Cooking Recipes

Cooking Recipes overview

Cooking is a core system in Starsand Island that transforms raw ingredients into meals that restore stamina, HP, and grant powerful temporary buffs. Unlike most farming games, cooking in Starsand Island takes real in-game time. Each recipe has a cooking duration, so planning ahead and running multiple cooking stations in parallel is essential. There are over 70 cooking recipes in the game, acquired from shops, quests, treasure chests, and story progression. Meals range from simple snacks to complex dishes that provide game-changing buffs for farming, fishing, mining, and combat.

Cooking stations

Several stations are involved in the cooking pipeline. Some are for cooking meals directly; others process raw materials into base ingredients:

Tip: Build at least 2-3 Campfires (or Gas Stoves) to cook multiple recipes simultaneously. Since cooking takes real time, having parallel stations dramatically increases your food output.

Base ingredient processing

Most recipes require processed base ingredients rather than raw crops. Use the Separator to convert raw materials:

Food buffs

Cooked meals can grant temporary buffs that dramatically improve specific activities. Each buff lasts a set duration and only one buff can be active at a time. Eating a new buff food replaces the current buff. Here are all confirmed buffs:

Confirmed recipes

Below are key recipes with their ingredients and effects. This is a selection of the most useful recipes. The full list of 70+ recipes can be found at cooking stations in-game.

Where to get recipes

Recipes are acquired from four main sources:

Processing profit multipliers

Cooking adds value to raw ingredients through processing. The profit multiplier shows how much more a cooked item sells for compared to its raw ingredients:

• Simple dishes (2-3 ingredients): 1.5x – 2x raw ingredient value

• Complex dishes (4+ ingredients): 2x – 3x raw ingredient value

• Buff dishes: Higher multiplier due to the buff utility, but best consumed rather than sold

Cooking is one of the best ways to increase profit from your farm output. Instead of selling raw Wheat for a few coins, process it into Flour and cook it into noodles for significantly more gold.

Nutrient Absorption skill

The Nutrient Absorption skill in the Workpedia increases the energy and HP restored by all food. Unlock it early to get more value from every meal you cook. Combined with high-tier recipes, this skill makes food buffs significantly more potent.

Tips

• Build multiple cooking stations. Since cooking takes real time, parallel stations let you cook 3-4 dishes simultaneously

• Buy all recipes from Aureleaf Kitchen as soon as you can afford them. Many buff recipes are only available here

• The Separator is your most-used processing station. Keep it stocked with Wheat (for Flour) and vegetables (for Vegetable Juice)

• Green Grape Juice and Red Grape Juice are the best farmable buff foods. Grow grapes on trellises and juice them for Bonus Ore/Timber

• Always eat a buff food before entering the Moonlit Forest. Battle Spirit for combat or Forest's Gift for resource runs

• The Never Skunked buff is incredibly powerful for fishing. Eat it before any fishing session to eliminate wait times

• Check Aurelis's liked gifts. Most cooked dishes count as liked gifts for him

• Processing crops into cooked meals before selling doubles or triples your farm income