Meal

Red meat stew with boiled carrots.

A meal is a consumable food item that is created by cooking various foodstuffs in a cooking pot . Preparing a meal improves the satiety of the ingredients and halts the progression of hunger for a time upon consumption.

Creation

Create a cooking pot and place it on a fueled firepit with , then the fire pit to open the creation window, where 4 slots will display for ingredients to be added. Meals can be made out of a mix of ingredients, but must be made according to specific recipes for the game to register them as valid meals. Certain recipes require ingredients to be placed in a specific order in the cooking pot as well. Recipes can be multiplied in order to make multiple servings at a time, up to a maximum of six servings, but the ratio of each ingredient must match the total servings.

If the contents of the cooking pot can be turned into a meal, the creation window will list the name of the meal at the top, and an animation and sounds of a bubbling pot will play.

Certain foods that cannot be eaten raw, such as soybeans and cassava , can be used to cook meals.

Types of meals

• Vegetable stew
• Meat stew
• Porridge
• Soup
• Jam
• Scrambled eggs

A hefty vegetable stew made with four ingredients.

Every meal uses one or more types of ingredient as its basis, which must occupy certain slots in the cooking pot in order to register as a valid meal. These ingredient types include foods such as vegetables , mushrooms , meat or grain .

Meals are named after the ingredients used to produce them. The name format is generally in the following form:

(Hefty/Hearty) [Ingredient 1]-[Ingredient 2] [meal type] with [ingredient 3] and [ingredient 4] garnish/topping

Meals that have three different primary ingredients are called "hearty" meals, while meals with four different primary ingredients are called "hefty" meals. For example, a vegetable stew made with onion, turnip and carrot would be called "Hearty onion-turnip stew with carrot garnish", while a vegetable stew with onion, turnip, carrot and cabbage would be "Hefty onion-turnip stew with carrot and cabbage garnish". Honey , if added as an optional ingredient, is called a "topping".

The names are purely descriptive and have no additional impact on a meal's effects.

Usage

Once a meal is cooked it will be stored in the cooking pot. In order to eat the meal, the cooking pot must be placed on a block using Shift + or left on the fire pit. Equip a bowl and use it on the cooking pot to fill the bowl with a single serving. The player can then eat from the bowl.

Meals can also be placed into crocks to preserve them. To do so, equip the crock and use it on the cooking pot or bowl containing the meal. Preserved crocks can then be sealed with fat and placed in a cellar to further extend their shelf life.

Improved satiety

Once a player consumes a meal, it will halt satiety loss for a short time, so the player will eat less food overall. For every 100 satiety granted by meals, the satiety bar will stop decreasing for 30 seconds. In addition, the ingredients used in the meal will provide more satiety than if they were eaten raw. Here is a table on each ingredient's improved satiety that would be used in a meal:

Vegetable

Ingredient	Raw	Cooked	Improvement (%)
All mushroom types	80	120	50%
Bell Peppers	100	150	50%
Cabbage	300	450	50%
Carrots	100	150	50%
Cassava	100	120	20%
Olive	100	150	50%
Onion	100	150	50%
Parsnip	100	150	50%
Pumpkin slice	140	180	29%
Turnip	100	150	50%

Grain

Ingredient	Raw	Cooked	Improvement (%)
Flax	30	120	300%
Rice	75	280	274%
Rye	60	240	300%
Spelt	60	240	300%
Amaranth	60	240	300%
Dried cassava	100	240	140%
Sunflower	60	240	300%

Protein

Ingredient	Raw	Cooked	Improvement (%)
File:No image found.pngPickled soybean	150	240	60%
Raw redmeat	280	420	50%
Cured redmeat	200	420	110%
Raw poultry	200	375	88%
Cured poultry	150	375	150%
Egg	-	200	-
Raw fish	220	375	70%
Cured fish	150	375	150%

Fruit

Ingredient	Raw	Cooked	Improvement (%)
Apple	80	120	50%
Black currant	80	120	50%
Bread fruit	200	250	25%
Blueberry	80	120	50%
Cherry	40	60	50%
Cranberry	60	90	50%
Honey	60	80	33%
Lychee	40	60	50%
Mango	80	120	50%
Orange	80	120	50%
Peach	80	120	50%
Pear	80	120	50%
Pineapple slice	80	120	50%
Pomegranate	80	120	50%
Red currant	80	120	50%
Saguaro fruit	60	90	50%
White currant	80	120	50%

Dairy

Ingredient	Raw	Cooked	Improvement (%)
File:No image found.pngBlue cheese (1 slice)	200	200	0%
File:No image found.pngCheddar (1 slice)	240	240	0%

Recipes

Recipes

Meal type	Slot 1	Slot 2	Optional
Meat stew	Any meat	Any meat	Any meat Any vegetable Egg Any fruit or honey (limited to 1)
Vegetable Stew	Any vegetable	Any vegetable	Any vegetable Soybeans
Porridge	Any grain	Any grain	Any vegetable Any fruit Honey (limited to 1)
Soup	Any vegetable	Water from a bucket	Any meat (limited to 1) Any vegetable Egg
Scrambled Egg	Egg	Egg	Any cheese slice Any vegetable
Jam	Any fruit	Any fruit	Honey

History

• Before version 1.18.0, soybeans and peanuts could not be used as the primary ingredients of vegetable stew, only as an add-on.
• Until version 1.18.0 ^verify? the maximum serving size of all meals was four.