Developer Spry Fox’s roguelike puzzler Road Not Taken is all about figuring things out as you go. It’s like life, really — you start out knowing nothing and learn from experience, failure, and experimentation. This is especially true of its recipes, in which you combine two or more objects to create something new.

Like the rest of it, you’re supposed to learn all of this from trying it out, because life does not come with a strategy guide.

Luckily, however, video games can, so here’s a handy catalog of every recipe in Road Not Taken. Click on an individual item below (or in the guide itself) to go to its page and see what it does, how to make it, and how you can use it to get other cool stuff. You can reference by image or search for the name of the thing you’re looking for.

Animals

BearAngry BeeBerry BearBoarCrowDaemon BunnaeEvil RaccoonFoxGiant BearHawkLeshyMoleImpOwlPigPlacid RaccoonRock ChewerScared BeeWolfYeti

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 BearBeeBerry Bear • BoarCrowDaemon BunnaeEvil RaccoonFoxGiant BearHawkLeshyMole • Night Imp • OwlPigPlacid RaccoonRock Eater • Scared BeeWolfYeti

Food

Apple Family Dinner Fearsome Stew Honey Mole Stew Owlhead Pickles Poison Frog Pork Roast Raccoon Stew Royal Jelly Toadstool Yeti Stew

AppleFamily DinnerFearsome StewJar of HoneyMole StewOwlhead PicklesPoison Toad • Pork RoastRaccoon StewRoyal Honey • ToadstoolYeti Stew

House Items

Large Pot  Playful Cat Pot of Spare StaffsLarge ShardsSmall Shards Sleepy Cat Small Pot  Stool

Large Pot • Playful CatPot of Spare Staffs • Shattered Large Pot • Sleeping CatSmall PotShattered Small Pot • Stool

Lost Items

Backpack Doll Shoe

BackpackDollShoe

People

Child Parent Precocious Child

ChildParentPrecocious Child

Plant Life

Dead Tree Hedge Oak Tree Pine Tree Shrub Stone Seed Thorn Bush Thorn Tree

Dead TreeHedgeOak • Pine • Shrubbery • Stone SeedThorn BushThorn Tree

Potions

Potion of Duplication Potion of Fear Potion of Following Potion of Grip Potion of Movement Potion of Stun

Potion of Duplication • Potion of Fear • Potion of Following • Potion of Grip • Potion of Movement • Stun Potion

Spirits

Angry Spirit Doom SpiritFlame Spirit Ghost Girl Light Spirit Very Angry Spirit Willowisp

Stony Things

Ancient Mortar Bear Statue Forest Shrine GraveHeavy Rock Jumpstone Locked Wall Lodestone Vase of Ashes

Ancient MortarBear StatueForest ShrineGraveHeavy Rock • JumpstoneLocked WallLodestoneVase of Ashes

Tools

Axe Beehive BoneFire Ice Skeleton Key Skull Spear Wood

Ax • BeehiveBone • FireIceSkeleton KeySkull • SpearWood

Tradables

Berry Copper Rabbit

BerryCopperRabbit

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Angry BeeBee

What it does: Bees make honey. And they also make bee stings. This game isn’t so cruel that the pesky insects disembowel themselves after stinging anything once, but it is cruel enough that they can sting you as many times as they want while leaving their guts intact. It’s a strange world.

How to make it:

I’m not sure how this works, but a Lodestone plus a Forest Shrine makes a Bee. Who knows what goes on in that crazy stone bowl.

LodestoneForest Shrine

You can also just throw a Beehive. Sometimes that works, too.

Beehive

What it makes:

Pick up a Bee and toss it, and it becomes a Scared Bee. Just like any bully.

Scared Bee

Also, if you combine a Bee with a Skull, you’ll get some Royal Honey.

Angry BeeSkullRoad Not Taken EqualsRoyal Jelly

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BearBear

What it does: Bears won’t hurt you, but they might block your way. They move one space for every two steps you take. And they’re cute, so that might be distracting.

How to make it:

Only love can make a bear.

What it makes:

Three Bears merge to make one Bear Statue. It’s a fitting tribute to those we lost in its creation.

BearBearBearRoad Not Taken EqualsBear Statue

Four Bears combine to form one Giant Bear. And that makes sense, I guess. It’s like Bear Voltron.

BearBearBearBearRoad Not Taken EqualsGiant Bear

And if you can line up a full-on Teddy Bear Picnic of five, you get a Mole.

BearBearBearBearBearRoad Not Taken EqualsMole

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BoarBoar

What it does: Boars are jerks, and they have bad attitudes. They’ll attack you just for standing in front of them, even if you’re several squares away.

How to make it:

If you can get a Willowisp to stop stealing children away long enough to throw a Forest Shrine at it, they’ll turn into a Boar.

WillowispForest Shrine

What it makes:

Two Boars combine to make an adorable (and docile) Pig. That’s the best kind of math.

BoarBoarRoad Not Taken EqualsPig

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CrowCrow

What it does: Crows like things that aren’t theirs, and if you throw a Crow at an object, it’ll just fly off with it. They don’t even care.

How to make it:

Throw five Light Spirits together, and you’ll end up with a squawking thief and a lot more breathing room.

Light SpiritLight SpiritLight SpiritLight SpiritLight Spirit

What it makes:

A Crow and a Parent form a Family Dinner. Let the jokes about “eating crow” begin.

CrowParentRoad Not Taken EqualsFamily Dinner

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Daemon BunnaeDaemon Bunnae

What it does: It’ll mess you up, basically. It’ll hit you for 10 damage and teleport you to another room.

How to make it:

An innocent, fluffy Rabbit combines with the infernal Flame Spirit to form this affront to Nature.

RabbitFlame Spirit

What it makes:

The Daemon Bunnae will spread its evil to other fluffy Rabbits.

Daemon BunnaeRabbitRoad Not Taken EqualsDaemon Bunnae

And sometimes, it’ll eat a Fire, turn back into a Rabbit, and give you some money. Because reasons.

Daemon BunnaeFireRoad Not Taken EqualsRabbitCopper

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Evil RaccoonEvil Raccoon

What it does: It moves up and down, and it’ll hit you for one damage if you get too close.

How to make it:

Throw a Placid Raccoon more than one space. Apparently, they hate that.

Placid Raccoon

The harder way is to combine Leshy with the Forest Shrine.

LeshyForest Shrine

What it makes:

Two Evil Raccoons make a Rock Eater.

Evil RaccoonEvil RaccoonRoad Not Taken EqualsRock Chewer

Or you can just go ahead and make some stew.

Evil RaccoonFireRoad Not Taken EqualsRaccoon Stew

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FoxFox

What it does: It walks around looking all cool and saving you room. And sometimes it steals your stuff, but what can you do.

How to make it:

Here’s some tricky math: A Wolf plus a Fox equals a Fox. So apparently, Wolf equals zero.

WolfFox

But it gets more confusing: It turns out that three Wolves merge to make one Fox, so Fox also equals two times Wolf. That means that Fox also equals zero, and therefore, all Wolves are Foxes, but none of them are worth anything. Algebra.

WolfWolfWolf

Note that you can’t use Cornered Wolves for crafting. Just frightened ones.

What it makes:

Foxes make Foxes. That’s just how Nature works. And sometimes, a Fox will give up one of its purloined Coppers if you throw it.

Copper

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Giant BearGiant Bear

What it does: It walks around looking all grumpy.

How to make it:

Four regular-sized bears combine to form the Giant Bear.

BearBearBearBear

What it makes:

It makes a pretty nice rug in the basement of your Ranger’s house. Plus, it drops Jars of Honey.

Giant BearRoad Not Taken EqualsHoney

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HawkHawk

What it does: If you enter any square below a Hawk, and nothing is between you and it, it will swoop down and carry you to another room.

How to make it:

You can’t. It just is.

What it makes:

Hawks aren’t all hassle. You can merge three of them with a Flame Spirit to get a super-useful Potion of Movement.

HawkHawkHawkFlame SpiritRoad Not Taken EqualsPotion of Movement

Or you can throw one in with a Forest Shrine and make a Willowisp.

HawkForest ShrineRoad Not Taken EqualsWillowisp

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ImpNight Imp

What it does: It moves up and down the screen, one space for each move you make, and it gets in your way. All the time.

How to make it:

Why would you even want to do that? Well, you can’t.

What it makes:

But you can use a Rock or something to bump two Imps into each other and make a Poison Toad. And that’s preferable to the Imps in every way.

ImpImpRoad Not Taken EqualsPoison Frog

If you have the skills to combine three Night Imps, they turn into a Parent. Take from that what you will.

ImpImpImpRoad Not Taken EqualsParent

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LeshyLeshy

What it does: Leshy is weird. And he attacks two squares to the left or right, so he’s also mean.

How to make it:

My guess is that you’d combine a tree, a walrus, and the nightmares of lonely children. But you can’t make Leshy in the game.

What it makes:

If you take an Ax to Leshy, you can chop him down into a Rock Eater.

LeshyAxeRoad Not Taken EqualsRock Chewer

You can also throw two Leshies together and get a Toadstool.

LeshyLeshyRoad Not Taken EqualsToadstool

And if you don’t like Leshy but still feel like having something attack you, toss a Forest Shrine his way to make an Evil Raccoon.

LeshyForest ShrineRoad Not Taken EqualsEvil Raccoon

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MoleMole

What it does: Moles are handy for moving things around that you either can’t reach or can’t lift. They burrow to the other side of any object(s) you throw them at and shift everything one space toward you. So if you have a Child you can’t get to, just start chucking Moles toward it until you can reach.

How to make it:

You can make a Mole by getting five Bears together, provided you don’t accidentally make a Statue or a Giant Bear first.

BearBearBearBearBear

What it makes:

If you can get two Moles into a Fire, you’ll make some tasty Mole Stew.

MoleMoleFireRoad Not Taken EqualsMole Stew

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OwlOwl

What it does: Just walks around being pretty.

How to make it:

You don’t have the skills to make an Owl.

What it makes:

You use Owls to make Owlhead Pickles. One way is to get four of the birds together.

OwlOwlOwlOwlEqualsOwlhead Pickles

Or, if you don’t have the time (or the Owls) for that, you can cast two of your wingéd buddies into a Fire.

OwlOwlFireEqualsOwlhead Pickles

It’s not all weird pickles, though; burn an Owl in the unholy blue flame of the Ancient Mortar, and you’ll get a Potion of Following.

OwlAncient MortarEqualsPotion of Following

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PigPig

What it does: It’s cute. What else does it need to do?

How to make it:

You get a Pig by tossing together two of those a-hole Boars.

BoarBoar

What it makes:

But if your tummy is rumbling louder than your heartstrings, you can also just cook a Pig into a Pork Roast.

PigFireEqualsPork Roast

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Placid RaccoonPlacid Raccoon

What it does: Nothing. Just sits there being adorable and completely nonthreatening.

How to make it: 

Impossible. If I could make Placid Raccoons, I’d just do that all the time and never save any kids.

What it makes:

If you throw a Placid Raccoon, it turns into an Evil Raccoon. And then it will cut you.

Evil Raccoon

You can also toss this little guy into a Fire and make some Raccoon Stew. You monster.

Placid RaccoonFireEqualsRaccoon Stew

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Rock EaterRock Eater

What it does: It eats things made of rock and stone. And if it can’t find any, it’ll poop out a Heavy Rock and then chow down on that. And that’s just disgusting.

How to make it:

You can throw one Evil Raccoon into another …

Evil RaccoonEvil Raccoon

…or you can chop down that weirdo Leshy with an Ax.

LeshyAxe

What it makes:

Nothing, until it eats a statue you need to open a door. And then it makes you mad.

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Scared BeeScared Bee

What it does: It runs away from you because it is so scared. Pick it up, however, and it will sting you like crazy.

How to make it:

Stand up to an angry Bee by tossing it around.

Angry Bee

What it makes:

Three Scared Bees combine to make Royal Honey.

Scared BeeScared BeeScared BeeEqualsRoyal Jelly

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WolfWolf

What it does: It takes up two squares and typically wants nothing to do with you. It will attack if you corner it, but it’s otherwise not a threat. Unless you’re a Rabbit or a Deer — then it will totally eat you. The other problem with cornering a Wolf is that it will also refuse to let you craft anything from it.

And so the Cornered Wolf shall take its revenge upon you.

How to make it:

You can’t make a Wolf. You just have to deal with the harsh reality that Wolves represent.

What it makes:

A Wolf joins with a Fox to make … a Fox. Sorry, Mr. Wolf. You don’t count for anything.

WolfFoxEqualsFox

Three Wolves also combine to make a Fox.

WolfWolfWolfEqualsFox

And if a Wolf eats another animal, it’ll poo out a Rabbit.

WolfEqualsRabbit

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YetiYeti

What it does: Yetis are no threat to you, and they have a fondness for Bears. You know, in the same way that I have a fondness for sour worms.

How to make it:

No combination of elements adds up to a Yeti.

What it makes:

If you look at this beautiful, unique creature and think, “I wonder what it tastes like,” you should work on your sense of wonder. But you can also make some Yeti Stew with a Fire if you’re so damned curious.

YetiFireEqualsYeti Stew

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AppleApple

What it does: Restores eight points of energy.

How to make it:

Apple recipes are various, and not one of them involves waiting for a tree to grow. So Road Not Taken’s universe beats our universe there. Anyway, you can combine two Flame Spirits and an Ancient Mortar…

Flame SpiritFlame SpiritAncient Mortar

…or you can throw a Thorn Tree next to a Mortar.

Thorn TreeAncient Mortar

If all you can find is a Thorn Bush, don’t worry. That’ll work just as well.

Thorn BushAncient Mortar

Finally, if you manage to open a Locked Wall with a Skeleton Key, the game will toss you an Apple just for funsies.

Locked WallSkeleton Key

What it makes:

Put two Apples together to make a Potion of Movement.

AppleAppleEqualsPotion of Movement

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Family DinnerFamily Dinner

What it does: Restores 20 points of energy.

How to make it:

Chuck a Crow into a Parent and you have a quick, affordable meal that feeds four. Or just you, really.

CrowParent

What it makes:

It makes you wonder if the developer made the pun in this item’s name intentionally.

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Fearsome StewFearsome Stew

What it does: Restores 20 points of energy.

How to make it:

Outmaneuver an Angry Spirit and toss an Ancient Mortar at it to make this hearty dish.

Angry SpiritAncient Mortar

But what if the spirit is Very Angry? Same deal, but I like to think that the resulting stew is just a little bit warmer.

Very Angry SpiritAncient Mortar

What it makes:

It makes for even better eating the next day.

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HoneyJar of Honey

What it does: Restores 10 points of energy.

How to make it:

Here’s one of the few recipes in the game that makes logical sense: Harvest your Jars of Honey from three Beehives.

BeehiveBeehiveBeehive

What it makes:

It makes a great topping for ice cream, but good luck finding any of that in the woods. And if you put three of them together, they upgrade into a Royal Honey.

HoneyHoneyHoneyEqualsRoyal Jelly

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Mole StewMole Stew

What it does: Restores 20 points of energy.

How to make it:

If you have a couple of Moles and some Fire, you’re all set.

MoleMoleFire

What it makes:

It makes a nice meal, and you get to keep the cool bowl afterward. I hope.

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Owlhead PicklesOwlhead Pickles

What it does: Restores 30 points of energy.

How to make it:

You have two options here. First, get four Owls together, and they’ll transmogrify into a jar.

OwlOwlOwlOwl

If Owls are at a premium, though, you can just toss two of them next to a Fire.

OwlOwlFire

What it makes:

It makes no sense, is what. Who pickles owls?

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Poison FrogPoison Toad

What it does: Restores 30 points of energy.

How to make it:

It’s tricky, but worth it for the 30 points. You have to combine two Imps by shoving them together with a Rock or Forest Bull.

ImpImp

What it makes:

You can’t make anything with Poison Toads, but at least they clear out some of those annoying Imps.

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Pork RoastPork Roast

What it does: Restores 20 points of energy.

How to make it:

It’s pretty straightforward: Throw a Pig onto a Fire.

PigFire

What it makes:

It makes sense. Finally.

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Raccoon StewRaccoon Stew

What it does: Restores 10 points of energy.

How to make it:

If you’re looking for something to do with a pesky Evil Raccoon, just throw it into the nearest Fire.

Evil RaccoonFire

And if you’re a joyless maniac with an allergy to innocence, you can do the same with a Placid Raccoon.

Placid RaccoonFire

What it makes:

It’ll make you happy and sad, respectively.

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Royal JellyRoyal Honey

What it does: Restores 50 points of energy.

How to make it:

If you can herd three Scared Bees together, you’ll net the game’s most powerful food item.

Scared BeeScared BeeScared Bee

Or you can toss three Jars of Honey together.

HoneyHoneyHoney

And if you want to be all mean, threaten a Bee by showing it what happened to the last person who crossed you.

Angry BeeSkull

What it makes:

It makes pretty good use of those stupid Bees.

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ToadstoolToadstool

What it does: Restores 30 points of energy.

How to make it:

If you have two Leshys giving you grief, you can get rid of them and grab yourself a nice energy boost at the same time.

LeshyLeshy

What it makes:

It makes the woods a less confusing and scary place.

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Yeti StewYeti Stew

What it does: Restores 30 points of energy.

How to make it:

Find yourself a beautiful and rare Yeti, and then burn it alive.

YetiFire

What it makes:

It’s sad. It makes tears.

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Large PotLarge Pot

What it does: It sits around in your house waiting for you to break it. Or just looking tasteful.

How to make it:

If you have a Shattered Large Pot sitting around, your cat can help you reassemble them.

Large ShardsPlayful Cat

Even if Kitty is asleep.

Large ShardsSleepy Cat

If your cat isn’t available, you can also rebuild a Large Pot from two Shattered Small Pots.

Small ShardsSmall Shards

Or you can use two Shattered Large Pots.

Large ShardsLarge Shards

What it makes:

It makes a nice statement in whatever room you put it in.

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Large ShardsShattered Large Pot

What it does: They just lie there, a silent monument to your clumsiness.

How to make it:

Throw a Large Pot at the wall. Duh.

Large Pot

What it makes:

If you have no need to store anything, but you have some guests coming over, you can start combining Shattered Large and Small Pots into Stools.

Shattered Large PotShattered Small PotEqualsStool

Or if you’d rather have your Large Pot back, ask your cat to help.

Shattered Large PotPlayful CatEqualsLarge Pot

You don’t even have to wake it up first.

Large ShardsSleepy CatEqualsLarge Pot

If you have a couple of Shattered Large Pots lying around and want to save some space, combine them into one Large Pot.

Large ShardsLarge ShardsEqualsLarge Pot

And if you need another Pot of Spare Staffs, you can make that happen, too.

Large ShardsShattered Small PotShattered Small PotEqualsPot of Spare Staffs

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Playful CatPlayful Cat

What it does: Playful Cat is always happy to see you. So happy, in fact, that you need to throw it across the room so that you can get around the house.

How to make it:

Start throwing together sets of Two Stools and a Pot for Spare Staffs to start yourself on the road to Cat Person.

StoolStoolPot of Spare Staffs

What it makes:

Your Playful Cat is a wiz with glue, so you should bring your broken Large Pots to him.

Playful CatLarge ShardsEqualsLarge Pot

Your small ones, too. He can fix everything.

Playful CatShattered Small PotEqualsSmall Pot

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Pot of Spare StaffsPot of Spare Staffs

What it does: You never know when one of your Ranger’s Staffs is going to break. So here’s where you keep the non-broken ones.

How to make it:

You have one in your bedroom already, but if you need more for whatever reason, you can combine one Shattered Large Pot with two Shattered Small Pots.

Large ShardsShattered Small PotShattered Small Pot

What it makes:

Toss this thing in with a couple of Stools, and you’ll welcome a new Playful Cat to your family.

Pot of Spare StaffsStoolStoolEqualsPlayful Cat

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Sleepy CatSleeping Cat

What it does: It’s exactly like Playful Cat, but it doesn’t get in your way. So you only need to throw it if you hate cats.

How to make it:

You don’t have to make a cat sleepy. That happens all on its own.

What it makes:

Being unconscious and having no visible limbs but a tail doesn’t slow down this kitty. It can still fix that Small Pot for you from the broken pieces.

Sleepy CatSmall ShardsEqualsSmall Pot

What is that, a Shattered Large Pot? Psssssh.

Sleepy CatLarge ShardsEqualsLarge Pot

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Small PotSmall Pot

What it does: It sits around looking nice. Much like the Large Pot, only less so.

How to make it:

A Shattered Small Pot and a resourceful Playful Cat will get you a Small Pot in no time.

Shattered Small PotPlayful Cat

A Sleeping Cat can also help.

Shattered Small PotSleepy Cat

What it makes:

It makes any corner of a room a tiny Greek vacation.

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Small ShardsShattered Small Pot

What it does: They lie there as grim reminders of the wages of violence.

How to make it:

See that Small Pot over there? Pick it up and throw it at something.

Small Pot

Sometimes, you also get these if you break a Large Pot.

Large Pot

What it makes:

You can reverse that senseless destruction if you have a Cat handy. No, really.

Small ShardsPlayful CatEqualsSmall Pot

Don’t even bother waking it up. Just chuck the shards over there near it.

Small ShardsSleepy CatEqualsSmall Pot

Hey, don’t even worry about the Cat. Just throw two Shattered Small Pots together and watch how much better off you are.

Small ShardsSmall ShardsEqualsLarge Pot

But who needs pots, anyway? Mix a Shattered Small Pot with its larger counterpart, and then take a load off on your new Stool.

Small ShardsLarge ShardsEqualsStool

Or you can combine two of them with one Shattered Large Pot to make a Pot for Spare Staffs.

Small ShardsSmall ShardsLarge ShardsEqualsPot of Spare Staffs

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StoolStool

What it does: It makes sitting easier and immature people giggle.

How to make it:

Obviously, the easiest way to make a wooden stool is to throw two piles of shattered earthenware together. Like, say, some Shattered Small and Large Pots.

Small ShardsLarge Shards

What it makes:

Placing two Stools next to each other creates a telekinetic net capable of gathering enough psychic energy to summon a Ghost Girl. Well, you tell me how that works..

StoolStoolEqualsGhost Girl

If you don’t want a Ghost Girl, however, add a Pot for Spare Staffs to this recipe, and you’ll get an adorable Playful Cat to snuggle.

StoolStoolPot of Spare StaffsEqualsPlayful Cat

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BackpackBackpack

What it does: Sits around bumming you out.

How to make it:

Sorrow and loss made it. You need not do anything.

What it makes:

Summon the Ghost Girl with the Backpack, two Light Spirits, and two Flame Spirits.

BackpackLight SpiritLight SpiritFlame SpiritFlame SpiritEqualsGhost Girl

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DollDoll

What it does: Ruins your happy day.

How to make it:

Build a castle made of youth and innocence in your mind. And then crush it to dust.

What it makes:

You can conjure a Ghost Girl with the Doll and a few other ingredients.

DollLight SpiritLight SpiritFlame SpiritFlame SpiritEqualsGhost Girl

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ShoeShoe

What it does: Cures your good mood.

How to make it:

You wouldn’t want to make a poor, doomed child’s lost shoe. Really.

What it makes:

The Ghost Girl appears when you throw the Shoe in with some Spirits.

ShoeLight SpiritLight SpiritFlame SpiritFlame SpiritEqualsGhost Girl

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ChildChild

What it does: Children are why you’re going out into the woods in the first place. They’re lost, scared, and they need your help.

How to make it:

When a man and a woman love each other…

What it makes:

If you sit a Child down by a Fire, they get super smart and precocious. And then they’ll follow you out of the woods without you having to toss them everywhere.

ChildFireEqualsPrecocious Child

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ParentParent

What it does: You save Children by delivering them to a Parent (or the other way around). Otherwise, they just stand around and grieve impotently.

How to make it:

Start with a Child and then wait. Or if you don’t have that kind of time, get three Night Imps into a huddle.

Night ImpNight ImpNight Imp

What it makes:

Toss a Parent in with a Crow and score a Family Dinner which will give you a 20-point energy boost.

ParentCrowEqualsFamily Dinner

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