Can you self discover recipes?

[City Builder]

I'm wondering if you can self discover recipes by simply placing different food items on the advanced cooking machine.

I tried it with eggs, placing 4 eggs thinking I'd be able to hard boil them but no such luck.

Do I have to actually find the recipes and can't experiement myself?

[Watkins Sleuth]

You can experiment.

There are in total 11 recipies in the game but most of them require rare ingediants that come from larger islands, namely Mushrooms, Silver Lichen and berries.

I think there is roughly 2 that include eggs but they are fairly good.

If you want to prove you can make these yourself then I would suggest figuring out how to make Veg soup. The receipe has quite a lot of wiggle room with the ingedents needed.

For anyone starting off and trying to figure out how to make this work, you place the 4 ingredants into the four slots around the table and then fill the burner with a few board for fuel. If the combination works then you should be able to cook.

[City Builder]

Thanks,
Seems not so evident on what recipes might be by experimenting.

[DieselDesigns]

You can get all of the recipes from Crates or from rocking a Wiki on Raft Survival

[RyderDie]

Yes, the recipes should be available on the wiki and as long as you follow them, you will get amazing meals (no matter if you've found the recipe itself or not) :)

[[A•T]Sebe]

Is it worth it to use clay for it ?
For the moment I avoid wasting time by only looting iron, scrap and seaweed while diving (litteraly eating shark everyday)

Btw, sometimes recipe shown in the "build" preview show the wrong one

[City Builder]

You get some sort of bonus by using the advanced food, I've not figured it out to be honest, but it fills up your food meter above where it normally ends.

For me at the moment it is, but tha'ts because I have a huge amount of stored up clay, but I'm sure once I run out and the only clay is that which is found on islands, I'm not going to be too happy about it.

I think that clay bowls should use a deterioration method rather than a one time use only method.

Have the bowl deteriorate a litte on each use until it's unusable. The other option would be to use coconut bowls as one use items since they are softer than fired clay but are sustainable if you want to have palm tree farms.

It's definitely not worth it if you have a fam of seagull nests, although they no longer provide any water value, there are so many of them that the food value is still worth using But it requires that you go and find islands to initially collect clams to make them. I've got something like 30 nests, so I've always got eggs and water is abundant once you have a few water stills set up. So I guess water and eggs are always a fallback if you need to.

[[A•T]Sebe]

If its only a gauge boost i'll pass on it
Looking for clay would be taking too much time, when I'm bored/waiting to find a new island, I just watch youtube while fishing, so my back up are full (btw I tough I could cook the shell so I have a stock to craft seagull nests)