Gourmand unlocks when you obtain every book on both cooking and crops. Clear every book source: merchants, recipe pickups, strongboxes, interiors, and Kagura’s Cooking and Grow Research menus.
The Gourmand trophy in Beast of Reincarnation is a collection check tied to cooking books and crop books. Sweep merchants and exploration spaces, then use Kagura at the base to process what you have found.
Run this as a book-source route: clear every place books appear, buy every relevant merchant manual, and keep returning to Kagura until the trophy pops.
- Gourmand trophy requirement
- How to get all books in Beast of Reincarnation
- All cooking and crop books locations in Beast of Reincarnation
- Route for collecting every Gourmand book
- Ancient Civilization recipe and manual notes
- Gourmand mistakes to avoid
- Cleanup targets near the Gourmand route
- Frequently Asked Questions
Gourmand trophy requirement
| Requirement | Counts for Gourmand |
|---|---|
| Cooking manuals and recipe books | Yes |
| Crop books used for Grow Research | Yes |
| Cooking every meal once | No direct requirement in the trophy wording |
| Growing every crop after research | No direct requirement in the trophy wording |
| Collecting seedlings or ingredients | Useful for farming and cooking, but separate from the book requirement |
Gourmand is a Silver trophy with the requirement: “Obtain every book on both cooking and crops.” That means you need the books themselves, not every connected farming or cooking activity.
How to get all books in Beast of Reincarnation
Continue the story
Play until Kagura wakes up at the base.
Interact with Kagura to access Cooking and Grow Research.
Process found books
Use those menus to turn obtained manuals and crop books into available recipes and grow options.
All cooking and crop books locations in Beast of Reincarnation
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Tip: Whenever a recipe or crop book is nearby, Koo will bark and a small book icon will appear on your screen/HUD. Base recipes found in the wild can be brought to Kagura at the Cleanse Walker for Cooking Research.
🍲 Base Recipes (3 Initial + 18 Discoverable)
| Region | Recipe Book | Exact Location / Obtain Method |
| Initial | Brown Rice, Grilled Fish, Grilled Meat | Unlocked automatically at the start of the game. |
| Ogouchi Buffer Zone | Soya Beans (Boiled Beans) | Lookout Shack: Inside the lookout shack on top of a workbench. |
| Fried Egg | Tailwater Village: Cave near the village behind the locked door where you receive the Yellow Key. | |
| Ancient Civilization Zone | White Rice | Barracks below the right-side platforms near the bulkhead at the start of the chapter. |
| Omelette | In the room right after opening the gate upon activating both generators. | |
| Mince Onigiri | Purchased from the Golem Merchant south of the Raging River campsite (or from Brad at the Cleanse Walker). | |
| Grilled Onigiri | Purchased from the Golem Merchant south of the Raging River campsite. | |
| Bread | Purchased from the Golem Merchant south of the Raging River campsite. | |
| The Great Wall Terraces | Apple Pie | Inside a worn-down house west of the Mountain Village: Entrance campsite. |
| Tofu | Found inside the books inside the ruined structure in The Great Wall Terraces. | |
| Egg Onigiri | Purchased from the Wandering Merchant near Mountain Plaza: Forefront. | |
| Biwafruit Sandwich | Purchased from the Wandering Merchant near Mountain Plaza: Forefront. | |
| Pilgrim’s Zone | Pickle Onigiri | Found inside the books inside the Pilgrim’s Zone ruins. |
| Grilled Veg | Ground level near the rundown houses north of Belfry Entrance (near the elite wolf). | |
| Matsukawa Zone | Fruit Punch | Near Ooi Colony: Across the bridge and up the staircases to an iron bridge where a Wandering Merchant stands. |
| Fish Onigiri | Found inside the books in Matsukawa Colony. | |
| Fuji Frontier Zone | Meat Sandwich | Inside the books on a workbench/table in Fuji Frontier Zone. |
| Crater Zone | Meat Omelette | Found inside the books in the Crater Zone. |
| Inukami River Zone | Strawberry Sandwich | Found inside the books in Inukami River Zone. |
🌾 Crop Seedling Books
| Region / Source | Crop Book / Seedling | Location Notes |
| Prologue | Rice, Tomato, Wheat, Strawberry | Received automatically after completing the Prologue. |
| Ogouchi Buffer Zone | Soya Bean Seedling | Found near pots in the Tailwater Village garage, and inside the cave northeast of Tailwater Village. |
| Rice Seedling | Found in the northern Tailwater rice field, and inside the Tailwater Yellow Key Cave. | |
| Tomato Seedling | On the high ledge near Keeper Golem #5 marked by a scarecrow. | |
| Ancient Civilization Zone | Potato Seedling | Found in the fields along the reservoir path. |
| Lettuce Seedling | Purchased from the dedicated Seedling Merchant in the Ancient Civilization Zone. |
Route for collecting every Gourmand book
Unlock Kagura first
Continue the main story until Kagura wakes up and the base menus become available.
Process any cooking manuals you already picked up before starting the wider cleanup.
Check Grow Research
Process crop books there so you can separate book progress from seedlings and ingredients.
Revisit earlier regions
Return to areas you cleared before Kagura woke up and search them again for books, recipes, strongboxes, and buildings.
Buy out relevant merchant stock
At every merchant, purchase all cooking manuals, recipe items, and crop-related books before spending amber elsewhere.
Open strongboxes during the sweep
Strongboxes are part of the Gourmand route because cooking books can be found through exploration.
Search abandoned buildings
Look inside every building space instead of only following the main path through a zone.
Repeat the loop in each new region
Clear the merchant inventory, exploration pickups, strongboxes, and buildings before leaving the region behind.
Return to Kagura often
After each major sweep, process new books in Cooking and Grow Research.
Keep going until Gourmand unlocks
If the trophy does not pop, you are missing an unbought merchant manual or an unopened exploration pickup.
Buy every manual a merchant sells before leaving the area, then immediately check Kagura’s Cooking and Grow Research menus so you can spot whether your cleanup is still missing books.
Ancient Civilization recipe and manual notes
| Find | Where to look |
|---|---|
| Early recipe | Near the first marked interior section after loading into Ancient Civilization. |
| Later recipe | In the room behind the fire after riding the lift up through the rubble route. |
| Five manuals | Sold by the northern merchant near the final campsite. |
| Wheat and lettuce | Sold by the same northern merchant during the purchase sweep. |
| Recipe items and bread | Sold by the northern merchant alongside the manuals. |
| Nearby non-Gourmand collectibles | Potato seedling, tomato crop seedling, shrines, campsites, Keeper Golems, elite Malefacts, a document, artwork, a weapon, a skill, and a weapon purchase are separate cleanup items. |
Ancient Civilization has the cleanest book route. Early in the zone, grab the recipe pickup near the starting route, then take the lift upward later and collect the recipe in the room behind the fire.
The northern merchant is the major cleanup point in this area. Bring at least 24,000 amber before buying out the relevant stock, because the sweep includes wheat, lettuce, five manuals, recipe items, bread, the destructive fang skill, and the purity weapon.
Do not mix the last row into your Gourmand count. Those nearby collectibles are worth grabbing while you are already there, but seedlings, shrines, Keeper Golems, weapons, documents, and artwork are not the same thing as cooking or crop books.
Gourmand mistakes to avoid
The most common mistake is treating ingredients as books. Ingredients can be bought, grown, or produced through the broader base loop, but Gourmand is not asking for a pantry checklist.
Seedlings cause similar confusion. They go into the Grow Chamber and support crop production, while crop books are the items that feed into Grow Research.
Cooking sits beside the trophy route, but it is not the route itself. You need the manuals and recipe books for Gourmand; cooking every meal is a separate habit that helps you play better, but it is not the trophy’s stated condition.
Cleanup targets near the Gourmand route
A Gourmand run overlaps naturally with other collectible work, so clear seedlings, plantable crops, arrow or bolt manuals, camps, shrines, documents, and lore paintings while you are already checking merchants, interiors, and side paths.
In large areas like Ancient Civilization, the same sweep covers recipe pickups, merchant manuals, campsites, shrines, documents, artwork, enemies, and equipment purchases without forcing another full return trip.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do you need to cook every recipe for Gourmand?
No. Gourmand asks you to obtain every book on both cooking and crops, so cooking meals is not the direct unlock condition.
Do seedlings count as crop books?
No. Seedlings are planted for crop production, while crop books are used through Kagura’s Grow Research.
Why did Gourmand not unlock after buying merchant items?
You are missing a book from exploration. Check strongboxes, abandoned buildings, earlier regions, and any merchant you visited before you started buying every manual.
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