Resident Evil 8 Village allows you to find ingredients and cook various dishes in order to get some permanent boosts. We have curated this Resident Evil 8 Village Ingredients Guide in which we have detailed where you can find all of the ingredients in the game but also how many ingredients you get from each location and how many ingredients do you need for every recipe of the game.
Ingredients Guide – Resident Evil 8 Village
Our Resident Evil 8 Village Ingredients Guide details everything that you need to know about ingredients and recipes in Resident Evil Village.
Collecting Ingredients and Cooking Dishes
Resident Evil Village features cooking, and you can cook multiple dishes if you can find the right ingredients. Cooking is unlocked after a certain story progression in the game, more specifically after you meet Duke. Cooking and eating dishes give you permanent boosts. These boosts include additional health, improved stamina, and much more. Some of the ingredients in the game are tied to story progression, some can also be missed to it is vital that you collect them all when you can. In addition, you must not sell your cooking ingredients because the game only has a handful of them, and you might end up having insufficient ingredients for your recipes.
You should try to collect all of the ingredients in one playthrough because it is completely possible to create and eat all dishes in a single playthrough. Once you have eaten all dishes, you will get all of the permanent stat boosts and you will be able to carry them on to NewGame+. You only need to make and eat the dishes one time. They carry on to your NewGame+ so you do not have to find ingredients and cook dishes again if you have already cooked all of them in your previous playthrough.
Ingredients List
The table below lists all of the ingredients, their amount that you can obtain, and their exact location where you can obtain them in the game.
| Ingredient | Location | Amount Obtained |
| Fish | Complete Castle Dimitrescu and while you are heading back to the village, you will find a puddle inside a cave that has some fish in it | 3 |
| On the same path heading towards the village, look to the left side of the raised drawbridge to find yet another pond with some fish in it | 3 | |
| After obtaining the boat key, while you are going towards the Moreau’s Reservoir, look for a cave on the right side where you will find some fish | 4 | |
| After draining the water in the reservoir and completing the fight, head back to the boat and you will find a small pond with some fish in it there | 4 | |
| Finest Fish | Lower the bridge to gain access to the Ritual Site and then use the boat to go south and reach a dock. From the dock, make your way further south and you will come to a pond with some fish in it | 1 (Finest Fish)
2 (Normal Fish) |
| Poultry | Inside the Church Graveyard, pass through the Iron Insignia Key gate and make your way northeast of the church. You will find some chicken here | 2 |
| Before going into the Fallow Plot, turn right and reach the dead end of the path to find some more chicken | 2 | |
| Right next to Duke, there is a house with a red chimney where you will find some chicken. This is before you to climb to the rooftop | 3 | |
| In Moreau’s Reservoir, after you go through the pumphouse, you will find a small area on the right side with some chicken in it | 3 | |
| In East Old Town, after opening the door with the crank, you will find some chicken running around | 2 | |
| Quality Meat | While trying to gain access to Luiza’s House, you have to go through another house. Return to this house later and you find a pig in the house’s backyard | 1 |
| Meat | Return to the very first house of the village that has the red chimney to find a pig inside it. If you miss the pig inside the house, you will find it outside in the courtyard | 2 |
| Right before House Beneviento, look for a yard located south of the Gardener’s House. There is a sheep here | 2 | |
| There are two pigs running in front of the windmill that you can see while making your way to the Moreau’s Reservoir | 4 | |
| Once you have completed Moreau’s encounter and come back to the village, head to the graveyard in front of Castle Dimitresu’s gate to find some sheep | 4 | |
| Right before the entrance to Otto’s Mill, you will find a pig | 2 | |
| Juicy Game | From the main gate of Castle Dimitrescu, look to the west and you will find a blue bird sitting on a tree. Shoot the bird to bring it down | 1 |
| Bonus Ingredients | Defeat the miniboss in Otto’s Mill that wields a giant ax and you will get a decent amount of multiple ingredients | 3 (Meat)
1 (Poultry) 1 (Fish) |
All Recipes
Below we have listed all cooking recipes along with their ingredients that you can find in the game. They are unlocked right from the start when you unlock cooking, so you do not have to find them separately in the game:
| Recipes | Ingredients | Effects |
| Bird and Beast Pilaf | 4x Poultry
1x Meat |
Guarding damage is reduced permanently |
| Ciorba de Porc | 1x Fish
5x Meat 1x Quality Meat |
Guarding damage is reduces permanently |
| Herbed Fish | 3x Fish
2x Poultry |
Increases health permanently |
| Sarmale de Peste | 6x Fish
1x Finest Fish |
Increases movement speed permanently |
| Three-Flavored Mititei | 4x Fish
2x Poultry 3x Meat |
Increases health permanently |
| Tochitura de Pui | 4x Poultry
3x Meat 1x Quality Meat |
Increases health permanently |
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