Food recipes - are they in-game?

[fureimu]

Is there a way to find cooking recipes? I mean, without using Google or randomly trying every combination.

[John Truck]

I think the devs iintended us to guess based on real-life recipes plus random guesses and eventually some intuition about how they work in NMS. Some expeditions give cooked food as prizes, which is another clue (you don't usually get the recipe). The NMS wiki lists recipes for each ingredient, but using that takes away the fun (or grind).

[Foxglovez]

Its a combo thing though once you find something that says dough, donuts, soup, make a bunch because you then mix those with everything you can think of. There needs to be lots more food storage if HG wants us to actually figure out recipes that way. I used to just use the big exocraft as my cook shack. And looking at the recipe, it will actually say if it can just be used or sold or whether it can be made into something else. Some of the recipes are pretty complex. Too bad we really don't need them for anything. Maybe someday.

[Maybe_Badger]

Check the menus, Catalogue Guide, recipes, should find 'Cooking Recipes' and all the ones you have done will be there with ingredients etc.

[Ozwald]

No, the game will not tell you any recipes, but it will record the ones you have made in the catalogue.

Before they consolidated the recipes in W2, you had to make every version of an item to fill out all the recipes. There's 38 recipes for creature pellets alone. I had discovered over 1300 recipes in the catalogue.

With W2, now it looks like you only need to make 1 of each to cross it off in the catalogue.

To sort through 1300+ recipes & not waste ingredients making something twice, I recorded every thing in a spreadsheet, but the biggest help is NoMansSkyRecipes.com. It's a data base with refining, cooking, etc.

I have not used it since W2, so I do not know if they've caught up yet, but they seem to be on top of it.

Do not confuse it with NoMansSkyResources dot com. That site is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess & the creator needs a swift kick to the nuts.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

I was really hoping they'd overhaul the entire cooking system by now. Seems like a bit of wasted potential as it is, even with the nutrient dispenser thing

[Maybe_Badger]

I should say, 'Solidified Grease Pie'.. gives the Effect: +316% Jetpack Tanks..
You will fly for miles with this 'aromatic',,, delicacy...

(Milk turned to Cream, turned to Churned Butter, added to Pastry made from Wheat or Frost Crystal, turned to Glass Grains, to Refined Flour, makes the Pastry, cook this to make Pie Case, cook that with Nourishing slime, can be farmed from some animals or made from Juicy Grubs, and you get the aforementioned pie...)
Enjoy...

[fureimu]

Originally posted by Ozwald:

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To sort through 1300+ recipes & not waste ingredients making something twice, I recorded every thing in a spreadsheet, but the biggest help is NoMansSkyRecipes.com. It's a data base with refining, cooking, etc.
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Thanks but I absolutely dont understant how to use that thing.
It looks like absolutely unusable mess. I mean, I have some ingridients and I have no idea how to use them, is there a big tree of recipes?
And I play game with language different than English and the translation, lets say, pretty spicific... So whole thing makes no sense at all to me :)

[Shadow Strider]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Too bad we really don't need them for anything. Maybe someday.

Did you not notice the new "Nutrient Ingestor" that gives bonuses based on the foods you put in it.
And just to note, they are not the same bonuses as eating them straight from your inventory.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Shadow Strider:

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Too bad we really don't need them for anything. Maybe someday.

Did you not notice the new "Nutrient Ingestor" that gives bonuses based on the foods you put in it.
And just to note, they are not the same bonuses as eating them straight from your inventory.

Which, at first, was kind of disappointing, because I put a stack of butter in there thinking it would just automatically refill my life support.

[Ozwald]

It's pretty simple. Click on the category that you're looking for. Cooking is the 2nd one, the nutrient processor icon.

It will pop up with ALL the cooking recipes at first, so you're just seeing the top of the list. Type any single ingredient or final product in the search bar. For example if you type in Creature Pellets, you'll get a list of all the possible recipes that make Creature Pellets.

There's a maximum of 3 ingredients in any recipe, so that's why there's 4 columns. Ingredient 1, 2, 3 & the final product.

So you have some Hepalatoid Wheat & don't know what you can make with it. Type it in the search bar & every recipe with wheat in it will pop up.

Note that whatever you search for will return results as both ingredients OR final products. So if you type in butter, you'll get recipes of how to make all 3 kinds of butter & every recipe that uses those butters as an ingredient.

Be as vague or specific as you want with the search to find the info you need.

It's just ingredient names, & your grasp on English seems to be quite well, so there shouldn't be anything too complex in there. Especially with accompanying icons that are color coded.

[Eightball]

I am guessing the approach to cooking was based on experimentation; you find some new ingredient on a distant world and cook it up to see what you get. And then maybe try to combine it with something else to see what you get.

At least you know if your combinations will result in something as the 'stove' will just show a blank if what you put in will not work.

Personally I have never been to worried about wasting ingredients and it is rather fun to see what you can come up with (I don't use hint guides and such, but if that is your thing go for it).

[John Truck]

Originally posted by Ozwald:

Before they consolidated the recipes in W2, you had to make every version of an item to fill out all the recipes. There's 38 recipes for creature pellets alone. I had discovered over 1300 recipes in the catalogue.

Ozwald, youre 1300 recipes are still there, but now you have to left-click on a recipe to see the other recipes you found to make the same thing, plus a mystery slot if there are recipes for it still to find. Apart from making a more compact list if you are paging through looking for something, the other plus is that it makes it clear whether a mystery slot is just an alternative recipe or a product you haven't made yet.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I got bored trying to learn the recipes by trial and error (and also by using an outside source). Some of the station missions will give out the completed recipe item. Apparently, that counts as learning the recipe so it goes in your recipe BP list.

[Ozwald]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

I got bored trying to learn the recipes by trial and error (and also by using an outside source). Some of the station missions will give out the completed recipe item. Apparently, that counts as learning the recipe so it goes in your recipe BP list.

It treats cooked items like anything else in Materials & Items, basically if you've seen it, it records it.

Before W2, that meant you still had to see every version of a recipe, because there was a separate icon in the Catalogue for each version of a recipe - 38 recipes to make Pellets, 38 icons to unlock in the Catalogue. I don't know how they chose which one to unlock by just procuring a cooked item instead of cooking it, but I'm sure it's something basic - first one on the list, most common way to obtain, whatever, doesn't really matter.

W2 consolidated them down however. I was at over 1300 recipes because I was trying to cook every variant of every recipe. After W2, I have 341/430, which also includes simple, regular & complex refining recipes.