Craft

## Dark Cauldron

Arguably a mechanic that is simply necessary for successful survival (especially as world difficulty goes up), Cooking requires one to use the Dark Cauldron skill, available by default, that will cause one to expend a single Wooden Club (easily harvested by chopping down trees in forested wilderness areas) to place down a cauldron, which can be interacted with to add and remove ingredients, and to process the ingredients into their desired results.

The cauldron operates by identifying recipes inside it's container, and any "wrong" recipe will cause it to explode, dealing damage to Lona and wasting the ingredients, irregardless of number. In other words, if you try to, for example, cook four pieces of raw animal flesh and two apples, you will get two instances of good soup and one meaty soup, but if you try to cook five pieces of raw animal flesh and a rock, you will get 2 pieces of meat soup and other ingredients will be lost.

An in-game list with most basic edibles recipes can be found in a note in the Noer Tavern, right next to the kitchen, and a note with the basic medicinal recipes can be found in Elise's Gynecology Lab placed atop his counter.

Alternately, some random areas like Refugee Camps might have Dark Cauldrons too, should one desire to not expend wooden logs.

## **Recipe Mechanics**

The cauldron is capable of handling multiple different recipes at the same time, as long as they do not inherently conflict. You can, for example, cook dozens of dry smoked meats and dry meals at the same time, using only a single log.

Using "questionable" food sources, such as raw humanoid flesh or insects, will tend to produce mystery soups, which are not as optimal as more respectable sources, since they tend to induce puking and mood loss more often than usual, but will do just fine for the sake of survival.

For each item that is inside the cauldron, one (?) point of stamina is deducted from Lona's stamina bar, so take care not to be caught off-guard by this.

Crafting in the game at first glance is quite simple. Lona simply places the ingredients according to the recipe into the cauldron, and if the required items are in the cauldron and the skill level matches the requirement of the recipe, crafting occurs. But in reality, everything is much more complicated.

The same items can be used to make completely different dishes, and different recipes have crafting priorities. If the cauldron contains ingredients suitable for crafting several dishes, then the one with higher priority will be crafted. Also, when it comes to meat, the recipe can change for the worse if you mix different types of meat in a cauldron. Animal meat, human meat and mutant meat must be cooked separately from each other. If you want to cook a regular meat soup or a good soup, only animal meat should be in the cauldron. If at least one human or mutant meat is placed in the cauldron, then meat soup or good soup will turn into meat (human or mystical) soup or good (human or mystical) soup.

## Cooking

### Meat Soup

 "Mystic Meat" x1
  "Human Meat" x2
  "Human Meat" x1
  "Mystic Meat" x2
  "Raw Animal Meat" x1
  "Raw Animal Meat" x2

### Good Soup

 "Human Meat" x1
 "Raw Plant" x2
  "Mystic Meat" x1
 "Human Meat" x1
  "Human Meat" x1
 "Raw Plant" x1
  "Human Meat" x1
  "Mystic Meat" x1
 "Raw Plant" x1
  "Mystic Meat" x1
  "Raw Animal Meat" x1
 "Raw Plant" x1
  "Raw Animal Meat" x1
 Betel Nut x2

### Smoked Meat

 Ingredients
  "Human Meat" x1
 "Mystic Meat" x1
 Wooden Club x1
  "Human Meat" x2
 Wooden Club x1
  "Human Meat" x1
 "Raw Animal Meat" x1
  "Mystic Meat" x2
 Wooden Club x1
  "Mystic Meat" x1
 "Raw Animal Meat" x1
  "Raw Animal Meat" x2
 Wooden Club x1

### Dry Meal

 Ingredients
  "Raw Plant" x2
 Wooden Club x1
  Betel Nut x4
 Wooden Club x1

### Cheese

 Ingredients
  "Milk" x3

## Medicine

 Ingredients
  Betel Nut x2
 White Dragon Weed x1
  White Dragon Weed x2
  Dragon Root x2
  Tung Flower x2
  Repellent Herb x4
  Mutated Mushroom x4
 Red Potion x1

## Other

  "Good Soup Fat" x1
 "Meat Fat" x1
  "Good Soup Fat" x2
  Poop x5

 Ingredients
  Oil x6

 Ingredients
  Wooden Club x1
 Saltpeter x2
 Carbon x2
  Frag Bomb x1
 "Rag" x1
  Timed Frag Bomb x1
 "Rag" x1
  Wooden Club x1
 Phosphorus x1
 Carbon x1
  Shock Bomb x1
 "Rag" x1
  Smoke Bomb x1
 "Rag" x1
  Jar of Urine x1
  Poop x1