Core Keeper Cooking Guide | How to Make Food

In this Core Keeper Cooking Guide, we'll tell you how cooking works and list all of the recipes we've found in the game so far!

Core Keeper Cooking Guide | How Cooking Works

Cooking in Core Keeper involves combining two items together into a Cooking Pot, a workbench that is crafted at the Basic Workbench. If it's a new recipe, it will be added to the Cookbook once it's completed. You can access the cookbook by clicking the green book in the Cooking Pot.

The combination of two items is not simply an additive process. For example, the Hearty Pepper Wrap is made with a Heart Berry and a Bomb Pepper. Compare the stats of the two individual items versus the prepared dish:

• Heart Berry
  • +11 food
  • +2.8 health every sec for 20 sec
• Bomb Pepper
  • +6 food
  • -11 health
• Heart Berry + Bomb Pepper
  • +17 food
  • +2.8 health every sec for 20 sec
  • -11 health
• Hearty Pepper Wrap 
  • +28 food
  • +21% movement speed for 1 min
  • +25 max health for 5 min
  • +2.8 health every sec for 20 sec

Generally speaking, combining any two items will give you all of their benefits (and, in some cases, higher numbers). Some combinations will also add entirely new benefits, too; note that the +21% movement speed in the above example is not listed on either base item.

There are literally hundreds of possible combinations of food. It's best to experiment with every item that can be cooked to see what suits your needs best!

Core Keeper Cooking Ingredients

There are three types of Core Keeper Cooking Ingredients: Crops, Fish, and drops from killing monsters or Cattle. You can get Crops through Farming and you can get Fish by Fishing.

Crops

• Bomb Pepper (Uncommon)
  • +5 food
  • -11 health
• Carrock (Uncommon)
  • +4.1 health every sec for 20 sec
  • +7 food
• Glow Tulip (Uncommon)
  • +4 glow for 1 min
  • +1 food
• Heart Berry
  • +2.8 health every sec for 20 sec
  • +9 food
• Lunacorn
  • +6 food
• Pewpaya
  • +6.3 health every sec for 20 sec
  • +10 food
• Pinegrapple
  • +5.4 health every sec for 20 sec
  • +10 food
• Puffungi (Uncommon)
  • +5 food
  • -23 health
• Sunrice
  • +7 food
• Mushroom
  • +2.1 health every sec for 20 sec
  • +9 food
• Giant Mushroom
  • +15 food
  • +25 max health (only once)

Fish

See our Fishing Guide for a list of the fish we've found!

Monster Drops & Cattle Drops

• Larva Meat
  • +2.8 health every sec for 20 sec
  • +11 food
• Shiny Larva Meat (Rare)
  • +12 food
  • +6% critical hit chance for 2 min
  • +2 life on melee hit for 2 min
• Amber Larva
  • +11 food
  • +50 max health (only once)
• Marbled Meat
  • +2.6 health every sec for 20 sec
  • +13 food

That's it for our Core Keeper cooking guide! Check out more guides below: