i just finished my last stew, was really happy that i made it through all 56 of them, but then I looked at the stats and I'm having only 17 special ones there.
On the leaderboard the most people have is 18, so I suppose this is a goal reachable.
BUT I made every single possible stew - I already checked back with one of the guides provided, it's not listing any single one I didn't brew - so where did I go wrong?

I want to have all of them

Also in some topics people posted they had a special stew for replenishing the coconut - is this true? Didn't find one in the guides - might that be the one I'm missing? And if it is so - how on earth do you brew this one?

The same thing happened to me. I painstakingly went through every single combination possible (I even wrote them down to be sure I didn't miss one) and I have 17 as well.

I read somewhere about a death stew, but I didn't get that one. I was scared everytime I had one of my villagers taste a green smoke stew for fear they would die but no one did.

Maybe there's something extra you could add to the stew that we didn't think of? Or hasn't been discovered yet? I'd hate to have to go back through the whole list to see if I mesed up the ingredients of one.

Well I've been able to get all 18. Are you sure you didn't miss one?

Ah crud, then I'm going to have to go back through and see which combo I messed up.

Is the formula the same for the elusive 18th stew or do you have to go and get something special; say a weird fish or something?

Nothing special, just plain old herbs.

Well I am begging to think that I should never use the black plant ever again because when I do use it, it is always a bad stew with green gas.

I have been writing down all my combinations to. How many are there?

There are 56 different combos.

I kept track of them from the first one I made.
I've got an excel spread-sheet. I tried every single of the 56 combination.
nothing with the coconuts
no black death stew, only the usual sickening ones.
--> do these ones really exist???

I went through all of them again.

Thanks for your answers but do you have any other suggestions???

is there really no one who'll pm me the death stew? I guess that's the one I'm still missing - although I can't come up with an explanation as to why I'm still missing it. but anyhow:
pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase could someone help me!?????!?????!?

There's now a text list of all 56 combos on the Stew recipe guides thread. You might compare yours with that one & see what you missed.