Overview
“We will have 5 dinners. Make sure everyoneevery one is worth dying for.”The following guide will tell you where to find each ingredient, how to get the Secret Rusty Lake Specialty, and at the end, you can find the best order to collect all the ingredients and make the perfect meals in one play-through.If you’re looking for how to get through each room, check this other guide I’ve made.
Introduction
The goal in Rusty Lake Hotel is to help the five guests and serve dinner on the five days. To do so, you will need to gather the ingredients for the recipes. The stars you get on each meal will depend on how many ingredients you have collected for that dinner. The ratings are:
One Star: Well Done!
Two stars: Almost perfect!
Three Stars: The perfect dinner!
On the first day, you can take cocktails to the guests and learn about what they want you to do when the night comes. On the following days, you can find some ingredients and ask Mr. Toad (the Chef) to prepare the meal with the ingredients you have collected. You can’t go to the guests’ rooms during the day.
When the night comes, you can find some of the ingredients, and you may choose which of the five guests you will help for the night (which affects the meal on the next day).
Each meal takes three ingredients: two optional and the main ingredient that you will get when finishing the room. One of the optional ingredients can always be found inside the room, while the other can only be found outside.
The following guide will tell you where to find each ingredient, how to get the Secret Rusty Lake Specialty, and at the end, you can find the best order to collect all the ingredients and make the perfect meals in one play-through.
Room 1: Mr. Deer
Outside Ingredient (Optional): Mushrooms.
Main Ingredient: Deer Meat.
In-room ingredient (Optional): Rosemary.
Mushrooms: They can be found on the first night. The telephone in the front desk will be ringing. Pick it up, and Mr. Owl tells you to check his portrait. Go to the portrait next to the elevator and click twice on the mushrooms.
Deer Meat: Story-related. Can’t be missed.
Rosemary: In Mr. Deer’s Room, you can find a Deer skull. Clicking on its right antler stump will make it grow. If you keep clicking on it, the left antler will grow. When it’s fully grown (the next time you click, Tabasco will come out of its nose), a leaf can be found on the top of the left antler. Click on it twice and you will get the Rosemary.
Room 2: Mr. Boar
Outside Ingredient (Optional): Red Wine.
Main Ingredient: Boar Ribs.
In-room ingredient (Optional): Tomatoes.
Tomatoes: After feeding Mr. Boar his sandwich and handing him the toilet paper, he will go back to his divan. Instead of giving him his opium as you normally would, make him another sandwich. Once he leaves the toilet and after you get the sandwich’s ingredient, click on the toilet again and a red liquid will come out of it. Click on it again to get the tomatoes.
Boar Ribs: Story-related. Can’t be missed.
Red Wine: On the day after you solve Ms. Pheasant’s puzzles, you can see the glass of red wine she drinks during the day on the window. Click on it to get it.
Room 3: Ms. Pheasant
Outside Ingredient (Optional): White Wine.
Main Ingredient: Pheasant Breast.
In-room Ingredient (Optional): Thyme.
White Wine: On the day after you solve Mrs. Pigeon’s puzzles, you can see the glass of white wine she drinks during the day on the pillow she used to sit. Click on it to get it.
Pheasant Breast: Story-Related. Can’t be missed.
Thyme: It can be found on the top-right corner of the clock. Click on the leaf twice.
Room 4: Mr. Rabbit
Outside Ingredient (Optional): Carrot.
Main Ingredient: Rabbit Leg.
In-room Ingredient (Optional): White Beans.
Carrot: It can be found on the second night. Mr. Crow will start cawing, and if you talk to him, he will tell you to have a look in his pocket. Click on the left side of his coat twice, and you can see a carrot inside his pocket. Click on it twice to get it.
Rabbit Leg: Story-Related. Can’t be missed.
White Beans: After getting the knife, and BEFORE using it on the stubborn box, use it on the drawing of Mr. Owl. There is a slit on his forehead; click on it with the knife selected and it will rip the drawing. Click three more times to get the ingredient.
Room 5: Mrs. Pigeon
Outside Ingredient (Optional): Potatoes.
Main Ingredient: Pigeon Wing.
In-room Ingredient (Optional): Blackberries.
Potatoes: They can be found on the third night. If you look out the windows on the lobby, you can see a bright white light falling while the room goes dark. After this, Mr. Bat will be hiding on the top left of the screen. Click on him twice, and again on every other side of the lobby until he goes back to his usual position. Click on him, and he will give you the potatoes.
Pigeon Wing: Story-Related. Can’t be missed.
Blackberries: After unlocking the strange cabinet and BEFORE releasing Young Bird, flip the lever on and off six times. While they are being electrocuted, the blackberries will appear on their beak. Click on it twice to get it.
Secret Rusty Lake Specialty
If you paid attention during your puzzle solving and ingredient hunting, you saw colored stamps throughout some documents.
On the following day, the key to the room you have solved can be found behind the main desk.
There is a safe next to the elevator with the same stamps you have found on the rooms.
If you remember in which room each stamp was found, you can put the keys in the safe in the correct order. This will unlock the safe, revealing the Secret Rusty Lake Specialty.
Best Order (and Why)
The best order to gather all the ingredients and making all the perfect dinners in one playthrough is this: Mr. Deer’s room on the first night, Mr. Rabbit’s room on the second night, Mrs. Pigeon’s room on the third night, Ms. Pheasant’s room on the fourth night and Mr. Boar’s room on the fifth night. This is because of the following reasons:
Mr. Boar’s outside ingredient can only be obtained after doing Ms. Pheasant’s night.
Ms. Pheasant’s outside ingredient can only be obtained after doing Mrs. Pigeon’s night.
Mr. Rabbit’s outside ingredient can only be obtained on the second night.
Mrs. Pigeon’s outside ingredient can only be obtained on the third night.