Part of the Sea of Conquest Recipes Series:

Recipes Hub: How crafting works (Start Here).

Best Gold Recipes: What to spend them on.

Cabins Guide: The four production rooms.

Season Recipes: Which ingredients each season adds.

Quick Answer

Only four ingredients are produced by your own flagship:

Ingredient	Cabin
Fresh Water	Water Cabin
Eggs	Chicken Coop
Milk	Cattle Shed
Fish (all colours)	Salvage Bay

Everything else is looted — from Armed Freighters, merchant ships, treasure chests and port stalls. Sugar Cane, Barley, Grape, Agave, Potato, Juniper Berry, Maize, Berries, Raw Meat, Honey, Wheat, Kombu, Onion, and every mixer.

Two consequences that decide how you play:

Short of Water, Eggs, Milk or fish? Upgrade the cabin. It is a building problem.

Short of anything else? Your fleets are not out enough. It is a sailing problem — see the sailing guide.

The Four Production Rooms

These four cabins are the entire home supply side, and two of them also gate your crafting stations:

Water Cabin — Fresh Water, and gates the Distillery
Chicken Coop — Eggs, and gates the Distillery
Cattle Shed — Milk, and gates the Galley
Salvage Bay — fish, and gates the Galley

So neglecting them does not just starve your recipes — it blocks the rooms that use them. See the cabins guide for the full dependency chain.

These four ingredients are effectively free, which changes how you should value them. Do not cook 4× Milk into Smooth Ice Cream for 320 gold when that Milk could be a component in Sumptuous Cake or Marvelous Milk Candy.

The Looted Ingredients

Everything below comes from map activity:

Distillery bases: Sugar Cane (rum), Grape (wine), Agave (tequila), Potato (vodka), Juniper Berry (gin), Barley (whisky).

Distillery mixers: Lemon, Orange, Sugar, Soda, Tonic Water.

Galley staples: Maize, Berries, Raw Meat.

Season additions: Honey, Wheat, Oats, Cabbage, Marrowbone, Pine Nuts (S2); Pinto Beans, Apple, Jerky, Coffee Beans (S3); Rice, Green Plum, Kombu, Kuruma Prawn, Red Beans (S4); Lentils, Mung Beans, Onion, Mint Leaves, Mango (S5).

Note two naming traps. "Berry" in a drink recipe means Juniper Berry — a different ingredient from the galley's Berries. And High-quality Pine is not a cooking ingredient at all; it is a rare ship-upgrade material from Armed Freighters or the Baron's Fleet stall.

Which Ingredients to Prioritise

Not all looted ingredients are equally valuable. Ranked by what they unlock:

Maize. The highest-leverage ingredient in the galley. One Maize turns 3× Purple fish (640 gold as Fish Slices) into a Heavenly Fried Fish Taco at 3,000, and does the same for Raw Meat. Always keep it stocked.

Sugar Cane and Barley. Together they make Divine Gaucus's Kiss at 3,840 gold, the most accessible S+ cocktail.

Sugar and Lemon. The mixers that upgrade Premium cocktails (1,920) into Divine ones (3,840). One extra Sugar doubles a Gin Fizz.

Raw Meat. The Heavenly Minced Meat Taco at 3,000, and Luscious Meatballs at 1,920.

Juniper Berry. Spread across gin, fizzes, tonics and several cocktails — the most contested base in the distillery.

The Infamy Warning

Looting is how you get most ingredients, and attacking merchant ships raises Infamy:

Infamy	Consequence
300	10,000 gold bounty
1,000	Wanted List — you become trackable
2,800	You can no longer loot players or merchants

That last one is a self-terminating strategy. Farm freighters hard enough and you lose the ability to farm them at all.

Clear it with Heart of Atonement items from the Dock Merchant: green −100, blue −300, purple −500, roughly one purchase per day. The 80%-off green is the value buy. Full table in the combat mechanics guide.

Season Gating

Ingredients introduced in a season stop spawning when the map rotates, and cross-season recipes exist — Hearty Apple Pie (S3) needs Honey from S2, and Finger Licking Dorayaki (S4) needs Wheat from S2.

So do not dump old-season stock the moment a new season arrives. Stockpile raw ingredients rather than finished dishes before a rotation — materials keep their options open. See the season recipes guide.

FAQ

Where do I find sugar cane in Sea of Conquest?

Looted from Armed Freighters, merchant ships, treasure chests and port stalls. No cabin produces it.

Which ingredients does my flagship produce?

Fresh Water (Water Cabin), Eggs (Chicken Coop), Milk (Cattle Shed) and fish (Salvage Bay). Only those four.

Why am I always short of ingredients?

If it is Water, Eggs, Milk or fish, upgrade the cabin. Anything else means your fleets are not out looting enough.

What is the most valuable ingredient?

Maize — it converts fish and meat into the 3,000-gold Heavenly taco line.

Is "Berry" the same as "Berries"?

No. Juniper Berry is the gin base; Berries are the galley's fruit-salad ingredient.

Does looting have a downside?

Yes. Attacking merchants raises Infamy, and at 2,800 you lose the ability to loot entirely.

Key Takeaways

Four ingredients are produced at home; everything else is looted.
Water Cabin and Chicken Coop gate the Distillery; Cattle Shed and Salvage Bay gate the Galley.
Maize is the highest-leverage ingredient in the game.
Sugar and Lemon upgrade 1,920 cocktails to 3,840.
2,800 Infamy ends your looting — clear it with Heart of Atonement.

Sea of Conquest Ingredients: Where Every One Comes From