Tiny Eden Recipes Guide — Cookbook, Ingredients & Money (1.0)

Quick Answer

The full game officially promises at least 40 recipes unlocked through reputation. The current reference below connects the released game's cookbook, ingredients, reputation, café orders, and selling routes. Historical demo evidence remains labelled where a value has not been checked in 1.0, and Update #11 changed at least one recipe path, so rows marked "needs 1.0 recheck" should not be treated as final current-build data.

Recipe Reference

What Is Officially Confirmed

• The full game has at least 40 recipes.
• Recipes unlock as reputation grows.
• Some ingredient slots are fixed while others can vary.
• The developer FAQ says there is no free-form custom recipe system.
• Version 1.0 is built around selling cooked dishes; older demo economy behavior may differ.

Verification Rule

Every future row should state the build, ingredients, unlock context, sale value, and check date. Demo values stay labelled as demo values after launch instead of silently becoming full-release facts.

Update #11 is the current warning line for this page: if a dish uses intermediate ingredients or Simple Healthy Mix, confirm the cookbook on the current build before following older demo counts.

How Recipe Progression Works

Cooking connects harvested plants to money and reputation. The official FAQ says reputation unlocks recipes, so seeing a dish name elsewhere does not mean it is immediately available in a new save. Demo footage also shows recipes appearing through the shop and lab projects. Check the cookbook, current reputation progress, and shop before assuming a named dish is missing.

Ingredient access can create another gate. A recipe may be visible before the matching seed is available in the observed demo route. Garden Salad entries that mention lettuce or pepper are examples: the cookbook can show the destination before the player can buy everything needed. Continue the current orders and progression tasks rather than treating an unavailable seed as a broken recipe.

The demo and version 1.0 may use different selling rules. Demo footage shows raw strawberries selling for a small amount, while the developer FAQ says the full version is designed around selling cooked dishes. Keep raw-crop behavior labelled as demo behavior until the released economy can be checked directly.

Comparing Two Recipes

Do not rank profit from sale price alone. Record ingredient counts, whether seeds or intermediate products must be bought, cooking steps, order quantity, and the build used. A higher sale value can still be a worse choice if it consumes a scarce crop needed by another objective. During the demo, finishing the active order or reputation unlock may be more useful than maximizing one sale.

Project requirements can also make a dish more important than its sale value. If a project asks for a cooked dish, compare the dish name with Project Requirements and the current project screen before spending rare ingredients elsewhere.

Common Mistakes

• Treating the full game's 40-plus recipe count as the demo cookbook size.
• Assuming a visible cookbook entry means all seeds are available.
• Mixing sale values captured from different builds.
• Calling flexible ingredient slots a free-form custom recipe system.
• Ranking dishes without including ingredient counts and progression requirements.

FAQ

How many recipes are planned? The official FAQ says at least 40 in the full game.

Can I invent completely custom recipes? The developer FAQ says no. Some predefined recipes allow flexible ingredient choices, which is different from creating a new dish freely.

How are recipes unlocked? Reputation is an official unlock path; the demo also shows shop recipes and lab-related progression.

Can I sell raw crops? Demo footage shows limited raw sales, but the version 1.0 FAQ says cooked dishes are the intended sale product. Check the released build before planning around raw sales.

Why can I see a recipe but not find its seed? The cookbook can expose a later dish before the required seed becomes available in the current demo route.

Related Guides

• /cooking-and-money/
• /projects/
• /plants/
• /demo-guide/

Sources

• Official Tiny Eden FAQ and news: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3375110/
• Official Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3375110/Tiny_Eden/