Start with the demo's cooking loop
Loftia's opening demo introduces cooking through carrot soup: grow the carrots, build a Cooking Station, prepare the dish, and deliver it to the Shipping Bin. Later recipes give your crops and gathered ingredients more uses, including earning Dew and fulfilling community contribution requests. Keep battery charges available alongside the food ingredients so your next cooking task can continue.
These Loftia cooking recipes come from the player experiences narrated in Z1 Gaming's opening-demo walkthrough and chillinwithchi's demo guide. They are a starting set of known demo dishes. The official Early Access overview explains the game's wider progression beyond that preview.
Three recipes named in the demo guides
The narrations identify these dishes and ingredients:
| Dish | Ingredients named by the player | Context in the demo account |
|---|---|---|
| Carrot soup | Carrots | Opening cooking task, followed by delivery to the Shipping Bin |
| Creamy summer soup | Carrots and tomatoes | Recipe example discussed alongside Kun's recipe shop and contribution requests |
| Fruit smoothie | Foraged wild berries and purchased sugar | Repeatable cooking example used to earn Dew |
This is a starting list, not a complete cookbook. The spoken guides do not provide every ingredient quantity for these dishes, so use the recipe card for the amounts required in your game.
Carrot soup is the clearest first recipe to follow because it appears in the narrated introductory objectives. The player receives carrot seeds, grows the crop, makes the Cooking Station, and then prepares the soup. Keeping some of the harvest for that task is useful before shipping away everything you grow.
Creamy summer soup is another named option. Chillinwithchi specifically identifies carrots and tomatoes as ingredients and explains that some recipes are purchased with Dew from Kun's recipe shop. Check the recipe you want before spending your available ingredients on a different dish.
Build the station and keep enough power to cook
The opening walkthrough crafts and places a Cooking Station on the player's island. Cooking then fits into the same energy system used by other crafting stations: recipes need materials and battery charges.
A simple preparation sequence is:
- Follow the opening farming and cooking objectives to reach the Cooking Station task.
- Check the station recipe and gather the materials it requests.
- Craft and place the station on your island.
- Select the dish you want to cook and check its ingredients and energy cost.
- Refill your battery at a solar panel when you need more charges.
The narrated carrot-soup session also includes a stirring interaction. Pay attention to the cooking prompt when preparing the dish, rather than assuming that selecting a recipe is the entire process.
Additional recipe purchases and your current contribution requests can guide what to make next. You do not need to treat every crop as an immediate sale if it is already useful for a dish you are working toward.
Decide whether to sell a dish or save it for a request
The demo guides describe two useful destinations for cooked food: the Shipping Bin and community contribution bins. Your active objective determines which one you need.
For an income example, chillinwithchi describes gathering wild berries and buying sugar from Kun for 5 Dew, then selling the fruit smoothie for 20 Dew. That leaves 15 Dew after the stated sugar purchase, before accounting for energy and gathering time. The 20 Dew sale value is revenue, so it should not be treated as 20 Dew of profit.
For community contributions, read the current request before cooking a large batch. The player's demo account describes different requested dishes and ingredients, including food for a world project. Those examples explain how cooking connects to contributions; they do not establish that the same dishes will always be requested.
A practical choice is to reserve ingredients for your active quest or contribution first, then use the rest for a recipe you want to sell. This keeps your next task in view while still letting cooking support your Dew balance.
FAQ
What is a useful first cooking recipe in the demo?
Carrot soup appears directly in the opening walkthrough's objectives. Follow the farming task, grow the carrots, build the Cooking Station, prepare the soup, and deliver it as requested.
Where do I get more cooking recipes?
The demo player guide identifies Kun's recipe shop as a place to buy additional recipes with Dew. Check the available recipe and its requirements before purchasing ingredients for it.
Is a fruit smoothie worth 20 Dew in profit?
The player reports a 20 Dew sale and a 5 Dew sugar purchase. That is a 15 Dew difference before energy and gathering time. Keep the reported demo values separate from any later recipe or economy changes.