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
Food
Apple • Family Dinner • Fearsome Stew • Jar of Honey • Mole Stew • Owlhead Pickles • Poison Toad • Pork Roast • Raccoon Stew • Royal Honey • Toadstool • Yeti Stew
House Items
Large Pot • Playful Cat • Pot of Spare Staffs • Shattered Large Pot • Sleeping Cat • Small Pot • Shattered Small Pot • Stool
Lost Items
People
Child • Parent • Precocious Child
Plant Life
Dead Tree • Hedge • Oak • Pine • Shrubbery • Stone Seed • Thorn Bush • Thorn Tree
Potions
Potion of Duplication • Potion of Fear • Potion of Following • Potion of Grip • Potion of Movement • Stun Potion
Spirits
Stony Things
Ancient Mortar • Bear Statue • Forest Shrine • Grave • Heavy Rock • Jumpstone • Locked Wall • Lodestone • Vase of Ashes
Tools
Ax • Beehive • Bone • Fire • Ice • Skeleton Key • Skull • Spear • Wood