Livestock processing · ミルク加工機
Village in the Shade Milk Processor Guide
Unlock and craft the Milk Processor, then route the exact input to the correct output: Cow Milk makes Cream, Cream makes Butter, Goat Milk makes Cheese and Soybean makes Tofu.
Short answer
Four routes, two stages
Milk Processor / ミルク加工機 uses one-day documented cycles. Butter is not a direct Milk output: Cream is the intermediate.
Unlock
Repair Stage 1
Build
Salt ×5 + Iron ×2
Cycle
1 day
Upgrade
Up to 3 materials
Quick Answer
Milk Processor at a glance
These are the current repository-backed machine facts; unknown fields stay unknown.
Japanese name
ミルク加工機
Shrine cost
Standard ×2 · Child ×2 · Bronze ×1
Workbench
Salt ×5 · Iron Ingot ×2
Base sell value
¥69
Base processing
1 day
Base capacity
Not verified
Upgrade name
ミルク加工機/改
Upgrade capacity
Up to 3 materials
Unlock and craft
How to Unlock the Milk Processor
The Shrine node unlocks the recipe; the physical machine is made at the Workbench.
- 1.Reach Shrine Repair Stage 1.
- 2.Learn the Milk Processor skill for Standard Magatama ×2, Child Magatama ×2 and Bronze Mirror ×1.
- 3.Gather Salt ×5 and Iron Ingot ×2.
- 4.Craft the machine at the Workbench.
Shrine unlock cost
- Standard Magatama
- ×2
- Child Magatama
- ×2
- Bronze Mirror
- ×1
Construction boundary
Salt is a Workbench construction material. No separate cycle fuel, machine placement rule or machine-count cap is verified.
Upstream materials
Get Salt and Iron Ingot from their owning systems
This page links the dependencies without duplicating their full databases.
Rock Salt → Salt
The Mill turns Rock Salt into Salt in 1 day. Use the processed Salt for the Milk Processor recipe; do not substitute raw Rock Salt.
Open Mill GuideMachine authority
Milk Processor Recipes
Only explicit input/output records are shown. Quantities are not invented where the source is silent.
| Input | Output | Time | Input quantity | Output quantity | Sell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goat Milkヤギミルク · goat-milk | Cheeseチーズ | 1 day | Not verified | Not verified | ¥189 |
| Cow Milk牛乳 · cow-milk | Cream生クリーム | 1 day | Not verified | Not verified | ¥220 |
| Cream生クリーム · cream | Butterバター | 1 day | Not verified | Not verified | ¥304 |
| Soybean大豆 · soybean | Tofu豆腐 | 1 day | Not verified | Not verified | ¥60 |
Goat Milk → Cheese
Goat Milk → Milk Processor → 1 day → Cheese
Cow Milk → Cream
Cow Milk → Milk Processor → 1 day → Cream
Cream → Butter
Cream → Milk Processor → 1 day → Butter
Soybean → Tofu
Soybean → Milk Processor → 1 day → Tofu
Stamina recovery: ×45
Four processing chains
Milk Processor production flows
The input identity matters more than the shared word “milk.”
Milk → Cream
Cow Milk / 牛乳 → Milk Processor → Cream / 生クリーム → 1 day → ¥220.
Cream is an intermediate, not the end of the dairy chain.
Cream → Butter
Cream / 生クリーム → Milk Processor → Butter / バター → a second 1-day cycle → ¥304.
Do not write Milk → Butter; the canonical input is Cream.
Goat Milk → Cheese
Goat Milk / ヤギミルク → Milk Processor → Cheese / チーズ → 1 day → ¥189.
Cow Milk is not substituted into this exact route.
Soybean → Tofu
Soybean / 大豆 → Milk Processor → Tofu / 豆腐 → 1 day → ¥60, with documented stamina recovery ×45.
Edamame is not silently treated as the same stable input ID.
Soybean routing
Which Machine Should You Use for Soybeans?
This is a navigation map, not a profitability ranking.
Mill
→ Kinako
1 day
Milk Processor
→ Tofu
1 day
Pickling Barrel
→ Natto
2 day
Oil Press
→ Soy Sauce
Time not verified
Aging Barrel
→ Miso
3 day
Kinako belongs to the Mill, Natto to the Pickling Barrel, Tofu to the Milk Processor, Soy Sauce to the Oil Press and Miso to the Aging Barrel. See each authority for its own recipe details.
Compatibility boundaries
Milk, Goat Milk, quality and branding
Category inheritance is not used to fill gaps in item-level evidence.
Milk vs Goat Milk
Cow Milk maps to Cream. Goat Milk maps to Cheese. Species-specific IDs remain separate.
Quality
Quality preservation and output-value scaling are Not verified.
Branding
Branded Milk and Branded Goat Milk compatibility and brand carryover are Not verified.
Base capacity
Do not infer base capacity as 1 from the upgraded 3-material record: it is Not verified.
Milk → Yogurt
Yogurt belongs to the Pickling Barrel. It is not a Milk Processor output.
Pickling Barrel authorityNo automatic variants
Goat Milk → Cream, branded inputs, quality retention, output quantity and mixed upgraded loads remain unverified unless an explicit record confirms them.
Livestock authorityUpgrade authority
Upgraded Milk Processor / ミルク加工機/改
The upgrade increases documented loading capacity; it does not establish a speed multiplier or new recipe list.
Shrine stage
Repair Stage 3
Capacity
Up to 3 materials
Cycle
1 day
Sell value
¥202
Shrine cost: Standard Magatama ×5, Twin Magatama ×2, Child Magatama ×1 and Bronze Mirror ×2.
Workbench recipe
- Milk Processor×1
- Iron Ingot×10
- Hard Stone×5
Mixed-load behavior, queue semantics, output quantities and upgrade-exclusive recipes are Not verified.
Troubleshooting
Keep the machine routes straight
The most common errors come from using the right input in the wrong machine.
Yogurt instead of Cream
Use the Pickling Barrel for Milk → Yogurt. Use the Milk Processor for Cow Milk → Cream.
Natto, Miso or Soy Sauce
Soybean has five branches. Check the machine map instead of putting every soybean use into this machine.
Butter will not start
Butter needs Cream as its input. Process Cow Milk first, collect Cream, then start the second cycle.
Recipe is unavailable
Check Repair Stage 1, the Shrine skill, Salt ×5, Iron Ingot ×2 and the Workbench.
Branded product question
Do not spend delivery-critical branded Milk or Goat Milk on an unverified preservation test.
Machine seems slow
The documented cycle is 1 day. No exact completion time or upgrade speed multiplier is published.
FAQ
Milk Processor Questions
Short answers for unlocking, recipes, variants and the upgrade.
How do I unlock the Milk Processor?
Learn the Milk Processor Shrine skill at Repair Stage 1. It costs Standard Magatama ×2, Child Magatama ×2 and Bronze Mirror ×1.
What is the Milk Processor recipe?
Craft it at a Workbench with Salt ×5 and Iron Ingot ×2. Salt is the processed Rock Salt material used for construction; it is not a confirmed operating ingredient.
Can Cow Milk make Cheese?
The canonical mapping is Goat Milk to Cheese and Cow Milk to Cream. Do not substitute Cow Milk for Goat Milk in the Cheese route.
How do I make Butter?
Process Cow Milk into Cream first, then put Cream into the Milk Processor for a second 1-day cycle to make Butter.
Why does Soybean use the Milk Processor?
Soybean is an explicit Milk Processor input and becomes Tofu in 1 day. There is no verified Soy Milk intermediate.
What does the Upgraded Milk Processor do?
The upgrade accepts up to 3 materials at once and keeps the listed 1-day cycle. It does not have a verified three-times-faster effect.
Can I process branded or quality Milk?
The current evidence does not establish compatibility, quality carryover, branding carryover or output-value scaling. Keep delivery reserves separate from experiments.
Evidence
Source and authority notes
Japanese source facts were rechecked on September 16, 2026. The English page paraphrases facts rather than copying source wording.
- AppMedia: 加工品一覧Supports: recipes, sell-values, processing-machine
- AppMedia: おすすめスキルSupports: shrine-cost, processing-time, upgrade-capacity
- AppMedia: 作業台の入手方法と作成できるものSupports: workbench-recipe
- AppMedia: 機械一覧Supports: machine-sell-values
- 日本一ソフトウェア: Ver.1.09 patch notesSupports: current-version-boundary
Related Guides
Follow the dairy, machine and soybean authorities
Each link owns a different part of the production chain.
Written by: Village in the Shade Guide Editorial Team
Last updated: August 27, 2026
Sources: Official publisher and storefront pages, released-game research and linked source notes.