Top Foods for Completing and Solving in Starsand Island

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Cooking and baking are key parts of gameplay in Starsand Island, and they serve more purposes than just making tasty food.

In Starsand Island, food helps restore your character’s energy and health. You can also give food as gifts to residents. There are many wild and farmed plants you can gather to make dishes or share with friends on the island. Here’s everything you need to know about food and cooking in the game.

How to Unlock Recipes in Starsand Island

There are several ways to unlock new recipes. You can buy them, complete quests, or discover them while exploring. Many recipes are available from the Auraleaf Kitchen in town, which is open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

To unlock recipes at the kitchen, go during open hours and interact with the cash register. You’ll see a menu with items you can purchase or recipes you can learn. Buying a dish gives you the recipe, while purchasing for takeout simply lets you enjoy the meal.

Image showing the outside of Auraleaf Kitchen.

Once you learn a recipe, you can cook it at any campfire as long as you have the ingredients listed in the recipe. The info about each dish also indicates what buffs it provides.

Image showing a person learning new recipes.

Recipe Buffs

Recipes can give your character temporary boosts, such as increased health, luck, or other stats. Some common buffs include:

Scavenger: Always get an item when searching trash cans.
Never Skunked: Fish bite immediately, no bait testing.
Watering Mastery: Use less water for irrigation.
Creamy Seeds: Harvesting crops may drop rare seeds.
Underwater Treasure: Fishing may yield extra treasure chests.
Pet Pal: Pets will come to your side more often, boosting affection.
Field Prep Mastery: Hoeing costs less stamina.
Forest’s Gift: Better chance to recover ammo and find ore chunks.
Battle Spirit: Slight attack power boost.
Trash Treasure: Higher chance to find rare items in trash cans.
Flow Fishing: Fishing line doesn’t break when catching fish.

Best Recipes for Exploring

When venturing into new areas like the Moonlit Forest, you’ll need food to restore your energy and health. Cooking quick, inexpensive dishes will keep you going. You can cook at campfires at rest spots, but you’ll need to carry the ingredients with you. To save space, focus on single-ingredient recipes or dishes that use ingredients found in the forest.

Here are some examples:

Smashed Cucumber: 2 x Cucumber, +80 Energy.
Mushroom Soup: 2 x Moondew Shroom, +45 Energy.
Chicken Stewed With Mushrooms: 4 x Fowl, 3 x Mushroom, 1 x Salt; +105 Energy and Battle Spirit buff.
Soup Dumplings: 2 x Meat Bites, 3 x Flour; +55 Energy and Forest’s Gift buff.
Grilled Mushroom Skewers: Sunveil Shroom, Moondew Shroom, Mirthshroom, and Salt; increases max HP by 86.
Grilled Chicken Wings: Fowl and Salt; +68 HP.
Red Grape Juice: Made at a juicer with 2 Red Grape; +98 Energy plus a Timber buff.
Green Grape Juice: 2 Green Grape; +98 Energy plus an Ore buff.