Aloft Cooking Guide

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Steam won't allow me to make a guide for a game I can't yet purchase, so I'm posting it here, instead.

20 Cooking Ingredients

Bold ingredients are available in the demo (Adventure mode):

• Blueberries
  
• Bone meal*
  
• Carrots - creative only
  
• Chestnut Seeds
  
• Corn
  
• Egg (very limited supply in the demo)
  
• Flax seeds - creative only
  
• Flour
  
• Garlic
  
• Leaves
  
• Watermelon - creative only
  
• Milk - creative only
  
• Reishi mushroom
  
• Potato - creative only
  
• Pumpkin - creative only
  
• Salt
  
• Sugar
  
• Tomato
  
• Water
  
• Wheat

* Note: Bone meal doesn't appear to be used in any recipe in the game, and I've never heard of it used in real-life kitchens, either. Perhaps Aloft would be better served by using it as a fertilizer than as a cooking ingredient?

Ingredient Categories

This is all guesswork...

• Dry: Bland, Fruits or Veggies
  
• Wet: Water or Milk
  
• Bland: Leaves, Bone meal, Flour, Wheat, Chestnut Seeds, Flax Seeds,
  
• Fruits: Blueberry, Pumpkin, Watermelon
  
• Veggies: Corn, Carrot, Reishi Mushroom, Potato, Tomato
  
• Spice: Sugar, Salt, Garlic
  
• Egg gets its own category

Boosts From Food

• Digesting: clears eaten meals (so you can eat MOAR)
  
• Efficient: +Attack damage; get from any specific recipe beside Gnocchi or Tomato Soup
  
• Energetic: +Attack speed; get from any of the five bread-stuffs, Stew, or Oatmeal
  
• Hydrated: +1 Momentum charge; get from any soup
  
• Productive: +Resources gathered; get from Stew, Gnocchi or Tomato Soup

Cooking Recipes

After each recipe is a number like [+7/3m] indicating how many temporary maximum hit points you get from eating the food, and how many minutes the effect lasts.

Failed Results

• Burnt Meal: hold 'F' too long [+6/2m]
  
• Over-seasoned Meal: 2 spice + 1 dry [+10/6m]
  
• Stale Meal: 2 bland + 1 dry [+10/8m]
  
• Underwhelming Soup: 2 wet + 1 dry [+10/6m] *
  
• Over-seasoned Soup: 2 spice + 1 wet [+10/6m]
  
• Bland Soup: 2 bland + 1 wet [+10/8m]
  
• Broth: 1 Wet + 1 Bland + 1 Spice [+10/8m]

* EDIT: I previously had this as the same recipe as Broth.

Generic Results

• Soup: 1 Wet + 1 Veggie + 1 Veggie or Spice [+18/10m]
  
• Savory Smoothie: 1 Wet + 1 Fruit + 1 Fruit or Spice [+18/8m]
  
• Fresh Bowl: 1 Fruit + 1 Veggie + 1 Dry or Spice [+24/10m]
  
• Fruit Salad: 3 Fruit [+28/8m]
  
• Mixed Veggies: 3 Veggies [+28/10m]
  
• Veggie Skewers: 2 Veggies + 1 Spice [+24/10m]
  
• Fried Eggs: 1 Egg + 2 other [+28/10m]

Specific Recipes

• Digestive Tea: 2 Leaves + 1 Water [Instant]
  
• Pumpkin Pie: Flour, Sugar, Pumpkin [+36/14m]
  
• Blueberry Pie: Flour, Sugar, Blueberry [+30/14m]
  
• Summer Salad: Corn, Tomato, Garlic [+38/14m]
  
• Corn on the Cob: Corn x2, Salt [+39/14m]
  
• Tomato Soup: Water, Salt, Tomato [+32/18m]
  
• Sweet Roll: Flour, Milk, Sugar [+35/11m]
  
• Berry Loaf: Flour, Egg, Blueberry [+38/14m]
  
• Carrot Loaf: Flour, Egg, Carrot [+44/14m]
  
• Corn Loaf: Flour, Egg, Corn [+44/14m]
  
• Gnocchi: Flour, Egg, Potato [+44/18m]
  
• Pumpkin Loaf: Flour, Egg, Pumpkin [+44/14m]
  
• Oatmeal: Wheat, Salt, Blueberries [+35/11m] *
  
• Stew: Water, Potato, Carrot [+42/18m] *

* (found on a gourmet recipe in a buried chest by dtt.scanner; thank you!)

Recipes I Would Add

• Trail Mix: Chestnut Seed, Flax Seed, Blueberries
  
• Light Bread: Flour, Sugar, Salt
  
• Hearty Bread: Flour, Salt, (Wheat, Chestnut Seed, or Flax Seed)
  
• Potato Chowder: Milk, Potato, (Garlic or Salt)
  
• Corn Chowder: Milk, Corn, (Garlic or Salt)
  
• (specific fruit) Juice: 3 of the same (Blueberries, Carrots, Tomato, Watermelon) - counts as a wet ingredient
  
• Custard: Egg, Milk, Sugar

[Bunny]

This is awesome! Thanks for the guide and recipe suggestions :)

[[SB] Snuffa]

Thanks. I came looking for something like this after my first 3 attempts to cook meals ended up with a Burnt Meal, An Overseasoned Meal and a Stale Meal :D

[xitooner]

Back in my demo days, I lived off of 3 recipes: Carrot Loaf, Stew, and Soup. Gave me great buffs, and overall the same base ingredients are shared somewhat across them so... mass-plant them with a nearby water source and you are set. (need birds for egg supply for one of them) Wouldnt be surprised if there were other good combos as well (pay attention to the buffs+times)

[dirtyhabenero]

what region is the Garlic found in?

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Garlic is not in the main game, yet. You can "make" it in Creative by putting it on a Cooking Plate, then removing it to your inventory. This (cheating) method would be the only way to cook Summer Salad in Adventure mode; otherwise, you have to find it that dish in chests. That's also the only recipe that uses Garlic.

See the "more official" version of my Cooking Guide for more info (this post was my first version; I've been updating it since last summer).