Description[]
Food is a necessary need for your Character's survival. Both food and water drain at a rate of 1.25% per minute.
To get food, one must collect ingredients from various Luminants or buy the food from Vendors in certain places.
- Mushrooms, fruit and wheat are all very easy to get, as they are plentiful and various on both starter islands.
- In every season (except Winter), the player can find fruit on smaller trees and some bushes, which is an easy and safe source of nutrition.
- Purchased from NPCs such as Lance Leshi, Lance's Brother, and The Meat Lord.
- Alternatively, you can turn in specific dishes that you cook to Chef Odiolavoro for some experience, although he is not a chef and should not be regarded as such.
Although you can eat the ingredients directly, certain ingredients or eating too many of one thing (i.e Browncaps) may cause vomiting, which leads to an immense decrease in thirst and hunger.
To cook food, one must be near a campfire.
- By combining ingredients together, the player can make various types of foods/drinks.
- Usually, 2-3 ingredients are needed to make a certain food recipe. (Mushroom Soup for example, requires two mushrooms of different types)
One needs food and drink to live, much like you. Without it, one will die a slow and painful death.
- When both the Thirst and Hunger bar reach zero, the health bar will slowly drain until it reaches half health. At this point, the Blood bar will be the next to go, and once that is gone, you quickly lose the rest of your health and die.
- With about 1/8 hunger left, healing from campfires is completely disabled.
- With about 1/8 thirst left, your vision becomes blurry, and your swing speed is lowered.
- Once you reach the point of no return, you are permanently knocked for the rest of your life (which is to say not long) and cannot be picked up until you've died. When you wake up, you'll have 100?% of your Blood, Thirst and Hunger restored.
Food Buffs[]
Some foods fill a portion of your Hunger bar with a different color, known as Reinforced Hunger.
- Reinforced Hunger grants certain buffs, signified by a specially colored secondary bar on top of the normal Hunger bar until it's depleted.
- The type of buff can be identified by hovering over the differently colored bar.
- Different types of buffs will replace each other. Same types of buffs will stack in duration.
- The numbers in parenthesis after the buff type food tooltips does not indicate the potency of the buff, but instead how much of your hunger bar becomes reinforced upon consumption. For example, a Glazed Fish and Mushroom Omelette provide the same melee damage multiplier.
Buffs[]
- "A hearty meal that'll empower your melee strikes!" The Power buff increases the user's melee damage. (5% M1 damage buff)
- "An energising meal that'll empower your mantras!" The Enchant buff increases the user's mantra damage. (5% mantra damage buff)
- "A complex meal that'll get you moving!" The Speed buff increases your sprinting speed. (5% running speed buff)
- "An aromatic meal to cultivate your focus!" The Ether buff increases the user's ether regeneration speed. (Doesn't work as of 2/26/25)
- "A soothing meal to recover your strength!" The Heal buff increases the user's health regeneration speed. (17.5% of your base regen added on top of your current health regen)
- "A filling meal to keep you fed for longer!" The Full buff significantly decreases the user's starvation speed. (10% reduced natural hunger loss)
- "A strange meat that empowers your Deep Gem knowledge." The Brain buff enhances the effect of your Deep Gems:
- Aegis Gem: Duration increased from 10s to 15s.
- Blessed Gem: Cooldown reduction is increased from -50% to -66%.
- Bloodless Gem: Heal cap increased from 15 to 20.
- Blue Gem: No noticeable difference.
- Insignia Gem: No noticeable difference.
- Might Gem: Posture damage buff increased from +10% to +15%.
- Nocturnal Gem: Damage is increased from 10 to 15.
- Warped Blue Gem: No noticeable difference.
- Wayward Gem: Cooldown is decreased from 8s to 3s.
- Wind Gem: Speed boost duration increased from 10s to 15s.
- Wrath Gem: Critical damage buff per-combat tag increased from 7.5% to 15%.
- "A heavy meat that hardens your skin!" The Scale buff grants 15% PEN reduction.
- "An odd meal that soothes your throat!" The Throat buff increases your Taunt duration by 8 seconds, your Command: Fight duration by 7.5 seconds, and grants Sing a noticeable range increase.
- "An invigorating meal that strengthens your muscles!" The Strength buff grants +10% posture damage.
Food and their respective buffs can have their durations buffed by the Tavernkeep category of Talents.
Power Buff
Enchant Buff
Speed Buff
Ether Buff
Heal Buff
Full Buff
Food Recipes/Info[]
| Image | Name | Ingredients | Hunger | Thirst | Special Buff | Campfire needed? | Carnivore? | Vegetarian? |
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Bread | 3 Gathered Wheat | 20% | 2% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Cake | 1 Egg, 3 Gathered Wheat, 1 Sap |
30% | 5% | Speed Boost (20) |
◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Calamari | 1 Squid, 1 Gathered Wheat | 25% | 5% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Candied Fruit | 1 or 2 of any Fruit, 1 Sap |
20% | 15% | Mantra Damage (10) |
◯ | ✗ | ◯ |
|
Candy | Goodie Bag-Exclusive | 10% | 5% | Reduced Hunger Loss (10) |
N/A | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Candy Suncorn | Goodie Bag-Exclusive | 10% | 5% | Health Regeneration (10) |
N/A | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Cheese | Food Vendor-Exclusive | 15% | 1% | N/A | N/A | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Cooked Egg | 1 Egg | 20% | 5% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Cooked Fish | 1 Fish Meat | 15% | 5% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Cooked Squid | 1 Squid | 15% | 5% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Crab Pizza | 1 Crustacean Meat, 1 Bread, 1 Cheese |
20% | 2% | N/A | ✗ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Crab Stuffed Browncaps | 3 Browncaps, 2 Crustacean Meat, 1 Cheese |
50% | 15% | Health Regeneration (25) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Dread Filet | 1 Dread Flesh | 50% | 20% | Throat (15) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Dried Seaweed | 1 Seaweed Bundle | 10% | 0% | N/A | ◯ | ✗ | ◯ |
|
Fish Omelette | 2 Eggs, 1 Fish Meat |
35% | 10% | Mantra Damage (20) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Fish Stew | 1 Squid, 1 Fish Meat OR 1 Seaweed Bundle, 2 Fish Meat |
18% | 10% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Fruit Salad | 3 individual Fruits | 20% | 10% | Health Regeneration (10) |
✗ | ✗ | ◯ |
|
Fruit Cake | 2 different Fruits, 1 Gathered Wheat |
25% | 12% | N/A | ◯ | ✗ | ◯ |
|
Glazed Fish | 1 Fish Meat, 1 Sap |
30% | 5% | Weapon Damage (10) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Grilled Cheese | 1 Cheese, 1 Bread |
30% | 2% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Grilled Parasol Brain | 1 Raw Parasol Brain | 80% | 20% | Deep Gem Effectiveness (15) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
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Heavy Steak | 1 Raw Heavy Meat | 100% | 15% | Scale (15) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Kyrsdog | 1 Bread, 1 Frozen Membrane, 1 Ongo |
50% | 20% | N/A | ✗ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Megurger | Food Vendor-Exclusive | 25% | 10% | Weapon Damage (12) |
N/A | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Mushroom Bisque | 1 of any Mushroom, 1 Crustacean Meat |
30% | 20% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Mushroom Omelette | 2 Egg, 1 of any Mushroom |
35% | 10% | Weapon Damage (20) |
◯ | ✗ | ◯ |
|
Mushroom Soup | 2 Mushrooms of different kinds | 15% | 17% | N/A | ◯ | ✗ | ◯ |
|
Noodles | 1 Egg, 2 Gathered Wheat |
30% | 5% | N/A | ✗ | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Omelette | 2 Eggs | 25% | 10% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Plumfruit Muffin | 1 Plumfruit, 1 Gathered Wheat |
18% | 10% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
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Pumpkin Pie | 1 Egg / Thresher Egg, 1 Gathered Wheat, 2 Pumpkins |
50% | 20% | Heal (35) |
◯ | ✗ | ◯ |
|
Primal Cutlet | 1 Primal Slab | 50% | 20% | Strength (15) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
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Redd Juice | 3 Redds | 3% | 25% | N/A | ✗ | ◯ | ◯ |
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Sauteed Scallops | 2 Scallops | 25% | 5% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Scholar's Brew | 1 of any Mantra Modifier, 1 of any Mushroom |
3% | 25% | Ether Regeneration (15) |
◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
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Seafood Boil | 1 Squid, 1 Fish Meat, 1 Crustacean Meat |
30% | 10% | Reduced Hunger Loss (20) |
◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
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Seafood Surprise | 1 Squid, 1 Fish Meat, 1 Urchin OR 1 Crustacean Meat |
15% | 5% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Sticky Bun | 1 Sap, 3 Gathered Wheat |
20% | -5% | Ether Regeneration (30) |
◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Sushi | 1 Seaweed Bundle, 1 Fish Meat |
30% | 10% | N/A | ✗ | ◯ | ✗ |
|
Tankard of Ongo Juice | Food Vendor-Exclusive | 2% | 25% | N/A | N/A | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Toffee | Goodie Bag-Exclusive | 10% | 5% | Weapon Damage (10) |
N/A | ◯ | ◯ |
|
Urchin Stew | 3 Urchins | 20% | 25% | N/A | ◯ | ◯ | ✗ |
Notes[]
- Alternatively, you can regain your Food, Thirst and Blood bars by gaining a Power, obtaining your Resonance, or having the Carnivore Talent.
Trivia[]
General Trivia[]
Lifting The Meat Lord
- Every fruit, more or less, has a real-life counterpart.
- Redd = Orange
- Ongo = Apple
- Calabash = Calabash
- Plumfruit = Plum
- Pomar = Mango/Pineapple
- Glumfig = Fig
- Pomar is the only fruit that will damage you.
- Pomar may represent a pineapple. Pineapples contain bromelain, which breaks down proteins (what most of your body is made out of) which is why they damage you.
- Alternatively, may also represent a mango. Mango skin contains urushiol oil, which causes a reaction to the body near identical of that to poison ivy which may be why they damage you.
- Mantra damage buff foods and Weapon damage buff foods provide around a 5% increase in damage.[1]
- Before the plates were added for most foods in a (supposed) shadow-update, the Cake model had no underside.
- According to Destroyman III, the strength buff the Megurger gives you is not from the food itself, but the concept.
- The Glazed Fish model is placed incorrectly on the hand compared to other plate dishes.
- Where did the garnish on the Omelettes come from? The world will never know.
- Sushi used to be unique, in that it was completely weightless. However this is no longer the case, as it has now been assigned 2 weight.
- Redd Juice is based on orange juice because a Redd is based on an orange from real life.
Bugs[]
- Rejoining after eating a food that grants you a buff will make the Reinforced Hunger bar's color default to Purple. (Purely visual, the effects can still be seen by hovering over it)
- This no longer happens(at least as of 3/18/25), instead, the effect disappears once you change servers.