Q1: Can I cook without purchasing the specialized Cooking Kit?
A1: Basic kitchen stations let you combine standard produce for minor snacks, but complex recipes like sushi and mutated stews require the Cooking Kit to initiate their preparation sequences.
Q2: What happens if I fail the cooking station minigame?
A2: Missing the target zone ruins the dish, producing Burnt Scrap. This consumable provides zero buffs and destroys the raw crops used in the recipe.
Q3: Do food buffs stack if I eat multiple dishes back-to-back?
A3: Buffs of different categories stack concurrently, such as pairing a Movement Speed buff with a Harvest Yield multiplier. Consuming two dishes with the same buff type simply resets the timer of the higher-value effect.
