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The Cookbook is the store for Recipes; it is available everywhere except the Tutorial interface.

The term Recipes includes both GUI and Lua Scripts, the terms tend to be used interchangeably but they do represent different things.

GUI recipes perform predefined actions in a single sequence and can be compared to macros. Scripts use the more powerful Lua script and some libraries and can be compared to simple programming code.

Tip: GUI recipes stop running when you minimise the foldit game window, Script recipes keep running in the background.

There are some excellent recipes of both types written by foldit players on the foldit recipe page. foldit 101 recommends Blue Fuse v1.1 http://fold.it/portal/recipe/2052 as a very useful addition to your Cookbook.

Tip: You must be logged into the foldit web portal and have the game running in the Basic or Advanced interface for recipes to load properly into the Cookbook.

Modify recipes

You may want to modify (mod) a recipe to change a parameter in the options provided for example. Modifying is easy to do but take care as the in game editor will not check for errors. Good code writers explain the recipe options on the recipe page and in the code itself.

To modify a recipe click the Edit recipe button next to the recipe name in the Cookbook, the edit window will open showing the code. Read any instructions that the code writer has provided and make your changes. You will need to use Save As to save the changes by changing the title of the recipe.

Warning: The game will usually crash when you run the newly saved recipe, even if the changes are correct. This is a bug. A work-around seems to be - after renaming the recipe, close the edit window, then reopen the renamed recipe and save it again. It then appears to work normally without crashing. Refer to http://fold.it/portal/node/989688 for updates on bug resolution.

Create recipes

You can create new recipes from scratch or by modifying existing recipes.

To create GUI Recipes click the Open Recipe Editor button on the Cookbook, an edit window will open

Click New (GUI) and two blue bars appear at the top of the window, click the bars and a menu of actions will appear, the Help menu in the edit window has more detailed information about how to use the predefined actions.

To create the more powerful Lua scripts read the tutorials:

http://foldit.wikia.com/wiki/Lua_Scripting_Tutorial_(Beginner_1)

Sharing recipes

Once you are satisfied with your recipes consider sharing them with the rest of the players. Simply click the Share button in the Edit window and choose how you want to share.

Warning: Use the Basic or Advanced interface to do this not the Selection interface.