Basic Information[]
The Cooking Station is required to cook up to 46 types of Foodstuff that has different useful effects (buffs) on player characters when consumed.
Food can also be fed to Pets - these will only provide their best harvest after being fed their favorite fodder.
All types of Food require Crops as cooking ingredients, and Pie requires Eggs from Chizzard type Pets.
Obtaining a Cooking Station[]
Cooking Stations cannot be obtained from Creatures or Treasure Chests.
They can (only) be crafted in your Crafting Menu (to be opened by typing "Q" as the default key).
Alternatively, they can be bought as a content of block kits for Blueprints, even customized ones, in the Store for Coins that can be bought with real money.
Unlocking the crafting recipe[]
The crafting-recipe for the Cooking Station has to be unlocked first by:
- crafting/obtaining a Plow
- obtaining Wheat grown from Wheat Seeds (from Tallgrass or Savannah Tallgrass) near Water on tilled soil
- scooping up ordinary Water without any Power Cell, and
- taking Obsidian (bars) out of a Forge after smelting Obsidian Ore that can be extracted from Nodes found on the Fossil layer underground (accessible through Caves or by digging down), or in Mountains or recesses near rivers
Crafting a Cooking Station[]
To craft a Cooking Station, you'll need:
- 1 piece of Coal, extracted from Coal Nodes in Mountains or the Fossil layer, or found in Treasure Chests that randomly spawn in darkness
- 4 Stone Rods made of Stone, Limestone or Bedrock in a Processor
- 2 Obsidian (bars) made in a Forge from extracted Obsidian Ore that can be found in Nodes in the Mountains or on the Fossil layer underground (accessible through Caves)
- 2 Stone Slabs made of Stone, Limestone or Bedrock in a Processor
Using the Cooking Station[]
To use a Cooking Station you will have to place it into the game-world. Like all Crafting Stations a Cooking Station requires one block of free space above it.
Then you can interact with the Cooking Station: point your cursor at it, and click your right mouse button or type "f" as the default key while looking at the Cooking Station.
You will see that your inventory window is now (temporarily) replaced with a window that reorganizes everything that you carry with you.
The topmost section will then be labelled "Recipes", displaying the 5 recipes - some might still be locked, but at least the cooking recipes for Soups and Meals will be unlocked.
The next section will be labelled "Ingredients", listing all usable cooking ingredients that you carry with you.
Then either use right-click on the ingredients listed in the window that will resort your inventory temporarily on the left side to put them into the Cooking Station or drag & drop them in to the slots of the Cooking Station.
This list will not include materials nor items that are stored in a storage container or placed nearby. You will have to move them into your inventory or quickbar.
Each Cooking Station can be filled with 21 stacks of items (or materials) in its queue to be processed.
If you hold down the "Sprint" key (Left Shift by default), you can process 5 times as many materials at once, just like in the Crafting Menu.
Waiting[]
It will take very little time for each Food to be cooked. Like the other Crafting Stations, a Cooking Station will display the timespan it requires for the whole queue of Recipes, but it will not display how long only one cooking process will take.
Taking a Cooking Station[]
To pick the Cooking Station up and take with you again, no Power Cell needs to be equipped.
However, Cooking Stations can only be picked up when they are empty (with no item in their slots). Of course you won't be able to take Crafting Stations on claims of other players (or in game-worlds) where your permission level is set low.
Permission settings and Transfer history[]
You can change permission settings for each Crafting Station individually by clicking on the padlock-icon in the top right corner after activating/opening it. Here you can set individual authorizations to control who will be permitted to access this Crafting Station and its content.
Available permission-settings on a game-world are: "just me", "world owner/admins", "world mods", "world builders" or "everyone". And on player claims: "just me", "claim admins", "claim interact only", "claim builders" and "everyone".
Since update R40 all Crafting Stations are set to "builders" by default when being placed. So only players with builder rights/permission rank can access your Wood Planters after you have placed them. This holds true either on your claim if you have placed the Crafting Station there, or otherwise on the game-world. Claim permission ranks override world permission ranks.
If the permission is set to "everyone", then even visitors can access the Crafting Station and can even take it away. By setting the permission level of your Crafting Station to "claim interact only", visitors can use the Crafting Station (and take materials out), but cannot take the Crafting Station itself away. You can set the permission level of your Crafting Station to "just me" to protect it. However please note that owners, admins and mods of the game-world can still access your stuff under certain circumstances. For more details, please refer to the article Permissions.
By clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner after activating/opening the Crafting Station, you can view its Transfer History that lists all filling and removal actions with the according player names and time of their access to the content of this container (slot).
Crafting Stations cannot be destroyed by TNT-type Explosives nor by Excavators of any kind. Crafting Stations also cannot be wired currently, so they cannot be "locked" nor activated/deactivated from a distance.
Cooking recipes[]
Currently there are only 5 cooking recipes that you will need to unlock: Soup, Meal, Pie, Bread and Sandwiches.
With these five recipes, up to 46 different kinds of Food can be cooked - depending on the ingredients that you will combine for these cooking recipes by inserting them into the slots of the Cooking Station.
You will not need to search for any special crafting recipes to make specific types of Food like Wholesome, Corrupted, Frigid and so on.
Unlocking cooking recipes[]
The first cooking recipes, included with the Cooking Station after it's been crafted, are for all kinds of Soup and Meals.
Making/taking an ordinary, simple Soup will then unlock the cooking recipe for all kinds of Pies. Any special types of soups will not unlock this recipe.
Getting Wheat (grown from Wheat Seeds on tilled soil) for the first time will automatically unlock the cooking recipe for all kinds of Breads. Since this is now an unlocking requirement for crafting a Cooking Station, this recipe will also be unlocked right away when you use your own Cooking Station for the first time.
Baking an ordinary Bread (Wheat and Water) in the Cooking Station will then automatically unlock the cooking recipe for all types of Sandwiches. Special types of breads will not unlock this recipe.
How to cook Soups, Meals, Breads, Sandwiches and Pies[]
First choose one of the 5 basic recipes, then right-click on the ingredients in your inventory/bag in the correct order (from left to right) or drag & drop them over the according slots with your left mouse button.
Valid ingredients for the different slots are:
- grain: this slot currently accepts only Wheat
- liquid: Water, Molasses, Mineral Water, Bog Water, Tar, Lava, Corrupted Water
- egg: Chizzard Egg or Blizzard Chizzard Egg
- vegetable: Turnip, Lettuce, Leafi Leaf, Autumn Leafi Leaf, Dried Leafi Leaf, Baby Leafi Leaf
- ingredient:
- any Crop except Wheat (Horned Melon, Lettuce, Turnip, Wild Bamboo, Mirror Grass, Desert Succulent, Big Pokey Cactus, Prickly Pal Cactus)
- any Mushroom (Red Mushroom, Brown Mushroom, Glowing Mushroom)
- any egg (Chizzard Egg, Blizzard Chizzard Egg)
- any "meaty" mob drop (Pork Chop, Poultry Parts, Filet o' Karrotfish)
- Questionable Jerky
- bread: anything you can cook using the Bread recipe in the Cooking Station, except Gingerbread Loaves
Different recipes have different ingredient slots:
- Cooking any type of Soup requires 2 units of Liquid of any type, 4 x of any valid vegetable and 3 x of any valid ingredient
- Cooking any type of Meal requires 4 units of any valid ingredient
- Cooking any type of Bread requires 4 ears of Wheat and 1 unit of Liquid of any type
- Cooking any type of Sandwich requires 2 Breads of any kind (except Gingerbread Loaves), plus 3 x of any valid vegetable and 3 x of any valid ingredient
- Cooking any type of Pie requires 2 ears of Wheat, 1x either Chizzard Egg or Blizzard Chizzard Egg, 1 unit of Liquid of any type and 3 of any valid ingredient
List of Food and their effects (instant for Meals, 7:30 min. for all Breads, 15 min. for everything else)[]
Food | Health | Extra | Ingredients |
---|---|---|---|
ordinary Bread | +100 Max. Health | Unlocks Sandwich Recipe | 4x Wheat and 1x ordinary Water |
Tar Bread | +100 Max. Health | Fuel of Heat Level 10 | 4x Wheat and 1x Tar |
Bog Bread | +100 Max. Health | +50% Poison Resistance | 4x Wheat and 1x Bog Water |
Wholesome Bread | +100 Max. Health | Periodic Healing | 4x Wheat and 1x Mineral Water |
Blazing Bread | +100 Max. Health | +50% Fire Resistance | 4x Wheat and 1x liquid Lava |
Corrupted Bread | -100 Max. Health | +20/40 Max. Stamina, Corruption damage reduced | 4x Wheat and 1x Corrupted Water |
Gingerbread Loaf | +100 Max. Health | Used for crafting | 4x Wheat and 1x Molasses |
ordinary Soup | +150 Max. Health | Unlocks Pie Recipe | 2x Water/Molasses + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient except Chizzard Egg, Blizzard Chizzard Egg, Prickly Pal Cactus, Big Pokey Cactus, Questionable Jerky or Bone if one of the Leafi Leaves was used as a vegetable |
Chizzard Noodle Soup | +150 Max. Health | No Fall Damage | 2x Water + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x Questionable Jerky |
Egg Drop Soup | +150 Max. Health | +50% Fall Damage Resistance | 2x Water/Molasses/Bog Water/Tar/Mineral Water/liquid Lava + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x Chizzard Eggs |
Frigid Soup | +150 Max. Health | +50% Freeze Resistance | 2x Water + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x Blizzard Chizzard Eggs |
Tar Soup | +150 Max. Health | Fuel of Heat Level 10 | 2x Tar + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient except Chizzard Egg or Bone if one of the Leafi Leaves was used as a vegetable |
Bog Broth | +150 Max. Health | +50% Poison Resistance | 2x Bog Water + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient except Chizzard Egg or Bone if one of the Leafi Leaves was used as a vegetable |
Wholesome Soup | +150 Max. Health | Heal over time | 2x Mineral Water + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient except Chizzard Egg or Bone if one of the Leafi Leaves was used as a vegetable |
Blazing Soup | +150 Max. Health | +50% Fire Resistance | 2x Lava + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient except Chizzard Egg or Bone if one of the Leafi Leaves was used as a vegetable |
Corrupted Soup | -150 Max. Health | +50/100 Max. Stamina, Corruption heals over time | 2x Corrupted Water + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient, except Bone if one of the Leafi Leaves was used as a vegetable |
Bone Broth | +50/100 Max. Stamina, Stamina regenerates a lot faster | 2x any Liquid + 4x any Leafi Leaf (Leafi Leaf, Autumn Leafi Leaf, Dried Leafi Leaf, Baby Leafi Leaf) + 3x Bone | |
Spiky Soup | -100 Health | increased attack damage | 2x Water + 4x any valid vegetable + 3x Prickly Pal Cactus or Big Pokey Cactus |
ordinary Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | 2x ordinary Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x Lettuce, Filet o' Karrotfish, Pork Chop, Poultry Parts, Wild Bamboo, Desert Succulent, Mirror Grass, or Turnip if Turnip was not used as a vegetable | |
Melon Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | +50/100 Max. Stamina | 2x Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x Horned Melons |
Mushroom Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | Heal over time | 2x Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x of any type of Mushrooms |
Turnip Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | +50% Speed | 2x Bread + 6x Turnips |
Jerky Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | No Fall Damage | 2x Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x Questionable Jerky |
Egg Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | No Fall Damage | 2x Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x ordinary Chizzard Eggs |
Frigid Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | Inverse Freeze Damage | 2x Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x Blizzard Chizzard Eggs |
Wholesome Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | Heals over time | 2x Wholesome Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient |
Tar Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | Fuel of Heat Level 10 | 2x Tar Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient |
Bog Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | Inverse Poison Damage | 2x Bog Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient |
Blazing Sandwich | +200 Max. Health | Inverse Fire Damage | 2x Blazing Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient |
Corrupted Sandwich | -200 Max. Health | +100/200 Max. Stamina, Inverse Corruption Damage | 2x Corrupted Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x any valid ingredient |
Spiky Sandwich | -100 Health | increased attack damage | 2x Bread + 3x any valid vegetable + 3x Prickly Pal Cactus or Big Pokey Cactus |
ordinary Pie | +150 Max. Health | +50/100 Max. Stamina | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Water/Bog Water/Tar/Molasses +3x any valid ingredient except Horned Melon, Questionable Jerky, Blizzard Chizzard Egg if Blizzard Chizzard Egg is used as the egg, and Mushrooms, Prickly Pal Cactus, Big Pokey Cactus or Desert Succulent if Water is used as the liquid |
Melon Pie | +100/200 Max. Stamina | Poison Resistance | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Water or any other Liquid + 3x Horned Melons |
Mushroom Pot Pie | +150 Max. Health | Heal over time | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Water + 3x Mushrooms of any kind |
Chizzard Pot Pie | +150 Max. Health | +50/100 Max. Stamina, No Fall Damage | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Water or any other Liquid + 3x Questionable Jerky |
Frigid Pie | +150 Max. Health | Inverse Freeze Damage | 2x Wheat + 1x Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Water or any other Liquid +3x Blizzard Chizzard Eggs |
Wholesome Pie | +150 Max. Health | Heal over time | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Mineral Water + 3x any valid ingredient except Questionable Jerky, Horned Melon and Blizzard Chizzard Egg if Blizzard Chizzard Egg was used as the egg |
Blazing Pie | +150 Max. Health | Inverse Fire Damage | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Lava + 3x any valid ingredient except Questionable Jerky, Horned Melon and Blizzard Chizzard Egg if Blizzard Chizzard Egg was used as the egg |
Corrupted Pie | -150 Max. Health | +50/100 Max. Stamina, Inverse Corruption Damage | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Corrupted Water, + 3x any valid ingredient except Questionable Jerky, Horned Melon and Blizzard Chizzard Egg if Blizzard Chizzard Egg was used as the egg |
Spiky Pie | -100 Health | increased attack damage | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Water + 3x Prickly Pal Cactus or Big Pokey Cactus |
Poisonous Pastry | poison damage for 15 sec | 2x Wheat + 1x Chizzard Egg/Blizzard Chizzard Egg + 1x Water + 3x Desert Succulent | |
Meal | no known effect at this time | 4x any ingredient except Pork Chop, Poultry Parts, Filet o' Karrotfish, Chizzard Egg, Blizzard Chizzard Egg | |
Eggsellent Egg Skillet | +200 Health | 4x Chizzard Egg or Blizzard Chizzard Egg | |
Exquisite Roast Bird | +500 Health | 4x Poultry Parts | |
Heavenly Baked Hog | +500 Health | 4x Pork Chop | |
Scrumptious Sushi Spread | +500 Health | 4x Filet o' Karrotfish |
Maximum Stamina is enhanced twice as much for players who own the Pro DLC as for free players.
You can consume many Food types and have all kinds of bonuses like resistances active at the same time.
Different foods even "stack" their bonuses if the bonuses are of the same type (for example: consuming one Turnip and one Crisphead Lettuce will grant your player character +200 Health points in summary).
Consuming the exact same type of food once more only prolongs the effect to its maximum timespan.
How to obtain cooking ingredients[]
Wheat can be grown (with a Plow) from Wheat Seeds which can be occasionally obtained while harvesting Tallgrass or Savannah Tallgrass. You have to plant these seeds under fitting conditions (on tilled soil with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive Wheat.
Turnips can be found growing by themselves in Forests or even more often in Swamplands. By putting them into the Processor, Turnip Seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on tilled soil with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Turnips.
Crisphead Lettuce can be found growing by themselves in Forests or under trees in other Biomes. By putting them into the Processor, Lettuce Seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on tilled soil with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Lettuces.
Horned Melons can be found growing by themselves in (dangerous) Jungles only, which makes them rare discoveries. By putting them into the Processor, Horned Melon Seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on tilled soil with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Melons.
Wild Bamboo can be found growing by themselves in (dangerous) Jungles only, which makes them rare discoveries. By putting them into the Processor, seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on Grass/Dirt/Mud with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Wild Bamboo.
Mirror Grass can be found growing by themselves in Woodlands or Swamplands. By putting them into the Processor, seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on Grass/Dirt/Mud with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Mirror Grass.
Desert Succulent can be found growing by themselves in Canyons, Dunes or Shores. By putting them into the Processor, seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on Grass/Dirt/Mud with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Desert Succulents.
Prickly Pal Cactus can be found growing by themselves in Dunes or Shores. By putting them into the Processor, seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on Grass/Dirt/Mud with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Prickly Pal Cactuses.
Big Pokey Cactus can be found growing by themselves in Dunes. By putting them into the Processor, seeds will be produced that can be planted under fitting conditions (on Grass/Dirt/Mud with Water or other suitable liquids adjacently) to receive more Big Pokey Cactuses.
Chizzard Eggs can only be obtained from tamed Chizzards or Night Chizzards that spawn on Shores on Shorewood, in Jungles or more rarely in Canyons. You can only harvest Eggs from them after you have tamed them so that they have become your Pets and when you have fed them their preferred type of Food.
Blizzard Chizzard Eggs can only be obtained from tamed Blizzard Chizzards. Blizzard Chizzards usually spawn during the day on Snow in Taigas, Tundras, on frozen Oceans or frozen plains. You can only harvest frigid Eggs from them after you have tamed them so that they have become your Pets and when you have fed them their preferred type of Food.
Questionable Jerky can be made in a Forge from either Chizzard Gizzard or Blizzard Chizzard Gizzard - these Gizzards can be obtained from any kind of Chizzard, either from their Loot Bags or by harvesting from them if they are your Pets.
Leafi Leaf can be obtained from Leafies that spawn near most kind of Leaves, either as loot or pet harvest.
Autumn Leafi Leaf can be obtained from Autumn Leafies that spawn in Autumnwoods, either as loot or pet harvest.
Dried Leafi Leaf can be obtained from Dried Leafies that spawn in Dunes and Canyons, either as loot or pet harvest.
Baby Leafi Leaf can be obtained from Baby Leafies that spawn near most kind of Leaves, either as loot or pet harvest.
Bones can be obtained from most Creatures, either as loot or pet harvest, or made by processing Fossils in a Processor.
Filet o' Karrotfish can be obtained as loot from Karrotfish that spawn in Water or Mineral Water.
Pork Chops can be obtained as loot or pet harvest from most Pigsy and BossHog variants, except Corrupted Pigsy.
Poultry Parts can be obtained as loot or pet harvest from most Chizzard variants or Parroki that spawn in Jungles, Shores and Savannah.
For Food, any type of Mushrooms can be used; Red Mushrooms that grow in patches of five units in Forests, Woodlands, Swamplands and Grassland; also Brown Mushroom that can be found embedded in Dirt directly under the top layer of most Biomes, especially at the entrance of Caves; and also the rarer Glowing Mushrooms that can be found on the Stalactite layer embedded in rocks and can be mined with an Obsidian Mining Cell.
Ordinary Water can be scooped up from rivers, lakes or oceans without requiring any Power Cell.
Mineral Water can be found on the Stalactite layer, from oases in Canyons or made by purifying Corrupted Water and scooped up with a Diamond Mining Cell or better.
Tar can be found on the Fossil layer or Stalactite layer underground and scooped up with an Iron Mining Cell or better.
Bog Water can be found in Swamplands on the surface and scooped up with a Diamond Mining Cell or better.
Liquid Lava can be found on the Lava layer or can be made by throwing Fire Bombs at Hardened Lava, and then can be scooped up with a Diamond Mining Cell or better.
Corrupted Water can be found on the Corruption layer or made by throwing Corrupt Bombs at ordinary blue Water, and can then be scooped up with a Diamond Mining Cell or better.
Molasses can be obtained as a rare drop from either Arctic Mirus, Blizzard Chizzards or Rambeau, can be multiplied by letting it flow and scooped up without needing any Power Cells.
Quests[]
Two quests from QB require cooking.
1. Fresh Baked Bread[]
- Badge: Homesteader
- Unlocked by: completing the quest "Dirt-y Jobs"
- Objectives:
- craft a Cooking Station in your crafting menu from
- obtain or cook/bake at least one loaf of common Bread by choosing the recipe for all types of Bread in your Cooking Station and then inserting Wheat and common blue Water (or Molasses) into the slots of the Cooking Station. Any other ingredients will produce different types of Bread
- then obtain or cook/bake at least one loaf of Bog Bread by choosing the recipe for all types of Bread in your Cooking Station and then inserting Wheat and Bog Water from Swamplands that can be scooped up with a Diamond Mining Cell or better (Lumite Mining Cell) equipped
- at last obtain or cook/bake at least one loaf of Wholesome Bread by choosing the recipe for all types of Bread in your Cooking Station and then inserting Wheat and Mineral Water from Canyons or the Stalactite layer or made by purifying Corrupted Water that can also be scooped up with a Diamond Mining Cell or better equipped
- Rewards: 20 more loaves of Bread, 20 more loaves of Bog Bread and 20 more loaves of Wholesome Bread
- Unlocks: quest "No Soup For You"
2. No Soup For You[]
- Badge: Homesteader
- Unlocked by: completing the quest "Fresh Baked Bread"
- Objectives:
- obtain (any type of) Soup like by choosing the recipe for all types of Soup in your Cooking Station and then inserting 2 units of any liquid together with 4 Vegetables (either Crisphead Lettuce or Turnips) and 3 more ingredients like Turnips, Lettuce, Horned Melons, Mushrooms, Chizzard Eggs, Blizzard Chizzard Eggs or Questionable Jerky. Corrupted Soup made from Corrupted Water is very helpful for explorations and hunts on the Corruption layer
- obtain (any type of) Sandwich like by choosing the recipe for all types of Sandwiches in your Cooking Station and then inserting any type of Bread that you have cooked/baked together with 3 Vegetables (either Turnips or Crisphead Lettuce and 3 more ingredients; either Turnips, Lettuce, Horned Melons, Mushrooms, Chizzard Eggs, Blizzard Chizzard Eggs or Questionable Jerky.
- Rewards: 20x Tar Soup (very good Fuel), 20x Blazing Sandwiches, 20x Turnip Sandwiches (with a curative effect)
- Unlocks: Homesteading Badge that permanently reduces cold damage