Soup cooking guide: safe recipes, buffs, and failed-pot recovery

Safe Soup Planning and Recipe Use

Soup can turn a small ingredient set into several servings, and some recipes also apply a useful buff. This guide focuses on the cooking process and a checked set of practical recipes. It is not a frozen claim about the total number of soups in a game that continues to receive updates.

Getting your Cooking Equipment

Before you can make soup, you need a cooking pot and a heat source. Two types of pots work identically for soup-making.

Finding a Standard Cooking Pot

The standard Cooking Pot can be found in several locations across the facility:

• Office Sector: Level 2 Kitchen, Level 3 Break Room, small kitchen under the Analysis Office
• Flathill: Bounty Basket store
• Manufacturing West: Through the Mapping Center near the two Snipers
• Cascade Laboratories: Level 3 Adjustment, near the Quantum Exchanger
• Security Sector: Storage Unit C (on a shelf), Fitness Course kitchen
• Hydroplant: Waterfall Apartments
• Reactors: Dusk Reactor cafeteria

Crafting a Makeshift Cooking Pot

If you can't find a standard pot, craft one at a Crafting Bench:

Both pot types hold 1000ml of liquid and accept Water, Tainted Water, or Antejuice. They also boil Tainted Water into clean Water at a 4:1 ratio (1000ml Tainted Water produces 250ml Water).

Soups That Grant Souper Satisfied

The Souper Satisfied buff slows hunger and thirst drain by 20% for 10 minutes. This is the primary reason to cook soup. Based on available information, the following soups provide this buff:

Meat-Based Soups:

• Pest Goulash
• Peccary Goulash
• Meatrio Medley
• Peccary Stew
• Carbuncle N' Dumplings

Vegetable Soups:

• Simple Tomato Soup
• Super Tomato Soup
• Creamy Tomato Bisque
• Mashed Potatoes
• Potato and Sausage Stew
• Pumpkin Soup
• Creamy Corn Soup
• Split Pea Soup

Fish and Seafood Soups:

• Portal Fish Stew
• Radfish Chowder
• Lunar Bisque
• Inky Egg Drop Soup (also called Inky "Egg" Drop Soup)
• Anteverse Gumbo

Other Soups:

• Homey Pasta
• Peccary Noodle Soup
• Carrot & Pumpkin Soup
• Harmonious Rice
• Reservoir Reserve
• Witching Hour Brew
• Silky Consommé
• Gooey Mushroom Soup

The Soup to Avoid: Poop Soup

Not all soups are beneficial. Poop Soup is a trap recipe that harms rather than helps.

• Recipe: 1 Bag of Feces (cooking time 1:00)
• Warning Signs: The uncooked version's description reads "Please don't cook this." The finished soup's flavor text says "Oh wait, you did."
• Effects: Provides only 3 hunger and 20 thirst, but applies Stinky and Sick debuffs
• Category: One of several "ineffective soups"

Workflow: Safe Soup Preparation

Follow this numbered process to cook soup without wasting resources or harming yourself:

1. Secure clean water: Collect Tainted Water, place it in your cooking pot on a heat source, and boil it. Remember: 1000ml Tainted Water becomes 250ml clean Water.

2. Choose your recipe: Review the Souper Satisfied list above. Pick a soup based on ingredients you have. For example, Uncooked Simple Tomato Soup uses a regular Tomato and Salt, not a Super Tomato. The latter belongs to the separate Super Tomato Soup recipe.

3. Gather ingredients: Collect the specific items for your chosen recipe. Store them in your inventory or nearby container.

4. Cook the soup: Place your pot with clean water on the heat source. Add the required ingredients. Wait for the cooking process to complete.

5. Eat and enjoy: Consume the soup to gain the Souper Satisfied buff. Each soup provides multiple portions, so store extras for later.

Recipe selection by route

Choose soup by the route you are about to run, not by the longest ingredient list.

This is the practical value of the recipe list. It should help the player avoid bad cooking decisions before a run rather than act as an exhaustive name list.

Recovery After Eating Bad Soup

If you accidentally eat Poop Soup, check the Sick and Stinky debuffs separately. Their listed removal conditions differ, so treating both as one status leads to bad recovery advice:

• Sick: The Sick entry says it causes vomiting, which drains hunger and thirst, and is removed after vomiting twice. Find a safe place and account for that resource loss rather than assuming an item instantly cures it.
• Stinky: The Stinky entry says nearby enemies notice you more easily and that washing removes the status. Wash before trying to sneak past enemies.
• Do not use a Medkit as a consumable cure: A Medkit is deployable storage for medical supplies, not an item you apply to remove these effects. Its contents may include supplies, but that does not make the container itself a remedy.
• Prevent a repeat: Put the unsafe pot or leftovers away from ready-to-eat meals, replenish clean water after vomiting and verify the next recipe before cooking.

Bad-soup prevention rules

Use these rules when experimenting:

1. Do not cook unknown combinations before a dangerous route.
2. Keep one safe meal separate from the test pot.
3. Label or separate harmful results so another player does not eat them.
4. If the pot contains a bad result, clear the workflow before cooking again.

Soup is strong because it combines food and thirst planning. It becomes risky when the player uses the pot as a guessing tool.

Route Choices: Early vs. Late Game Soup Strategy

Early Game: Simple Tomato Soup is a practical first known recipe: prepare Water in a pot, add one regular Tomato and Salt, then cook it on a Stove. The finished-soup entry lists four portions and notes that the Super Tomato recipe was separated in v0.9.3. Do not substitute Super Tomato because an older guide uses the former recipe name. If planning Mashed Potatoes instead, open its current recipe entry first; the shared buff list confirms the outcome but does not establish its ingredients.

Late Game: Anteverse Gumbo and Lunar Bisque are both on the Souper Satisfied source list, but that list alone does not prove either is the best use of your ingredients. Compare the current recipe and portion stats before committing scarce supplies to a longer route.

Emergency Option: If you lack ingredients for a known soup, boil Tainted Water for clean water and use only food you have confirmed is safe to eat without cooking. The Sick source list includes several raw meats and fish, so do not treat an arbitrary raw ingredient as an emergency meal. Keep the unverified items for a properly checked recipe or cook them by their own item instructions. This avoids trading one failed soup for a sickness that drains more hunger and thirst.

Kitchen storage setup

A small kitchen system prevents most soup mistakes.

When storage is organized this way, the recipe notes become useful during normal play instead of becoming a wall of names.

Pre-cook check for shared kitchens

This checklist is a kitchen procedure, not a claim that every soup has the same cook time or ingredients. Confirm those details on the individual item page when switching recipes.