Food in Beast of Reincarnation is actually two separate systems bound by a single purpose. Field food keeps Emma and Koo’s hunger meters filled so they can passively recover HP outside combat, while the meals prepared by Kagura provide stat improvements before your next journey.
Farming inside the Cleanse Walker supplies many of the ingredients for those meals, so ignoring it will eventually catch up with you.
Quick Summary
- Emma and Koo regenerate HP passively outside combat while their hunger meters are not empty.
- Kagura researches recipes for new meals and farming guides that improve crop yields.
- Plant seeds in the Grow Chamber and use fertilized eggs to raise chickens in the Incubator.
- Upgrade the Cleanse Walker’s farming facilities with Facility Modules to unlock more production slots.
How hunger works in Beast of Reincarnation
In Beast of Reincarnation, Emma and Koo each have their own separate hunger meter. As long as the relevant meter contains food, that character gradually recovers HP while outside combat. An empty meter removes this passive regeneration entirely, leaving you far more dependent on Stimpacks, emergency medicine, and camps after taking damage. And you will be taking damage.
You can feed Emma and Koo through the pack menu or while resting at a camp. Field Rations, grilled meat, grilled fish, Hard Candy, and Koo’s food all restore hunger, depending on who can actually consume the item. Keeping both meters filled is particularly useful during long exploration stretches with several fights between camps.
One important thing to remember: cooking ingredients should not be used as field food. Rice, fish, vegetables, eggs, water, and similar materials are primarily used by Kagura to prepare meals at the Cleanse Walker, rather than being eaten directly from the Battle Pack.
How Kagura researches recipes and farming guides
Cooking becomes available after Kagura joins the Cleanse Walker. Recipe manuals can be found while exploring or purchased from merchants, then handed to Kagura through the Cooking Research menu. Research takes time to finish, but the completed recipe stays available for all future meals.
Kagura can also complete Grow Research using farming guides discovered during exploration. These guides increase the yield from the corresponding crops, making each Grow Chamber slot more productive. Both Recipe and Grow Research continue while Emma and Koo are away from the Walker, so always assign another project before leaving. There’s no reason for Kagura to sit idle while you’re out fighting Malefacts.
How prepared food and first-time bonuses work
Prepared food is selected when resting inside the Cleanse Walker. Kagura can make any researched recipe for which you have the required ingredients, and Emma receives the meal’s stat increase after the group eats and rests.
Here’s the detail that actually matters: eating a recipe for the first time gives a larger bonus than preparing that same meal again. Researching different recipes and eating each one at least once is therefore considerably more valuable than falling back on a single easy meal every time, particularly once you have enough ingredients to complete several new dishes.
How farming works in Beast of Reincarnation
Seeds and seedlings go into the Grow Chamber, where they produce vegetables, fruit, rice, and other cooking ingredients over time. New seed types can be found around the world or purchased from merchants, and different crops feed into different Kagura recipes.
Fertilized eggs go into the Incubator instead, where they eventually hatch into chickens, which then provide regular eggs for cooking. Eggs appear in several prepared meals, so keeping the Incubator running reduces the need to hunt down individual ingredients mid-exploration.
Production continues while you complete quests, explore regions, and fight enemies. Collect the finished ingredients whenever you return to the Cleanse Walker, then immediately plant new seeds or start another egg cycle before heading back out, or leave it all to Kagura to automate. The Walker should never be growing nothing.
How to unlock more farming slots
The Grow Chamber and Incubator both start with limited space. Facility Modules found while exploring can be used to upgrade these Cleanse Walker facilities, increasing how many crops or chickens you can maintain at once.
Upgrade both facilities if you regularly use Kagura’s meals, but prioritize the Grow Chamber early. Recipes require a much wider range of crops than animal products, and more slots let you grow several ingredient types simultaneously instead of swapping one seed out every time a new recipe shows up.
FAQs
Does hunger restore HP in Beast of Reincarnation?
A non-empty hunger meter lets Emma and Koo regenerate HP passively outside combat. The regeneration stops when the meter runs empty.
How do you unlock more farming slots?
Use Facility Modules to upgrade the Grow Chamber and Incubator inside the Cleanse Walker. Higher facility levels provide more room for crops and chickens.
What do first-time meal bonuses do?
The first serving of each prepared recipe gives a large stat improvement. Repeat servings also increase those stats, but by much less.
