Recipe books

[Lamarga]

Hello, could somebody please drop me a hint how to get recipe books? I have searched, but found nothing. I watched cooking guides, they all talk about them as if they were found everywhere. There doesn't even seem to be a spawn command. I just started playing btw., I don't know everything.

Thanks in advance.

[Sr. Morajsakom]

Kitchens in regular houses, 90% of my books are from those.

Only few of them i have found from places like police station kitchens or that restaurant kitchen.

EDIT: may i add, its like 1-2 books per mid-sized town, rarely none. Are you playing on default settings?

[eL Morro Locco]

B0 hospital library. there you can get them them all.
or any bookshelf.

[InDaZone]

^^ Yeah I found all 9 books in one trip to that hospital. There's a giant library in the main building and smaller ones throughout the other buildings.

[Bobo]

before the last hotfix I found all 9 in the kitchens. After the hotfix, I haven't found a single one.

[oynlengeymer]

Originally posted by Lamarga:

Hello, could somebody please drop me a hint how to get recipe books? I have searched, but found nothing. I watched cooking guides, they all talk about them as if they were found everywhere. There doesn't even seem to be a spawn command. I just started playing btw., I don't know everything.

Thanks in advance.

BTW, you now need to leave an area completely for loot to properly regenerate. So, if you loot a town and then log off in that town in a bed, next time you log on, there will be some loot around but it seems lowered. its best to go to the next town over it seems.

[Lamarga]

I have not cvhanged any loot settings. I am on single player to try things out right now.

I will head for the hospital then, cause I haven't found anything in regular houses or restaurants.

Is there a setting to make days shorter in overall length, and does that influence plant growth? The plants in my plant bed seem to do nothing other than accumulate weeds every five minutes...

[DariusGOD2007]

Originally posted by Lamarga:

I have not cvhanged any loot settings. I am on single player to try things out right now.

I will head for the hospital then, cause I haven't found anything in regular houses or restaurants.

Is there a setting to make days shorter in overall length, and does that influence plant growth? The plants in my plant bed seem to do nothing other than accumulate weeds every five minutes...

Hi there, you can play around with the loot settings in single player and you should have a significantly higher chance of finding loot (recipe books included)
ESC menu -> Server settings ->Tab "Features" ->Subcategory "item spawning"
-> Spawner probability multiplier - set at max value 10.0
-> Examine spawner probability multiplier - set at max value 10.0

Also try to focus more on towns to find recipe books, in houses, kitchens, restaurants etc.