What is the best recipe?

[zybourne]

It terms of affordability and return. (aka: bang for your buck)

I think fish stew because you don't need to ever stop at a large island for ingredients and it's filling.
or shark dinner because it gives 3 bowls.
or head broth because its relatively cheap, I've killed plenty of puffer fish.

Also are they adding more ever? I would like to see steak and eggs and honey chicken and banana bisque, just something new.

[Xas]

Fish soup and stew, Head broth, catfish deluxe,
fruit compost, drumstick jam are still the easier resourced, cooked meals for well fed.
When having a ' chuck ' on board, eggs have many uses.
Shark dinner is great for the extra potion but problematic blue fern ingredient.

Gradually as the raft gets upgraded, rarely the need to dive nor to play with Bruce.
Still Shark heads/ meat have good used as fuel waste.

[zybourne]

Originally posted by Xas:

Fish soup and stew, Head broth, catfish deluxe,
fruit compost, drumstick jam are still the easier resourced, cooked meals for well fed.
When having a ' chuck ' on board, eggs have many uses.
Shark dinner is great for the extra potion but problematic blue fern ingredient.

Still Shark heads/ meat, eggs have good used as fuel waste.

I did not know you could make fuel from heads, I have so many heads I just toss them or just not harvest animals completely. That's so nice.

Mushrooms are more rare than silver algae, there's more per island. Also when gathering algae you kill puffer fish for head broth.

[Reyggor]

Mushroom Omelette + Fruit Compot is pretty effective' a large Island should give you 3-5 mushrooms which equals 6-10 Omelettes, potato and eggs are easily renewable, and should be able to find another 3-5 Red Berries which'll give another 6-10 meals.

All in all enough to keep you going.

You can always just aim for milk though, it will go into the 'extra fed' zone and also fill up thirst too, renewable since all you really need is goats, really cuts out a lot of middleman work.

[Xas]

Half dozen goats and, Milk was my favorite for ' a short while ', until it lost the ability to pack twenty buckets in.
Tiresome to drink one by one and repeat stacking.

[Sigh-Phi-Guy]

chicken legs. 2nd highest food recovery in the game.
recipe meals are NEVER needed.
they are an inefficient waste of time and effort unless you just "want to".

[Menzagitat]

Originally posted by Sigh-Phi-Guy:

chicken legs. 2nd highest food recovery in the game.
recipe meals are NEVER needed.
they are an inefficient waste of time and effort unless you just "want to".

True. That eating sound could be adjusted as it sounds like eating apples.

[Grezko]

Originally posted by Sigh-Phi-Guy:

recipe meals are NEVER needed.
they are an inefficient waste of time and effort unless you just "want to".

I disagree completely.
- Mushroom omelet, drumstick with jam gives you more than an cooked drumstick.
- resource wise 1 drumstick with jam = 1 drumstick + 1 berry
- all cooked meals give fill the yellow bar or hunger, which decreases slower than the normal bar.

As for the question that OP asked i use as food:
- drumsticks (i kill a lot of seagulls)
- drumsticks with jam - when i visit a big island i cook with any berries i get
- shark dinner - the only food that is cooked that give you 3 pieces of cooked food from one cooking.
- vegetable soup - easies to make (i have a large potato/ redbeet farm)

[Grem™]

Originally posted by Grezko:

Originally posted by Sigh-Phi-Guy:

recipe meals are NEVER needed.
they are an inefficient waste of time and effort unless you just "want to".

I disagree completely.
- Mushroom omelet, drumstick with jam gives you more than an cooked drumstick.
- resource wise 1 drumstick with jam = 1 drumstick + 1 berry
- all cooked meals give fill the yellow bar or hunger, which decreases slower than the normal bar.

He meant that prescription papers are not needed for cooking. You can cook just by knowing the ingredients.

[Grezko]

Originally posted by Grem™:

Originally posted by Grezko:

I disagree completely.
- Mushroom omelet, drumstick with jam gives you more than an cooked drumstick.
- resource wise 1 drumstick with jam = 1 drumstick + 1 berry
- all cooked meals give fill the yellow bar or hunger, which decreases slower than the normal bar.

He meant that prescription papers are not needed for cooking. You can cook just by knowing the ingredients.

i don't think that's what he meant. He says "they are inefficient waste of time" - that can't be regarding the papers.

[decorus_veritas]

Originally posted by Grezko:

Originally posted by Grem™:

He meant that prescription papers are not needed for cooking. You can cook just by knowing the ingredients.

i don't think that's what he meant. He says "they are inefficient waste of time" - that can't be regarding the papers.

Maybe he means it's an inefficient waste of time trying to find all the recipe papers. We're at Caravan island and still haven't found them all, which is frustrating. But I agree the recipes are amazing, especially shark dinner. A dead shark provides four sharkmeat, but two sharkmeat makes three shark dinners, which is an amazing return given that a shark dinner nourishes you more than eating a cooked shark meat.

[Sigh-Phi-Guy]

"inefficient waste of time and effort".
as far as..
have to collect 2-4 items per cook.
place said items.
having to craft bowls and then scoop.
store until ready to use.

as opposed to just placing the legs on the grill and DONE.
its also why i like seagulls. constant supply with minimal effort.
food is already a pain(ish) to keep full. i dont want to spend half the game making it also.

[sillysmart2]

1) Each exploration of an island I get 4-8 shark steaks so grilled shark is number one.
2) Next, seagulls will attack my 20 plots (60 plants) of potatoes a lot and I grill them too.
3) Lastly I have a medium chest filled with vegetable soup (the rest of the potatoes go into Bio Fuel.

Edit: All trophy heads will go into the bio fuel. 1 Shark head = 1 bio fuel.
The exploding fish heads are even better!!!

[Victor]

Originally posted by Sigh-Phi-Guy:

chicken legs. 2nd highest food recovery in the game.
recipe meals are NEVER needed.
they are an inefficient waste of time and effort unless you just "want to".

It's convenient for time consuming exploration. When you're searching for stuff for the first time, a long lasting hunger bar helps. You don't wanna be exploring with 20 drumsticks on you, die then lose all your food :D

[zybourne]

Why there no achievement for cooking every recipe? lame

[Sigh-Phi-Guy]

Originally posted by Victor:

Originally posted by Sigh-Phi-Guy:

chicken legs. 2nd highest food recovery in the game.
recipe meals are NEVER needed.
they are an inefficient waste of time and effort unless you just "want to".

It's convenient for time consuming exploration. When you're searching for stuff for the first time, a long lasting hunger bar helps. You don't wanna be exploring with 20 drumsticks on you, die then lose all your food :D

man...i cant remember the last time i died. has to be at LEAST 400+ hours.
there is really no excuse for dying in this game except "maybe" the 1st couple hours of a hardcore run. if you die after that,... youre doing it wrong.
plus...for every stack of legs i carry, i have 10+ more stacks in a box on the raft. lol
;p