Cooking is an important part of any survival game. Having a decent supply of food when roaming the world can prove to be useful in some tricky situations, so knowing how to cook is a crucial part of any survivor’s toolkit. In this guide, we’ll teach you the various ways you can cook and how to actually use what you’ve cooked!
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How to Cook
There are two main ways in which you can cook. Those are by using the [Campfire] or by using a [Cooking Pot]. The campfire way will be the one you will use early on in the game, as the campfire recipe unlocks early in the game, right after you’ve completed the tutorial.
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How to Make a Campfire
You will unlock the campfire recipe after you’ve completed the tutorial, and it can be found in the [Home] menu of your cooking book. To build a campfire, you will need Ash Logs x4 and Stone x4, both of which are easy to find in the early game. Once you’ve built your campfire, you are all set to begin cooking, but before that, you need to gather some ingredients; you won’t be eating the fire itself, after all!
How to Gather Ingredients
Ingredients are the things you need to cook. These can range from vegetables like potatoes and berries all the way to meat. Ingredients can be found all around the world, so make sure to pick up any stray mushroom or berry you see, as you never know when it might come in handy!
Cooking!
Once you have your campfire built and your ingredients gathered, it is finally time to cook. You do this by going up to the campfire and interacting with it. Once you do this, the campfire’s menu will pop up. In this menu, you will be required to place a fuel source for the fire; in most cases, this will be a piece of Ash Log. Once you’ve placed the fuel source, you can then place your ingredient in the slot above it. Doing so will begin the cooking process, which takes several seconds to complete. After the cooking process is done, you’ll find the cooked dish in your inventory!
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How to Consume Food
You can consume food by placing it on your quick inventory bar at the top left of your screen. When you place a food item there, it will be assigned to a number key. Simply press that number key to consume the designated item and restore your hunger bar!
