Cooking

Raw edibles

At the start of the game, without any infrastructure, the player only has access to foraged or hunted food that can be eaten raw in order to maintain the player's satiety . However, the player should not rely on these for overly long, as once harvested, naturally occurring foodstuffs are either gone for good, or require a long time to regrow.

The following table lists all the food items that can be eaten raw:

Item	Satiety	Category	Notes
Honey1 (per 0.1 liter)	30	Fruit	Liquid. Never spoils.
Cherry, lychee	40	Fruit
Cranberry	60	Fruit
Saguaro fruit	60	Fruit	Restores 1 hp upon consumption.
Apple, blueberry, red currant, white currant, black currant, mango, orange, peach, pear, pomegranate, or pineapple slice	80	Fruit
Breadfruit	200	Fruit
Mushroom	80	Vegetable	Some mushroom types may be poisonous and deal damage upon consumption.
Bell pepper2, carrot, olive, onion, parsnip, or turnip	100	Vegetable
Cassava (processed)	100	Vegetable	Inedible without prior processing.
Cabbage	300	Vegetable
Pumpkin slice	140	Vegetable
Pumpkin (whole)	480	Vegetable	Since version 1.19, it is no longer possible to eat a whole pumpkin.
Flax grain	30	Grain
Amaranth, rice, rye, spelt, or sunflower grain	60	Grain
Walnut seed	40	Protein	Never spoils.
Termite	60	Protein
Peanut	160	Protein
Lump of fat3	200	Protein	Never spoils.
Vintage Beef	280	Protein	Rare ruin loot. Restores 2 hp upon consumption. Never spoils.
Milk (per 0.1 liter)	15	Dairy	Liquid.
Fish	220	Protein

¹ Consuming honey used to restore health in older versions. It no longer does as of version 1.16.
² Bell peppers are unobtainable in survival gameplay as of version 1.16.
³ Lumps of fat are a valuable crafting material that should be eaten only in emergencies.

Mushrooms

Mushrooms are special in that they may be beneficial or harmful to the player when ingested, and some of the harmful ones are very easily mistaken for safe ones.

Following is a list of specifically poisonous mushrooms for easy checking:

Name	Notes
Bitter bolete	-3 hp
Death cap	-50 hp (!)
Devilstooth mushroom	-2 hp
Earth ball	-8 hp
Elfin saddle	-7 hp
Fly agaric	-6.5 hp
Funeral bell	-40 hp (!)
Gold-drop milkcap	-2.5 hp
Jack'o'lantern mushroom	-6 hp
Pink bonnet	-10 hp

Raw red meat in a fire pit

Nutrition and Satiation

Raw red meat in a fire pit

The first opportunity for making better food comes with the firepit . A small number of foraged or hunted ingredients can be placed directly into it for processing. Additionally, it can be used for baking dough into bread in a pinch, but the result will be of lesser quality than when using an oven.

Current nutrition and satiety levels can be examined in the character dialog, mapped to 'C' by default.

Item	Satiety	Category	Notes
Cooked cattail or papyrus root	100	Vegetable
Cooked bushmeat	120	Protein
Cooked poultry	200	Protein
Cooked redmeat	280	Protein
Cooked fish	200	Protein
Charred flax bread	100	Grain	Requires prior processing.
Charred amaranth, cassava, rye, spelt, or sunflower bread	210	Grain	Requires prior processing.
Charred rice bread	220	Grain	Requires prior processing.

Bread Dough

To create bread dough, prepare flour using a quern to grind grain.

1. Open the quern GUI (RMB) and add grain into the input slot (left) of the quern.
2. Hold RMB on the base of the quern to grind the grain into flour, which will appear in the output slot (right) of the quern.
3. In the crafting grid, combine a bucket of water and flour to create dough. (one bucket of water creates 10 dough)

Advanced cooking techniques can greatly increase the food value of ingredients, and can potentially achieve several thousands of satiety points in a single food item. Additionally, it allows the player to make meals out of multiple ingredients, which can potentially supply multiple nutrition groups at he same time. Whenever possible, it is recommended that the player uses advanced cooking techniques.

Cooking meals

See also: Meal

Cooking a stew in a fire pit.

Each ingredient should be placed in separate slots, and equal amounts of all ingredients must be added.

Baking

Place the dough into the input slot of the firepit and fuel the fire. (Each loaf of bread requires about one piece of firewood.) Both dough and bread loaves stack to 32.

Advanced Cooking

Cooking a stew in a fire pit

Each ingredient should be placed in separate slots, and equal amounts of all ingredients must be added.

To prepare more wholesome meals, craft a claypot using the clay forming mechanic. Place the burned claypot into the fire pit input slot (left) to cook any of the 5 available meal types. The meal type players create is determined by which two "required" ingredients are placed into the claypot.

• To create one serving of any meal: place one of each required item into two separate claypot slots (this defines the meal type). For example, a porridge requires "two grain", so a player must add two individual pieces of grain in any two input slots in the claypot. Placing two grain in one input slot of the claypot will not create a porridge. Adding "optional" ingredients in the other two input slots of the claypot will increase the nutrition value and satiation of the meal depending on which items are added. When a valid meal recipe (combining correct ingredients) is placed into the input slots, a message will appear in the claypot dialog box informing players about what type of meal will be created after cooking.

Mushrooms can be used as a main ingredient with water to make a soup, or used as ingredients in a stew without water.

Advanced recipes	Meat stew	Vegetable stew	Porridge	Soup	Jam	Scrambled eggs
Required ingredients	2 poultry or red meat or raw fish (cured or fresh)	2 vegetables or soybeans	2 grain	1 vegetable (fresh) + 1L water1	2 fruit + 2x 0.2L honey1	2 egg
Optional protein	0 - 2 protein	0 - 2 soybean		0 - 1 poultry or red meat or raw fish (cured or fresh), or egg
Optional vegetable	0 - 2 vegetable	0 - 2 vegetable	0 - 2 vegetable	0 - 2 vegetable		0 - 2 vegetable
Optional grain			0 - 2 grain
Optional fruit	0 - 1 fruit, 0L - 0.2L honey1		0 - 2 fruit, 0L - 0.2L honey1
Optional dairy						0 - 2 cheese

¹ Liquids can be added to the pot with a bucket (1L portions), jug (0.3L portions), or bowl (0.1L portions). Pick up the liquid container with your cursor and drag it over an empty spot in the cooking pot. Use to add one portion, to remove one portion.

• To store meals: Four portions of any cooked meal can be stored in an empty crock. Place the pot onto the ground or table and right click the pot with an empty crock to transfer meals to the storage crock. Storage crocks may be sealed for long term storage using fat or wax in the crafting grid, Crocks may also be carried in player inventories, stored in stationary containers, and placed on shelves.

The satiety received from eating meals is equal to the sum of its ingredients. The ingredients added to create the meal determine how much satiety of each class of nutrition the player receives. In addition, the food values of most ingredients are increased via cooking, as shown in the table below.

Pickled variants of listed ingredients can be used, but provide only their tooltip-listed food value, without gaining any bonus from meals.

Ingredients not listed in this table cannot be used in cooking pot meals.

Advanced Cooking Recipes

Protein	Satiety in a meal	Vegetable	Satiety in a meal	Grain	Satiety in a meal	Fruit	Satiety in a meal	Dairy	Satiety in a meal
Soybean	240	Field vegetable1 or olive	150	Flax grain	120	Blueberry, red currant, white currant or black currant	120	Blue cheese (slice)	200
Egg	200	Cassava	120	Rice grain	280	Tree fruits2 or pineapple slice	120	Cheddar (slice)	240
Poultry, cured or fresh	375	Pumpkin slice	180	Rye or spelt grain	240	Cranberries or saguaro fruit3	90
Redmeat, cured or fresh	420	Cabbage	450	Amaranth or cassava grain	240	Honey (0.2L)	80
		Mushroom3	120	Sunflower grain	240	Breadfruit	250
						Cherry or lychee	60

¹ Field vegetables include carrots, parsnips, onions, turnips, and bell peppers.
² Tree fruits include apples, mangoes, oranges, peaches, pears, and pomegranates.
³ Ingredients that restore player health when eaten raw, such as saguaro fruit, lose this benefit when cooked. However, cooking a poisonous mushroom does not remove its harmful effects - the meal will still damage the player!

Satiation

Player satiety is how "hungry" or "well-fed" a player is, and has a maximum value of 1500. The satiation received from eating simple foods is shown in the table below. The satiation received from eating meals is "equal to the sum of its parts". The ingredients added to create the meal determine how much satiation and which class of nutrition a player receives. In addition, for every 100 satiation filled by consuming a meal, an additional 30 seconds passes before the player's satiety bar starts dropping again.

See also: Bread and Pie

Baking is an advanced cooking method that revolves around dough, the creation of which requires some setup. A quern must be available, which requires metal tools to craft. Additionally, a clay oven should be set up for baking, as not all recipes can be baked in the firepit, and the results there are always subpar. Plus, a wooden bucket , a jug or a bowl is needed to be filled with water. Finally, a farm is required to consistently supply useful amounts of grain, as wild crops are nonrenewable, mature extremely slowly, and reset their growth after reaching maturity.

• Saguaro and Honey provide health points to the player when consumed.

Basic Cooking

Simple cooking includes placing raw meat, bread dough, or cattail roots in the firepit. Roasting makes these 3 types of raw food edible. All other ingredients require a clay pot to be cooked.

1. Open the quern GUI and add grain into the input slot on the left of the quern.
2. Hold interact on the top of the quern to grind the grain into flour, which will appear in the output slot on the right of the quern.
   During later stages of the game, a windmill may be used to drive the quern.
3. In the crafting grid, combine a bucket of water and flour to create dough. Each flour item will consume one unit of water from the bucket (1L).

Two foods can be baked at the moment: bread and pie . Both of them represent a significant advantage over consuming grain as porridge , and fully-filled pies can grant enormous nutrition with long spoilage times. Each serving of pie also halts the hunger meter for 30 seconds, greatly helping players with high hunger rates due to equipping heavy armor or offhand items.

• Add water or honey with a filled bucket. Use LMB to add one portion, RMB to remove one portion.

Check the food preservation page to learn how to best store all those delicious meals!

Advanced Cooking Food Values

Meals have a 50% extra satiety bonus from the ingredients' total satiety.

Protein	Satiation in Meal	Vegetable	Satiation in Meal	Grain	Satiation in Meal	Fruit	Satiation in Meal
Soy Bean	240	Roots: Carrot, Parsnip, Onion, Turnip	150	Flax	120	Currants, Blueberry	120
Egg	200	Cabbage	450	Rice	240	Cranberry	90
Poultry	375	Pumpkin	180	Rye	240	Saguarro	90
Red Meat	420	Mushrooms (Bolete, Field)	120	Spelt	240	Honey	80

Claypot Cooking (no real changes since version 1.12)