by Xeogred Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:21 pm
Yeah you get more stuff to manage water, no worries.
Preparing recipes isn't anything I'd fret too much about, but it is cool when you make a full meal the first time you consume it, you get a permanent stat bonus, which the total is noted in the bottom right. Then a nice gold fork/knife icon showing which meals you've consumed once so far. After that, they're basically healing items or for the old lady's requests. Potions/High Potions are honestly nearly pointless in this, I think they definitely wanted you to invest more in the food system. By the end of the game, I didn't have many figured out myself, but for the post end game secret super boss, it came in handy to make a bunch more new meals. Some of them are hard to make because a few ingredients only drop from rare enemies, like apples, beast milk, or the steak's, etc. It gets easy to farm in the end game when your luck stat is way higher. Just remember that once you craft a full meal or ingredient (like pasta, sauce, etc), you can then buy them in the store. I'd do that instead of wasting more crafting materials for some of the basic ingredients used to make the full meals.
I don't know if any of that makes any sense whatsoever, but I think you'll have it figured out the more you tinker with it. What annoyed me is how costly it is to dismantle things with the Alkahest items. So I didn't dismantle much at all, maybe just one or two things.
Also... if you never found a Circlet in a random chest (I don't know if they spawn in one or not), do yourself a favor and buy one so that opens up a crafting tree to get through some of those memento requests. I beat the game and still had no clue why I was missing a Flame Circlet for her quests, lol. Needing a dang Circlet. After that I breezed through the rest of her quests and just need to make the final item now.