Recipe Books

In Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, many of the items the player can either craft or prepare at Johannes's laboratory in Arvantville will not be visible or selectable until the corresponding Recipe Books are acquired in specific chests. See Alchemy Notes for a master list of item crafts that are unlocked as each book is collected.

List of Recipe Books

Recipe	Description	Recipes unlocked	Location
Fine Healing Item/R	A recipe for a fine healing item.	High Potion High Ether	Entrance In a chest that lies in plain sight in the 2×2 room, just in front of a Save Room off the room's upper right. The lower-left doorway connects to a Warp Room, and the upper-left doorway connects to the boss battle hall with Zangetsu.
Ultimate Healing Item/R	A recipe for the ultimate healing item.	Ex Potion Ex Ether Unicorn Ring	Hall of Termination In a chest in the southeast 2×2 room, just above the southeast Save Room in the zone.
Faerie Healing Item/R	A recipe for a faerie healing item.	Faerie Medicine Faerie Elixir Faerie Allheal Faerie Panacea	Garden of Silence In a chest in the top-right corner of the 3×2 outdoor room with the piano. Reaching it without the help of any of the later movement-enhancing shards requires jumping across the tops of the stone archways from the upper-left doorway to the upper-right corner without dropping, which requires some tricky pinpoint jumping.
Elemental Ammunition/R	A recipe for ammunition imbued with elemental magic.	Flame Rounds ×9 Ice Rounds ×9 Thunder Rounds ×9	Forbidden Underground Waterway In a chest in a 1×3 cave left of the 1×5 cave at the upper-right part of the Waterway area, shortly after dropping into the area from the Garden of Silence. Requires Double Jump to reach.
Special Ammunition/R	A recipe for ammunition imbued with special effects.	Weaponbane Rounds ×9 Shieldbane Rounds ×9 Poison Rounds ×9 Petrifying Rounds ×9 Curse Rounds ×9	Towers of Twin Dragons Found in a chest at the top of the left tower, a short ways right from the Warp Room. You unavoidably pass by this chest on your way to the eastern tower and its eventual boss fight.
Potent Ammunition/R	A recipe for potent ammunition.	Scattershot ×9 Critical Rounds ×9	Hidden Desert In a chest in a cave room above a sandfall falling into the equally small cave-like room below, at the midpoint between the Hidden Desert's Warp Room and the south Warp Room of Forbidden Underground Waterway far to the west. Requires Invert/High Jump.
Ultimate Ammunition/R	A recipe for the ultimate ammunition. Uses diamond.	Diamond Bullets ×9	Inferno Cave In a chest in a cave above the Warp Room and Save Room, reached after winning Invert from the boss nearby.
Steel Equipment/R	A recipe for steel equipment.	Harpé Spiral Sword Stinger Honebami Partisan Tanegashima Steel Breastplate	Forbidden Underground Waterway In a chest in a 2×1 cave just northeast of the Save Room, a fair distance west from the large waterfall area.
Obsidian Equipment/R	A recipe for obsidian equipment.	Ulfberht Sword Flamberge Tsurumaru Morgenstern	Garden of Silence In a chest that lies along the bottom of the massive outdoor area, underneath the Coachman and left of the iron maiden that blocks your way to the Beast Beret chest.
Damascus Equipment/R	A recipe for Damascus equipment.	Murgleis Berdiche Gram Swordbreaker Raikiri Steam Boots Shovel Macuahuitl Toradar Duelist's Guard	Underground Sorcery Lab In a chest in a room off the upper-right corner of the 2×2 room just before the boss hallway. It might seem at first that the Reflector Ray shard awarded by the boss does not reach far enough that you can aim diagonally upward to the right from the wooden ledge to place yourself onto the open exit into the room. However, it is possible to "Double Jump" from the end point of the Reflector Ray by pressing jump the very moment Miriam reappears at the end of the beam.
Gold Equipment/R	A recipe for gold equipment.	Kaladanda Main Gauche Betelgeuse Gold Breastplate Flame Mail	Livre Ex Machina In a chest in a 2×3 room shortly above the Warp Room, guarded by a Dragon. This is the part of the zone that cannot be entered without the Reflector Ray boss shard.
Crimsonite Equipment/R	A recipe for crimsonite equipment.	Dies Irae Carnwennan Mikazuki Areadbhar Niflheim Gungnir Ancient Tiara Tatenashi	Oriental Sorcery Lab In a chest in a pair of rooms attached to the northwest corner of the 2×4 torii maze in the south half of the Oriental Sorcery Lab. In the upper part of the maze with lots of both horizontal and vertical red torii, hop through the sole upside-down gate hanging from a flat, rectangular ledge from right to left to reach the corner.
Cashmere Equipment/R	A recipe for cashmere equipment.	Coronation Gown Over the Rainbow	Den of Behemoths In a giant chest in the southwest 2×2 room, which is reached by traveling west from the Valefar boss fight.
Fine Equipment/R	A recipe for fine equipment.	Blutgang Fragarach Hofud Dáinsleif Gambanteinn Lohengrin Schedar Steel Lightning Misericorde Sanjiegun Yagrush Black Cords Snakebite Culverin Beret of Bravery Feather Crown Silver Tiara Witch's Hat Spiked Breastplate Silk Dress Majestic Plate Faerie Scarf	Hall of Termination In a chest in a 1×2 room in the exact midpoint between the zone's southeast and northwest Save Rooms on the map.
Very Fine Equipment/R	A recipe for very fine equipment.	Florenberg Almace Caladbolg Durandal Dojigiri Dragon Shoes Ayamur Beast Killer Gunslinger's Hat Hermit's Beret Demon Horns Shinobi Garb Kalasiris Fangshi Scarf Flame Scarf	Dian Cécht Cathedral In a chest at the top of the center, smaller bell tower, reachable by Double Jumping from around the upper-left exit and rebounding off the hanging purple lantern to land on the top bell that does not break off.
Legendary Equipment/R	A recipe for legendary equipment.	Ridill Blue Rose Rhava Velar Ukonvasara Eternal Blue Mandau Pasir Joyeuse Grand Izayoi Hell's Knells Gae Assail Mistilteinn Andromeda Adrasteia Pleiades	Hall of Termination In a chest at the upper-left corner of the 2×3 stairway chamber leading up to the boss encounter with Gebel at the top of this area, reached with Invert/High Jump.
Ramen/R	A recipe for ramen.	Salt Ramen Soy Ramen Tonkotsu Ramen Miso Ramen Vongole Sauce Soy Broth Tonkotsu Broth Miso Broth Salt Broth	Oriental Sorcery Lab In a chest in a room attached to the west end of the 2×4 torii maze in the south half of this area. Miriam can hop over the red torii to go through the western open doorway without needing to pass through the torii.
Curry Dish/R	A recipe for a curry dish.	Curry & Rice Pork Curry Chicken Curry Seafood Curry Curry Sauce	Forbidden Underground Waterway In a chest in a cave room off the top-left corner of the waterfall area. Double Jump is sufficient to clear the gap between the top of the waterfall to the right and the ledge to the left.
Pasta Dish/R	A recipe for a pasta dish.	Classic Spaghetti Pasta Carbonara Pasta Vongole Sea Urchin Pasta	Towers of Twin Dragons Found in a chest at the bottom of the "upper half" of the west tower. The chest for Hair Apparent VII lies shortly beyond that in the same area. Both chests can be reached by using Double Jump's kick-attack to rebound off the purple candles underneath them, although Pasta Dish/R's chest is trickier to reach using this method.
Meat Dish/R	A recipe for a meat dish.	Chicken Casserole Chicken Sauté Garlic Chicken Ginger Pork Pork Cutlet Miso Cutlet Steak Sukiyaki Meat Hot Pot	Entrance In the set of enemy-filled rooms connected to the top part of the 2×4 open room with the lone Sabnock. With Double Jump, it is possible to use the kick-attack to rebound off the Aello flying around the wide gap above. Then, a tricky similar maneuver can be used on the lone Cyhyraeth to get into the narrow ceiling gap above that, letting you reach the room with the Axe Outsider, Shield Outsider, and other collectables.
Fish Dish/R	A recipe for a fish dish.	Fried Fish Fish & Chips Forneus Meunière Forneus in Garlic Simmered Forneus Fish Hot Pot	Forbidden Underground Waterway In a chest in a 2×5 cave area in the upper-center of the Waterway, northwest of the center Save Room. Use Double Jump's kick-attack to rebound off two purple candles off to the right to reach the chest in its tight enclosure.
Sweets/R	A recipe for sweets.	Chocolate Crepe Strawberry Crepe Berry Spaghetti Shiruko Spaghetti	Towers of Twin Dragons Found in a chest somewhere in the middle of the "upper half" of the west tower. At the "four-way crossroads" a short ways west of the exit out of the "upper box" of this area on the map, it is just barely possible to reach the two trap-door platforms off to the upper left by using Double Jump's kick-attack to rebound off the lone purple candle above the dark-gray pillar flanked by trap-door platforms, then double-jumping left through the air, then kick-attacking downward to the left.
Cookies/R	A recipe for cookies.	Cookies Chocolate Cookies Cinnamon Cookies	Livre Ex Machina In a chest in a 1×3 room just left of the 2×2 bookcase room early in the lower part of this area. Push the rolling bookcase to the gap in the wall to slide into the chest's area.
Cake/R	A recipe for cake.	Chiffon Cake Cheesecake Chocolate Cake Strawberry Cake	Dian Cécht Cathedral In a chest in the lower of two 2×1 hallways connecting two bell towers, with a Cyhyraeth right on top of it. A locked door left of it requires coming to it from the right bell tower.
Drink/R	A recipe for a drink.	Lemonade Apple Juice Strawberry Au Lait Smoothie	Livre Ex Machina In a chest in a 2×2 room southwest of the top Save Room, in a room with shifting bookcase platforms and a Craftwork bookcase puzzle. It is also guarded by a Dragon.
Ultimate Dish/R	A recipe for the "ultimate dish". Allegedly more delicious than the "supreme dish".	Beef Curry Nectar	Forbidden Underground Waterway In a chest in a 2×1 cave shortly above the south Warp Room.
Supreme Dish/R	A recipe for the "supreme dish". Allegedly more delicious than the "ultimate dish".	Exquisite Steak Strawberry Pie Fruit Juice	Forbidden Underground Waterway Hidden in a destructible wall in the 1×4 cave just northwest of the Warp Room at the south-central part of the Waterway. This vertical cave is where the east end of the Inferno Cave exits out into after you defeat its boss for its Invert skill shard.