# Powdered Coffee shouldn't need a coffee brewer **URL:** \ **Category:** The Garage\ **Created:** [November 20, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320 "2020-11-20T03:46:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![Beetlecat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/beetlecat/32/1305_2.png) [@Beetlecat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Beetlecat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/1 "2020-11-20T03:46:51Z")

Just playing around a little bit and hit a stash of MREs right at the start of the game. My character was hungry/thirsty, so I ripped one open and heated up some food, mixed up some lemonade, and wolfed it down. Yum! 😃 Now, coffee time! – wait, I can’t just dump it in a mug with hot water? The “Powdered Coffee” that comes in MREs, etc. is freeze-dried instant coffee, not grounds. I know a ton of material in this game is a “yes, we’ll get to it eventually” - but I’m hoping this one is on the roadmap. ---

**Author:** ![Trigon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/trigon/32/2668_2.png) [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/2 "2020-11-20T05:13:52Z")

It would be very easy to add a recipe for instant coffee using just clean water and powdered coffee if you wanted to. It would just be a Json edit in fact. ---

**Author:** ![zantanzuken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zantanzuken/32/10325_2.png) [@zantanzuken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/zantanzuken)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/3 "2020-11-20T15:07:04Z")

there -are- a lot of recipies that use coffee as an ingredient, and to add a new ‘type’ of coffee they’d have to change things around a lot, it’d take a bit… and they’re likely focusing on more important things. ---

**Author:** ![Tazeell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/tazeell/32/4576_2.png) [@Tazeell](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tazeell)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/4 "2020-11-20T17:00:04Z")

No it really wouldn’t be a lot of work. Probably take about as long clicking through folders as adding another recipe, especially when it’s primarily a copy paste job with just a few requirements and ingredient options removed. Would be far from the only recipe that has a limited duplicate with a requirement removed and ingredient changed. Submitting it is probably more work than the tweaks themselves. Unless the powdered coffee isn’t a separate item then it’s more work but shouldn’t be too much even then. Haven’t taken a good look at MREs for awhile myself. ---

**Author:** ![zantanzuken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zantanzuken/32/10325_2.png) [@zantanzuken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/zantanzuken)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/5 "2020-11-20T17:13:54Z")

It would have to be powedered coffee in a nested container, it has diffrent calorie counts, all of that would have to be adjusted in some shape and for … i’m more for just playin what i have than putting in all the effort to add to it, but thats just me ---

**Author:** ![Tazeell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/tazeell/32/4576_2.png) [@Tazeell](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tazeell)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/6 "2020-11-20T17:17:00Z")

Eh depends on how the nested containers are coded. Haven’t tweaked any of those yet. Probably mostly a lot of grunt work given how many types of mre there are if a new type of item needs to be added. I might take a look but got a bunch of other stuff I’d rather work on so no promises. ---

**Author:** ![Beetlecat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/beetlecat/32/1305_2.png) [@Beetlecat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Beetlecat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/7 "2020-11-20T17:24:03Z")

> [@Trigon](#): > > It would be very easy to add a recipe for instant coffee using just clean water and powdered coffee if you wanted to. It would just be a Json edit in fact. This makes the most sense, even if just for my own game/playthroughs. Just spinning off a new “Instant Coffee” recipe to only require powdered coffee + water and making it possibly less enjoyable or effective sounds like a great idea. The larger efforts of renaming the existing “powdered coffee” to “ground coffee” and creating an all-new “powdered coffee” to replace into MREs, etc. is for another time/obsessive impulse… 😉 ---

**Author:** ![zantanzuken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zantanzuken/32/10325_2.png) [@zantanzuken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/zantanzuken)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/powdered-coffee-shouldnt-need-a-coffee-brewer/25320/8 "2020-11-20T22:15:15Z")

while i agreeee with you, that there should be alternatives… at the same time… its real easy to find a coffee maker if you go into any town in the game XD … hell i’ve got an atomic coffee maker. _sips atomic coffee_