Part of the Sea of Conquest Recipes Series — this is the hub:

Cooking Recipes (Galley): Every dish, S+ to C.

Distillery Recipes: Every drink and cocktail.

Ordinary Rum: The most-searched single recipe.

Rare Grilled Fish: The most misunderstood one.

Undesirable Food: The failure grade, explained.

Season Recipes: What S1 to S5 each add.

Quick Answer

Sea of Conquest has two crafting stations: the Galley (food, unlocks at flagship level 4) and the Distillery (drinks, flagship level 6). Both grade output from S+ down to C, and you sell the results in the Mess Hall for gold.

One rule explains almost every recipe in the game: grade follows quantity.

Ingredients used	Grade
1	C — the failure grade
2	B
3	A
4, or a premium combination	S / S+

Cook one ingredient alone and you get Burnt Egg, Slimy Ice Cream, Rare-grilled Fish or Undesirable Food. Cook four and you get Luscious Meatballs at eight times the gold.

Reading Any Recipe by Its Name

The naming convention encodes the tier, which means you can price any dish at a glance:

Prefix	Grade
Burnt, Slimy, Tough, Rotten, Mushy, Greasy, Raw, Rare	C
Ordinary	B
Fresh, Freshly Made, Nicely, Hot	A
Yummy, Delicious, Tender, Smooth, Luscious, Crispy, Appetizing	S
Divine, Heavenly, Sumptuous, Exquisite, Superb, Marvelous, Hearty, Finger Licking	S+

Note where "Rare" sits. It means undercooked, not scarce — the single most common misreading in the game.

The Two Stations

Galley — flagship level 4

Cooks food from fish, meat, eggs, milk, water, maize and berries. Dishes range from 20 gold (Burnt Egg) to 3,000 gold (Heavenly Minced Meat Taco).

Fish are colour-graded by size: Green and Blue are small, Purple is medium, Orange is large. Nearly every fish recipe specifies a colour, and substituting drops your grade.

Full table in the cooking recipes guide.

Distillery — flagship level 6

Makes drinks from six base spirits, each from a single ingredient:

Spirit	Base
Rum	Sugar Cane
Wine	Grape
Tequila	Agave
Vodka	Potato
Gin	Juniper Berry
Whisky	Barley

1× base = Ordinary (480 gold), 2× = Premium (640), 3× = Reserve (800). Mixed cocktails go up to 3,840 gold.

"Berry" in a drink recipe means Juniper Berry, not the galley's Berries. Two different ingredients, endlessly confused. Full table in the distillery recipes guide.

Where Ingredients Come From

This is the part that changes how you play, and almost nobody explains it.

Four flagship cabins produce ingredients passively:

Cabin	Produces
Water Cabin	Fresh Water
Chicken Coop	Eggs
Cattle Shed	Milk
Salvage Bay	Fish (aquatic products)

Everything else is looted, not produced — Sugar Cane, Grape, Agave, Potato, Juniper Berry, Barley, Maize, Berries, Raw Meat, Honey, Wheat, Kombu, Onion and the mixers all come from Armed Freighters, merchant ships, treasure chests and port stalls.

Two practical consequences:

If you are short of Water, Eggs, Milk or fish, the fix is a cabin upgrade — see the cabins guide.

If you are short of anything else, the fix is sailing. Your fleets have to be out looting. That is the never-idle rule from the progression guide, and crafting is one of its biggest payoffs.

One caution: attacking merchant ships raises Infamy and lowers Guild Relations. Farm freighters knowingly — the thresholds and how to clear them are in the combat mechanics guide.

What to Cook for Profit

Not all four-ingredient dishes are equal. The best returns:

Dish	Station	Ingredients	Gold
Heavenly Fried Fish Taco	Galley	1× Maize + 3× Purple fish	3,000
Heavenly Minced Meat Taco	Galley	1× Maize + 3× Raw Meat	3,000
Divine Gaucus's Kiss	Distillery	2× Sugar Cane + 2× Barley	3,840
Divine Mojito	Distillery	2× Sugar Cane + 1× Lemon + 1× Sugar	3,840
Exquisite Fish Slices	Galley	4× Orange fish	1,920
Luscious Meatballs	Galley	4× Raw Meat	1,920

Compare against the low end — Smooth Ice Cream is also four ingredients and returns 320 gold. Same craft slot, one-tenth the money. Milk, eggs and water dishes are cheap to make and cheap to sell; meat, maize and the distillery cocktails are where the gold is.

The corollary: spend your Milk and Eggs on recipes that need them, not on standalone milk and egg dishes.

Practical Rules

Never cook a single ingredient. It is always the C-tier result and always the worst return.

Don't ladder base spirits. 1× Sugar Cane as Ordinary Rum returns 480 gold; 3× as Reserve Rum returns 800 total. Save extra bases for cocktails.

Check fish colour before cooking. Purple where the recipe wants Orange costs you a tier.

Keep both queues full. Empty craft slots are lost gold, and the gold guide treats crafting as a primary income stream.

Level the Mess Hall. It is where you sell, and it gates the Captain's Quarters — a major combat room.

Every Recipe Guide

The tables

Cooking Recipes (Galley) — every dish, S+ to C
Distillery Recipes — every drink and cocktail
Season Recipes — what S1 to S5 each add

Individual recipes

Ordinary Rum — 1× Sugar Cane, 480 gold
Gin Fizz — Ordinary, Premium and Divine
Rare Grilled Fish — the most misunderstood dish
Undesirable Food — what 1× Wheat gets you

Sourcing and selling

Ingredients Guide — where every ingredient comes from
Fish Guide — colour grades and which dishes to cook
Best Gold Recipes — what to cook for profit
Mess Hall Guide — where you sell it all

FAQ

How many recipes are in Sea of Conquest?

Well over a hundred across both stations, spanning Seasons 1 to 5, with new ones added each season.

What is the best recipe in Sea of Conquest?

For gold, Divine Gaucus's Kiss and Divine Mojito at 3,840, or the Heavenly taco line at 3,000.

Why is my dish always low quality?

You are cooking single ingredients, or using the wrong fish colour. Grade follows quantity and quality of input.

Where do I get eggs, milk and water?

From the Chicken Coop, Cattle Shed and Water Cabin — flagship cabins, not map nodes.

What does "Rare" mean in a recipe name?

Undercooked. Rare-grilled Fish is the worst grilled fish, not the best.

Do I need to cook at all?

Yes. It is a primary gold source, and the Mess Hall gates the Captain's Quarters, which is a large combat multiplier.

Key Takeaways

Grade follows quantity: 1 = C, 2 = B, 3 = A, 4 = S/S+.
The name prefix tells you the tier. "Rare" means undercooked.
Four cabins make Water, Eggs, Milk and fish — everything else is looted.
Meat, maize and distillery cocktails are where the gold is; milk and egg dishes are not.
Never cook one ingredient alone, and never ladder base spirits to Reserve.

Sea of Conquest Recipes: Every Galley and Distillery Recipe