Can you realistically upgrade all recipes? [SPOILERS]

[sam]

I have reached the story ending some time ago and have continued playing to see what I can still accomplish as a completionist. I already unlocked all recipes (didn’t research all of them yet, I still need about 50 in-game days for that), have all workers at Lvl20, and am pretty confident I can get all weapons and all GYAOs without too much frustration. I mostly cook Crimson Fish Rolls because they only require fish that can be bred.

However upgrading all the recipes seem a lot more tedious. I was hoping to do that but my calculations indicate that the required amounts of rice and other vegetables go by the thousands. Also if I want to get enough of the stuff that can’t be bred or grown (Reefshark Heads, Urchins, Long-Snouted Seahorses, Stargazers, both Crabs, Seadragons), I basically need to do a full trip to the Glacial Area each time I dive and even with both dash charms equipped that’s becoming really repetitive and boring. I don’t suppose there are shortcuts? Did anyone upgrade all the recipes to Lvl10?

[RandomTurtle]

Yes, it is extremely boring, would not recommend. However if you do, some tips:
-Get all the fish you need into a fish farm
-Seadragons only have 1 dish so once they're out of the way you can not travel to the glacial area.
-At a certain point, you'll want to use time skip and just focus on the vegetable farm
-You'll need to farm underwater plants at the village. I recommend every 2 days go there where the crops are fully grown, but instead of teleporting back using the mirror, swim out the gate and back up to the surface, carry a steel net gun, this is the times where you'll want to get Stargazers, Crabs, Seahorses, Urchins and the Whitetip reef shark
-You'll need a lot of Bei to buy the water plant seeds.
-If you have the funds, buy all the ingredients from Otto every day. Especially both types of eggs.
-Once you have enough coins in reserve (Nothing to spend on) you can even timeskip the restaurant portion of the game.

[sam]

Thanks, those are good hints, I’m giving it a try!

I’ll throw in a few more useful things I learned:
- if skipping the restaurant phase, you can remove all your staff and dispatch them instead (not really necessary because procuring is a lot faster than crops)
- buying all the ingredients from Otto costs $6870 a day, not opening the restaurant costs $10388 if your rating and employees are maxed out
- you still get 1 artisan flame when not opening the restaurant, so no need to serve dishes for that last few recipe researches
- breeding 2 of each fish appears to be very inefficient, I prefer to have only 4 or 5 types of fish in a section and swap for other types when I know I have enough of the current ones
- I prefer going from the surface to the village because I still sometimes get killed by a thresher or a mako and lose all the loot I picked up on the way…
- the Shark Teeth game my preferred way to make 500 Bei per day; I found the other games a bit less reliable

[Nonk]

I think the recipe for Whitetip reef shark head is very stupid, because the material must be submerged, and a Whitetip reef shark only produces one head, and the farm only produces meat.

[HoLYAssAsIN]

The most absurd recipes to max are the ones that have eggs either normal or A-grade. I've been buying the eggs Otto sells every day since they were available, i'm at day ~160 and i still have like 7-8 normal egg recipes and 2-3 A-grade egg recipes to max.