Like most slice-of-life in a small town games,My Time at Sandrockfeatures a cooking mechanic that allows you to make meals for your builder that help them in battle and in building. There’s nothing to replenish your depleted stamina after a long day quite like a nice meal, after all.

In order to create new recipes in My Time at Sandrock, you’ll need to choose your ingredients and prepare them with care in order to fill out your recipe book. You’ll also receive a handful of recipes from your friends around Sandrock to help you get started with cooking.

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How To Cook In My Time At Sandrock

How To Unlock Cooking

In My Time at Sandrock, cooking is a bit different from other games of its ilk. Instead of building and upgrading a kitchen, you’ll need toresearch progressively better cooking equipmentand build it for your Workshop.

Be sure to buy meals fromthe Blue Moon Saloonbefore you can cook, though - cooked food is great for your builder’s stats and stamina!

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Like all the other machines in My Time at Sandrock, cooking equipment will need to beupgraded with blueprints fromthe Research Center. It’s also important to know thatyou don’t start with any cookware unlocked- you’ll need to startfrom the ground up.

When it comes to cooking in My Time at Sandrock, there arefour cooking stationsyou’ll need to prototype and craft. They can be found under theProduct Creating Machinetab.

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Since your workstations are limited in what they can make until you improve them,you’re able to’t make every dish until you’vefully upgradedthe Cooking Stations.

How To Create New Recipes

While you’ll receive a handful of recipes as you play the game and befriend the locals, for the most part, My Time at Sandrock’s cooking mechanic relies on youexperimenting with different ingredients and cooking methods.

As stated above,better Cooking Stations unlock new cookware, and these increasingly involvedmethods of cooking allow you to create new recipes from scratch.

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Your builder is limited by the tools at their disposal, meaning you’ll need toupgrade your cooking equipmentto continue making new meals.

On the second tab at your cooking station, the one that looks like abeaker, you’ll find yourself able tochoose cooking methods, ingredients, and herbsto blend together into dozens of unique dishes.

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Here, you’ll be able tocarefully select ingredientsthat seem like they’d work together in pursuit ofnew homemade recipesthat your builder has made up themselves.

Choose someherbs and spicesto add in on the second page of your ingredients list, and then choose one offour different cooking methodsfor your builder to use in preparing this meal. Once you’ve got everything in order,confirmyour decision.

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Any time you’resuccessful in creating a new recipe, you’ll not only receive a portion ofthe mealitself, but therecipe is loggedand can now be accessed from the recipe menu to be quickly re-prepared later.

If you’reunsuccessful in creating a new recipe, you’ll get a pile ofFood Scrapsinstead.

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Get New Recipes From Friends Or Treasure Chests

Trade Recipes With Owen And Mabel

There are two characters in My Time at Sandrock who are able to help your builder learn to cook -Owen, who owns the Blue Moon Saloon, andMabelover at the Wandering Y Yakmel Ranch.

Both of these characters have a dialogue option you won’t seewhen befriending the others-“Talk Recipes,“with an icon of achef’s hat and spatula.

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If the character isn’t busy, they’re usually willing to chat about food. The majority of the time, they’lloffer to teach you a recipein exchange fora few Gols.

If they are busy when you talk, try again in a couple of hours when they’re free.

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There are odd occasions, though, where these characters may insteadaskyouto teachthemrecipes.Not only will they give you a fewGolsfor the trouble, but you’ll earn somerelationship pointswith them, too.

They both givemore recipes as you get closerto them, so work on your friendships to earn new recipes.

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Fine Hot and Sour Fish

Spicy and Sour Potato

Pizza

Sandrice Sushi

You can receiveAcquaintance-level recipesonce these characters have progressed to Associate as well - you just can’t receive Associate recipes before reaching that level.

Find Recipes Buried Around Sandrock

Finally, there are an odd few recipes that are hidden withintreasure chestsin the furthest reaches of Sandrock.

These are usuallytricky to findchests that may beburied in sandor placedhigh upabove the ground.

Grab the Knowledge Point reward that unveils the location of Treasure Chests on your map to make them easier to find.

Every Recipe And How To Prepare It

In the tables below, we’ve detailed all recipes in My Time at Sandrock, including theCooking Stationat which you’ll be able to use theequipmentneeded to make the recipe, as well as the necessaryingredientsfor the dish.

  • Any recipe marked with an asterisk is one you’ll receive fromOwenor Mabel.

1 CIlantro

Fine Hot and Sour Fish *

Tomato and Egg Soup

Fine Sweet and Sour Sandfish

Melon and Beef

Sweet and Sour Pork

Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs

Sweet and Sour Sandfish

1 Flour

1 Sweet Potato

Experiment with different meals to receive unique effects and stat boosts from your cooking in My Time at Sandrock!