Call me a Student, but i need a Crockpot Recipe Book

[LissN2Music]

Dear Don't Starve Community!

Until today, I call my mommy when i need to know what ingredients it takes for different meals to avoid the popular monster lasagna as output. Sometimes I even follow the instructions of a recipe book. But without any advice it would be a mess. I would love it if you first need to have the knowledge about each recipe to cook it in the end. That means your early days of surviving depend much longer on cooked berries/carrots etc. In my experience even new players spam meatballs etc by day 5. Imagine pengulls dropping a piece of note with the information on how to make bacon & eggs or rather by killing the tallbirds and you find 1 page of the crockpot recipe book in its nest or by killing bee queen to know how to make honey ham & nuggets or a birchnut tree has a chance to tell you how to make a trail mix etc. I also would love to have a craftable complete crockpot recipe book in the magic tab. I mean i love the learning curve of this game everytime you die but without the help of the wiki or an app on android/ios it is almost impossible to learn each recipe. You have a higher chance winning the lottery. So even when you know the recipe of a specific meal already from the last games, I would suggest that you only can prepare the food after finding the recipe again.

What do you think about it?

Cheers Liss

 

[Captain_Rage]

Make your own summary using the Wiki, print it and put it on the wall behind the computer screen. Aesthetical and effective.

[LissN2Music]

4 minutes ago, Captain_Rage said:

Make your own summary using the Wiki, print it and put it on the wall behind the computer screen. Aesthetical and effective.

Well...this place is already reserved for a huge wallpaper explaining the offside rule for my gf

 

[Captain_Rage]

Whops, sorry, I didn't read the post carefully. As for the game mechanics about how cooking works there is no need for in-game hints about recipes. Most of the fun in Don't Starve Together comes from figuring out and learning stuff on your own, even if you use to Wiki to do so. You get a feeling for the game. Eventually you realize that you've become better at the game and that feels great! In-game hints about cooking, for example, would probably make them less fun.

 

PS.

Make a tiny stand with a small card! It can probably fit the 5-6 most interesting recipes.

[Residays]

Get this mod http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727774324

[LissN2Music]

17 minutes ago, Captain_Rage said:

Whops, sorry, I didn't read the post carefully. As for the game mechanics about how cooking works there is no need for in-game hints about recipes. Most of the fun in Don't Starve Together comes from figuring out and learning stuff on your own, even if you use to Wiki to do so. You get a feeling for the game. Eventually you realize that you've become better at the game and that feels great! In-game hints about cooking, for example, would probably make them less fun.

 

PS.

Make a tiny stand with a small card! It can probably fit the 5-6 most interesting recipes.

Dont worry about me, I do know all the recipes you need by now. My main point is to enjoy the raw surviving for more than 5 days before delicious yummy meatballs, bacon & eggs and honey ham awaits you at home. You need to "unlock" the recipes first before you can use it. That means more easier recipes like kabobs become a thing again cause they are at least more efficient than a cooked carrot only.

16 minutes ago, Residays said:

Get this mod http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727774324

This is pretty much what i meant by the craftable crockpot recipe book. It actually is, but you should only can craft it in late game. So finding single sites of the recipe books stays still interesting.

[CaptainChaotica]

Funnily enough, I happen to have just gone around surviving on random stuff I could pick or trap, without a crockpot at all, for an ENTIRE IN-GAME YEAR*. And the really funny thing is?  I never got even close to starving.  _Food_ was never the problem--health and sanity were!  Now, mind you, I was playing alone, with others there (especially noobs) this would've been a disastrous idea. But it's possible to stretch out the first few days before you even GET a crockpot quite safely, is what I'm getting at.

...unless you're Wigfrid; then you either need to _constantly_ hunt koalephants or put up with monster meat all the time, pretty much.  I did not play as Wigfrid.  : P  Wolfgang's faster hunger drain might also make this a bad idea...(Neither of these would be impossible--just way more annoying.)

That said, I kinda like the idea of gradually collecting/earning a recipe book--it reminds me of one of my favourite mechanics from Harvest Moon or Sims 3.  Not for the ACTUAL game, though, mind you, as that would take away the magic of discovering for yourself...but a _mod_ that does this might be kinda fun.  Hmmm.

...Notorious

*Actually a bit more than a year, as I randomised the season lengths and got:  Normal autumn (20 days), slightly-shorter winter (10 days), really-long-but-not-the-VERY-longest-possible spring (40 days), and normal summer (15 days).  So, 75 days instead of the standard 70. 

[Residays]

2 hours ago, LissN2Music said:

.This is pretty much what i meant by the craftable crockpot recipe book. It actually is, but you should only can craft it in late game. So finding single sites of the recipe books stays still interesting.

Well I mean, the mod is pretty much a reminder, so there's no reason to delay it.

[Auth]

With all due respect,

1: This should be in suggestions/feedback

2: You can't exactly go changing a core feature of the game that hasn't changed since most people even knew the game existed without massive backlash.