Meadgard recipes live in a recipe book you open before a shift. The left page lists the dishes you have unlocked, grouped by the station that cooks them; the right page shows the selected dish with its ingredients, how many portions it yields and an "Add to menu" button, with SAVE and REMOVE next to it and a START SHIFT button at the bottom of the list. New recipes are found out on your travels rather than bought in the village.
Meadgard recipes: the recipe book
- Left page: unlocked recipes grouped by station. Each row shows the station icon and a steaming-bowl counter.
- Right page: the selected dish. Its ingredients, the stock you are holding, how many portions one cook yields, and the "Add to menu" action.
- SAVE and REMOVE edit which dishes you are actually offering that night.
- START SHIFT sits at the bottom of the list and opens the doors.
- UPGRADE appears on the detail view when a dish can be ranked up, and it lists what the next rank asks for.
The menu you set here is the menu the room is served from, so the meal system guide picks the story up from the book to the table.
The dishes you can see in the demo
The demo advertises 10+ recipes, and three of them are named in the game's own panels:
| Dish | Station | What the panel shows |
|---|---|---|
| Viking Platter | — | 1 cheese and 10 meat for the base recipe, yielding 3 portions; stock reads 3/14 cheese and 2/8 meat; the next rank asks for 2 cheese and 15 meat |
| Grilled Perch | Grill | a counter of 4 |
| Mushroom Mash | Pot | a counter of 5 |
Ranking a recipe up
Each recipe can be ranked up, and the detail panel shows the next rank's requirements next to an UPGRADE button — for Viking Platter that is 2 cheese and 15 meat. The demo already displays two ranks of that dish side by side, 9/14 and 6/8, which is what the ranked values look like in practice.
A higher rank of the same dish costs more of the better ingredients and sells for more when it goes out. Quality also depends on the station you have unlocked, so a new station is often the thing that makes a new dish worth cooking at all.
Where new recipes come from
New recipes are unlocked on your travels — the day expedition is where the book grows — and recipes also sit in the tavern upgrade list alongside weapons, shops, cosmetics and crops. A new dish is therefore the payoff for a day trip or a purchase, not a separate unlock to hunt down on its own.
The hunting and foraging guide covers the trip that finds them, and the tavern upgrades guide shows where recipes sit among the other things gold buys.