

Most food is separated into tiers based on the effects they provide, the series of unlocks required to learn the recipe, or the planet level of the base ingredients.
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The soft drinks do not replenish hunger but do apply useful buffs, and they can be consumed even while Full Belly is in effect. They're especially helpful in early game survival mode. Many of these foods won't provide status effects but will heal the player and restore hunger. Shop foods are ingredients which are primarily obtained from vendors (either directly from Infinity Express, vending machines and Merchants or indirectly from Terramart by buying and placing Mooshi and Hen eggs). If a food item is placed inside Refrigerated Storage, its rot timer is paused, but if the food item is taken out, the timer begins to tick down once again.

Depending on the time left on the rot timer, the food item's description will have one of these phrases at the bottom of the tooltip: If the rot timer reaches 0, the food item converts into Rotten Food. Most varieties have a chance to drop from monsters and can be cooked at a Campfire.Įating raw meat other than Raw Fish will apply Food Poisoning to the player for 60 seconds.Įach consumable food item has a rot timer associated with it which ticks down by 1 every second. In general, cooking will produce new foods with a pixel value approximately 25% greater than the sum of the pixel values of the raw ingredients involved in making the food therefore, when it comes to selling edibles, processing them into prepared foods at a cooking station before selling them will net you 25% more pixels on average. Players can also craft food at a variety of found cooking stations like Standard Issue Ovens and Cooking Pots. Examples of crafting stations are Campfire and Kitchen Counter. Players can combine materials to produce food at special crafting stations. A variety of these crops can be 'farmed' by replanting their saplings.Ĭooking is a crafting method that produces food. There are also some ingredients such as Alien Fruit, Cactus, Thorn Fruit, Mushroom and Kelp which can be harvested in the wild but do not grow from tilled soil. These items can stack in player inventory. Some grown crops are only used as ingredients in other recipes, and cannot be consumed as food. Most produce will provide the player with new cooking recipes when first harvested. Produce does not provide any helpful status effects when consumed (Toxictops and Wartweeds inflict Poisoned and Chillis inflict Burning on consumption), but will replenish the player's hunger bar. Most produce food grows from crop seeds, which can be farmed, harvested and replanted for a sustainable supply. These crops can be harvested for produce, which can be consumed or used to craft stronger foods. Food can be preserved indefinitely by placing it inside a refrigerated storage container.įarming is the method of growing crops, which can be both planted by the player or found in the wild. Food is a type of item that can heal the player, provide status effects and refill their hunger meter (in survival and hardcore modes) when consumed.įood can be bought, found, grown, looted, or crafted using cooking.įood rots over time, and will eventually become inedible.
