Cooking guide: discovering recipes, Health Potion and the best healing

Put ingredients into a cooking station’s grid and cook. If the combination is a recipe, you get the dish and the recipe is saved permanently; if not, nothing is made. You can also learn recipes from Recipe Pages and from cookbooks, which teach a batch at once. Every known recipe, with yields, is in the recipe list, which you can also search by ingredient.

How cooking works

• Stations stand in stages throughout the world: stoves, pots and the cauldron in the Forest house basement. Cooked items that do not fit the grid drop on top of the station.
• Discovery is by experiment. The developers’ hint: meat goes on sticks, organs make goop, mushrooms boil into soup, potatoes are mashed with a stone, and broth comes from bone.
• Groups. Many recipes accept any item of a group: Any Flesh, Any Water, Any Milk, Any 1×1 Mushroom except Rödsopp.
• Yield. Adding more of the listed ingredients raises the yield. Two Buttermilk, two Eggs and two Flour make seven Buttermilk Pancakes, against two from one of each.
• Cookbooks drop in their areas: The Chequered Cookbook, Tastes from the Sewers™, Guild Approved Cuisine, From the Cellar, Eating as Royals, Delicacies of the Forest, Shav’Wani Delights, Food for Desert Survival, GABBA FOODMAKE and single Recipe Pages.

1.0 removed recipes that made two different dishes from the same ingredients, so a combination from an old spreadsheet may now fail.

Healing rules in 1.0

• Food heals over time, not instantly. Since 0.17.0, food queues in your stomach and the fastest healing is digested first.
• Since 1.0, reaching full health clears any regeneration still queued, so eating a slow meal at 90% health wastes most of it.
• 1.0 rebalanced healing durations across the board. Old “best food” lists give pre-1.0 numbers: the Health Potion used to heal 100 over 5 seconds and now heals 80 over 15.

Health Potion

80 health over 15 seconds, and it removes Burning and Poisoned. It takes one inventory slot.

Recipe	Notes
9 Rödsopp	Rödsopp (red mushrooms) grow in the Caves, the Forest and Beyond the Veil
3 Rödsopp + 1 Herbs	The usual recipe once you find Herbs in Town and Dungeon chests
4 Herbs	No mushrooms needed
1 Berry Jam + 1 Blood	Blood is an organ drop

Rödsopp Paste (3 Rödsopp + 1 Rock) slows time by 200% for 4 seconds, which helps against the Emperor and the Cardinals.

Most healing per inventory slot

Inventory space is the real limit on a run. These cooked items give the most health per occupied slot:

Dish	Healing	Size	Health per slot
Health Potion	80 over 15 s	1×1	80
Double Cheeseburger	75 over 20 s	1×1	75
Pizza	250 over 10 s	2×2	62.5
Chocolate Mudcake	50 over 15 s	1×1	50
Pizza Slice	50 over 14 s	1×1	50
Cheeseburger	45 over 15 s	1×1	45

A whole Pizza also lowers your jump power and movement speed by 10% for 15 seconds. Cooking it again cuts it into six slices: 300 health in total instead of 250, without the slowdown, but six slots instead of four. Keep it whole for the stash and slice it when you can spare the room.

A Double Cheeseburger needs two of the same flesh with Bread and Cheese. Mystery Meat does not count as flesh.

Organs

Organs are ingredients and quest items. They drop only when you shoot an enemy or its corpse; melee kills never drop them. The part you hit decides the organ, so aim at the head for brains and at the eyes for eyes. Players report that kills by damage over time, freezing, petrification or explosions also drop none. Scroll of Toxic Lobotomy (Plague + Surge) makes every hit drop an organ; oils with “No organs drop” prevent them.

Uses beyond food: a Lung and Rubber make the Extra Lung passive item; a Heart and Paper make a Jar of Love, a throwable that charms; Grossberg’s Stamp quests ask for meat and organs.

Cooking achievements

Achievement	What to cook
All by yourself!	Any successful dish
Master Chef	20 different recipes
Culinary Explorer	Escargot: 2 Snails, or Snail with Butter, Broth or Herbs
Gourmet Chef	Escargot and Cuisses De Grenouille (2 Frog Legs, or Frog Leg with Butter, Broth or Herbs)
Sweet Tooth	Chocolate Mudcake: Flour, Egg, Butter, Cacao and Sugar, or Flour, Egg, Butter and a Chocolate Bar
Impeccable Taste	A dish made with human flesh
Monster	Put a human organ into a cauldron; one stands in the Forest house basement