi -> full -> deep
[Tea Stove·Steam]        │
  green -> matcha    [Tea Stove·Roast] semi->oolong / full->black / deep->pu'er
                   │
              [Tea Table] brew (cup/kettle) + pour; kettle uses tea bag -> returns residue; scorched leaf/residue x2 -> baking powder (loop)

Harvest & Primary Processing

1) Withering (Tea Pan, weather-based)

Put graded fresh leaves into the Tea Pan input (no fuel needed); output depends on weather:

• Clear -> matching withered leaf:
  • Fresh Leaf (Single Bud) -> Withered Leaf (Single Bud)
  • Fresh Leaf (One Bud One Leaf) -> Withered Leaf (One Bud One Leaf)
  • Fresh Leaf (One Bud Two Leaves) -> Withered Leaf (One Bud Two Leaves)
  • Fresh Leaf (One Bud Three Leaves) -> Withered Leaf (One Bud Three Leaves)
  • Fresh Leaf (Old Leaf) -> Withered Leaf (Old Leaf)
• Rain / thunder -> soaked: any graded fresh leaf -> Wet Tea Leaf (loses grade; thunder is faster).
• Rescue (clear): Wet Tea Leaf -> ungraded Withered Leaf.

Mind the weather

The Tea Pan is an open-air machine. After loading, watch the sky: load on a clear day for graded withered leaves; rain gives wet leaf that needs an extra rescue step.

2) Fixation & Pan-firing (Frying Pan, needs fuel)

The Frying Pan needs vanilla fuel (coal / charcoal / planks…).

• Fixation: withered leaf -> Green Leaf

  Withered leaf type	Green leaf output
  Single Bud	2
  One Bud One Leaf	2
  One Bud Two Leaves	1
  One Bud Three Leaves	1
  Old Leaf	1
  Ungraded (from rescue)	1

• Pan-firing: Green Leaf -> Green Tea Leaf

• Scorch (trap): Wet Tea Leaf -> Scorched Leaf (recyclable into baking powder).

3) Mortar & Fermentation

• Grinding (crafting table, mortar loses durability): Wooden Mortar & Pestle x1 + Green Leaf x1 -> Broken Tea Leaf x3
• Barrel 3-stage fermentation: put leaves in the input slot and Baking Powder in the fuel slot (exclusive fuel — one baking powder covers several process cycles), upgrading in order:
  • Broken Tea Leaf -> Semi Fermented
  • Semi Fermented -> Fully Fermented
  • Fully Fermented -> Deep Fermented

Notes:

• Baking powder base source: 2 Wheat -> 1 Baking Powder (crafting table); residue/scorched-leaf recycling also produces it.
• The barrel won't start without baking powder; it only accepts baking powder, not vanilla fuel.

4) Roasting / Baking / Steaming (Tea Stove, needs fuel)

The Tea Stove needs vanilla fuel and handles three finishing routes:

• Roasting (fermented leaf -> finished tea):
  • Semi Fermented -> Oolong Tea Leaf
  • Fully Fermented -> Black Tea Leaf
  • Deep Fermented -> Pu'er Tea Leaf
• Baking (low-temp dry green leaf -> white tea): Green Leaf -> White Tea Leaf
• Steaming (steam + grind green tea -> matcha): Green Tea Leaf -> Matcha Leaf

5) Yellowing (Tea Pan)

• Put Green Tea Leaf into the Tea Pan (no weather requirement) -> Yellow Tea Leaf.

All six tea types + matcha leaves are now ready: green (pan-firing), yellow (yellowing), white (baking), oolong (semi-ferment roast), black (full-ferment roast), pu'er (deep-ferment roast), matcha (steaming).

Tea Bags, Kettles, and Cups

1) Empty & finished tea bags (crafting table)

• 5 Paper + 1 String -> Empty Tea Bag x3
• Empty Tea Bag x1 + matching leaf x6 -> matching bag x1
• Supported: green, black, oolong, pu'er, white, yellow (six flavors).

2) Kettles & cups (crafting table + firing)

• Cups: Glass Cup, Stone Cup, Wooden Cup, Porcelain Cup, Zisha Cup.
• Kettles: Empty Porcelain Kettle, Empty Zisha Kettle.
• Water pots: stone/porcelain/iron/zisha water pots can be boiled in a furnace/blast furnace into boiled water pots.

Empty kettle source (kettle blank -> firing):

• Kettle blank (crafting table, strict shape; material: 6 clay balls):
  • Row 1: empty clay-ball empty
  • Row 2: clay-ball empty clay-ball
  • Row 3: clay-ball clay-ball clay-ball
• Fire the blank in a furnace/blast furnace into an Empty Porcelain Kettle (blast furnace is faster). Zisha kettle works the same with zisha clay.

Player tips:

• Batch your water pots: 9 empty pots + 1 water bucket fills all at once.
• Boiled water pots aren't material-locked: stone/porcelain/iron/zisha boiled pots all work for brewing.

Tea Table Brewing

The Tea Table is the final brewing station. Right-click to open its six-slot GUI:

• Tool slot: Tea Whisk (matcha) / Milk Bucket (milk tea) / Lemon (lemon tea)
• Sugar slot: Sugar (needed for milk/lemon/matcha)
• Cup slot: empty cup or empty kettle (decides cup vs kettle)
• Water slot: any boiled water pot, or a full kettle (for pouring)
• Leaf slot: tea leaves or tea bags
• Output slot: the finished drink

1) Cup of plain tea

• matching dry leaf x2 + any boiled water pot + empty cup -> matching cup drink (returns empty cup after drinking).
• Six flavors x five cup materials (glass/stone/wood/porcelain/zisha), any combination.

2) Kettle of plain tea (bag-brewed, returns residue)

• Porcelain kettle: tea bag x1 + boiled water pot + empty porcelain kettle -> porcelain kettle drink; zisha kettle: tea bag x2 + empty zisha kettle.
• The tea bag is consumed and returns matching tea residue (recyclable into baking powder).

3) Special drinks: milk / lemon / matcha

Flavor	Leaf	Tool	Sugar	Notes
Milk Tea	Black Tea Leaf x2	Milk Bucket (returns bucket)	3	cup version; kettle uses black tea bag
Lemon Tea	Black Tea Leaf x2	Lemon	3	cup version; kettle uses black tea bag
Matcha	Matcha Leaf x2	Tea Whisk (loses 1 durability)	3	cup version; kettle uses loose matcha powder

Lemon source: breaking jungle leaves has a chance to drop Lemon; it's also directly edible.

4) Pouring (full kettle -> cup)

• Put a full kettle into the water slot + an empty cup -> a cup drink.
• Each pour costs 1 durability: porcelain kettle 4 cups / zisha kettle 8 cups; returns the matching empty kettle when drained.
• Nine flavors (six teas + matcha + milk + lemon) x two kettles x five cups can all be poured.

Brew vs Pour

• Brew: leaves/bags + boiled water pot, producing one cup or a whole kettle at once.
• Pour: an existing full kettle + empty cup, splitting a kettle into several cups — more leaf-efficient.

Rice & Paddy Line

1) Two-stage planting flow

• Stage 1 (normal farmland): plant Rice Seed on normal farmland to raise seedlings, then harvest Rice Seedling.
• Stage 2 (paddy transplant): transplant Rice Seedling into Paddy Field for continued growth.

2) Paddy field behavior

• Paddy Field can be placed, broken, and recovered as an item drop.
• Bucket interactions are restricted: empty buckets cannot pick it up, and water buckets cannot refill it again.
• The field uses shallow-water visuals (mud base + water surface) with water-like interaction sounds.
• Craft: 8 Dirt around 1 Water Bucket -> Paddy Field x8 (the bucket is auto-returned).

3) Mature product and processing

• Mature rice plants drop only Rice Seed (not direct Rice).
• Processing recipe: Wooden Mortar & Pestle + Rice Seed -> Rice.

Tea Residue System

1) Residue output

Brewing a kettle with a tea bag at the Tea Table returns matching residue:

• Black Tea Bag -> Black Tea Residue
• Green Tea Bag -> Green Tea Residue
• Oolong Tea Bag -> Oolong Tea Residue
• Pu'er Tea Bag -> Pu'er Tea Residue
• White Tea Bag -> White Tea Residue
• Yellow Tea Bag -> Yellow Tea Residue

2) Residue recycling

• Any residue or Scorched Leaf x2 -> Baking Powder x1

FAQ

Q1: Which machine does each step?

A: Tea Pan withers/yellows, Frying Pan does fixation & pan-firing, Barrel ferments, Tea Stove roasts/bakes/steams, Tea Table brews & pours. Right-click each to open its GUI. Frying Pan and Tea Stove need vanilla fuel, the Barrel only eats baking powder, and the Tea Pan and Tea Table need no fuel.

Q2: Why does the Tea Pan give wet leaf instead of withered leaf?

A: The Tea Pan is weather-based. Rain/thunder soaks fresh leaf into Wet Tea Leaf. Put it back in the pan on a clear day to rescue it into an ungraded withered leaf; frying wet leaf directly only produces scorched leaf.

Q3: Does the Tea Whisk wear out?

A: Yes. The Tea Whisk loses 1 durability per matcha brew at the Tea Table (total 120), and breaks when durability hits zero.

Q4: What is tea residue for?

A: Any two residues or scorched leaves recycle into one Baking Powder for continued fermentation in the barrel.

Q5: How do I make milk / lemon / matcha tea?

A: All at the Tea Table, with sugar in the sugar slot:

• Milk Tea: Black Tea Leaf x2 + Milk Bucket (returns bucket) + Sugar x3
• Lemon Tea: Black Tea Leaf x2 + Lemon + Sugar x3
• Matcha: Matcha Leaf x2 + Tea Whisk + Sugar x3 Kettle versions use tea bags / loose powder with larger sugar amounts.

Q6: What effects do the different teas give?

A:

• Black tea: Strength (11 s)
• Green tea: Haste (13 s)
• Oolong: Water Breathing (13 s)
• Pu'er: Health Boost (12 s)
• White tea: Regeneration (7 s)
• Yellow tea: Absorption (10 s)
• Lemon tea: Speed (12 s)
• Matcha: Jump Boost II (10 s)
• Milk tea: Resistance (11 s)

Q7: Fastest way to a first cup early on?

A: Take this shortest chain (all on machines):
fresh leaf -> (Tea Pan, clear) withered leaf -> (Frying Pan) green leaf -> (Frying Pan) green tea leaf -> (Tea Table) green tea leaf x2 + boiled water pot + empty cup -> glass of green tea.