Recipes List

Overview

This page lists every production recipe in Outbound. Recipes are not limited to food: the same production system that bakes bread also smelts ore, spins thread, presses bolts, and recycles litter. The shipped build has 57 recipes spread across 25 production stations, and each one takes a fixed number of seconds to run once its inputs are loaded. For how the underlying system works, see the Crafting System and Workstations pages, and for meal preparation specifically see Cooking.

Stations run one job at a time and draw power from the van's shared battery, so a long queue of 24-second Battery Workstation jobs will drain a small battery faster than a run of 3-second roasts. Craft times below are the base durations with no upgrades applied.

Confirmed Recipes

The table lists every recipe in the shipped build, grouped by the station that runs it. Where a station lists the same output more than once, those are alternate input sets that produce the same item: the Bio Burner will burn any of three fuels for one Electric Charge, and Mushroom Soup accepts any one of the four mushroom species as long as both units are the same kind.

Recipe Categories

The 25 stations fall into a few practical groups.

• Food and drink: Baking Oven, Cake Oven, Bread Press, Cooking Pot, Food Processor, Coffee Maker, Roasting Station, Tea Station. These are the stations covered by the Cooking page.

• Material processing: Sawmill, Smasher, Metal Smelter, Glass Smelter, Sheet Press, Bolt Press, Nailer, Bamboo Splitter, Rubber Processor, Spinning Wheel, Weaver, Stuffing Maker, Mortar and Pestle. These turn field-gathered Resources into the refined tiers that building and tool recipes ask for.

• Power and electronics: Bio Burner, Battery Workstation, Assembler. Electronics feed Battery Components, which feed Power Cells, which back the highest battery-capacity upgrade in the Energy System.

• Progression: the Recycler is the only station that produces Download Coupons, which is what the Recycling System and the Technology Tree both run on.

Ingredient Notes

• Grain is the single most-used cooking input, feeding Bread, Pizza, Carrot Cake and Banana Bread. Wheat takes two days in a crop plot and yields eight units per harvest, so one plot covers a lot of baking.

• Water is required by every cooked meal except the pressed and processed ones (Jam, Tomato Sauce, Bolts-style presses, and the Bread Press pairings).

• Mushrooms: four species exist, and Mushroom Soup takes two of the same kind. Amber Morel, Indigocap and Sunshrooms grow in two days; Golden Bolete takes three.

• Tomato Sauce is an intermediate: two Wild tomatoes make one jar in the Food Processor, and Pizza then consumes the jar.

• Coffee is a three-step chain. Grow Raw Coffee Beans, roast them at the Roasting Station, then brew five Roasted Coffee Beans with water in the Coffee Maker.

• Scrap Metal splits three ways: Bolts at the Bolt Press, Sheet Metal at the Sheet Press, and plain Metal at the Metal Smelter. Which one you want depends on the recipe, and it is easy to burn a stack on the wrong branch.

Tips for New Cooks

• Cooked meals are worth the detour. Bread restores more hunger than the raw grain that went into it, and Pizza restores more than Bread.

• The Cooking Pot and the Tea Station both restore health rather than hunger, so keep at least one of each once you start taking falls in the canyons.

• Roasting Station recipes finish in three seconds, the fastest in the game. Popcorn is a cheap way to convert a corn surplus into something portable.

• The Bread Press only takes finished goods, so bake or process the components first. Bread plus Jam, or Bread plus Honey, both take seven seconds.

• Battery Workstation jobs are the slowest at 24 seconds each and the most power-hungry. Queue them while you are out gathering rather than while you are waiting.

• Every mushroom variety makes the same soup, so plant whichever species you find first rather than hunting for a specific one.

Other Recipes

Recipes are gated behind blueprints, so a station you have not downloaded yet will not show its recipes in any menu. Blueprint acquisition is covered on the Technology Tree and Signal Towers pages. New recipes arrive with content updates: the fishing update added the Scoop Net to the research tree, and further additions are listed on the Version History page as they ship.