cooking

[AlphaGodith]

i love when my dino walks right between me and the cooking pot so i can't see what i'm doing, and how there's no audio prompt, so then i make gloop and have to reload (:

[peajay64]

"Lucky get your fat head out of the way I'M TRYING TO MAKE STEW"

[Atheris]

I cannot for the life of me remember how to tell when something is "done" so the last several times I tried to make food it turned into gloop because I removed it too early or too late. RIP all those food ingredients I guess.

[AlphaGodith]

Originally posted by Atheris:

I cannot for the life of me remember how to tell when something is "done" so the last several times I tried to make food it turned into gloop because I removed it too early or too late. RIP all those food ingredients I guess.

yeah, it's a pretty damn small window for success. as far as i can tell it's right when the water changes color but before it starts smoking/steaming a lot.

[Mister Ikkus]

Is there a way to get a cooking pot at our home? If not, what??? Why do I have to go to the neighbor's house to cook?

[AlphaGodith]

Originally posted by Mister Ikkus:

Is there a way to get a cooking pot at our home? If not, what??? Why do I have to go to the neighbor's house to cook?

nope, i've maxed relationship with all npcs and am in my third year. nobody has given me a cooking pot. MAYBE there's another random quest still waiting to occur but it seems unlikely. and yes i agree it is incredibly stupid.

[Mister Ikkus]

That is insanely stupid. So is requiring wood and stone as part of the recipes. Oops, forgot my soup needs wood and stone. Better run back home and take 400 of each out of my storage and then put back 300 of each.

[AlphaGodith]

Originally posted by Mister Ikkus:

That is insanely stupid. So is requiring wood and stone as part of the recipes. Oops, forgot my soup needs wood and stone. Better run back home and take 400 of each out of my storage and then put back 300 of each.

i sort of get needing fuel but the costs are pretty high and i personally woulda done it so you just need it to start cooking but then can keep cooking multiple dishes with the one instance of fueling if you have everything you need on you already.

but yeah no making the only cooking spot be way the hell away from the player's storage is HELLA stupid and one of many reasons i cannot recommend this game to anyone despite having played the ♥♥♥♥ out of it myself. so many dumb design choices and bugs all over the place like it somehow didn't get a lick of playtesting.

[Mister Ikkus]

I actually haven't experienced any bugs at all, but a few crashes, which really suck considering the way the saves work means you can actually lose significant progress. But there are definitely some strange design choices.

Honestly, if this game didn't have dinosaurs, it would be kinda awful, imo. 😂

But dinosaurs, so I adore it.

[IsaWP]

In the Help section there are helpful tips on how to move inventory! For example, if you use a controller you can move half with Right Trigger + A, or some at a time by holding Right Trigger and pressing up/down on the directional pad as many times as you want to add/remove 1. I accidentally stumbled upon it by accident.

[AEon]

Originally posted by Mister Ikkus:

That is insanely stupid. So is requiring wood and stone as part of the recipes. Oops, forgot my soup needs wood and stone. Better run back home and take 400 of each out of my storage and then put back 300 of each.

Small tip... I get all the stone, wood, flour etc. into the inventory at the farm (99x3+), then ride over to the cooking pot, then drag and drop those items out of the inventory onto the ground and thus drop them next to the pot (a box container appears). This way you don't have to get the basic "ingredients" every time, you can concentrate on transporting the special ones (i.e. fruits).

This works because "dropped" items seem to stay in the world and are not removed, at least not in my 66h playthrough time so far.

[hildewereld]

Originally posted by Mister Ikkus:

Is there a way to get a cooking pot at our home? If not, what??? Why do I have to go to the neighbor's house to cook?

With the latest update, it's now possible to purchase a cooking pot to place on your ranch from Freya!

[AEon]

Originally posted by hildewereld:

With the latest update, it's now possible to purchase a cooking pot to place on your ranch from Freya!

That is SOO going to help my recipe grind that I am dreading. Thanks.

Freya will sell such a cooking pot, directly via Trade button (so no crafting/ordering required) for 800 Shells. Neat.