Missing recipes: quests and station levels
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A missing dish can have three different causes: its recipe is not yet available to your character, you have not learned it, or your Cooking Station is below the required level. Check those conditions separately before spending materials on a station upgrade.
Two recipes with different gates
| Dish | Recipe availability | Cooking level |
|---|---|---|
| Bioluminescent Ivy Soup | The First Sprout and A Call From the Gardens | Lv.2 |
| Tomato Basil Soup | The First Sprout and Mending What’s Broken | Lv.3 |
Both have recipes sold at Kun’s Recipe Shop. The recipe’s price is an unlock payment; it is separate from the ingredients consumed whenever you cook the dish.
Check the dish name first
A November 11 player discussion about Chef Salad included confusion with Garden Salad. Replies disagreed about where the recipe should already be visible, and the thread did not establish a universal fix. Match the exact requested name to your learned recipes and shop list instead of treating similarly named salads as interchangeable.
A contribution request can expose a recipe you have not reached. That request does not itself unlock the food or remove the main-quest gate.
Then check the station
The Cooking Station upgrade guide gives its research rewards and costs. Upgrading solves a station-level restriction; it does not complete Mending What’s Broken or buy a missing shop recipe.
If the dish is learned and its station level is sufficient, inspect its current ingredient list and amounts. Recheck the actual recipe after a patch: Patch #2 changed several crafting costs, so an old shopping list can be wrong even when the recipe’s name stayed the same.
