Humans

Human Recipes: Food Plans and Requirements for Every Profession

Last Updated: October 13, 2026

Game version: Profession screens: July 2026, before Update 5.5. Minimum requirements and energy estimates also appear in post-Update 5.5 screens. Food evidence dates vary by row.

Human Recipes finds the fewest food items for your chosen profession and available food tier. Food supplies the physical attributes; memory items must meet the psychological targets shown with each plan.

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Tick each profession in the profession list once you have grown that human.

Already have a food combination? Use the Human Calculator to check its height, weight and life expectancy totals.

Human Recipe Finder

ProfessionFood you can make

Teacher

Fewest food items: 8

5 × Muscle Fortification (skill tier 13)
3 × Ultimate Genesis (skill tier 19)

Physical attributes needed and given by this food plan
Attribute	Needed	This plan
Height (cm)	160	160
Weight (kg)	60	70
Life expectancy (years)	10 (growth minimum)	130
Strength	—	105
Intellect	—	160

Every total stays at or below 200.

Food Processor ingredients

5 Calcium · 60 Vitamin D · 10 Omega-3 · 3 Bioregulator · 3 Nanite Nutrient · 15 Mitochondrial Amplifier

Memory items

Raise Communication to 15, Patience to 12, Wisdom to 10. Memory-item values are not verified yet, so the finder does not choose them.

This human would also meet the listed requirements for Manual Holder. Track Teacher on the rack and check the Growth Prediction before growing.

Check totals in the Lazarus Human Calculator

How the finder works. It adds up each food's confirmed attribute values, as the Lazarus Human Calculator does, and checks every combination for the fewest items that meet the profession's physical requirements and the growth minimums (30 cm height, 20 kg weight, 10 years of life expectancy).

Every total stays at or below 200. The wiki reports that gains are reduced once an attribute passes 200 (not confirmed yet), so the 3 professions that need more are not calculated.

Where readings disagree on a requirement, the plan meets the higher reading. Immune Boost is left out because its attribute readings disagree. Among equally short plans, the finder avoids reaching the physical requirements of a higher profession that uses the same memory traits, then prefers lower skill tiers and fewer kinds of food.

Plans are calculated from the screen values on this page, not tested by growing each human. Profession screens date from July 2026, before Update 5.5.

A human recipe combines food with memory items. Food changes height, weight, life expectancy, strength and intellect; memory items change psychological attributes. Track your target profession on the rack: Growth Prediction shows its matching percentage.

There are 10 psychological attributes: Adaptability, Communication, Creativity, Discipline, Empathy, Focus, Leadership, Logic, Patience and Wisdom. Adaptability appears in the Mission Seeker, Frontier Explorer, Star Analyzer and Station Roamer screens.

From Seed to Growth Prediction

For the whole route from the Seed Vault to your first human, including rack power and water, read the Lazarus Complex complete guide.

Put a Human Seed into a Lazarus Pod, then install the Pod on a Lazarus Rack connected to power and fresh water. Keep both supplies running to preserve the seed while adding food and memory items.
Meet the growth minimums: 20 kg weight, 30 cm height and 10 years of life expectancy.
Track the profession on the rack, add food for physical requirements and memory items for psychological requirements, then check the Growth Prediction percentages before starting growth.

Growth time is unresolved. Actual growth is described as taking about 10 minutes, while rack Estimation screens show 1:00, 2:00 and 2:20 with different inputs. These readings may use different timing conventions; none is a guaranteed real-time duration.

Readings disagree

Two Common Recipe Targets

Teacher

Weight (kg): 60
Height (cm): 160
Communication: 15
Patience: 12
Wisdom: 10

Use food to reach the physical requirements, then memory items for the psychological requirements. The listed numbers match the July screens and wiki.

Fewest food with all foods: 5 Muscle Fortification + 3 Ultimate Genesis (8 items). A complete, checked memory-item list is still missing, so the memory side is a target, not an item-by-item recipe.

Quantum Physicist

Intellect: 220 / 221 (readings disagree)
Logic: 120
Patience: 80
Wisdom: 100

The Intellect readings disagree. Logic, Patience and Wisdom match the July screens and wiki.

Fewest food with all foods: not calculated, because a requirement is above 200. A complete, checked memory-item list is still missing, so the memory side is a target, not an item-by-item recipe.

Check for Overlapping Professions

Meeting several professions can produce a different result from the one you tracked. In the checked demonstration, an intended Teacher became a Professor. For a lower-tier target, watch for requirements that also qualify the human for a higher profession; tracking alone does not guarantee the outcome.

Food Attributes & Unlock Levels

Each card lists physical attributes and the skill unlock level. All unlock levels are confirmed. Most food screens predate Update 5.5; Mitochondrial Surge uses the later screen values, and High-Fat weight also matches a later screen. Immune Boost attributes conflict, so both readings are shown. No ingredient quantities are included here.

Lazarus Human Calculator

Ultimate Genesis

Unlock level: 19

Height (cm): 50
Weight (kg): 10
Life expectancy (years): 40
Strength: 10
Intellect: 50

Hyper-Evolution

Unlock level: 18

Height (cm): 30
Weight (kg): 3
Life expectancy (years): 5
Strength: 3
Intellect: 20

Nanite Infusion

Unlock level: 18

Height (cm): 25
Weight (kg): 3
Life expectancy (years): 6
Strength: 3
Intellect: 25

Mitochondrial Surge

Unlock level: 17

Height (cm): 20
Weight (kg): 3
Life expectancy (years): 12
Strength: 28
Intellect: 3

Bone-Fortify

Unlock level: 14

Height (cm): 8
Weight (kg): 2
Life expectancy (years): 2
Strength: 14
Intellect: 2

Muscle Fortification

Unlock level: 13

Height (cm): 2
Weight (kg): 8
Life expectancy (years): 2
Strength: 15
Intellect: 2

Physique Fuel

Unlock level: 11

Height (cm): 5
Weight (kg): 1
Life expectancy (years): 1
Strength: 5
Intellect: 1

High-Fat

Unlock level: 10

Height (cm): 1
Weight (kg): 8
Life expectancy (years): 1
Strength: 1
Intellect: 1

Nutri-Core

Unlock level: 10

Height (cm): 3
Weight (kg): 3
Life expectancy (years): 3
Strength: 3
Intellect: 3

Mind Surge

Unlock level: 11

Height (cm): 1
Weight (kg): 1
Life expectancy (years): 6
Strength: 1
Intellect: 6

Endura-Growth

Unlock level: 14

Height (cm): 2
Weight (kg): 2
Life expectancy (years): 8
Strength: 2
Intellect: 12

Immune Boost

Readings disagree

Unlock level: 15

Height (cm): 6 / 5 (readings disagree)
Weight (kg): 6 / 5 (readings disagree)
Life expectancy (years): 6 / 5 (readings disagree)
Strength: 6 / 5 (readings disagree)
Intellect: 6 / 5 (readings disagree)

Neuro-Boost

Unlock level: 15

Height (cm): 2
Weight (kg): 2
Life expectancy (years): 10
Strength: 2
Intellect: 15

Human Seeds & Aged Lazarus Vials

The wiki lists 85 Human Seeds. Not confirmed yet.

Not confirmed yet

The current seed countdown starts at about 2 hours. Whether the countdown tracks real-world time has not been confirmed.

Between November 2025 and January 2026, the countdown was described as one hour. This may reflect an earlier version, but no patch note confirms that explanation. Not confirmed yet.

Not confirmed yet

Returning a seed to a cryogenic storage vault pauses its countdown.

Before a seed enters a Lazarus Pod, the wiki says returning it to a Seed Vault or Seed Reserve slot also resets its countdown. Not confirmed yet.

Not confirmed yet

Aged Lazarus Vial: Keep It or Scrap It?

An Aged Lazarus Vial cannot be used to grow a human. It can be dismantled for materials.

It is a trash item that no recipe uses. Dismantling it gives Ultra-Tech Scraps, High-Tech Scraps, Tech Scraps, Broken Glass, Aluminium Scraps, Wire Scraps and Copper Scraps, so scrap it.

The amounts are not settled: the game 0.8.5 data gives one of each, while the wiki lists 1 Ultra-Tech, 2 High-Tech, 2 Tech, 2 Broken Glass, 2 Aluminium, 1 Wire and 4 Copper Scraps.

Readings disagree

You can find one in Norfolk Grave: one has been found in the power room, and the game 0.8.5 data also places one there.

Norfolk Grave on the map · Dismantle Tool guide

What Is the Best First Human?

Room Supervisor

Life expectancy (years): 40
Communication: 4
Empathy: 3
Leadership: 5

Visual Technician

Life expectancy (years): 50
Creativity: 5
Communication: 4
Empathy: 3

Basic Supplier

Height (cm): 100
Discipline: 3
Focus: 4
Logic: 2

Human Recipe FAQ

How do I find a food recipe for a human profession?

Choose a profession and your highest food tier in the Human Recipe Finder. It returns the fewest food items that meet the documented physical requirements within its attribute limit, plus the memory targets to check.

Where can I check the stats of my own food combination?

Use the separate Human Calculator to total height, weight and life expectancy from foods you choose yourself. Human Recipes starts with a profession and finds a food plan for that target.

How do I make a Teacher?

Weight (kg): 60; Height (cm): 160; Communication: 15; Patience: 12; Wisdom: 10. Food covers weight and height: with every food unlocked, the fewest items are 5 Muscle Fortification + 3 Ultimate Genesis (8 items); with food up to skill tier 11, 4 High-Fat + 32 Physique Fuel (36 items). Memory items cover Communication, Patience and Wisdom. These requirements match the July 2026 screens and wiki; track Teacher and check for overlapping professions before growth.

What does a Quantum Physicist need?

Intellect: 220 / 221 (readings disagree); Logic: 120; Patience: 80; Wisdom: 100. For Intellect, the July 2026 screen reading is listed first, followed by the wiki reading. The other requirements agree. Current post-Update 5.5 requirements have not been checked. Because the Intellect target is above 200, the recipe finder does not calculate a food plan for it.

What is the Distributor recipe?

Height (cm): 160; Discipline: 12; Focus: 15; Logic: 10. Food covers the height: with every food unlocked, the fewest items are 2 Hyper-Evolution + 2 Ultimate Genesis (4 items); with food up to skill tier 11, 32 Physique Fuel (32 items). Memory items cover Discipline, Focus and Logic. These requirements were last checked before Update 5.5; track Distributor and check for overlapping professions before growth.

What is the best first human?

There is no reliably established best first human. Among the checked screens, Room Supervisor, Visual Technician and Basic Supplier have some of the smallest requirement values. That comparison does not establish which profession is best. Maintenance Engineer can also be tracked, but its requirements are not confirmed yet. Room Supervisor: Life expectancy (years): 40; Communication: 4; Empathy: 3; Leadership: 5. Visual Technician: Life expectancy (years): 50; Creativity: 5; Communication: 4; Empathy: 3. Basic Supplier: Height (cm): 100; Discipline: 3; Focus: 4; Logic: 2.

How long does a Human Seed last?

The current seed countdown starts at about 2 hours. Whether the countdown tracks real-world time has not been confirmed.

Can I use the Aged Lazarus Vial?

An Aged Lazarus Vial cannot be used to grow a human. It can be dismantled for materials. It is a trash item that no recipe uses. Dismantling it gives Ultra-Tech Scraps, High-Tech Scraps, Tech Scraps, Broken Glass, Aluminium Scraps, Wire Scraps and Copper Scraps, so scrap it.

Sources & What Still Needs Checking

Reviewed 2026-10-05. Profession effects, a complete memory-item table and current profession requirements have not been established. Food plans are calculated from the values on this page and have not been tested by growing each human. The seed countdown starts near the documented duration, but its relationship to real-world time remains unconfirmed; actual growth duration is also unresolved. Wiki tier assignments and values that are not confirmed yet are not used as calculation inputs.

Official sources and wiki

Human Recipe Finder

Teacher

Food Processor ingredients

Memory items

From Seed to Growth Prediction

Compare Profession Requirements

Tier 1

Basic Supplier

Door Jammer

Health Assistant

Lab Technician

Maintenance Engineer

Manual Holder

Nutrient Handler

Room Supervisor

Station Roamer

Visual Technician

Tier 2

Distributor

Doctor

Field Research Scientist

Growth Specialist

Guard

Sculptor

Star Analyzer

Station Quartermaster

Systems Engineer

Teacher

Tier 3

Biosphere Director

Cultural Archivist

Energy Engineer

Mission Seeker

Neuro Specialist

Professor

Resource Director

Settlement Governor

Station Protector

Theoretical Scientist

Tier 4

Colonel of Humanity

Existential Chancellor

Existential Expressionist

Frontier Explorer

Guardian of Humanity

Logistics High Command

Neural Architect

Quantum Engineer

Quantum Physicist

Sustenance Architect

Star Child: A Memory-Item Requirement

Two Common Recipe Targets

Teacher

Quantum Physicist

Check for Overlapping Professions

Food Attributes & Unlock Levels

Ultimate Genesis

Hyper-Evolution

Nanite Infusion

Mitochondrial Surge

Bone-Fortify

Muscle Fortification

Physique Fuel

High-Fat

Nutri-Core

Mind Surge

Endura-Growth

Immune Boost

Neuro-Boost

Human Seeds & Aged Lazarus Vials

Aged Lazarus Vial: Keep It or Scrap It?

What Is the Best First Human?

Room Supervisor

Visual Technician

Basic Supplier

Human Recipe FAQ

How do I find a food recipe for a human profession?

Where can I check the stats of my own food combination?

How do I make a Teacher?

What does a Quantum Physicist need?