How to get any item
Stuck on "where does this come from?" This page is the reverse index: find the item, see every source. It's organized by what you're looking for.
Sources are derived from the live recipe and collection data (kitchen_recipes, perk_collections).
Ingredients (the five families)
Each family has two ingredients, in Standard / Rare / Mythical.
| Family | Ingredients | Where the Standard comes from | Rare / Mythical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet | Stellar Honey · Astral Apple | Harvest a Sweet cultivator · Seed Pack · mailbox · Journey drop | Refine 8 Standard → 1 Rare, then Crystallise 6 Rare → 1 Mythical |
| Vegetal | Harmonic Herbs · Lunar Lettuce | Harvest a Vegetal cultivator · Seed Pack · mailbox · Journey drop | same ladder |
| Earth | Void Truffle · Echo Spores | Harvest an Earth cultivator · Seed Pack · mailbox · Journey drop | same ladder |
| Protein | Pulse Eggs · Photon Fish | Harvest a Protein cultivator · Seed Pack · mailbox · Journey drop | same ladder |
| Crystal | Resonant Crystals · Quantum Salt | Harvest a Crystal cultivator · Seed Pack · mailbox · Journey drop | same ladder |
Key rule: cultivators harvest Standard by default (output rarity is set by committed avatars, not seeds). To get Rare/Mythical, you refine up — see Cook Chains. Seed Packs can roll higher tiers directly (see Packs).
Ingredient Ascend — turn a surplus into the ingredient you need
Ingredient Ascend is a rarity-matched blend: pour a basket of materials you're long on and mint the ingredient you're short on, at the same rarity. It's an Any → Any picker — choose the output ingredient and the target rarity, then fill a basket (each material scored by its rarity). A running "score → N output" readout and a Max fill show exactly how many you'll get before you confirm. Live burn ratios:
| Rarity | Burns | Makes |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 10 Standard Blooms | 1 Standard ingredient |
| Rare | 10 Rare | 1 Rare ingredient |
| Mythical | 5 Mythical | 1 Mythical ingredient |
It's batchable (a Rare ×50 reads 500 → 50), and a rarity-seed floor applies — you can't reach a rarity you hold no seed of ("add at least one Rare+ Bloom to reach Rare").
Two extensions are on the way, not live for everyone yet: a cross-family exchange (spend a surplus in one of the five base food families to make another) and a Junk → Essence sink for odds-and-ends. Today's Ascend stays within a family at the ratios above.
Forge materials
The refined materials families (metal · stone · crystal · rune → Ingot · Plating · Ore · Slag · Gem · Shard · Rune · Spark).
| Want | Get it from |
|---|---|
| Standard materials | Material Pack (Standard) · Journey mineral drops · the Welcome gift |
| Rare / Mythical materials | Refine / Crystallise the Standard up the ladder · Material Pack (Rare/Mythic) · Journey (deeper chapters) |
Baskets — blend a raw family into its base material
The old pile of one-for-one rarity converters is gone, folded into a single Baskets bench on each craft card. Open it and you get a tabbed modal — one tab per that craft's basket recipe — and each blend works the same way: pour a basket → pick the target rarity → batch out. Every material you add is worth points by its rarity, and the output is priced by the rarity you chose.
The key trick: a family blend eats the whole raw family. A Thread blend, for instance, accepts any vegetal — Harmonic Herbs, Lunar Lettuce, a world's vegetals — each counted at its own rarity, and new worlds' materials auto-join their family as they ship, so you never chase a specific converter. That drives the base-craft chains:
| Craft | Chain (raw family → base material) | Basket button reads |
|---|---|---|
| Tailoring | raw vegetal family → Thread → Cloth | Cloth |
| Bonecrafting | raw protein family → Chitin → Carapace | Chitin |
| Armorer | ores → base Ingots (the Ore Blend) | (its output) |
| Scribing | Gem / Rune Refine blends | (its output) |
Note the buttons are labelled by what they make (Tailoring's says "Cloth", Bonecrafting's says "Chitin"), not the generic word "Baskets." A basket you haven't unlocked stays visible as a self-explaining lock tab, so you can always see what's next and what opens it.
Each Journey world drops its own gear materials — an Ore line (mineral) and a Bloom line (organic), in Standard / Rare / Mythical — that forge into that world's gear line.
| Want | Get it from |
|---|---|
| A world's Standard / Rare material (e.g. Galestone, Storm Seed, Coral Ore, Irregular Bubble) | Clear or Repeat that world's Journey nodes — Standard is common on every node, the Rare Bloom (the marquee drop) is uncommon on any node |
| A world's Mythical material (e.g. Tempest Core, Skybloom, Abyssal Pearl, Deepbloom) | The world's Boss (node 16) — richest by Repeating a 3-starred capstone |
Every world's materials in one place — the single master table across all worlds/seasons — plus the forge chain are on World Loot & Materials.
Recipe books & world Pages
Cooking a specific world's gear, materials, or the Transcribe recipe opens with that world's chapter book. Books aren't bought, traded, or dropped — you cook them from Pages:
| Want | Get it from |
|---|---|
| A world's Pages (e.g. Volcanic Pages) | Play that world — Pages are a fungible drop; collect 25 to assemble one chapter book |
| A chapter book (e.g. The Scribe's Primer, or a world's Armorer / Bonecrafter / Weaver / Ascendancy block) | Cook it from 25 matching world Pages (a book cook can't fail), or buy it for 15 Chits at the Hollow Merchant |
The base (world-less) recipes stay free forever — a book only widens you into a world, and anyone already cooking a world's recipes keeps them. See The Scribe for the book (The Scribe's Primer) that unlocks Transcribe.
Equipment (kitchen gear)
| Want | Get it from |
|---|---|
| A piece for a specific slot | The single-piece Mystery equipment pack for that slot (Primary · Secondary · Vest · Cap · Gloves · Tool), 13,000 RSNC — rolls 70/25/5 |
| A higher-tier piece | Reforge via Cook to level an existing piece · pull a higher rarity from a pack · the mailbox |
See Packs — Equipment and Kitchen Equipment.
Avatars
| Want | Get it from |
|---|---|
| A new Avatar (random class) | The Forge Avatar button on your Roster (instant) — 25 Avatar Essence (or 7,500 RSNC) |
| A new Avatar of a chosen class | The premium Forge — 3 same-class Aspect tokens + 150 Essence |
| Aspect tokens | Journey drops (higher on Elite/Boss/Swarm nodes) |
See Forging Avatars.
Avatar Essence
The fuel for forging, Essence upgrades, Glyph cooks, and Ascension.
| Source | Notes |
|---|---|
| Journey | First-clears, chapter/sprint completions, repeat runs |
| Cultivator gear-part drops | Cultivators roll Forge gear parts that convert to Essence |
| Essence-synthesis cooks | Turn spare gear/ingredients into Essence |
| Discord loot drops | A chance per qualifying message (weekly-capped) |
| Starter grant | A lump sum when you begin |
See Essence.
Cultivators
| Want | Get it from |
|---|---|
| A cultivator (any family) | Onboarding gifts (Welcome / Apprentice / Novice / Adept) · Starter packs · the mailbox · a random Mythical cultivator from the Spectrum Soup dish |
| A Rare / Mythical food cultivator (cook one) | Cook that food family's cultivator recipe — the Rare at Kitchen L14 (+ 2× that family's rare ingredients), the Mythical at Kitchen L20 (+ 2× mythical). Every one of the five families has both now. |
| The Sonentius event cultivators | Cook Assemble: Sonentite Mine or Assemble: Resonance Foundry (Kitchen L8) — see SkyScape |
Cultivators do not come from Seed Packs (those are ingredient seeds).
Snacks (buff dishes)
Cook them yourself — all twelve are Kitchen Level 70, flash-rotation recipes. See the full roster with ingredients and effects in Recipes & Cooking.
Event goods (Sonentius / SkyScape)
All Sonentius materials — ore, ingots, Cultivated Aetherspore, Fragments, and the two Legendary tools — are earned only (never on the marketplace) and come from the event's Journey world, cultivators, and cooks. The full source-by-source breakdown is on the SkyScape guide.
Quick "where do I get it?" cheat sheet
- Rare/Mythical of any ingredient → refine the Standard up (Cook Chains)
- More of one ingredient family fast → a Seed Pack, or a cultivator of that family
- Forge materials → Material Packs or Journey mineral drops
- A specific gear slot → that slot's Mystery equipment pack
- A new Avatar → the instant Forge Avatar button on your Roster (Essence or RSNC)
- Avatar Essence → the Journey, cultivator gear drops, synthesis cooks
- A cultivator → onboarding gifts, Starter packs, the mailbox
See also
- Cook Chains — the ingredient-flow diagrams
- Packs — what each pack contains
- Cultivators · Recipes & Cooking