Cooking

Cooking is an essential skill in Abiotic Factor, as it allows players to create increasingly effective Food to manage the Hunger and Thirst needs. Without sufficient food prolonged exploration and excursions can become difficult to do. Besides food, a couple of crafting materials can also be made via Cooking.

Hunger and thirst accumulation rates can be modified in the Sandbox Settings before starting a server.

Skill Level

Cooking raises the Cooking Skill, unlocking recipes and cooking-related bonuses. XP is primarily gained by cooking food, baking and making soups.

At level 3, the player unlocks the ability to cook Soup. Cooking level 10 will unlock the Convection Oven and Raw Dough recipes, which are used for Baking.

Depending on the player's skill level, baked and fried food will be produced at higher qualities, with each increased level restoring more Hunger and Thirst. Fried foods will display the quality before the name of the food where baked foods will not.

Cooking Skill	Cooking proficiency	Hunger/Thirst
Levels 0-4	Any food fried in a pan or cooked in a pot will be normal.	Base
Levels 5-9	Any food fried or baked will be considered "carefully cooked".	+30%
Levels 10-14	Any food fried or baked will be considered "well cooked".	+45%
Levels 15-19	Any food fried or baked will be considered "beautifully cooked".	+60%
Level 20	Any food fried or baked will be considered "expertly cooked".	+75%

• Notes:
  • Displayed Hunger and Thirst will show as rounded down.
  • Cooked Buttery Popcorn's thirst reduction will actually get worse with increased levels of cooking.

Frying

• Place a Frying Pan or Frying Pan (Makeshift) on a Stove or powered Portable Stove.
  • The Office Sector cafeteria has an Industrial Stove with a single useable cooktop. Kitchen Stoves require a Reinforced Hose to repair.
• Equip the raw food and place it in the pan. It will then start cooking.
• Once the food is cooked, remove it from the stove. Leaving it there for too long will cause it to overcook, becoming burned.
  • Burned food restores minimal hunger and depletes thirst.
  • Burned food can be left on the stove for even longer to become Bio Scrap.
• Fried foods will have their decay reset to their maximum value.

List of Fried Food

Raw	Cooked	Buffs	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Radiation	Cook Time
Raw Carbuncle	Cooked Carbuncle		10	0	2	0:45
Raw Pest	Cooked Pest		10	0	2	0:45
Raw Pest Rump	Cooked Pest Rump		12.5	0	2	0:45
Raw Peccary Chop	Cooked Peccary Chop		15	0	2	1:00
Raw Peccary Sausages	Cooked Peccary Sausages		30	0	2	1:50
Raw Alien Drumstick	Cooked Alien Drumstick		25	0	2	1:40
Raw Exor Heart	Cooked Exor Heart		18.75	0	5	1:15
Egg	Cooked Fried Egg		18.75	6	0	0:20
Antecheese Sandwich	Antecheese Toastie		25.875	0	0	1:00
Raw Egg & Peccary Tartine	Cooked Egg & Peccary Tartine		71.3	23	0	1:30
Buttery Popcorn Kernels	Cooked Buttery Popcorn		27	-8	0	0:30
Raw Antefish Filet	Cooked Antefish Filet		10	0	0	0:45
Raw Chordfish Filet	Cooked Chordfish Filet		10	0	0	0:45
Raw Portal Fish Filet	Cooked Portal Fish Filet		15	0	0	1:00
Raw IS-0098 Tentacles	Cooked IS-0098 Tentacles		15	0	0	1:00
Raw Gutfish Eel Filet	Cooked Gutfish Eel Filet		15	0	0	1:00
Raw Radfish Filet	Cooked Radfish Filet		17.5	0	0	1:10
Raw Moon Fish Filet	Cooked Moon Fish Filet		17.5	0	0	1:10
Raw Inkfish Filet	Cooked Inkfish Filet		17.5	0	0	1:10
Raw Creamy Inkfish	Cooked Creamy Inkfish		25.3	22.95	0	1:30
Raw Darkwater Fish Filet	Cooked Darkwater Fish Filet		22.5	0	0	1:30
Raw Fr-eyed Rice	Cooked Fr-eyed Rice		71.3	29.75	0	1:40
Raw Frigid Queenfish Filet	Cooked Frigid Queenfish Filet		17.5	0	0	1:10
Raw Silken Betta Filet	Cooked Silken Betta Filet		16	0	0	1:00
Raw Silky Fish Florentine	Cooked Silky Fish Florentine		50.6	21.25	0	1:30
Raw Penumbra Filet	Cooked Penumbra Filet		25	0	0	1:30
Raw Larva Meat	Cooked Gooey Meat Steak		12	0	0	0:40
Raw Glimmering Meat Steak	Cooked Glimmering Meat Steak		36.8	0	0	0:45
Raw Skink Meat	Cooked Skink Meat		25	0	2	1:10

Soup

• Cooking level 3 is required to make soup. Fry food to increase the skill.
  • Some Jobs provide a bonus to Cooking, specifically Epimedical Bionomicist (+1), Phytogenetic Botanist (+2), and Somatic Gastrologist (+4).
  • The Hobbyist Chef Trait doubles Cooking XP.
  • Analyzing the pot of solder in front of The Blacksmith raises Cooking to level 3, if lower.
• Find a Cooking Pot or craft a Cooking Pot (Makeshift).
• Fill the pot with clean Water, commonly collected from Water Coolers or Sinks while holding the empty pot.
  • Alternatively, a Water Bottle can be used to add water to the pot.
  • A pot of Tainted Water can be boiled to create clean Water, though at a ratio of 4:1 (one pot of Tainted Water (1000ml) produces 250ml of Water).
  • Antejuice is a suitable alternative to water.
• Place the filled pot on a stove powered by electricity. Ingredients can now be added to the pot.
• If the ingredients match a valid recipe, the name will change, and the recipe will be added to the Soup Recipes tab in the Compendium. Otherwise, it will remain an Unknown Soup until it finishes cooking.
  • The soup created as a result of not following a recipe depends on the ingredients added. In most cases, it will become Bad Soup.
  • If a soup has one incorrect ingredient, the proper recipe will be added to the Compendium when the soup finishes cooking, despite resulting in Bad Soup. The total number of ingredients must be the same as the valid soup recipe. If there are multiple possible recipes with the same ingredients, the closest recipe which the player does not currently have will be unlocked. For example, adding Salt with another ingredient will unlock either the Bland Pea Soup, Simple Tomato Soup, or Super Tomato Soup recipe.
• When the soup is done cooking, the pot will have a lid and "Uncooked" will be removed from the soup name. Remove the pot from the stove and place it down as a deployable.
• A Soup Bowl must be equipped to take a portion of soup from the pot. The soup can then be consumed from the Soup Bowl.
  • Interacting with a placed pot of soup without a Soup Bowl unlocks its crafting recipe.
• With certain exceptions (e.g. Bad Soup), each cooked soup produces 4 "portions" collectable with a Soup Bowl, or 6 once Cooking 17 is reached. A filled Soup Bowl can hold 2 portions before it is emptied, meaning each cooked pot of soup produces 8 edible portions, or 12 with Cooking 17.
  • This means that a single pot of soup can provide up to 444 hunger replenishment (Cooking 17 + A&L Mega-Stew), and even "average" soups (23 hunger soup without Cooking 17) restore nearly 2 full hunger bars.
  • This makes (most) soups extremely efficient regarding hunger and thirst restored per ingredient used. For example, a Military M.R.E. restores 30 hunger and 0 thirst when consumed. That same M.R.E. can be cooked into a Sustenance Soup, which restores 18 hunger and 16 thirst per serving, with 8 or 12 servings per soup, for a total of 144-216 hunger and 128-192 thirst from the same single M.R.E.
• Unlike many other types of cooking, soups cannot burn if left on a stove for extended periods after they are "done". Soups also do not spoil when still in the pot or in a soup bowl. Soups additionally restore significant amounts of thirst when consumed. This comes at the cost of being able to store at most 2 servings of soup per inventory slot (a single completely filled soup bowl).

List of Soups

The hunger and thirst fill values listed are per-serving. Most have decimal values, which are truncated here (as they are in-game) for better readability. See the individual item pages for the exact values.

Effective Soups

Name	Ingredients	Buffs	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Portions	Cook Time
Bland Pea Soup			12	21	4	2:00
Split Pea Soup			17	21	4	2:00
Pest Goulash			14	16	4	2:00
Meaty Stew			26	16	4	2:00
Simple Tomato Soup			12	22	4	2:00
Super Tomato Soup			15	22	4	2:00
Creamy Tomato Bisque			12	37	4	2:00
Veggie Stew			17	24	4	2:00
Sustenance Soup			18	16	4	2:00
Sweet Porridge			10	24	4	2:00
Sugary Slop			18	17	4	2:00
Mashed Potatoes			5	33	4	2:00
Potato and Sausage Stew			20	17	4	2:00
Hearty Stew			23	23	4	2:00
Balanced Stew			13	17	4	2:00
Peccary Stew			21	23	4	2:00
A&L Mega-Stew			37	16	4	2:00
Greyeb Chowder			12	42	4	2:00
Carbuncle N' Dumplings			23	21	4	2:00
Homey Pasta			33	22	4	2:00
Peccary Noodle Soup			25	16	4	2:00
Portal Fish Stew			21	24	4	2:00
Radfish Chowder			23	22	4	2:00
Lunar Bisque			23	17	4	2:00
Inky Egg Drop Soup			23	22	4	2:00
Anteverse Gumbo			25	17	4	2:00
Harmonious Rice			25	31	4	2:00
Reservoir Reserve			21	25	4	2:00
Peccary Goulash			23	16	4	2:00
Meatrio Medley			23	16	4	2:00
Pumpkin Soup			21	25	4	2:00
Glacial Gazpacho			30	25	4	2:00
Creamy Corn Soup			32	27	4	2:00
Gooey Mushroom Soup			31	17	4	2:00
Witching Hour Brew			42	17	4	2:00
Silky Consommé			38	21	4	2:00
"Carrot" & Pumpkin Soup			26	25	4	2:00

Some recipes produce four of their own bowl item instead of using a Soup Bowl.

Non-Soup Food

Name	Ingredients	Item Produced	Buff	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Cook Time
Pot of Xanterium Rice		Bowl of Xanterium Rice		20	4	2:00
Risotto 98		Bowl of Risotto 98		37	16	2:00
Pumpkin Ravioli		Bowl of Pumpkin Ravioli		39	35	2:00

Some recipes do not create soups, but are used to make non-soup food items instead. These items are collected directly from the pot, without requiring a Soup Bowl.

Utility Soups

Name	Ingredients	Item Produced	Amount	Cook Time
Alien Cheese Curds		Ripening Alien Cheese Wheel	1	2:00
Glue (Soup)		Giga Glue	4	2:40
Fisherman's Glue (Soup)		Fisherman's Glue	4	2:40
Solder (Soup)		Solder (Material)	4	5:50

When a soup is made that does not match one of the valid recipes above, one of the following soups will be created. The exact result depends on the ingredients. A soup containing any one of the listed ingredients will create the applicable soup.

Ineffective Soups

Name	Possible Ingredients	Debuffs	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Portions	Cook Time
Bad Soup	Anything other than the harmful ingredients below		15	16	2	2:00
Poop Soup	Bag of Feces (sole ingredient)		3	20	4	1:00
Toxic Soup	Plastic Scrap Giga Glue Bag of Feces Rotten Food Exor Arm Vibrant Exor Arm Human Brain Corrupted Corn		15	20	4	2:00
Killer Soup	Glass Scrap Tech Scrap Metal Scrap Silver Scrap 9mm Ammo .357 Magnum Ammo 12g Buckshot .308 Ammo 5.56 Ammo Leyak Essence The Bad Soda		15	20	4	2:00

Baking

• Reaching Cooking skill level 10 unlocks the crafting recipes for the Convection Oven and most oven recipes.
• Unlike frying, baked foods retain the same decay level before and after cooking.

List of Baked Food

Raw	Cooked	Buff	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Cook Time
Raw Dough	Bread		12.5	5	2:00
Raw Pumpkin Dough	Pumpkin Bread		37.5	5	2:00
Potato	Cooked Baked Potato		10	3.75	1:00
Raw Pestato	Cooked Pestato		20.7	3.45	1:20
Raw Fries	Cooked Fries		12.5	3.75	0:45
Raw "Carrot" Fries	Cooked "Carrot" Fries		27.5	3.75	0:45
Raw Stuffed Roast Peccary	Cooked Stuffed Roast Peccary		63	28.75	1:40

Some foods can be divided into individual portions after baking.

Whole (Raw)	Whole (Cooked)	Piece	Buff	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Portions	Cook Time
Raw Simple Pest Pie	Baked Simple Pest Pie	Slice of Simple Pest Pie		30	0	6	3:20
Raw Pest Pot Pie	Pest Pot Pie	Slice of Pest Pot Pie		22.75	3.15	6	3:20
Raw Creepy Meat Pie	Creepy Meat Pie	Slice of Creepy Meat Pie		21.5	7.65	6	3:20
Raw Gumdrop Cookie Tray	Gumdrop Cookie Tray	Gumdrop Cookie		13	5.175	6	1:40
Raw Carbuncle Casserole	Carbuncle Casserole	Slice of Carbuncle Casserole		16.5	2.25	6	3:20
Raw Pekkie Brekkie Hash	Pekkie Brekkie Hash	Slice of Pekkie Brekkie Hash		26.25	6.75	6	1:30
Raw Carbuncle Pizza	Carbuncle Pizza	Slice of Carbuncle Pizza		12	2.25	6	2:30
Raw Glowing Gâteau	Glowing Gâteau	Slice of Glowing Gâteau		18	6.525	6	2:00
Raw Crumbed Darkwater Fish	Crumbed Darkwater Fish	Piece of Crumbed Darkwater Fish		21.75	0	4	3:20
Raw Nori Sheet Tray	Roasted Nori Sheet Tray	Roasted Nori Sheet		17.5	0	4	2:00
Raw Pumpkin Slices	Cooked Pumpkin Slices	Pumpkin Slice		10	4	6	1:40
Raw Pumpkin Cookie Tray	Pumpkin Cookie Tray	Pumpkin Cookie		15.5	4.725	6	1:40
Raw Pumpkin Pie	Baked Pumpkin Pie	Slice of Pumpkin Pie		23	6.25	6	3:20
Raw Apple Pie	Baked Apple Pie	Slice of Apple Pie		26.26	8.775	6	3:20
Raw Salted Honey Pie	Baked Salted Honey Pie	Slice of Salted Honey Pie		32.5	3.6	6	3:20
Raw Shadowberry Pie	Baked Shadowberry Pie	Slice of Shadowberry Pie		28.25	17.325	6	3:20
Raw "Carrot" Cake	"Carrot" Cake	Slice of "Carrot" Cake		30	6.525	6	2:00

Prepared Food

• These foods do not grant cooking experience unless the player chose Somatic Gastrologist during character creation, but are included for completeness.

List of Prepared Food

Name	Ingredients	Buff	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Fatigue Fill	Continence Fill
Crunchy Crystal	Gem Crab Honey		26.0	0	0	0
Gooey Tulip Salad	Cooked Gooey Meat Steak Glow Tulip		52.5	11.0	0	0
Cosmato Salad Wrap	Space Lettuce Tomato or Super Tomato Greyeb		51.7	45.1	0	0
Penumbra Nigiri	Raw Penumbra Filet Bowl of Xanterium Rice		16.25	1.8	0	0
Mushy Crab Sushi	Gem Crab or Opal Crab Carbuncle Mushroom Bowl of Xanterium Rice		16.0	2.25	0	0
Icebergiri	Raw Frigid Queenfish Filet Bowl of Xanterium Rice		13.75	1.0	0	0
Gutfish Unagi	Cooked Gutfish Eel Filet Bowl of Xanterium Rice		12.5	1.0	0	0
Fogiri	Raw Chordfish Filet Bowl of Xanterium Rice		10.0	1.0	0	0
Ice Cream	Egg Milk Sac Gem Sugar		15	10	0	0
Honey Apple Ice Cream	Ice Cream Honey Apple		63.75	17.6	0	0
Pumpkin Ice Cream	Ice Cream Pumpkin		43.0	11.0	0	0
Shadowberry Milkshake	Ice Cream Shadowberries		24.375	11.55	0	0
Rootbear Float	Ice Cream Rootbear		16.5	38.5	-5	-5