Quick Answer
You craft at cooking stations by combining ingredients, or quick-craft discovered recipes from the recipe list. You need the required ingredients for quick-crafting. You can make food, healing items, explosives, equipment, and crafting materials.
How do you use cooking stations?
You use cooking stations to combine items and discover recipes.
The message you see the first time you open a cooking station.
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Use a cooking station when you want to combine ingredients.
Combine ingredients
Combine ingredients to discover a recipe. For example, Cloth + Blood makes a First Aid Kit.
Repeat a discovered recipe
Use the recipe list to quickly craft recipes you have already discovered. You still need the required ingredients.
How do you unlock recipes for quick-crafting?
You discover recipes by combining ingredients, speaking to certain characters, or finding recipe books and pages in the world.
Once you have discovered a recipe, you can quickly craft it from the recipe list with the required ingredients. Discovery gives you a repeatable recipe; it does not replace its ingredients.
What can you craft from loot?
You can turn loot into food, healing supplies, explosives, equipment, and materials for other recipes.
Use these combinations as examples when deciding what to make:
| Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Fried Mushroom | Velvet Bell ×8 |
| First Aid Kit | Cloth + Blood |
| Dynamite | Cloth + Solution |
| Sulfur Grenade | False Sulfcap + Metal Scrap |
| Extra Lung | Rubber + Lung |
| Springcoil Boot | Robot Septacoil + Shoe |
| Paper | Sawdust ×2 |
| Rubber | Used Rubber ×2 |
| Toilet Paper | Paper ×2 |
Fried Mushroom gives you 15 health over 4 seconds. First Aid Kit gives you 100 health over 5 seconds.
Dynamite is an explosive useful for mining and destruction. Sulfur Grenade sticks to surfaces before detonating.
Springcoil Boot lets you jump higher. Extra Lung is a makeshift rebreather.
Paper and Rubber also appear as ingredients in other recipes. You can make Paper from Sawdust, then use Paper to make Toilet Paper. You can make Rubber from Used Rubber, then combine Rubber with Lung to make Extra Lung.
Drag Toilet Paper onto an item to repair it. It restores 375 durability.
For more combinations, check the recipes for SULFUR before choosing what to craft next.
FAQ
You can quick-craft discovered recipes, but you still need their ingredients.
No. You can also make explosives, equipment, healing items, repair supplies, and crafting materials.
No. You can also discover recipes by combining ingredients or speaking to certain characters. Recipe books and pages provide another route.
No. Quick-crafting requires both a discovered recipe and its required ingredients.
Combine Cloth + Blood. A First Aid Kit gives you 100 health over 5 seconds.
You drag it onto an item to repair it. Toilet Paper restores 375 durability and requires Paper ×2 to craft.