Recipe list should show the function of the individual recipes

[Wintermancer]

I think it would be helpful if the recipe cookbook would show the function of each of the recipes beside the entry.  This would save from having to keep my own written list, especially when I've used up all of a certain type and don't have examples to decide what to make more of.

[Hiro]

To save space I think it should show you the effect of recipies when you hover over them.

I support.

[Xaith]

I support this idea (with mouse-over).
I missed this when I was in boss fights and didn't know which recipe has which effect.

[Passive Fist]

It's not my way to write a /signed post, but that's basically what this is. Having a tooltip pop out when you mouse over any item in your cookbook would be awesomesauce.

[Sirensongstress]

I also have thought this would be a great addition to the game's menu system; would also like a description of what the marks are for the songs, foods/ingredients, pets, and treasures are.  For a long time I didn't know what the treasure menu was supposed to be for.  Would also love to see the list of foods in the recipe book in a certain order, like their function, or their type (loaf, cake, soup, roll, etc.).  Also being able to rearrange the item list would be awesome (for the food list anyway, the others don't really need it).

I've also wondered about editing the map system so that the maps were color coded completely instead of just the jewel markers.... since some areas have more than one map.  Also, the names of the places would help as well.   Being able to choose where you want to go when you ride an Ancient Turtle would be a great addition, too .  Sometimes I want to go to a certain place, and I just keep riding them until I get there, but since my computer is a bit older, sometimes that takes a couple of minutes.

Happy playing

[wwarnick]

Agreed.  I hardly ever cooked because I didn't know what anything did and I didn't want to risk wasting my ingredients on something I don't need.  Fortunately I was able to play most of the game without cooking.  More of a challenge.

I think the world map can be improved by allowing the player to toggle which depth he is looking at.  Often I would want to look at a particular map, but it would be all but overwhelmed by another map of another depth on top of it.

Despite any complaints I might have, this was one of the most memorable games I've played in a long time.

wwarnick

[smjjames]

I think Alec said he was going to try and put it in the next patch, but anyways, he definetly knows about this and also thinks it's a cool idea.

Anyways, I completely agree here, it would make finding what you want/need easier.

[Danger Mouse]

Definitely a much needed update.

I support this too, definitely would end some frustration.

[EmperorNick]

Pretty cool idea (with mouseover). Support'd! (Perhaps as a mod?)

[megablake]

I don't really think it's needed to show the effects of food with a mousehover, I mean you could still browse your food menu and look up effects while recipes were open.  But I would really have liked some way to click on recipes make them auto cook, or place the ingredients (if you have them) into the cooking circles.  Also nice would be some way to organize foodstuffs.

[Glamador]

Well, you can't really have auto-cook recipes b/c there are ALOT of them that just say "any oil" or "any meat" or something like that.  I suppose it would have been nice to have to just click on ingredients to place them in the circles though, instead of dragging them.

[Ratatat]

I'd like an option where you could select the quantity of the food you want to cook, instead of making the same food one by one.

[Alphasoldier]

Or how about just clicking the recipes, opening up a tab, see how many ingredients you need for it and click the create button, so that is made with the ingredients you have, also have to choose what ingredient you use as oil or veggie or something. But I think most of that is still not worked on, so put up a pretty face for Alec to see if he will make that. xD

[Glamador]

These suggestions are born of pure laziness and I don't think that the devs put too much thought into how much people would dislike having to drag ingredients...I mean really, that's quite a bit of extra coding to implement some of the stuff you people are suggesting, not to mention some UI changes if you're going to add quantities and such...that's a big hassle.  The most I think we can hope for in regards to "more efficient cooking" would be something in Aquaria 2.

[Alec]

Actually Derek suggested adding food descriptions in the recipe menu and an auto cook feature. We were also talking about a food sort button.

In the end, all of that would have taken too much time, but I was also against the auto-cook feature on the principle that it seemed to make cooking to automated and thoughtless. It also would be a complicated thing to implement. (would it let you cook a crappy recipe with a really powerful ingredient? etc)

I think recipe descriptions in the recipe menu are something I'd add in a patch.

Food sorting in the main food menu may also be possible.

I still don't like the idea of an auto-cook feature.