Cooking and recipes.

How cooking works

Put ingredients into an Oven or a Pot. You do not pick a recipe: the game cooks the first dish that your ingredients satisfy. Recipes ask for kinds of food, so three grain, or a fish and a potato, will do. The rarest dishes come first, so if you have the right things they win over the simpler ones.

Each dish makes a few helpings, and each helping is one piece of food. A dish made from Silver ingredients comes out Silver, and from Golden ingredients, Golden. Silver and Golden dishes last longer, by a little more with each step.

The first time you cook a dish, it is written in your recipe book, and it stays there even if you leave the game.

Raw food

Raw meat and raw fish cook in any fire or furnace, and a potato roasts in the embers. A piece of raw meat fills you less than a piece of cooked meat.

How food fills you

Food restores hunger, out of 100. A single piece of cooked meat fills about 15 points, and a single piece of raw meat about 7 and a half. A whole stack eats in proportion, and Silver food gives a third more, Golden two thirds more. Food is worth a little health instead when hunger is switched off in your game.

Some dishes give buffs, which you see as icons while they last. A dish cooked again renews its buff, and buffs do not stack.

The buffs

Buff	Effect
Well Fed	Health comes back faster
Swift	You move a quarter faster
Miner's Vigor	You mine 40 per cent faster
Deep Breath	Your air lasts twice as long under water
Night Eyes	You see in the dark
Warmth	The cold bothers you 15 degrees later
Cool Head	The heat bothers you 15 degrees later
Thick Skin	You take a quarter less damage
Mighty	Your blows land 30 per cent harder
Green Thumb	Your harvests come out better and give more
Spring Step	You jump a third higher

Oven dishes

Dish	Makes	Ingredients	Buffs (seconds)
Golden Harvest Feast (rare)	3	3 Golden vegetables or fruit, 2 grain, 1 meat	Thick Skin 600, Mighty 600, Green Thumb 600, Well Fed 300
Royal Honey Cake (rare)	2	2 Silver or Golden honey, 2 grain, 1 egg	Green Thumb 480, Spring Step 480, Well Fed 240
Sunrise Breakfast (rare)	2	2 eggs, 1 bread, 1 fruit	Swift 420, Spring Step 420, Well Fed 240
Apple Pie	2	2 apples, 2 grain	Thick Skin 300, Well Fed 120
Berry Pie	2	3 berries or grapes, 2 grain	Swift 240, Well Fed 90
Honey Cake	2	1 honey, 2 grain, 1 egg	Spring Step 240, Well Fed 200
Fruit Tart	2	2 fruit, 1 sugar, honey or butter, 1 grain	Swift 200, Spring Step 120
Mushroom Pie	2	2 mushrooms, 2 grain	Night Eyes 180, Thick Skin 150
Herb Roast	2	1 meat, 1 basil or mint, 1 potato, carrot or cabbage	Mighty 240, Warmth 150
Cheese Bake	2	1 cheese, 2 potatoes	Warmth 240, Well Fed 180
Cornbread	2	2 corn, 1 grain	Miner's Vigor 150, Well Fed 90
Bread	2	3 grain	Well Fed 180
Pumpkin Pie	2	1 pumpkin, 2 grain	Swift 150, Well Fed 60
Baked Apple	2	2 apples	Well Fed 150, Cool Head 90
Roast Potato	2	2 potatoes	Well Fed 90
Roast Vegetables	2	2 carrots, tomatoes or pumpkin	Swift 90
Popcorn	2	1 corn	Swift 120

Pot dishes

Dish	Makes	Ingredients	Buffs (seconds)
Truffle Risotto (rare)	2	1 truffle, 2 rice, 1 milk, butter or cheese	Miner's Vigor 480, Thick Skin 360, Green Thumb 240
Glowcap Broth	2	2 glowcaps	Night Eyes 240
Chilli Stew	3	1 meat, 1 chilli, 1 tomato or potato	Warmth 420, Mighty 180
Hearty Stew	3	1 meat, 1 potato, 1 carrot	Warmth 240, Well Fed 120
Corn Chowder	2	2 corn, 1 milk, butter or cheese, 1 potato	Well Fed 240, Thick Skin 180
Fish Chowder	2	1 fish, 1 potato	Deep Breath 240
Rice Bowl	2	2 rice, 1 fish, meat, carrot or tomato	Miner's Vigor 180
Mushroom Soup	2	2 mushrooms, 1 milk, butter, cheese or potato	Night Eyes 240, Well Fed 120
Omelette	2	2 eggs, 1 vegetable, herb or mushroom	Swift 240, Well Fed 150
Creamy Potato	2	2 potatoes, 1 butter or milk	Well Fed 300, Warmth 120
Cabbage Soup	2	2 cabbages	Warmth 240, Thick Skin 120
Tomato Soup	2	2 tomatoes	Cool Head 240
Vegetable Soup	2	3 vegetables	Swift 180
Mulled Cider	2	2 apples, 1 sugar or honey	Warmth 420, Well Fed 120
Berry Jam	2	3 berries or grapes, 1 sugar or honey	Spring Step 180, Well Fed 90
Lemonade	2	1 lemon, 1 sugar or honey	Cool Head 300, Swift 120
Melon Smoothie	2	1 melon, 1 milk, butter or cheese	Cool Head 360, Well Fed 90
Grape Juice	2	3 grapes	Spring Step 240, Well Fed 90
Herbal Tea	2	2 mint	Swift 240, Deep Breath 180
Coffee	2	2 coffee beans	Miner's Vigor 300, Swift 300
Sugar	2	2 sugar cane	none
Cheese	1	3 milk	Well Fed 90
Butter	1	2 milk	Well Fed 60

Tips

• Keep spare ingredients to hand. Only a dish whose full recipe is in the Oven or Pot is cooked, so an extra egg or potato can make the difference.
• Golden Harvest Feast and the other rare dishes need Golden crops, Silver honey or a truffle. Plant well to get them.
• For a long strong boost before a big mining trip, cook Miner's Vigor dishes such as Coffee or Truffle Risotto.
• Sugar and cheese are good to have on hand, since many dishes take them.

For how to grow the ingredients, see farming crops. Fish and meat come from fishing and livestock. The short version of food is in animals, food and fishing.

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