Just Where Do Those Recipes Come From, Anyway?

Some of the recipes that you will find on this site have been found by player experimentation. Other recipes have in-game sources (books, NPC text, etc.) Below is a listing of known in-game sources of recipes.

• Alchemy - the "old" alchemy recipes were found in the various letters of Jonas sold by alchemy merchants. After alchemy was given a complete overhaul, new recipes were found by experimentation.
• Baking - there are currently 13 cookbooks and one"Delivered Note (containing the recipe for winter chocolate) sold by various merchants throughout the lands. There are several inaccuracies in the books, and a large portion of the currently known recipes have been found by experimentation. Recently (May/June 2001), recipes have begun appearing in town newspapers, the content of which is subject to change with every patch.
• Brewing - Basic recipes are sold in the Brewers Limericks book. The Nature's Beverages text contains recipes for converting foraged items into various nonalcoholic drinks. Pages from Brodder's Diary contain more recently-added recipes, though not all of them have been successfully created at this time. All these recipes are merchant-sold. A few recipes, such as othmir algae ale, have been found via experimentation.
• Fishing - Recipes using the tacklebox (fishing lures as well as a few fish recipes) were found via experimentation as well as via hints dropped at Fan Festivals.
• Fletching - basic information is found via the merchant-sold Bowyer's Guide and On Fletching texts.
• Jewelcraft - One basic text on jewelcraft exists in-game. It does not contain information on imbued (deity-specific) jewelry.
• Make Poison - Many books exist in-game (sold by merchants) dealing with the creation various regional poisons. Many of these texts are written in languages other than Common.
• Pottery - Most recipes are contained in the merchant-sold in the Basic Pottery book. Information on the making of deity-specific idols can be found in the Art of Idol Sculpting. The three known small deity recipes were found via experimentation.
• Smithing - Many recipes are merchant-sold. The Basic Blacksmithing book contains many of the basics such as files, studs, boning, containers, banded armor, etc. Other merchant-sold texts include the Armor and Weapons Guide, Dirge of the Fireforge, Of Pike and Mancatcher (iksar weaponry), Firepride's Guide to Shieldcraft, and Rings, Chains and Arrowheads. Various NPCs in different towns explain about various racial armors and weapons, and such information is listed in the listing of smithing merchants found on this site. Forged velium weapons were discovered via experimentation and no companion text has been found. An additional text, How to Dye and Stain contains information on creating the dyes for fine steel plate armor.
• Tailoring - Again, many recipes are merchant-sold. The How to Sew texts are mainly used to clarify the different pelts needed for the 3 sizes of patchwork armor. The Tailoring book contains recipes for patchwork, studded and reinforced armors plus backpacks. On Terrorantula Silk contains recipes for Erudite cultural tailoring ("Steelsilk"). Leathers of the Vale contains recipes for Halfling cultural tailoring, while Mithril Leathers of the Fier'Dal contains recipes for wood elf cultural tailoring. On Quivers, unsurprisingly, contains quiver recipes. An orc chief in Lesser Faydark drops the Chronicles of Wu, containing th recipes for raw silk and cured silk armor, as well as Wu's fighting gauntlets and the tailor-made whip. Master Wu's Tailoring Techniques contains the recipes for the rest of the Wu's fighting armor. For the Velious tailors, there are three additional texts: Fine Furs contains the recipes for holgresh, othmir and velium hound fur armors; Velium Leatherworking contains the recipes for tigeraptor, black panther, haze panther, arctic wyvern and cobalt drake armors; and, Frostweavers Silken Garments contains recipes for crystalline silk and ice burrower silk armors.
• Quests - Liber Brassica Felix translations used to decipher the Protection of the Cabbage quest
• Other - Many text translations can be found in the Library of Arcane Knowledge (new link)

PoP Recipe Sources

• mephit meat sandwich recipe - Tranus Ironstove (-109, 247) [hail]
• tormentor stir fry recipe - Culkin Ironstove (-104, 271) [hail]
• reruga crab recipe - Savet Ironstove (-103, 293) [hail]
• Ceramics of the Planes (book) - Dalin Greskar (-35, 325) [hail]
• Legendary Plate Mail Armors (book) - Magnar Quok (45, 327) [hail]
• Tempers and Curing Agents of the Planes (book) - Sirekoth Eshe (103, 280) [hail]
• vegetable oil recipe - Bargol Halith (85, 233) [hail]
• justice fruit pie recipe - Perago Crotal (21, 248) [hail]
• mephit meat pie recipe, phoenix dough recipe - Vuli Ironstove (-20, 249) [hail]
• Zlizor's Exotic Delicacies (book) - Klen Ironstove (-86, 238) [sold]
• Magnificent Glazes of the Planes (book) - Gligo Muddypants (385, 868) [hail]
• Legendary Studded Leathers (book) - Tratlan Matrick (124, 1461) [hail]
• Planar Textiles (book)- Sherin Matrick (85, 1477) [hail]
• slarghilug stuffed poppers recipe - Darius Gandril (52, 1530) [hail]
• Legendary Chain Mail Armors (book) - Halena Paerk (72, 1374)
• recipes for vann toes, jord meat, boar meat - Peras Glickon (-59, 1530) [hail]
• quest that mentions preparing cichlid from Nightmare and discus from Valor - Ramos Jerwan (-21, 1433) [hail]
• Bows of the Planes (book) - Ellis Cloudchaser (-132, 1457) [hail]
• Collapsible Container Study I, Collapsible Container Study II - on top of dresser at -400, 541
• Collapsible Container Study III - under bed at -394, 558
• planar blood brew recipes - Zauvudd Gigoth [hail, after obtaining quested Planar Traveler's Manual]
• recipe for preparing nightmare cichlid and valorian discus, as well as quest for a summonable fishing pole - Ramos Jerwan (-21, 1433)
• recipe for wok given as a quest result - Trep Thilcan (loc and quest writeup to follow)
• Borik Darkanvil (-370, 497): hints at special smithing recipes, but does not provide details

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