This guide is an advanced guide for Abiotic Factor. It contains all of the guides you need to get started with cooking. As well as tips and tricks to level up the skill.
This guide also includes guides for Fishing, fishing locations, and anything else that falls under the cooking or brewing section. If this guide helps you in anyway please consider dropping by my Ko-fi.
This is a living guide, so check back often!
This section is reserved for the brewing mechanics that appeared on the roadmap.
This section is reserved for the fishing update.
The Basics of Cooking
Cooking will keep you going in the early game and be what can save you when you play on the hardest difficulties. Food gets progressively better as you level up. Once you hit level 10, you’ll unlock the oven and a whole slew of recipes. Crafting ingredients can also be gotten through cooking, making it one of the most important skills in the game.
Fried foods and the basics
The video below showcases a few basic recipes to get you started. You’ll be able to craft ovens, upgraded ovens, and even fix the ovens around the facility. Pay attention to how things cook and how long they might take to cook.
Antepasta Explained
This got a completely separate video because this pasta doesn’t work the way most might think it does. It’s an ingredient, so don’t try to boil it or you’ll get bad soup.
Where to get Milk
Milk is used in a lot of recipes. You get it from distilling a Milk Sac, which can be gotten from a Peccary Sow. Or, you can tame your own Peccary Sow and milk that.
How to tame a Peccary
You need to make a Pheromone Flask:
- 6 Alien Distillations
- Distill Pest Parts for easy success.
- 4 Mycological Distillations
- Distill mushrooms.
- 4 Brainy Distillations
- Distill Human Brains.
You can feed the Peccary 3 to 5 Antiverse Wheat once you smack it with the flask, and it will be yours.
How to Milk a Peccary Sow
You need to make sure you have a vial on you that can be crafted using Wooden Planks and Glass Shards. The Peccary Sow must be tamed for this to work. You can milk it every time the prompt is ready, just make sure you have a vial with you.
Soup Recipes
Alien Cheese
Alien Cheese is used in a lot of recipes. After you make it, you have to let it get ripe. After you make it, you have to let it get ripe. Once it gets ripe, you’ll be able to place it down.
- One Vial of Milk
- One Hydrochloric Acid
- One Anteverse Gel