148182-cooking-guides

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Any good cooking guides out there? I particularly want something that lists the exact ingredients for every recipe variation. I'm pretty sure I found something like that a long time ago, but I cannot anymore. AutoCoordinate doesn't do me much much good because it does not discover stuff, which is what I'm after. Why is there no addon for discoveries anyway, would it count as cheating?
 
Wikia actually has pictures of the variant locations, but even with those I cannot discover the variants on first try most of the time. Any tips for coordinate crafting in general? So far, I've tried to get as close to the location as possible with the first ingredient, but that seems to lead to many other ingredients overshooting the target. Should I aim for a central location with the first ingredient instead?	
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This is just from personal observation, but I've maxed out cooking talents besides the last one so I think it's valuable info.
 
1. Not aware of any guides, because discoveries vary from character to character.
2. Try to get atleast the first talent point , Experimental Chef. Can do this with getting Cooking I through V.
3. With the first try go central twice and see where it points to. You'll never get it on the first try but that's why it tells you where to go for the second one ( a cone colored either blue - far , orange - somewhat close , red - missed it barely! , and facing a specific direction)
4. Be prepared to grind, grind, grind and grind, or spent a loooot of platinum. Highly recommend survivalist to boost food drops.	
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			There's no 'exact list' of ingredients because the discovery coordinates are randomized for every character. My Spicy Chili location is different than your Spicy Chili location.	
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I'm wondering if there's a way to increase the drop chance of meats. Does a flask of harvest affect it? How about taking Survivalist? Will the profession I drop for reset to 0 though, or can I just switch back and forth between Mining and Survivalist depending on whether I'm currently farming cooking mats or ore?
 
Also, when you use multiple ingredients for one recipe, do all the areas covered by them count for discoveries or just the last one?
			
				
	Edited December 15, 2015 by Snowcrash000	
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- As I mentioned earlier , survivalist will boost your drop rates. Don't think harvest will.
 
- The way proffession swaps works is : 1) It costs some gold/platinum depending on the proffesions you are switching out. 2) It has a 96hour cooldown and 3) You don't lose any progress on any proffession ever ( baring any bugs ).
 
- Only the last ingredient's area counts.	
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			Yeah, I was afraid switching professions willy-nilly would be too easy... Thanks for the answers!	
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Getting discoveries with some base perks is incredibly easy. Most of the time it should be two tries.
 
Here is a good rule of thumb to follow:
 
Get all 5 "Cooking 1 2 3 4 5 " achievements, they give you more additives to work with that actually make discoveries possible. It is worth knocking out some easy achievements such as meat chef to get ur first perk that  makes discoveries easier to hit or something. 
 
Then u can start buying all of the recipes. 
 
If ur looking for a discovery, easiest way to do it is always aim for the exact mid of every section ur supposed to discover in. then if u fail, there is a helpful arrow which tells u how close u r and more or less which direction u need to go, which will basically be a bit or very far left/right from where u first started. 
 
Otherwise I do not know of any comprehensives guides for how to reach every disovery. Kinda futile cause u need to craft a lot of every zone recipe to get the achivement + talent point if ur going for master chef. 
 
Hope this helped!	
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What mainly annoys me about discoveries now is when I have two arrows on the field and know pretty much exactly where I need to be, but none of the ingredients actually get me there. It's like, I use the first ingredient to get a close as possible and then all of the other ingredients jump wildly across the field except where I need them to go. Usually takes another 2 or 3 tries of random try and error to get those. Any way to predict in which direction ingredients will go?
 
I noticed something else, not sure if I'm imagining it. I think the ingredient is not placed at the center of the circle, but a random point within it? This is especially annoying with the bigger circles.	
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Bigger circles is better. You need to overlap your discovery circle with the sub-recipe's circle: the bigger the circles the higher the chance they'll touch.
The subsections with arrows are nice but I generally prefer to use the sweet,savory,etc. tabs . Also the higher the cost of the ingredient you use, the bigger the jump ( that's why you need to focus on Cooking I through V )
			
				
	Edited December 16, 2015 by Floross	
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Actauyll no. Big circles are very bad. This is because the ingredient can land anywhere in that big area and it incredibly hard to manage where u want it to be. You WILL have this issue untill you get higher tier additives and get the perk which makes all ur ingredients more accurate (can be purchased with ur first 5 talent points). 
 
Cooking is rough, lot of poking in the dark early on and relying on RNG :P. I can promise everything gets much easier with the first perk and all 5 cooking # achievements that give u higher tier additives. 	
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			Bigger Circles are good. Bigger Cone Area of possible position of Discovery is Bad. Let's get our terms straight :).
			
				
	Edited December 16, 2015 by Floross	
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Bigger Circles are good.
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			So does the Experimental Chef talent actually "make added ingredients more accurate" by reducing the size of the targeting circles? And how can you tell what the actual radius of the dot itself is?
			
				
	Edited December 17, 2015 by Snowcrash000	
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No. A circle is the randomized area a dot can land in. If you have a solid idea of what you're trying to hit, you do not want a big circle. A big circle is not a big dot that will hit anything inside it.
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So does the Experimental Chef talent actually "make added ingredients more accurate" by reducing the size of the targeting circles? And how can you tell what the actual radius of the dot itself is?
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Not the circle I was referring to. We're talking about the circle generated by different ingredients prior to selecting them.For example this is a big circle ingredient:And this is a small circle:The size does not mean if your discovery target is anywhere within it, you will hit. It means when you select it, the RNG will pick a random spot within the circle to land. This is fine when you're trying to get a first shot at a discovery, and you may get lucky. or if you're just trying to get out toward a distant discovery area. However if you're trying to narrow down and hit a specific spot, a big circle is very bad.
 
Unless you're using a catalyst to change the rules, your "spot" (the thing that has to overlap a discovery when you hit Craft) is always the same size. You want it to be as precise as possible on your final pick, especially if you've already had several near misses and the arrows are guiding you to a tight area.
			
				
	Edited December 17, 2015 by Lemurian	
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Nope.... it visually picks a random area to land , but it hits everything in its' circle area.
 
I've crafted food , the sub-food , by having the additive's circle graze the target sub-meal's circle, then randomly , as you say , it lands off the sub-meal's circle and it says it missed. Guess what, I still hit "Craft" and I still make that specific sub-meal.
 
What's confusing you is a bug, and I suppose that's Carbine's fault.
			
				
	Edited December 17, 2015 by Floross	
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			Nevermind, I figured it out...
			
				
	Edited December 18, 2015 by Snowcrash000	
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Nope, Lemurian's screenshots r pretty much hitting the nail on the head. The final nail in the coffin though is missing from the screenies, as they only show the original circle. The actual ingredient which has some set radius (much smaller) as well will land somewhere within the FIRST circle. It can sometimes happen that u graze the target and it sais u miss, but u will still craft the item np. I get the same sometimes in techie when I craft in bulk, I dont always get the green tick over the target but land very close to it, still makes the item. 
 
Regardless, big circles r only really an issue early on, higher up cooking ingredient accuracy is not going to be an issue. 
 
Anywho, if u wanna craft in bulk, Virag's crafting addon is a must have. 
 
Have fun!	
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			I did talents backwards and had 2 talent choices before I touched cooking 1 through 5. I ended up with ingredient circles covering the entire cone on discoveries. One shot discovery 4-5 times in a row. Now I might've been lucky but I doubt it. I still think it works the way I said it works. Take it as you will.	
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