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Table of Contents
- Understanding the Crock Pot’s Purpose
- Key Factors for Efficient Cooking
- Meat-Based Recipes: Maximizing Efficiency
- Vegetable Recipes: A Critical Look
- Sweet Treats and Goodies: A Sugar Rush
- Crock Pot vs. Raw Honey: An Efficiency Comparison
- Addressing the Underpowered Recipes
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Conclusion
1. Understanding the Crock Pot’s Purpose
The crock pot is a structure in Don’t Starve Together that transforms raw ingredients into cooked meals with enhanced benefits. Its primary function is to increase the value of the ingredients, converting them into dishes that provide improved hunger satisfaction, health regeneration, sanity boosts, and even warmth. WX-78 accurately summarizes the essence of the crock pot: it’s about maximizing the utility of what you put in. The goal is to take inexpensive, low-value ingredients and turn them into something far more valuable. This is especially critical for characters like Wigfrid, who cannot consume raw vegetables, or when repurposing ingredients into sources for other stats like health, sanity or even warmth.
To effectively “cook better,” you need to compare the inputs (ingredients) with the outputs (cooked dish). The more significant the positive difference, the greater the benefit you derive from cooking, thereby optimizing your resources and survival potential.
2. Key Factors for Efficient Cooking
What defines a good recipe in Don’t Starve Together? Several factors come into play when determining the efficiency and value of a crock pot meal:
2.1 Ingredient Cost and Availability
The best recipes use ingredients that are as cheap and easy to obtain as possible. Ideally, these ingredients should have low individual value, be readily available in large quantities, or be easily farmable. The ingredients must be worth as little as can be on their own, inedible (e.g. the massive hunger of a pumpkin is worthless to a wigfrid, koalefant trunks are mostly dud for Warly.) and preferably, easy to come by OR amass. This is particularly important for stockpiling purposes, allowing you to build up a reserve of resources for leaner times.
2.2 Stat Amplification
A good crock pot recipe should significantly amplify the stats of the ingredients, providing substantial improvements in hunger, health, or sanity. The end result must amplify the stats of the ingredients to a satisfactory amount, whilst not lacking in other areas like a tendency to spoil too fast. The final dish should offer a considerable boost in hunger satisfaction, health regeneration, or sanity restoration compared to the raw ingredients used.
2.3 Spoilage Time
The spoilage time of a cooked dish is a crucial consideration. Recipes with longer spoilage times are more convenient, especially when bundle wraps are available. If you unbundle a bundle of 160 stews, eat one and bundle back, you’ll likely have them all turn stale when down to the last stack. Other benefits of a long spoilage timer include:
- Using sanity food during a boss fight, most notoriously Fuelweaver. (most sanity foods spoil fast and lose their entire sanity boost upon reaching 50% freshness)
- Using sanity food in tandem with the celestial crown for a bit more damage. (not great without Wigfrid’s songs, but hey, more options)
- Unbundling several days worth of food at once, rather than unbundling every time you are hungry.
- The most obvious one: a setting where bundlewraps are absent.
Recipes that spoil quickly can lead to food waste and require more frequent cooking, making them less efficient in the long run.
2.4 Mass Production Potential
The ability to mass-produce a recipe is essential, especially when cooking for multiple players or stockpiling for extended periods. Massproduction potential/farmable-ness matters A LOT in one of the two situations, enough to re-determine your priorities; cooking for a lot of people OR cooking enough food to last a long time. Recipes that rely on easily farmable ingredients or are simple to prepare in large quantities are ideal for long-term sustainability.
3. Meat-Based Recipes: Maximizing Efficiency
Meat is a versatile ingredient in Don’t Starve Together, offering numerous opportunities for efficient cooking. Let’s examine some popular meat-based recipes and their effectiveness. Typically, it’s good for the procurement and refinement of food to take as short and as little effort as possible.
3.1 Meaty Stew: A Comparison
Meaty stew is a classic crock pot recipe, but there are better and worse ways to prepare it.
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Good Recipe: 3 Meats + 1 Filler
This recipe satisfies the 3.0 meat requirement without needing a filler. The ingredients have a combined hunger value of 75, while the stew provides 150 hunger. This doubles the value of the ingredients. Furthermore, the ingredients can be mass-obtained by fairly common meat farms, so that’s another sizable bonus for this recipe.
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Bad Recipe: 2 Koalefant Trunks
One cooked trunk steak is worth 75 hunger and 40 health. Two steaks would provide 150 hunger and 80 health. The ingredients are worth 300 hunger and 160 health, and the output is only worth 150 hunger and 12 health. This is half the hunger and a fraction of the health from the ingredients. Never use koalefant trunks this way unless you’re a lone Warly with no one to pass of the steak to, is all I can say. It’s just wasteful and hurts my heart as a chef.
3.2 Meatballs: A Staple Dish
Meatballs are a staple dish in Don’t Starve Together, but their efficiency can vary depending on the recipe.
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Good Recipe: 1 Monster Meat + 3 Ice
This is possibly the most popular recipe, turning something abundant in winter that can be stored without bundles all year long and a piece of dead spider or dog(a total of about 21 hunger) into nearly an entire day’s worth of hunger. This recipe is simple to make and can be a lifesaver in a pinch.
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Bad Recipe: 1 Meat + 3 Carrots
Three carrots and a meat are exactly 62.5 hunger, the exact same as meatballs. So all this cooking did was to refresh the spoilage timer and lose single digits of potential health that no one will mourn. The recipe with monster meat and berries aren’t much better off, either– They turn about ~55 hunger into 62.5, so that’s not exactly a lot of gain, about 12%. Interchanging the meat and fillers in meatballs like these don’t do much as well.
1 koalefant trunk steak, 3 pumpkin: please don’t
3.3 Bacon and Eggs: Long-Lasting Option
Bacon and Eggs isn’t nearly as hunger efficient as stew or ice-balls, but instead has an impressively long perish time that lets it spend a long time outside of bundles and still stay tasty. This recipe is a lazy and easy-to-use staple food. The eggs are the courtesy of every Wendy/Webber ever.
3.4 Honey Ham: Healing and Sustenance
Honey Ham offers similar efficiency to Bacon and Eggs, but lasts longer than stew and meatballs both, and heals a neat 30 hp! Since you need to eat one ham a day to stay full, that’s 30hp/day! ‘Twill undo most of your mistakes through armor.
3.5 Pierogi: Intensive Healing
For more intensive healing needs, you already know the go-to for this massive pile of meat is pierogi, probably with kelp or stone fruit. You can stockpile them for a boss if you need a lot of healing, straightforward enough. But you can also treat them as a hunger source if you get hurt a lot in your daily life.
4. Vegetable Recipes: A Critical Look
Most vegetable recipes are dogwater bad. There’s the sanity recipes from farm veggies which are good at their job and last a nice 15 days (salsa/puree), but just like their significantly more useless peers such as pumpkin cookies and stuffed eggplant there just ain’t any decent hunger recipes to be made from them. Poor Warly doesn’t even have a single good use for a corn or pumpkin. Powdercake and very wasteful vegetable filler are the most he’s getting from here. Overall, most veggies are best eaten raw or cooked and their crockpot applications are pretty badly undertuned. There are a couple really good sanity foods among them but that’s more or less all they have going for them in the crockpot.
Dragonpie serves as a solid twig dump, but without twigs to actually dump into it you may be served better with eating raw pumpkins for hunger, or potato for both hunger and health.
5. Sweet Treats and Goodies: A Sugar Rush
These ones aren’t too undertuned, surprisingly…? Taffy is probably the second best favorite food to have, ice cream is… very eh, arguably more bothersome than jelly salad, spoils just as fast. The banana recipes are pretty competitive picks for sanity food, as unlike their also readily-cookable peers, they don’t spoil halfway through Fuelweaver. Nor do they require you to sit at a garden and farm, so they’re adventurer-friendly.
6. Crock Pot vs. Raw Honey: An Efficiency Comparison
The crock pot is by no means an absolute essential, but does make your life considerably more hassle-free if you won’t use raw/cooked goods or raw honey. (absurdly cracked food source since forever ago. produces super fast in 3 seasons without any more maintenance from you after flowers + building boxes. you quite literally just pick and eat!)
7. Addressing the Underpowered Recipes
There’s being a lot of godawful/undertuned recipes horrid for the crockpot system! A prime reason is easy to guess if you recall what you read in the article earlier. In most cases, a person will feel good knowing they’ve used their ingredients well into good dishes, and feel at least a little uncomfortable about having made pumpkin unagi. It’s the basis of accomplishment that’s present in every video game. What does this lead to when a majority of crockpot recipes are really wasteful and/or incompetitive?
It limits the number of recipes a person is willing to cook, or even care to remember, on an average day. This is not game balance, this is not a necessity; those recipes being underpowered serves absolutely no one, this is just an extremely avoidable hindrance to a cooking system that could otherwise become much richer from all the foundation it has already. There’s a reason you see mostly the same few recipes be made everywhere, but that’s just because everything else sucks. There’s only the occasional someone that insists barnacle linguini is opee, with roughly 0 others being convinced because of them.
Here are some examples:
7.1 Figgy Frogwich
Costs a frog leg and a fig only to restore the same hunger as a single cooked fig, with 8 health and 5 sanity on top. Why.
7.2 Barnacle Linguini & Stuffed Fish Heads
Can barely score 150% efficiency despite being noticably more oddly specific than the meat recipes we went over. Cooked barnacles spoil in 15 days. Stuffed fish heads spoil in 1. Even bare cooked barnacles might be better daily-life food than these two.
7.3 (Warly’s) Temperature Dishes
They’re just sad alternatives to the plenty of ways we already have to deal with weather. When you factor in the time to cultivate, gather and cook for these dishes, they end up taking far longer than… Killing a single moose for a luxury fan, picking up a cold rock from snow chester, moon caller’s staff or literally setting a tree on fire. QoL but the sheer amount of effort they cost makes them, not really QoL. Unless you have someone scarily fond of farming showering you with the ingredients at least.
7.4 Fish Tacos
Imagine if fishsticks healed half as much and also costed a 25-hunger farm crop instead of a stick. I’m appaled!
7.5 Ceviche
Among the worst ways to stay cool & fed. Strangely expensive, absurdly inefficient for no reason and doesn’t even cool you down much.
7.6 Barnacle Nigiri
Imagine if instead of fishsticks-ing the barnacles you specifically put in an egg and kelp… To get the exact same thing but more specific.
7.7 Pita
Exists to punish you for trying to use vegetables for barnacle fishsticks filler. why though? what’s the point? barnacles are forgotten enough.
7.8 Gumbo
Originally an alternative to fishsticks in cases of filler drought, turned into a forgotten recipe because for some reason you need eels to make it. but even if you had eels you still wouldn’t make it.
7.9 Asparagus Soup
Mid in Hamlet, just as mid here. Go through with the bother of cooking just to guarantee losing hunger and in return get the healing of… 2.5 butterflies, I guess. Or a single blue cap.
7.10 Puffed Potato Souffle
Originally it was made with sweet potatoes in SW which had the stats of carrots, and through Warly’s stat buffs sweet potato souffle was fine. This “potato potato” one on the other hand has a worse input-to-output efficiency than powdercake. Powdercake.
7.11 Unagi
Another to the pile of “bad for seemingly no reason”. The only purpose I can see for it is to act as a punishment dish for trying to make fishsticks with eels and lichen. Not even working well as a punishment dish. Not sure why one’d punish that either. Just a very strange existence.
7.12 Fig-Stuffed Trunk
The least wasteful way to use a trunk as Warly. Still very wasteful. Why does it need to give less hunger than a cooked trunk? the only benefit for non-Warly is a small gain in health, but how likely are you to have figs, a trunk and a nearby crockpot all at once? Because this is hardly worth seeking out for.
7.13 Figkabab & Kabobs
These hurt me as a turk. figkabab is still better than figwich… that is not to say it’s anything you’d care enough to remember the existence of.
7.14 Fruit Medley
There’s not one fruit that either loses a ton of healing or a ton of hunger for having been made into this. (except for coconut halves in SW, they make this recipe decent for Warly there) Cools you down less than a singular chunk of ice. Spoils if you look at it too hard.
7.15 Moqueca
People tend to go “wow its got all three stats” while undermining the specificness of it, not comparing it to anything else we already had. You have to specifically go for tomato, onions and fish(usually barnacles are the quickest to amass); The only other reason you’d grow those two crops in particular is Salsa, a sanity food up against stiff competition. Or you use tomato and onion for two seperate things at the same time, but chances are you aren’t. What you get for pursuing two specific farm vegetables and one type of meat often ignored is 112,5 hunger, 60 health and 33 sanity. Now compare it to the result you’d get if you spent that time planting a couple extra potatoes, one of the most common farm plants. No need for crockpot use either. Five potatoes = 125 hunger, 100 health and 0 sanity. Given that you wouldn’t cook moqueca for the sanity, these are more or less the reasons I’ve never seen this recipe be cooked aside for post-game silly projects. Not once for practical purposes in some thousands of hours I have in this game. Also the spoilage timer on this is extremely mundane at 8 days. I wouldn’t mind if this one didn’t get buffed. It’s kind of a lost cause even with big stats, and I said that even when I was a farming addict back in the day.
7.16 Solutions
What would fix all these dishes and raise them from the depths of obscurity? To make them pay off depending on their degree of specificness so they’re not needlessly complicated yet significant downgrades to the same bunch of dishes everyone uses, of course. There are other ways to fix a dish besides health/hunger/sanity inflation, too; make the recipe more accesible via updates, give it a niche, or a particular trait to set it apart from mediocreness. (Like a massive perish time, an additional effect like mushcake, etc.) There’s simply a lot of potential in a crockpot overhaul to change the kitchen plan that a large part of the community understandably follows to the T, and that potential will not be realized with nerfs; nerfing the good recipes would only serve to kill the crockpot and demolish its primary purpose. What it needs is for everything else to be buffed.
8. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q1: What is the primary purpose of the crock pot in Don’t Starve Together?
The crock pot primarily increases the value of ingredients by transforming them into dishes that provide better hunger satisfaction, health regeneration, sanity boosts, and warmth.
Q2: What factors should I consider when choosing a crock pot recipe?
Consider the ingredient cost and availability, stat amplification, spoilage time, and mass production potential.
Q3: Are meatballs always a good choice in Don’t Starve Together?
While meatballs are a staple, their efficiency varies. Using 1 monster meat and 3 ice is a good recipe, but using 1 meat and 3 carrots is not as efficient.
Q4: What is the best way to use monster meat in the crock pot?
Monster meat is best used in recipes like meatballs (with ice) or as a filler in meaty stew.
Q5: Are vegetable recipes worth using in the crock pot?
Most vegetable recipes are not very efficient, with a few exceptions like salsa and puree, which are good sanity foods.
Q6: What are some good long-lasting food options for the crock pot?
Bacon and Eggs and Honey Ham are good options with long perish times.
Q7: How important is mass production potential when choosing a recipe?
Mass production potential is crucial when cooking for multiple players or stockpiling for extended periods.
Q8: Can the crock pot be the only source of healing in Don’t Starve Together?
No, there are other excellent sources of healing, such as the bat bat, butterfly wings, and blue caps.
Q9: What are some common mistakes players make when using the crock pot?
Common mistakes include using valuable ingredients in inefficient recipes and not considering the spoilage time of the cooked dish.
Q10: How can I improve my crock pot cooking skills in Don’t Starve Together?
Experiment with different recipes, pay attention to ingredient efficiency, and consider the needs of your character and the current situation.
9. Conclusion
Mastering the crock pot in Don’t Starve Together is essential for long-term survival and success. By understanding the purpose of the crock pot, considering key factors like ingredient cost and spoilage time, and experimenting with different recipes, you can optimize your food production and thrive in the harsh world. Remember to prioritize efficient recipes, consider your character’s needs, and adapt your cooking strategies to the ever-changing environment.
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