Question about Cooking

[Moses]

Each ingredient is part of a category, for example Orange Cave Guppies, when cooked, become a fillet. Gem Crabs become sushi.

When you mix a food that typically becomes a fillet, with one that typically becomes sushi, how does the game determine which one it's going to be? According to the wiki each food category has a hidden food bonus, and in this instance fillets have a +20 for food, and sushi has a +15.

So, is there a way I can know beforehand, without having to craft every combination in the game, which food category the game is going to create when cooking two ingredients from different categories?

[TorinuxCthulhu]

It depends on your talents chosen in your Cooking Skill tree. When it comes down to mixing and their results, it always takes the higher value between both ingredients.

I think it also takes into account if you are using golden food. The only golden food not taken as gold food, is the Shinny Larva Meat, even though it looks golden.

The game has more than 2K results, I wonder if someone already completed their recipe book. I stopped at 100ish.

[BU4U Gaming]

Originally posted by TorinuxCthulhu:

It depends on your talents chosen in your Cooking Skill tree. When it comes down to mixing and their results, it always takes the higher value between both ingredients.

I think it also takes into account if you are using golden food. The only golden food not taken as gold food, is the Shinny Larva Meat, even though it looks golden.

The game has more than 2K results, I wonder if someone already completed their recipe book. I stopped at 100ish.

Some has completed it (at least for everything pre-1.0). I've seen screenshots where they have a huge display area with all the food ingredients lined along the top and along one side and then all the resulting recipes in the middle based on combining the ingredient in each column with the one in each row.

[TorinuxCthulhu]

Originally posted by BU4U Gaming:

Originally posted by TorinuxCthulhu:

It depends on your talents chosen in your Cooking Skill tree. When it comes down to mixing and their results, it always takes the higher value between both ingredients.

I think it also takes into account if you are using golden food. The only golden food not taken as gold food, is the Shinny Larva Meat, even though it looks golden.

The game has more than 2K results, I wonder if someone already completed their recipe book. I stopped at 100ish.

Some has completed it (at least for everything pre-1.0). I've seen screenshots where they have a huge display area with all the food ingredients lined along the top and along one side and then all the resulting recipes in the middle based on combining the ingredient in each column with the one in each row.

Damn! that's commitment, lol. But I may start grinding the recipe book. All the food got buffed and it really makes a difference now.

[BU4U Gaming]

Originally posted by TorinuxCthulhu:

Originally posted by BU4U Gaming:

Some has completed it (at least for everything pre-1.0). I've seen screenshots where they have a huge display area with all the food ingredients lined along the top and along one side and then all the resulting recipes in the middle based on combining the ingredient in each column with the one in each row.

Damn! that's commitment, lol. But I may start grinding the recipe book. All the food got buffed and it really makes a difference now.

I'm planning to do it in 1.0. I made over 400 of them in my old save. But gonna start over in 1.0. And considering doing a similar "recipe-based" display like the one I mentioned above. But big project for sure with so many recipes LOL

[Moses]

Originally posted by TorinuxCthulhu:

It depends on your talents chosen in your Cooking Skill tree. When it comes down to mixing and their results, it always takes the higher value between both ingredients.

I think it also takes into account if you are using golden food. The only golden food not taken as gold food, is the Shinny Larva Meat, even though it looks golden.

The game has more than 2K results, I wonder if someone already completed their recipe book. I stopped at 100ish.

I ended up just writing down all of the bonuses each ingredient in the game has (not sure why nearly all of them are hidden in the game), and I'll just use the ingredients that offer what I want. I guess it doesn't matter too much which category the cooked food items end up as, I'll just ignore it.

[TorinuxCthulhu]

Originally posted by Moses:

I ended up just writing down all of the bonuses each ingredient in the game has (not sure why nearly all of them are hidden in the game), and I'll just use the ingredients that offer what I want. I guess it doesn't matter too much which category the cooked food items end up as, I'll just ignore it.

This is actually a great approach indeed. I'll follow it. And I'll moving forward to complete the recipe book slowly.

[Diarmuhnd]

My summoner lovers Blue Fish & Blue Flower, wish I could add cheese

[Dash]

Originally posted by TorinuxCthulhu:

Originally posted by BU4U Gaming:

Some has completed it (at least for everything pre-1.0). I've seen screenshots where they have a huge display area with all the food ingredients lined along the top and along one side and then all the resulting recipes in the middle based on combining the ingredient in each column with the one in each row.

Damn! that's commitment, lol. But I may start grinding the recipe book. All the food got buffed and it really makes a difference now.

I'd recommend against it, there was just under 2500 combinations *before* 1.0.

[BU4U Gaming]

Originally posted by MiniHerc:

A lot of the combinations don't make much sense to do.

I just stick with mushroom + other stuff until I get grain, and then grain + other stuff.

Filling the recipe book is more just a thing for completionists to have fun with. No need if one just wants a decent food for actually playing :D

[Napalm]

Yup, that is really funny fact, you can scribe like 2000 dishes but you really need 4 or 5 of them.