We have listed all the ingredients, recipes and tips in Aloft in detail in this cooking recipes guide.
Cooking Ingredients and Recipes
This list was made from the Creative mode; only a few are available in each biome. I have not personally found many of these in Adventure mode, but I’ve haven’t made it far into the second biome, Fallen Heights.
- Blueberries*
- Chestnut Seeds*
- Coffee+ (is not able to be ground) Corn
- Flour* grind Wheat
- Leaves*
- Reishi mushroom*
- Salt* – grind salt crystals (not renewable)
- Sugar* – grind sugar beets
- Sugar Beats+ Clean Water – craft from charcoal & dirty water (not renewable, but plentiful)
- Wheat*
- Egg** – laid by Pheasants
- Flax seeds**
- Honey**+ – from beehives (not renewable)
- Bone meal – grind bones
- Carrots
- Garlic
- Milk – from Goats
- Peas+
- Potato
- Pumpkin
- Tomato
- Watermelon
- *These ingredients are available in Emerald Isles, the first biome.
- **These ingredients are available in Fallen Heights, the second biome (requires wool sails)
- +Four ingredients were added since the demo days.
Non-renewable Ingredients
Salt, Honey, and Charcoal (to make clean Water) are not resources that you can farm, but must harvest a limited quantity from the islands you visit. Additionally, these can be used in other ways that you may find more useful to your play style. You may wish to eschew using these ingredients in cooking (particularly Honey, which may do more good in making bandages).
That being said, I find that Clean Water is so common in chests that I never need to use any charcoal to make some.
Ingredient Categories
These categories are all conjecture, based upon my experimentation.
- Dry: Bland, Fruits or Veggies
- Wet: Water or Milk
- Bland: Leaves, Bone meal, Flour, Wheat, Chestnut Seeds, Flax Seeds,
- Fruits: Blueberry, Pumpkin, Watermelon
- Veggies: Corn, Carrot, Reishi Mushroom, Peas, Potato, Tomato
- Spice: Sugar, Salt, Garlic, Honey
- Egg gets its own category
Boosts From Food
- Digesting: clears eaten meals (you can only digest 2 at a time) over a period of a few seconds; to get this brew Digestive Tea
- Efficient: +Attack damage; get from any specific recipe beside Stew, Flat Bread, Gnocchi or Tomato Soup
- Energetic: Shorter combos; get from Berry Loaf, Carrot Loaf, Pumpkin Loaf, Corn Loaf, Flat Bread, Gnocchi, Stew, or Oatmeal
- Hydrated: +Attack Speed; get from any soup or smoothie
- Productive: +Resources gathered; get from Stew, Yoghurt, Summer Salad, Gnocchi or Tomato Soup
- Zippy: double Momentum gain (for combat moves); to get this brew a Cup of Coffee
Cooking Recipes
After each recipe is a number like [+7/3m] indicating how many temporary maximum hit points you get from eating the food, and how many minutes the effect lasts. These numbers may be outdated.
Failed Results
- Burnt Meal: hold ‘F’ too long [+6/2m]
- Over-seasoned Meal: 2 spice + 1 dry [+10/6m]
- Stale Meal: 2 bland + 1 dry [+10/8m]
- Underwhelming Soup: 2 wet + 1 dry [+10/6m]
- Over-seasoned Soup: 2 spice + 1 wet [+10/6m]
- Bland Soup: 2 bland + 1 wet [+10/8m]
- Broth: 1 Wet + 1 Bland + 1 Spice [+10/8m]
Generic Results
- Soup: 1 Wet + 1 Veggie + 1 Veggie or Spice [+18/10m]
- Savory Smoothie: 1 Wet + 1 Fruit + 1 Fruit or Spice [+18/8m]
- Fresh Bowl: 1 Fruit + 1 Veggie + 1 Dry or Spice [+24/10m]
- Fruit Salad: 3 Fruit [+28/8m]
- Mixed Veggies: 3 Veggies [+28/10m]
- Veggie Skewers: 2 Veggies + 1 Spice [+24/10m]
- Fried Eggs: 1 Egg + 2 other [+28/10m]
Specific Recipes
Note that chests may contain recipes for these, so I have hidden them with spoiler tags. You can still learn them by putting in the combos (I discovered a few that way; a very rewarding experience). If you get a recipe item that teaches you a recipe that you already know, it will “upgrade” it to a gourmet version, granting better stats.
- Berry Loaf: Flour, Egg, Blueberry [+38/14m]
- Blueberry Pie: Flour, Sugar, Blueberry [+30/14m]
- Carrot Loaf: Flour, Egg, Carrot [+44/14m]
- Corn on the Cob: Corn x2, Salt [+39/14m]
- Corn Loaf: Flour, Egg, Corn [+44/14m]
- Cup of Coffee: 2 Coffee + 1 Water (grants “Zippy” buff)+
- Digestive Tea: 2 Leaves + 1 Water (clears digesting meals)
- Flat Bread: Flour, Salt, Flax Seeds [+32/14m]+
- Gnocchi: Peas+, Egg, Potato [+44/18m]
- Marrons Glaces: Chestnuts, Water, Sugar [+28/18m]+
- Oatmeal: Wheat, Salt, Blueberries [+35/11m]
- Pumpkin Loaf: Flour, Egg, Pumpkin [+44/14m]
- Pumpkin Pie: Flour, Sugar, Pumpkin [+36/14m]
- Stew: Water, Potato, Carrot [+42/18m]
- Summer Salad: Corn, Tomato, Garlic [+38/14m]
- Sweet Roll: Flour, Milk, Sugar [+35/11m]
- Tomato Soup: Water, Salt, Tomato [+32/18m]
- Yoghurt: Milk, Honey, Blueberry [+48/10m]+
+These recipes were added/changed since the demo days.
Other Tips
What to Farm for Cooking?
- Crops that don’t need to be re-planted (like Blueberries) are lower-maintenance, and you can use the seeds in the Mill to feed your Pheasants.
- Flax is necessary for progression, so the seeds can be readily used in cooking Flat Bread.
- Wheat (Flour) and Sugar (Beets) are the most common ingredients in the various recipes, so you probably want to grow some of those.
What To Eat, and When?
When choosing which meals to consume, consider the situation:
- Visiting non-corrupted islands may not warrant any food, since there’s no combat.
- On the other hand, if you see that an island has lots of resources to harvest, you may want to consume foods that grant the Hydrated, Productive and/or Energetic buffs.
- When confronting a corrupted island that only has a single “Mykter Tree” (I don’t know to call them), you might want to use up your less-valuable food, since the fight will be easier.
- Save those gourmet foods for the big, intense battles on multi-tree islands.
- Try not to combine two foods that grant the same buffs.
