Cooking

Raw red meat in a fire pit

Basic Cooking

In its most simple form, cooking is done by placing raw meat, bread dough or cattail roots in the fire pit. This makes these 3 types of raw food edible. All other ingredients require a clay pot to be cooked.

Raw or simply cooked foods give you 10 seconds until your saturation starts to drop again.

Nutrition

The player starts with 15 base health points and you can increase that until 25 hp by consuming a balanced diet, this where more advanced meals are particularly useful because they let you create mixed nutrition meals. Please be aware though, your nutrition levels do not increase if you eat while completely saturated. You can check your current levels on your character dialog, mapped to 'C' by default. The saturation you receive from eating meals is "equal to the sum of its parts". So what you put into your meal is what you will get in terms of saturation and nutrition. In addition, for every 100 saturation you will get 30 seconds more time until your saturation bar starts dropping again.

Advanced cooking

Cooking a stew in a fire pit

To prepare more wholesome meals, you need to craft yourself a clay pot using the clay forming mechanic. Once you have a burned claypot, place it back into the fire pit input slot (left) and you are ready to cook some meals.

There are 4 base types of meals. Each meal type requires TWO mandatory ingredients and allows up to TWO optional ingredients. Which meal you create is determined by what you put into the claypot, but the ingredients do not have to be in any particular order when placing them into the claypot. To create a serving of a meal, you must put 1 item per slot in the claypot. For example, a porridge requires "two grain", you must add two individual pieces of grain, one in each of two slots, but you can put these in any slot in the clay pot. You don't have to put the grain in the "first two slots" of the claypot, but placing two grain in one slot of the claypot will not create a porridge. Adding optional items in the other input slots of the claypot will increase the nutrition value and saturation of the meal depending on which ingredients you choose to add. When you have created a valid meal recipe by combining correct ingredients, a message will appear in the claypot dialog box informing you of what you will create when you cook your meal.

The claypot allows you to cook up to 6 servings at a time. You can increase the amount of servings by increasing the number of items in all slots. If you are trying to create multiple servings and you do not increase all the items in the input slots by the same amount, your food will not cook!

To eat a meal, place your pot of cooked food onto the ground or table, then right click on with a empty bowl in hands, or vice versa.

Porridge

To make a porridge you need at least 2 grain. The porridge is the only exception on the "sum of its parts" rule. A cooked piece of grain will yield double the saturation.

Required ingredients:

• 2 Grain

Optional ingredients:

• 0 - 2 Grain
• 0 - 2 Berries
• 0 - 2 Vegetable, Pumpkin or Mushroom
• 0 - 1 Honey

Soup

To make a soup you need at least 1 portion of water and 1 vegetable. You can add water with a filled water bucket. Left click to add one portion of water, right click to remove one portion.

Required ingredients:

• 1 Water
• 1 Vegetable

Optional ingredients:

• 0-2 Vegetable, Pumpkin or Mushroom
• 0-1 Poultry, Red meat or Chicken Egg

Meat Stew

To make a stew you need at least 2 portions of meat

Required ingredients:

• 2 Poultry or Red meat

Optional ingredients:

• 0-2 Poultry or Red meat
• 0-2 Chicken Egg
• 0-1 Berry
• 0-1 Honey
• 0-2 Vegetable, Pumpkin, Mushroom or Soy beans

Cooked Vegetable Stew

Requires at least 2 vegetables.

Required ingredients:

• 2 Vegetables, Pumpkin, Soy beans

Optional ingredients:

• 0-2 Vegetables, Pumpkin, Soy beans
• 0-2 Mushroom

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