Cooking | How to get food Don't Starve Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
Basics
After you build the Science Machine you will gain access to Crock Pot schematics. To create it, you are going to need 3x Cut Stone, 6x Charcoal and 6x Twigs. You can obtain charcoal by burning trees.
The already mentioned Crock Pot can be used for cooking meals using four ingredients, which brings down hunger very quickly, and heal your character. The cooking itself takes around 40 seconds, and if you leave it inside the pot for some time, it is going to be suitable for eating for a longer period of time. Below, you will find a detailed list of all recipes. Wherever there aren't 4 ingredients listed, you need to use , the so called, fillers, i.e. any other material not listed as a "Restriction". If you add ingredients used in the other meals, this will result in a meal with higher priority being cooked. In the case of equal priority, the result is random.
What will also prove useful, apart from the recipes, is the table of value for individual ingredients. Sometimes, to cook a meal you are going to need two pieces of meat. This means that you can use 4x Morsel (with the value of 0,5 each) or 2x Meat (with the value of 1 each). In a similar way, fruits, vegetables and apples have been divided.
Ingredient value
Ingredients | Value |
Meat, Cooked Meat, Monster Meat, Cooked Monster Meat | 1x meat |
Morsel, Cooked Morsel, Drumstick, Cooked Drumstick, Frog Legs, Cooked Frog Legs | 0.5x meat |
Pomegranate, Sliced Pomegranate, Durian, Sliced Durian, Dragon Fruit, Sliced Dragon Fruit | 1x fruit |
Berries, Roasted Berries | 0.5x fruit |
Carrot, Roasted Carrot, Corn, Popcorn, Pumpkin, Hot Pumpkin, Eggplant, Braised Eggplant | 1x vegetable |
Red Mushroom, Cooked Red Cap, Green Mushroom, Cooked Green Cap, Blue Mushroom, Cooked Blue Cap | 0.5x vegetable |
Egg, Cooked Egg | 1x egg |
Tallbird Egg, Fried Tallbird Egg | 4x egg |
Recipes
Name | Fitness | Sanity | Hunger level | Priority | Ingredients | Restrictions |
Mandrake Soup | +100 | +150 | +5 | 10 | 1xMandrake | |
Waffles | +60 | +37,5 | +5 | 10 | 1xButter 1xEgg 1xBerries | |
Fishsticks | +40 | +37,5 | +5 | 10 | 1xFish 1xTwigs | No Twigs |
Dumplings | +40 | +37,5 | +5 | 5 | 1xEgg 0.5xmeat 0.5xVegetable | No Twigs |
Dragonpie | +40 | +75 | +5 | 1 | 1xDragon Fruit | No meat |
Honey Ham | +30 | +75 | +5 | 2 | 1xHoney meat | No Twigs |
Turkey Dinner | +20 | +75 | +5 | 10 | 2xDrumstick 0.5xmeat 0.5xVegetable 0.5xFruit | |
Fruit Medley | +20 | +25 | +5 | 0 | 3xFruit | No meat and vegetables |
Honey Nuggets | +20 | +37,5 | +5 | 2 | 1xHoney 0.5xmeat | No Twigs |
Froggle Bunwich | +20 | +37,5 | +5 | 1 | 1xFrog Legs 0.5xVegetable | |
Butter Muffin | +20 | +37,5 | +5 | 1 | 1xButterfly Wings 0.5xVegetable | No meat |
Bacon and Eggs | +20 | +25 | +5 | 10 | 2xEgg 1.5xmeat | No vegetables |
Fish Tacos | +20 | +37,5 | +5 | 10 | 1xFish 1xCorn | |
Meaty Stew | +12 | +75 | +5 | 0 | 3xMieso | No Twigs |
Meatballs | +3 | +37,5 | +5 | -1 | 0.5xMeat | No Twigs |
Stuffed Effplant | +3 | +150 | +5 | 1 | 1xEffplant 0.5xVegetable | |
Fist Full of Jam | +3 | +62,5 | +5 | 0 | 0.5xFruit | No Twigs, vegetables and meat |
Ratatouille | +3 | +37,5 | +5 | 0 | 0.5xVegetable | No Twigs and meat |
Kabobs | +3 | +37,5 | +5 | 5 | 0.5xMeat 1xTwigs | No Twigs and Monster Meat |
Pumpkin Cookie | 0 | +25 | +15 | 10 | 1xPumpkin 2xHoney | |
Wet Goop | 0 | +37,5 | 0 | -2 | Ingredients that do not go into any recipe | |
Taffy | -3 | +37,5 | +15 | 10 | 3xHoney | |
Monster Lasagna | -20 | 0 | -20 | 10 | 2xMeat | No Twigs |