StarRupture Food Guide – How to Cook Food, Advanced Recipes

When you start your journey in StarRupture, survival feels rough and limited. You only start with a few survival packs, and once those are gone, hunger and thirst become constant problems. These problems will also lead to your death. Our StarRupture Food Guide details everything that you need to know about food and recipes in the game.

Food Guide – StarRupture

The game expects you to solve the food dilemma by exploring the world, collecting plants, getting extra rations packs from the dead workers, and slowly unlocking food systems through corporation progress.

Early Food for Survival

At the start, food mostly comes from exploration. You will find plants, scattered ration packs, and supplies on dead workers across the map. These help at first, but they do not last long. One of the most important early food sources is Polifruit, an orange plant that grows in large groups on grassy plains. You can find a lot of it near the pond close to the starting lander, and it respawns often.

You can eat Polifruit directly from your inventory by right-clicking the Polifruit and using it, which gives a small calorie boost of 11. This basic food is enough to keep you alive while you work on factories and corporation contracts during the early hours of the game.

Raw food keeps you alive, but cooked food is much more effective. Cooking allows you to transform basic ingredients into meals that provide more calories, hydration, and overall health benefits. Some foods also provide temporary buffs, such as better energy recovery or resistance to certain dangers.

However, cooked food has a downside. Many recipes can increase your Toxicity, so it’s essential to be mindful of what you eat and how often.

Unlocking the Recipe Station

The first step toward proper food production is unlocking the Recipe Station, which unlocks the cooking recipes. This happens by progressing the Moon Energy Corporation to Level 2. To do this, you will need to produce Titanium Bars and send them using the Orbital Cargo Launcher to the Moon Corporation.

Once you have built your own Recipe Station, you can start unlocking new food recipes. Clicking on the bottom left tab on the Station will show you all the recipes that you can unlock in the game. This station is not only for food, but it also contains other important crafting unlocks and recipes used by corporations. Spending materials here helps both your survival and your overall progression.

Unlocking the Food Station

Unlocking recipes alone is not enough. To actually cook food, you need the Food Station. This is unlocked by advancing Future Health Solutions to Level 6, which usually requires sending very large quantities of Ceramics. This can take a long time if your factory setup is slow, but it is an important milestone.

Once unlocked, the Food Station lets you craft every food recipe you have researched in Recipe Station. Any recipe unlocked in the Recipe Station will automatically appear here.

How Cooking Recipes Are Unlocked

To unlock a cooking recipe, you must deposit large amounts of raw food items into the Recipe Station. Most recipes also require Data Points, which are earned by analyzing items such as raw food, bug parts, broken technology, and other loot in the Analyzing Station.

When all required materials are deposited, the recipe unlocks immediately and becomes available at the Food Station. From that point on, you can cook that food whenever you have the ingredients.

Choosing the Right Food to Carry

In the early hours of the game, inventory space is limited, so food choice matters. For short trips near your base, simple foods like Figler or Nutri Bars are very effective because they restore both Calories and Hydration.

For long trips, foods that slow or stop calorie and hydration loss are more useful, since they reduce how often you need to eat. Energy-focused foods like Serpent Sticks are helpful when traveling across large biomes where stamina drains faster.

When heading into dangerous areas with bugs or harmful effects, certain foods can help reduce Toxicity or counter infections like Plasms and Antidotes.

Recipes to Unlock Early

As soon as the Recipe Station becomes available, some recipes will be especially useful.

• Calorie Fluid restores both health and calories by 30 and 20 points, respectively, making it a solid recovery option. You can unlock it with Polifruit and 20 Star Tears. Ingredients like Star Tears are commonly found in rocky terrain near the starting zones.
• Calorie Gel provides a large calorie boost of 65 using ingredients like Polifruit and 25 Grubblers that can be found relatively close to the starting area. Grubblers can be collected from specific gold trees.

All Food Recipes

That is all for this guide. Additional StarRupture guides are linked below:

• StarRupture Crafting Materials Guide – Find Calcium, Glowcap, Grubbler, More
• StarRupture Recipes Guide – How to Unlock New Recipes
• StarRupture Survival Guide – Managing Health, Hunger, Hydration. Avoid Dying
• StarRupture Gun Guide – How to Get One Quickly
• StarRupture Beginner’s Guide – Early Survival, Factory Building, Tips & Tricks

This concludes our StarRupture Food Guide. If you want to add anything to this guide, feel free to use the comments section below.