Abiotic Factor Cooking and Food Guide

Our Abiotic Factor Cooking and Food Guide will tell you what benefits you get from food, how to cook, how Soup works, and more!

Surviving the horrors of Abiotic Factor is going to take more than a gun and a well-defended base — you're going to need to eat, too. This guide is all about food and how you can cook it to get bigger benefits. Read on to learn more!

How Abiotic Factor Cooking Works

There are essentially four kinds of cooking in Abiotic Factor.

1. Cooking on a Frying Pan
2. Boiling water
3. Cooking Soup
4. Baking in an Oven

At first, all you'll be able to do is cook raw items on a Frying Pan or boil water in a Cooking Pot. Once you reach Cooking 3, you'll gain the ability to make Soup. Finally, you'll unlock the ability to make an Oven at Cooking 10.

In addition to these new abilities, it appears that you cook better food as you level up your Cooking Skill. For example, a new character will make "Cooked Alien Drumstick," but a character with Cooking 3 will make "Carefully Cooked Alien Drumstick" which restores more Hunger.

Most food Decays and will eventually go rotten. Cooked food has a higher Decay meter compared to its raw version. Storing food in a powered refrigerator will vastly slow down the decay process.

How Radiation Works with Food

It should be noted that many raw food items — especially alien meat — are radioactive. Carelessly storing these items in a fridge can cause radiation to spread, and it seems that this radiation can infect other food items. Take care to watch for items that are emitting radiation and store them far from your food or in a Hazard Crate.

How to Make Soup in Abiotic Factor

You can make Soup in Abiotic Factor once you've reached Cooking 3. From there, you need to put a Cooking Pot full of water on a Portable Stove. Then, you can place 1–3 ingredients into the Cooking Pot.

If you place enough of the correct ingredients into the pot, you'll learn a new Soup recipe. Any incorrect combination of ingredients will result in "Bad Soup" which restores some Hunger and Thirst but provides little in the way of buffs.

Discovered Soup recipes are stored on your tablet in the GATE Compendium. You do not need to discover a recipe before you make it; if you know the ingredients, you can make that Soup recipe even if you've never made it before! (We have a list of Soup recipes at the bottom of this guide.)

Once a Soup has finished cooking, you must pick up the Cooking Pot and place it on a flat surface. You must then use a Soup Bowl to take a serving out of the Cooking Pot. Each Cooking Pot of Soup has a total of 4 servings.

Vending Machines

Vending Machines in Abiotic Factor are a source of unperishable food and drinks, though they often don't grant benefits as good as cooked food.

While this normally costs money, players with Strength level 5 gain access to the Trait "Step Aside", which allows you to potentially get one of the items inside for free.

Abiotic Factor Food List

Here is a list of all of the food we've found in the game thus far.

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Canned Peas

• Hunger Fill: 10
• Thirst Fill: 8

Canned Peas are one of the rare food items that do not decay, so they should be saved for emergency rations.

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Carefully Cooked Alien Drumstick

• Hunger Fill: 37
• Decay: 75

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Carefully Cooked Exor Heart

• Hunger Fill: 26
• Decay: 500

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Carefully Cooked Pest

• Hunger Fill: 20
• Decay: 75

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Carefully Cooked Pest Rump

• Hunger Fill: 23

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Cooked Alien Drumstick

• Hunger Fill: 29
• Decay: 75

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Cooked Pest

• Hunger Fill: 16
• Decay: 75

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Cooked Pest Rump

• Hunger Fill: 16
• Decay: 75

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Doznuts

• Hunger Fill: 20
• Fatigue Fill: -5

Doznuts do not decay, but they also increase your Thirst. You can get them from a Vending Machine.

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Farm Puffs

• Hunger Fill: 20
• Thirst Fill: -2

Like most Vending Machine items, Farm Puffs do not decay. This item slightly increases your Thirst.

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Fizz Bang

• Thirst Fill: 25

Fizz Bang can be acquired from Vending Machines and dead security bots.

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Ice Cream

• Hunger Fill: 20
• Thirst Fill: 10
• Decay: 60

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Leyak Essence

• Hunger Fill: -91
• Thirst Fill: -91

Leyak Essence is an extremely dangerous item that should not be ingested raw.

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Military M.R.E.

• Hunger Fill: 20

Military M.R.E.s drop off of Order soldiers and can be found in Manufacturing West. It never decays, so it's a good emergency ration.

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Nachos

• Hunger Fill: 18

Although Nachos can fill your Hunger, it's best to save them for crafting Pest Traps.

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Pop Snarkle

• Thirst Fill: 25

Pop Snarkle is one of the many items you can get from Vending Machines or dead security bots.

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Potato

• Hunger Fill: 15
• Thirst Fill: 4

Oddly, Potatoes are fairly rare and cannot yet be planted. It's best to hold onto them in a refrigerator for now.

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Raw Alien Drumstick

• Hunger Fill: 22
• Decay: 60

You can rarely get a Raw Alien Drumstick by killing a Peccary.

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Raw Carbuncle

• Hunger Fill: 6
• Decay: 60

You will almost always get a Raw Carbuncle by killing a Carbuncle.

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Raw Exor Heart

• Hunger Fill: 10
• Decay: 500

You will almost always get a Raw Exor Heart by killing an Exor.

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Raw Pest

• Hunger Fill: 10
• Decay: 60

You can sometimes get Raw Pest by killing Pests.

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Raw Pest Rump

• Hunger Fill: 12
• Decay: 60

You can sometimes get Raw Pest Rump by killing a Pest.

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Rootbear

• Thirst Fill: 25

You can get Rootbear from a Vending Machine or a dead security bot.

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Saltz

• Hunger Fill: 20
• Thirst Fill: -5

Saltz is one of the many food items in Vending Machines that does not decay.

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Super Tomato

• Hunger Fill: 20
• Thirst Fill: 20
• Decay: 120

Super Tomatoes are a phenomenal crop that can meet all of your needs. They grow pretty quickly, too, so it makes for a solid basic food source.

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Tomato

• Hunger Fill: 5
• Thirst Fill: 3
• Decay: 60

Tomatoes

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Vit

• Thirst Fill: 25

Vit is one of the many drinks that you can get from Vending Machines or dead security bots.

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Abiotic Factor Soup List

Here is a list of all of the Soup recipes we've found so far.

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Bad Soup

• Ingredients: Any ingredients that don't make a Soup recipe
• Hunger Fill: 15
• Thirst Fill: 20

Any incorrect combination of ingredients will result in Bad Soup. On the upside, getting enough ingredients for another Soup recipe will unlock that recipe.

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Bland Pea Soup:

• Ingredients: 1 Canned Peas, 1 Salt
• Hunger Fill: 10
• Thirst Fill: 28
• Sprinting and Sneaking XP gain increased

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Poop Soup

• Ingredients: Bag of Feces
• Hunger Fill: 3
• Thirst Fill: 20
• Applies: Stinky
• Will cause sickness and vomiting

You just had to try it, didn't you?

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Solder

• Ingredients: 1 Metal Scrap, 1 Silver
• Makes Solder

Solder is a crafting item, but it's made in the same way that you make Soup. That makes it a Soup in my book.

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Sustenance Soup

• Ingredients: 1 Military M.R.E.
• Hunger Fill: 20
• Thirst Fill: 20
• Faster XP for Accuracy and Reloading

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Toxic Soup

• Ingredients: Any human parts (such as a Brain)
• Hunger Fill: 15
• Thirst Fill: 20
• Will cause sickness and vomiting

Putting any human body parts such as a Skull or Brain into the soup pot will turn it into Toxic Soup. It's really a bad idea to eat this stuff.

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We've reached the end of our Abiotic Factor Cooking and Food Guide. Don't forget to take a look at our other guides below!