You are what you eat, when you are playing a survival game, most of the time you will be in the kitchen cooking food to get your health bar up. in Aloft, the game has fantastic cooking mechanics to keep you engaged with the system for a long time. While you can search for recipes to cook the food you desire to grant a good amount of bonus, the game also allows players to experiment with the ingredients. Here in the guide, we will take a strong look at everything food-related in the game: the best meals to cook, places to source ingredients and other useful tips.
Where To Cook In Aloft?
We will need a campfire or fireplace to start cooking in the game.
While consuming raw food is an option in Aloft, the effect of the meal will get better after it is properly cooked. You will need a campfire or a fireplace to make that happen. Here’s how you build a Campfire in Aloft:
Build a Campfire:
- First and foremost, you will need to build a basic campfire, we will add the extra stuff later. To build a campfire, you must get your hands on Wood x5/ Stone x6/ Charcoal x3.
- Once you have crafted a campfire, you must find an appropriate place to set it on. To start a fire, you will need to possess a single piece of Charcoal.
Add Cooking Plates:
- Now add a Cooking Plate to the fireplace, you must have Wood x3/ Stone x3/ Charcoal x3 to cook a single Cooking Plate in a fireplace.
A small campfire will support 3 cooking plates; a large one supports 8. Each of these plates will have slots for three ingredients. Interact with the cooking plate by pressing E, select three ingredients from your inventory, and start cooking.
All Food Categories In Aloft
All the recipes in the game make use of different categories of food. A recipe will require either two dry items and one liquid or two seasoning and one dry item. Experiment is the name of the game.
- Veggies: Carrots, Corn, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Reishi mushrooms, Tomatoes, and peas.
- Fruits: Blueberry and Watermelon.
- Dry Ingredients: Bone meal, Flax seeds, flour, leaves, Coffee, Great Chestnut Seed, and Wheat.
- Seasoning: Salt, Honey, sugar, and Garlic.
- Liquid: Milk and Clean Water
Bonuses from eating good dishes can go from increased attack speed, damage, combos, and sometimes gathering bonuses. These bonuses are rather small, it is the amount of health they raise after a meal that should matter.
Best Cooking Recipies In Aloft
Here we will take a look at all the best recipes in the game. We consider the HP bonus boost to be the best outcome of a recipe. Yogurt Bowl tops the list with a 48 HP Bonus after consumption, lasting for 10 minutes. Throughout the list, you will find some amazing food with common ingredients that you can cook to give yourself a good bonus for more than 10 minutes.
| Dish Name | Lasting Time | Ingredients | Yogurt | Special Bonus |
| Yogurt Bowl | 10 Minutes | Honey + Milk + Blueberry | +48 HP bonus | * Increase Attack Damage * Gather More Resources |
| Gnocchi | 18 Minutes | Eggs+ Potatoes + Flour | +44 HP Bonus | * Gather More Resources * Short Combos |
| Pumpkin Loaf | 18 Minutes | Pumpkin + Flour + Eggs | +44 HP Bonus | * Short Combos * Increase Attack Damage |
| Carrot Loaf | 14 Minutes | Flour + Eggs+ Carrots | +44 HP Bonus | * Short Combos * Increase Attack Damage |
| Stew | 18 Minutes | Potatoes + Carrots + Water | +42 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Speed * Gather More Resources |
| Summer Salad | 14 Minutes | Tomatoes + Corn + Garlic | +38 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage * Gather More Resources |
| Pumpkin Pie | 14 Minutes | Pumpkins + Sugar + Flour | +36 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage |
| Sweet Roll | 11 Minutes | Milk + Sugar + Flour | +35 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage |
| Corn Loaf | 14 Minutes | Corn + Flour + Eggs | +34 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage * Short Combos |
| Berry Loaf | 14 Minutes | Berries + Flour + Eggs | + 34 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage * Short Combos |
| Tomato Soup | 24 Minutes | Tomatoes + Water + Salt | + 32 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage * Gather More Resources |
| Flat Bread | 14 Minutes | Flour+ Water + Flax Seeds | +32 HP Bonus | Short Combos |
| Corn on the Cob | 14 Minutes | Corn + Butter + Salt | +30 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage |
| Blueberry Pie | 14 Minutes | Berries + Flour + Sugar | +28 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage |
| Marrons Glaces | 18 Minutes | Chestnut + Water + Sugar | + 28 HP Bonus | * Increase Attack Damage |
Best Farming Locations For Food In Aloft
The majority of the ingredients can be harvested from the plants while some unique items such as Eggs can only be obtained from Pheasants after they are fed. Remember, you can only gather ingredients from an uncorrupted island, check out our guide on how to fix and restore the ecosystem on a corrupt island. Here in this section, we will take a look at all the farming locations for food ingredients in Aloft.
- Blueberry – Harvested from Blueberry bushes found on Emerald Isles.
- Bone Meal: Currently Unknown
- Coffee: Can be harvested from Coffee plants found on Emerald Isles.
- Flax Seed: Obtained from Flax Plants in the Fallen Heights Island.
- Flour: Grinding wheat on a Millstone will help you easily obtain Flour.
- Great Chestnut Seed: You can get these seeds by chopping down a Chestnut Tree.
- Leaves: Chop down any tree to get leaves.
- Potato: Obtained from Potato plants found on Red Cliff islands.
- Pumpkin: Gained from Pumpkin plants on Fallen Heights island.
- Tomato: Obtained from Tomato plants on Fallen Heights island.
- Peas: Harvested from Pea Plants on Red Cliff Island.
- Corn: Harvested from Corn stalks on Emerald Isles.
- Carrot: Gained from planted carrots on Red Cliff Island.
- Watermelon: Harvested from Watermelon plants found on Red Cliff Island.
- Garlic: Currently Unknown
- Honey: Beehives on Fallen Heights Island.
- Salt: You can grind salt crystals on a Millstone to obtain it.
- Sugar: Grinding Sugar Beets on a Millstone.
- Clean Water: Get dirty water from a water source and craft it with Charcoal.
- Milk: You can use a Leaf or Wood bucket to milk from Female Goats.
- Eggs: They are laid by Pheasants after they are fed.
Note: The game is in early access, on Full Release, Aloft might add more locations for their ingredients harvesting.
Useful Cooking Tips In Aloft
- When you are cooking food in the campfire, make sure to feed the fire – which is to add one more charcoal to the campfire to make the fire go a bit stronger. This will help you cook the food faster.
- A Flame icon will appear at the bottom of the screen indicating the heat levels. If you hold the button for too long, then the heat meter will reach the red zone too many times and you will have burnt food on your hands. The trick is to hold the button where the heat level stays in the yellow zone.
- The game allows you to experiment, you can create any type of meal as long as you possess the resources for the meal without owning any recipe. Once cooked, the new dish will unlock the recipe in your game.
- Basic Meals: Feel free to experiment with other ingredients when creating a basic meal. Gourmet Meals: Here you must use the specific ingredients or the recipe to work. Cooking a Gourmet meal will leave you with a better stat effect after the food consumption. Gourmet recipe scrolls are obtained from chests found when exploring.
And that completes everything there is to know on Food & Cooking in Aloft.