Chef’s CookBook

CookBook is a quality-of-life mod for Risk of Rain 2 that provides a structured, searchable, and expandable view of craftable items and their possible crafting paths.

Instead of mentally tracking multi-step recipes or juggling Wiki tabs, CookBook presents crafting information in-game with a clean, scalable UI designed for large inventories and complex recipe graphs.

Features

Lists all currently craftable results based on your inventory
Live filtering via a search bar
Clear grouping by result type, rarity, and quantity
Each recipe row can be expanded to reveal all valid crafting paths
Paths are displayed hierarchically, showing exact ingredient requirements
Accordion-style UI keeps only one recipe expanded at a time to reduce clutter
Unique crafting paths are treated as distinct recipes even if they produce the same item
Crafting paths are grouped by quantity of the result item produced
Rows grow and collapse naturally with content
Built with optimization in mind:
- Unified Equipment & Item arrays
- Hash-based recipe deduplication
Backend cleanly separates data, logic, and UI for extensibility
Robust against other mods:
- Includes hooks to refresh recipe logic at runtime in case a mod wants to be silly and modify recipes AFTER contentpacking...

Controls

Configure various keybinds and crafting features in the Mod's settings menu
Click a recipe row to expand or collapse its available crafting paths
The search bar filters results in real time
Expand a recipe row, select the path you want, then select craft
- The Objectives panel will be updated to visualize the status of the craft chain
- Hold left alt to cancel an in progress craft

Technical Overview

Extensive use of templating to maximize rendering performance
No prefabs baked into the scene
Minimal layout group usage for predictable behavior

UI Architecture

Dynamic layout groups
Content size fitting for automatic row expansion
Explicit hierarchy control for stable rendering
UI logic structured to avoid per-frame allocations (no performance dips)

Future updates may introduce pooling for recipe rows if necessary.

Development Status

This mod is under active development.

Planned but not yet implemented features include:

Configuration menu with in-built sorting controls
(alphabetical, depth, path count, etc.)
Visual polish and UI refinements for UI frontend (this is my first mod, and Unity UI is painful)
In-Progress run recipe tracking
- Maybe allow users to star a desired result, adding it to the objectives panel for easy remembrance?

Compatibility

Does not modify gameplay logic
Does not interact with networking (no host required)
Should be compatible with most content mods that introduce new items or recipes

Feedback and Issues

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Encountered performance issues? Create a performance issue report.
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