Recipes in Dragon dogma 2 rely on combining items – usually to produce other, more useful items. Fresh food becomes a healing salve, spoiled food becomes travel essentials, and the dismembered body parts of monsters become… well, a whole bunch of stuff.
But combining items Dragon dogma 2 is much less an art than a science. In this Dragon dogma 2 guide, we will show you how to combine itemsplus a list of the best recipes for combining items.
How to combine items in Dragon’s Dogma 2
To combine items in Dragon’s Dogma 2, open it articles menu, which shows you an overview of every item that every character in your party is holding, including your character, your main pawn, and any pawns you’ve hired.
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Press “X” (Xbox) or Square (PS5) and you’ll be presented with two menus. The first is more experimental (literally called ‘Experiment’), allowing you to combine any items you already have in your inventory without necessarily knowing the predetermined outcome of the combination.
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You can do that with the second menu option (“Use Recipe”) use recipes to combine items. It basically comes down to item combination from a results-oriented approach, telling you which items to combine to create a specific result.
You can also stop by an inn or the storage chest of any house you own to combine items. Choose the ‘Combine’ dialogue option when talking to an innkeeper, or interact with the chest in your house to combine items.
The advantage of storing items is that it is essentially a refrigerator, which keeps them in pristine condition. Suppose you have apples or grapes in your inventory; they will rot after a few days in the game, just like any meat or fish you buy. But keeping them in an inn or in your home will keep them from rotting so you can use them to make recipes whenever you want.
Best recipes to combine items in Dragon’s Dogma 2
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We have listed our choices for you in the table below the best recipes from item combinations in Dragon dogma 2including the name of the recipe, the effects of the item you’re making, and the ingredients you need to make it.
Best recipes in Dragon’s Dogma 2
| Item | Item effects | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Item | Item effects | Recipe |
| Salutary depth | Restores a fair amount of health when consumed | Greenwarish or Syrup Leaf + Apple or Grapes |
| Mighty Roborant | Restores a great deal of health and stamina when consumed | Cinnamon Bark + Minced Roborant or Resin Spud Roborant |
| Lantern oil | Consumed slowly while the lantern is lit | Rotten Harspud + Rotten Shorefish or Rotten Scrag or Beast |
| Wonder Roborant | Restores an amazing amount of health and stamina | Saurian Tail + a fine fruit, minced meat, roe or Harspud Roborant |
| Beautiful Roborant | Restores an amazing amount of health and stamina | Saurian Tail + a Fruit, Minced, Roe or Harspud Roborant |
| Explosive arrow | An arrow issued when the archer uses Exploding Shot or Erupting Shot | Withered Branches + Sunflower |
| Dried Spud | Use it to restore a fair amount of stamina | Aged Resin Spun + Aged Resin Spun |
| Newt Liqueur | Provides a temporary burst of strength, but also has side effects | Saurian Tail + Fruit Wine |
| Tar arrow | An arrow issued when the archer uses Tarring Shot or Incendiary Shot | Withered Branches + Lantern Oil |
| Devastating arrow | An arrow issued when the archer uses a devastating shot or a nocuous shot | Withered branches + Asp Toxiscale |
| Harspun Roborant | Consume it to restore a lot of stamina | Dried Spud + Greenwarish or Morningtide |
Please note that many items can be made from multiple item combinations. The table above lists some combinations with which you can create the intended item. With this in mind, you should be able to piece together some essential items from a large number of acquired items as you explore Dragon dogma 2.
We’ll update this list as we discover better item combination recipes in Dragon dogma 2.
For more Dragon dogma 2 explainers, see how to unlock all vocations and see all riftstone locations, check out our lists of the best augments and best portcrystal locations, or poke around our interactive Dragon dogma 2 card.