A recipe for Rock Candy

[MithranArkanere]

I think it is a bit of a shame we can't cook Rock Candy ourselves, but crafting it too easily would be way too OP.

But now, thanks to Mystic Syrup, we have the perfect ingredients for its recipe!

* 6 Bags of Sugar
* 6 Jugs of Milk
* 6 Sweet Gem Berries
* 6 Mystic Syrup
* 1 Prismatic Shard

This would produce 6 Magic Rock Candy

Sweet Gem berries ensure one can't make too many of them this way, while giving poor lonesome gem Berries a new endless use for them other than selling them.
Mystic Syrup makes sure it can't be done too early in the game.
The prismatic shard is needed because of the description of the Magic Rock Candy

This way it would be possible to create Gold quality rock candy for your grange display thanks to Qi's seasonings, but those would still be few and not early thanks to the gem berries and the syrup. keeping it balanced.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

it making 6 would be way too crazy, it takes 3 prismatic shards as it is to get a single one and that's limited at once a week, the rest of those items are easily farmable or buyable in bulk and offer no challenge to get.

Now in 1.6 there are just so many ways to get magic rock candy, it's no longer something that's super rare and it should stay in the position it's in: desirable but not common enough to just chug all day. It's not like it's something you need to eat very often too, from a realistic standpoint it's only good buffs are luck and speed and the +4 luck over spicy eel is only consistently useful for mining.

In my opinion it's pretty good as it is now, introducing a recipe, especially one that rewards multiple dishes, would only take away from it, especially since it's not something that's direly needed in bulk either. It make it more of a question of when to use it and makes the player value using it rather than wasting it whenever, and it's too common as it is right now anyway.