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Cooking & Crafting Guide for RDR2 Story Mode & Red Dead Online


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Hunting

Hunting items are items that help players while hunting. Some of the craftable items belonging to this category are much better than the ones found in regular shops, making hunting considerably easier.

Potent Predator Bait

  • 1 x Gritty Fish Meat, 1 x Blackberry
  • Attracts pristine predators in the vicinity
  • Obtained automatically at the beginning of Chapter 2

Potent Herbivore Bait

  • 1 x Vanilla Flower,1 x Violet Snowdrop, 1 x Bay Bolete
  • Attracts pristine herbivores in the vicinity
  • Obtained automatically at the beginning of Chapter 2

Cooking & Crafting Guide For Rdr2 Story Mode & Red Dead Online

Predator Bait

  • 1 x Stringy Meat, 1 x Blackberry
  • Attracts average predators in the vicinity
  • Obtained automatically at the beginning of Chapter 2

Cover Scent Lotion

  • 1 x Scent Glands
  • Used to block human scent. Reduces animal detection
  • Obtained automatically at the beginning of Chapter 2

Horse Care Items

Horse care items are items that can be used on your horse. They are used to restore the horse Health and Stamina bars and cores while also fortifying them. By fortifying stats, the bars will not drop for a set amount of time even when taking damage and consuming stamina.

Horse Meal

  • 3x Hay or 3x Beets
  • Replenishes horse’s stamina and health
  • Sold by any Fence after completing the Pouring Forth Oil mission

Special Horse Stimulant

  • 2x Sage, 2x Common Bulrushes, 2x Wild Carrots
  • Replenishes horse’s stamina and health
  • Sold by any Fence after completing the Pouring Forth Oil mission

Potent Horse Stimulant

  • 1x Safe, 1x Common Bulrush
  • Fully restores Horse Stamina and Fortifies moderately
  • Obtained automatically at the beginning of Chapter 2

Cooking & Crafting Guide For Rdr2 Story Mode & Red Dead Online

Special Horse Medicine

  • 2x Ginseng, 2x Common Bulrushes, 2x Wild Carrots
  • Regenerates horse’s health
  • Sold by any Fence after completing the Pouring Forth Oil mission

Potent Horse Medicine

  • 1x Ginseng, 1x Common Bulrush
  • Fully restores Horse Health and fortifies immediately
  • Obtained automatically at the beginning of Chapter 2

Special Horse Reviver

  • 2x Ginseng, 2x mushrooms, 2x Wild Carrots
  • Regenerates and reinforces horse’s health
  • Sold by any Fence after completing the American Distillation mission

Horse Ointment

  • 1x Sage, 1x Common Bulrush, 1x Yarrow
  • Greatly restores Horse Health Core and fully restores Stamina Core and yields a Gold Stamina Core for a day
  • Obtained automatically at the beginning of Chapter 2

Red Dead Online Crafting Recipes Unlocking

Crafting recipes in Red Dead Online are the same ones seen in the story mode, but they can only be obtained by purchasing them after making them available for purchase in stores by ranking up. They cannot be found in any other location.

In order of ranking, you will unlock the Horse Ointment pamphlet at rank 16, the Special Snake Oil pamphlet at rank 20, the Special Horse Medicine pamphlet at rank 26, the Split Point ammo pamphlet at rank 28, the Horse Meal pamphlet at rank 29, the Special Miracle Tonic pamphlet at rank 32, the Special Horse Stimulant pamphlet at rank 34, the Potent Herbivore pamphlet at rank 36, the Fire Bottle pamphlet at rank 37, the Potent Predator Bait pamphlet at rank 42, the Poison Throwing Knife pamphlet at rank 45, the Special Horse Reviver pamphlet at rank 46, the Health Cure pamphlet at rank 50, the Volatile Fire Bottle pamphlet at rank 52, the Special Bitters pamphlet at rank 54, the Poison Arrow pamphlet at rank 57, the Volatile Dynamite pamphlet at rank 77, the Incendiary Buckshot pamphlet at rank 80, the Explosive Slug pamphlet at rank 84, the Express Explosive pamphlet at rank 90 and the Dynamite Arrow pamphlet at rank 93.


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