Crafting plays a key role in staying alive in Look Outside, and mastering it early makes a dramatic difference in how well you handle the threats waiting beyond your apartment. Once you secure the Crafting Kit, the small workbench by your door becomes your most valuable tool, allowing you to turn everyday items into medicine, weapons, and survival essentials. Instead of simply combining ingredients at random, knowing what each recipe does and when to use it will help you stretch your limited supplies much further.
This Look Outside Crafting Recipes Guide breaks down every craftable item currently available, explains what each one is used for, and highlights when it’s worth spending your resources. Whether you’re preparing for exploration, managing sanity, or gearing up for combat, this overview will help you craft with purpose rather than trial and error.
How Crafting Works
Before you can begin crafting, you must first obtain the Crafting Kit. Once acquired, you’ll be able to combine materials at the small workbench next to your apartment door. Recipes often produce different quantities of the same item depending on the ingredients you choose, so crafting smartly can save valuable resources.
All Crafting Recipes and Their Uses
Below is every recipe currently available, grouped by purpose and explained to help you decide what to craft in different situations.
Healing Items
These recipes focus on restoring health in various ways. Some are basic, while others offer strong emergency recovery.
Bandages
Used for stopping bleeding or restoring a small amount of health.
You can craft them in different quantities depending on the materials you have:
- Cloth + Medicell = 3 Bandages
- Cloth + Purocare = 4 Bandages
- Cloth + Disinfectant = 6 Bandages
Tonic
A reliable mid-tier healing item that restores more HP than a bandage.
- Purocare + Vodka = Tonic
- Purocare + Whiskey = Tonic
- Purocare + Medicell = 2 Tonics
First Aid Kit
High-value full recovery item. Best reserved for serious encounters.
- Tonic + Disinfectant = First Aid Kit
Medication
Restores health for sickness-related status ailments.
- Mushroom + Medicell = Medication
Mental & Status Recovery
These items help manage sanity, panic, and other status effects that can weaken you.
- Smelling Salts: Wakes you up from unconsciousness or breaks panic states.
Vinegar + Enzyme - Anxiety Meds: Helps control mental breakdown or anxiety-induced debuffs.
Black Ooze + Medicell
Offensive and Utility Crafting
These items support combat or exploration by clearing obstacles, damaging threats, or creating diversions.
Disinfectant
Also used as a crafting base for advanced items.
- Vinegar + Medicell
Acid Flask
Useful against armored or corrupted enemies.
- Vinegar + Purocare = 1 Acid Flask
- D-Clogger + Reagent = 2 Acid Flasks
Gas Bomb
Creates gas damage over an area. Great for crowd control.
- D-Clogger + Klysox = Gas Bomb
- Cleanerex + Enzyme = 2 Gas Bombs
Explosive
Creates powerful blast damage.
- Gasoline + Cleanerex = Explosive
- Klysox + Herbicide = 2 Explosives
Super Explosive
Stronger version of the standard explosive, intended for high-threat combat encounters.
- Herbicide + Catalyst = Super Explosive
Molotov
Burns targets and creates area fire.
- Cloth + Whiskey = Molotov
- Cloth + Vodka = Molotov
Fire Bomb
More intense fire-based damage than a Molotov.
- Cloth + Gasoline
Elemental and Special Use Items
These have specific uses such as dissolving obstacles, weakening creatures, or unlocking progression routes.
Herbicide: Effective for killing plant-based creatures or clearing plant growth blocking paths.
Cleanerex + Vinegar
Ice Melt Salt: Removes icy surfaces or environmental hazards.
Vodka + Cleanerex
Pale Fluid: An alchemical base material.
Mushroom + Vinegar
Caustic Brew: A corrosive substance used for crafting advanced components.
Black Ooze + Whiskey
Crafting Materials for Advanced Recipes
These items act as mid or late-game components, used to craft high-tier tools and weapons.
Reagent
Pale Fluid + Klysox
Enzyme
Caustic Brew + D-Clogger
Catalyst
Reagent + Enzyme
Elixir
Tonic + Catalyst
Stimulant
Tonic + Enzyme
Heal Spray
Tonic + Reagent