Heartopia Recipe Finder and Profit Calculator

The Heartopia recipe finder is the page you want when the bag is full and you are not sure what to cook next. The calculator above currently uses 98 recipe rows with dish level, energy, ingredients, star sale values, unlock notes, and quick use notes. Choose the recipe, adjust ingredient cost, choose the star rating and quantity, then compare the sell value, net Gold, and ROI before you sell raw items.

Last checked: May 25, 2026. The calculator uses current recipe and value references. Confirm rare or expensive batches in the live game before cooking everything.

Quick Answer

Use the calculator first when you know the recipe. For a messy bag, match the item type first:

Ingredient family	Best likely dish family	Why
Fruit	Jam, smoothie, milkshake, pie	Easiest early Gold route, then a late drink route after expansions
Mushrooms	Mushroom Stew, Mushroom Risotto, Button Mushroom Pie	Strong early profit and simple repeat checks
Fish and seafood	Fish N Chips, Grilled Fish, Fish Soup, sushi, paella, bisque	Good when catch value is better cooked and the fish is not a first copy
Vegetables	House Salad, Tomato Soup, Vegetable Soup, Garden Pizza	Good when your garden is active and crops are stacking up
Pantry items	Pancakes, Cream Puff, Cheesecake, cookies, tea drinks	Often stronger once milk, eggs, flour, cream, or tea are stocked
Rare material	Hold or test once	Gold Leaf, Phoenix Feather, Caviar, Truffle, and event inputs can be harder to replace

Calculator Logic

Calculator field	What it means	How to use it
Ingredient cost	The Gold value you assign to each required input	Use shop cost, raw sell value, or 0G for foraged extras
Star rating	The quality tier that changes the dish sale value	Compare a normal batch before assuming a starred batch is worth it
Quantity	How many dishes you plan to cook	Test one batch before cooking a whole storage stack
Sell value	The Gold the cooked dish can return at the chosen star	Compare this with raw selling and other recipe options
Net Gold	Sell value minus ingredient cost	Use this to avoid dishes that look valuable but eat expensive inputs
ROI	Return compared with the ingredient cost	Useful when two dishes both profit but one uses rarer items
Keep or sell signal	The final practical choice	Keep first copies, cook common overflow, sell only after the route is clear

Representative Recipe Rows

These examples are not the whole calculator table. They show how the finder thinks across fruit, mushroom, fish, vegetable, pantry, drink, weather, event, and rare-item routes.

Recipe	Family	Inputs	Sell value range	Best use	Caution
Apple Jam	Side Dish	3 Apple, 1 Sugar	240-432G	Fruit pantry cleanup	Best when apples are spare or foraged
Grape Jam	Side Dish	3 Grape, 1 Sugar	280-504G	Fruit value check	Good after a fruit route, weaker if sugar is tight
Mushroom Stew	Soup	4 Mushroom, 2 Potato, 1 Onion	650-1170G	Mushroom money route	Strong only when mushrooms came from a route you already ran
Mushroom Risotto	Main Dish	3 Mushroom, 2 Rice, 1 Butter	400-720G	Mushroom meal route	Compare against stew before spending butter
Fish N Chips	Main Dish	1 Any Fish, 2 Potato	230-414G	Early fish route	Use duplicate catches, not first collection fish
Fish Soup	Soup	2 Any Fish, 2 Tomato, 1 Herb	420-756G	Duplicate fish conversion	Better after you know the fish is replaceable
Salmon Sushi	Main Dish	2 Salmon, 2 Rice, 1 Seaweed	600-1080G	Seafood value route	Save first Salmon before cooking duplicates
Lobster Bisque	Soup	2 Lobster, 2 Cream, 1 Tomato, 1 Herb	800-1440G	Late seafood route	Confirm Lobster supply before repeating
House Salad	Side Dish	2 Tomato, 1 Lettuce	120-216G	Low-risk cooking test	Not a main Gold route unless crops are overflow
Garden Pizza	Main Dish	2 Flour, 2 Tomato, 2 Cheese, 1 Herb	420-756G	Crop and cheese route	Check cheese cost before batch cooking
Milkshake	Drink	2 Milk, 2 Any Fruit	350-630G	Late drink route	Better after milk and fruit are easy to replace
Original Cloud Roll	Dessert	1 Egg, 1 Milk, 2 Normal Sugar	400-720G	Duoduo weather route	Check rain or rainbow access first
Mooncake	Dessert	2 Flour, 1 Egg, 2 Lotus Paste	380-684G	Event dessert check	Hold ingredients until the event route is active
Gold Leaf Dessert	Dessert	1 Gold Leaf, 3 Chocolate, 2 Cream, 2 Strawberry	1300-2340G	Rare-item dessert	Confirm Gold Leaf use before cooking more than one
Phoenix Feast	Main Dish	1 Phoenix Feather, 3 Dragon Fruit, 2 Gold Leaf, 2 Starfruit, 1 Flame Essence	3000-5400G	Late showcase route	Save first copies of every rare input

Finder By Goal

Goal	Best recipe family	What to check first
Fast Gold	Jam or Mushroom Stew	Compare raw and cooked return
Daily energy	Simple cooked dish	Check whether food is better than selling it
Gift value	Starred or well-liked dish	Use current NPC preference notes
Save space	Higher-value stacked dish	One cooked item can beat a bag of raw items
Route testing	Fish or mushroom dishes	Good for checking whether the route actually pays off
Weather recipe	Cloud Roll	Confirm Duoduo before spending sugar
Event dish	Mooncake	Check whether the event is active before using special inputs
Late pantry cleanup	Milkshake or tea drink	Make sure milk, fruit, tea, or flowers are replaceable

Which Food Page Should You Use?

Page	Use it when	Difference
Recipe Finder	You have ingredients and need a cook-or-sell answer	Calculator-first: cost, star rating, quantity, net Gold, and ROI
Recipes	You want unlock context and dish family notes	Better for learning the cooking system and recipe groups
Best Food to Sell	You only want a shortlist for money	Better when you do not want to test every dish
Money Making	You are planning a whole Gold route	Connects cooking with fish, crops, shops, and sell stops

Ingredient Lookups

Ingredient you have	What it usually points to	Why it matters
Apples, berries, mixed fruit	Jam	Strongest early use of spare fruit
Button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, shiitake	Stew or pie	Good early return and easy to batch
Any fish you can replace	Fish soup or fish bagel	Good if the catch is not especially rare
Wheat, eggs, cheese, flour	Pie or baked dish	Good when pantry items stack up
Tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, herbs	Salad, pizza, or stew	Often a flexible route ingredient family

What To Keep In Storage

Item type	Keep?	Why
Common fruit	No, cook it	Raw fruit is usually your weakest return
Cheap mushrooms	Usually yes, but convert soon	Stew routes turn them into better Gold
Rare fish	Keep one copy	Fish may have a better use later
Rare timber	Keep	It belongs in building and expansion routes
Moonlight Crystals	Keep	These are more likely to matter as currency than as cooking input

Route Decision Table

If your bag has…	Cook this first	Then do this
Mostly fruit	Jam	Sell the rest or hold if the fruit is rare
Mostly mushrooms	Stew	Check whether a pie is stronger for the same items
Mostly fish	Fish soup or bagel	Compare with a raw sell if the fish is rare
Mixed vegetables	Salad or pizza	Keep one stack for gifts if the recipe is popular
A weird mix of pantry items	Pie or baked dish	Try one test batch before overcommitting

When Not To Cook

Case	Better choice
You only have one rare fish	Hold it
You are unsure whether the item has another use	Check the map or hobby page first
The recipe requires a rare material	Wait until you know the full route
A new event may use the item later	Keep it until the event page is clear

Why This Finder Is Useful Mid-Session

The finder saves time because it answers the question that actually comes up mid-session: What should I do with this ingredient right now? A full recipe list is useful once you already know the dish name. This page is better when your storage has fruit, mushrooms, fish, vegetables, pantry items, and one rare oddity that should not be cooked blindly.

Finder By Update Risk

Situation	What to trust	What to test
Cooking just unlocked	Fruit and mushroom routes	Exact sale values
New event is live	Store one copy of new items	Event-specific recipes
A new recipe appeared	The ingredient family	Whether it beats your old route
A rare fish drops	Keep the first copy	Whether the dish or sale is better
You are short on storage	The highest-value stack	Rare materials that should not be cooked

If You Have No Idea Where To Start

When the bag is messy, begin with the easiest pile to sort: fruit. If the pile is fruit, jam is the default answer. If the pile is mushrooms, stew or pie is the default answer. If the pile is fish, compare raw and cooked. If the pile is rare items, stop and check the map, events, or home pages before cooking anything.

Daily Finder Habit

Use this page after your checklist and before your sell stop. Sort the bag into fruit, mushrooms, fish, vegetables, pantry items, and rare materials. Cook the obvious duplicates, hold first copies, and only batch expensive dishes after one test calculation.

Next Pages To Open

• Heartopia Recipes
• Heartopia Money Making
• Heartopia Fish Locations
• Heartopia Daily Checklist
• Heartopia Beginner Guide

Sources

• Heartopia on Steam
• Heartopia.gg recipe data
• Heartopia.gg recipe guide
• Heartopia Live recipes