The Planet Crafteris partsurvival game, and part sci-fi crafting game, that is based around the goal of terraforming a planet. The player progresses through unlocking blueprints and technologies and tries to establish a sustainable ecosystem including surface water, flora, and fauna.
Cooking doesn’t play much of a part in this game. Some games have advanced cooking mechanics, producing food that gives multiple buffs and benefits. InThe Planet Crafter, food is simpler and entirely optional for most players. However, the moreadvanced recipesdo have their uses. Especially those foods that give a bonus to oxygen use, thirst, and run speed.
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Food inThe Planet Crafteris quite basic. There are no really advanced recipes that give multiple stat bonuses and buffs as is often found in other games that have acooking mechanic. Eggplant is a good example of this simplicity, it is simply a vegetable that can be grown and eaten.
Eggplant needs to be engineered in a biolab and then grown using fertilizer. Once fully grown, it can be picked and eaten raw, to give 25 health.
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Mushrooms are engineered in a biolab and then grown in a T1 or better Food Grower. Mushrooms don’t need to be cooked inThe Planet Crafter. It just needs to be fully grown and picked before the player can eat them.
As with all of the basic plant-based raw foods in this game, the mushroom doesn’t give much in the way of benefits. It simply gives the player 35 health back. It is only really of use in the early game.
Squash is another of the basic vegetable foodstuffs inThe Planet Crafter. However, the requirements for growing and consuming squash are a little higherthan the vegetablesalready covered in this list. However, with its 40 health bonus, it is a lot more useful.
The player will need to unlock the recipes for both the T2 Food Grower and T2 Fertilizer before they can grow, harvest, and consume Squash, which doesn’t happen until the mid-game stage. Until then, mushrooms and eggplant will be the only available food.
The last of the raw vegetables that can be eaten as food inThe Planet Crafter, is the best of the bunch.Cooking gamesusually use vegetables as a raw ingredient for more advanced recipes. And whilst this is somewhat true of this game, beans are a great food consumed raw.
The player will need to have unlocked the blueprint for the Outdoor Farm before they can grow and harvest beans. Once this is done and the farm has been constructed, beans are a simple and effective food, giving 60 health when eaten.
Moving on to the actual cooked food inThe Planet Crafter, Croissant is the simplest of the recipes. It requires just 3 flour to cook. However, the player will need to have unlocked the blueprint for the cooking station and construct it to be able to cook croissants.
Arguably, the extra effort involved in cooking croissants isn’t worth the extra 25 health they give over raw beans, which are much easier to acquire. However, once the player has a sustainable wheat farm built and operating, croissants become a very useful food.
Cookies are one of the 3 more advanced food recipes inThe Planet Crafter, that offers more than just a health bonus. However, to be able to cook cookies, the player will need to be able to grow and process cocoa into chocolate.
Cookies are a very useful food for players who need to travel some distance. Eating a cooking gives a short boost to the player’s run speed. It also gives 90 health. Cookies are best used situationally, and other, easier-to-prepare foods are used for just health bonuses.
Honey Cooked Beans are a very useful food that every player should carry when playingThe Planet Crafter. If a player’s hydration level reaches zero, they begin to die. If there is no source of water nearby, or they are not carrying a water bottle, there is no way around this. Honey Cooked Beans help to negate this problem.
By eating this food, the player will gain a short-term boost to how slowly their hydration level drops. Eating Honey Cooked Beans when low on hydration will help the player to getback to baseand drink before they die.
Fish Soup is the best of the end-game foods inThe Planet Crafter, as it gives the single most useful benefit. Namely, a decrease in the amount of oxygen the player uses. Even with an extended oxygen tank, a player has to go into a structure to recharge their air supply frequently. The bonus from Fish Soup helps with this.
The player will need to have established a viablewater-based ecologybefore they can start to cook Fish Soup, as it requires two different types of fish eggs to cook.
