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Far Cry 6

La Cantina Guide: Upgrades and How to Use

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La Cantina is one of the Camp Facilities that you can build and upgrade in Far Cry 6. Learn how to use La Cantina effectively, upgrade cost and effects, and see if it's worth building and upgrading!

La Cantina Basic Information

La Cantina
La Cantina
Don't fight on an empty stomach!

Visit La Cantina and trade Animal and Fish meat of Meals that grant temporary Buffs.

La Cantina Upgrades and Effects

Base Cost: 30 Gasolina, 30 Medicine
5 new Recipes available:

- Bullets & Beans: Bullet damage defense
- Tough Tamales: Bullet damage defense
- Explosive Egg Salad: Blast damage defense
- Poison Platter: Poison damage defense
- Flambe Fajitas: Fire damage defense
Enhanced Cost: 80 Gasolina, 80 Medicine
5 new Recipes available:

- Ninja Nachos: Stealth damage
- Sneaky Schnitzel: Stealth utility
- Gadgeteer's Gyoza: Gadget capacity
- Lucky Fish N' Chips: Scavenging
- Yarampanadas: Health regeneration
Perfected Cost: 160 Gasolina, 160 Medicine
5 new Recipes available:

- Sniper's Soup: Sniping
- Speedy Spaghetti: Mobility
- Hunter's Hot Dog: Hunting
- Scuba Sashimi: Swimming
- Jiu-Jitsu Jambalaya: Melee

Is La Cantina Worth It?

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Eat Meals for Permanent Buffs

Cooking at the La Cantina can provide meals that buff Dani. Keep upgrading the canteen and unlock more recipes.

Although the buffs at La Cantina are labeled as temporary, they seem to be permanently added and the remaining duration never goes down. We're not sure if this is a bug, but we are certainly not complaining.

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Tips on Using La Cantina

Numerous Recipes with Varied Effects

In La Cantina, you can exchange particular meats to different meals which have some nifty effects. Notable amongst those meals is the Lucky Fish N Chips which adds additional meat and crafting materials - good for hunting down Alpha Meat and other rare Crafting Materials.

Rank 1 Recipes

Recipe Effect
Bullets and Beans Effect: Carry additional ammo of all types and scavenge additional ammo of all types.
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 1 Hutia Meat
Explosive Egg Salad Effect: Improves blast defense and recover quickly from being knocked down.
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 1 Hare Meat
Flambe Fajitas Effect: Improves fire defense and when on fire, the flames are automatically extinguished.
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 1 Carp Meat
Poison Platter Effect: Protect your eyes from poison and improves poison defense.
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 1 Barracuda Meat
Tough Tamales Effect: Improves armor piercing and soft-target defense.
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 1 Mongoose Meat

Rank 2 Recipes

Recipe Effect
Gadgeeter Gyoza Effect: Greatly improves all gadget carrrying capacity, no longer trigger enemy proximity mines.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 1 Coyote Meat
Lucky Fish N' Chips Effect: Scavenge additional Crafting materials and animal meat.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 1 Snook Meat
Ninja Nachos Effect: Improves damage with silenced weapons and damage while in stealth.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 1 Cougar Meat
Sneaky Schnitzel Effect: Improves movement noise, slows down security camera and enemy auto-turret detection speed.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 1 Jaguar Meat
Yarampandas Effect: Improves health regeneration and begin regenerating health sooner after taking damage.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 1 Trogon Meat

Rank 3 Recipes

Recipe Effect
Hunter's Hot Dog Effect: Improves damage with bows and damage dealt to tagged enemies.
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 1 Vulture Meat
Jiu-Jitsu Jambalaya Effect: Improves melee defense and melee damage.
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 1 Catfish Meat
Scuba Sashimi Effect: Improves swim speed and fishing rod reel speed.
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 1 Biajaca Meat
Sniper's Soup Effect: Improves hold breath duration and long range damage.
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 1 Black Hawk Meat
Speedy Spaghetti Effect: Improves maximum stamina and move speed.
Duration: 6 hours
Cost: 1 Yaran Crocodile Meat

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1 Anonymous Anonymous about 4 years

Seems at the time can't make same recipes twice

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