Cooking

Cooking is the act of creating food using a Campfire, a Cooking Pot, an Industrial Grill, or an Industrial Cooker.

Cooking meat requires a Campfire or an Industrial Grill, while cooking recipes requires a Cooking Pot or an Industrial Cooker.

The Basics[]

All recipes except Jerky[]

Require a Waterskin, Water Jar or Canteen that is at least 25% full.
Take 60 seconds to cook in a Cooking Pot (8x Thatch or 2x Wood or 1x Sparkpowder per recipe.)
Cook using an Industrial Cooker is 12x faster, and it can hold much more items, can be irrigated and is powered by 1 × Gasoline for 15 minutes.
Take 5 hours to spoil.
Can be placed on a creature to extend spoiling time to 20 hours.
Can be placed in a Preserving Bin to extend spoiling time to 2 days.
Can be placed in a Refrigerator to extend spoiling time to 20 days.

Some recipes require ingredients that you can only acquire through farming, like Citronal, Longrass, Rockarrot, and Savoroot.

Recipes[]

Recipes can be found in the inventories of various carnivores. Recipes list the ingredients that can be put in the Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker in order to craft food that gives extra buffs such as increased insulation, hp regeneration, stamina regeneration, prolonged oxygen and more. The Rockwell recipe items are not required to make any foods, acting only as an in-world guideline to cook the food items.

Some advanced food can be utilized by dinosaurs. They do get the benefit of the food (195.2).

Below is an updated list of current recipes found in the world:

Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Enduro Stew	+35% Melee Damage +1.2 Health per second	15m	5h	1	10						5	5		2	9
	Focal Chili	+25% Movement Speed +100% Crafting Skill	15m	5h	1	10	20	20	20	5						9
	Lazarus Chowder	-85% Oxygen consumption underwater +1.2% Stamina per second (allow constant swimming)	10m	5h	1	10					5		5	2		9
	Calien Soup	+50 Hyperthermic Insulation -25% Water consumption	15m	5h	1	10	20		20	5					2
	Fria Curry	+50 Hypothermic Insulation -25% Food consumption	15m	5h	1	10		20			5	5		2
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Medical Brew	+40 Health	5s	2h	1				20					2
	Energy Brew	+40 Stamina	5s	1h	1			20							2
	Sweet Vegetable Cake	+500 Health and heals 15% HP (over 10s) when force fed to a tamed herbivore	Instant	2h40m	1	25					2	2	2		4	4	2
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Shadow Steak Saute	+50 Hypothermic Insulation +50 Hyperthermic Insulation -80% Weapon recoil	3m	5h	1	20	2					1	1	8			3
	Battle Tartare	+65% Melee Damage +15% Damage resistance +50% Movement Speed +50% Food/Water consumption +Increased Stamina regen -0.45 Health per second (-90HP total)	3m20	5h	1	20		2	3	1	1				8
	Mindwipe Tonic	+Reset Attributes and Engrams	Instant	5h	1	200	20	20						72	72		24
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Broth of Enlightenment	+50% increased Experience gain	20m	5h	1	10				2	2	2	2	5	1
	Cooked Meat Jerky	Used for cooking kibbles		2d			1	3								1
	Prime Meat Jerky	Used for cooking kibbles		2d			1	3									1
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Cactus Broth	Reduce water consumption and hide partly from wild animals	10m	1h30	1	10	10	10		30
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Mushroom Brew	Protects tame dinos from the effects of radiation	2m	5h	1	5	5	5	5	3	3
Recipe	Product	Effect(s)	Duration	Spoilage
	Nirvana Tonic	Resets Attributes but saves Engrams	Instant	5h	1	200			72	72	20	20	24	207
	Medical Brew (Potent)	+70 Health	5s	2h	1			20	2					1
	Energy Brew (Potent)	+70 Stamina	5s	2h	1		20		2					1

Kibble[]

Egg-based Kibble are also cooked in a Cooking Pot, taking 30 seconds (4 thatch) and are used as specialized food when taming a creature. Although all kibble types will technically work to tame all creatures, certain creatures have a favorite type of Kibble that is 5x faster than regular food with much less taming effectiveness lost but using the wrong kibble is only 2/3 as effective as using the creature's regular food and will instead decrease the taming effectiveness.

In addition to the ingredients listed below, all kibble recipes require a Waterskin with at least 25% water in it (any other Water-container works, but will be completely used up regardless of capacity).

Fertilized eggs can also be used to make Kibble. Breeding creatures is a great way to generate eggs on-demand.

Kibble	Egg Type	First Resource	Second Resource	Third Resource	Fourth Resource	Fifth Resource	Sixth Resource
Basic Kibble	Extra Small Egg	5x Mejoberry	10x Amarberry	10x Tintoberry	1x Cooked Meat	5x Fiber	Water (such as 1x Full Waterskin)
Simple Kibble	Small Egg	5x Mejoberry	2x Rockarrot	1x Cooked Fish Meat	-
Regular Kibble	Medium Egg	2x Longrass	2x Savoroot	1x Cooked Meat Jerky	-
Superior Kibble	Large Egg	2x Citronal	2x Rare Mushroom	1x Prime Meat Jerky	1x Sap
Exceptional Kibble	Extra Large Egg	10x Mejoberry	1x Rare Flower	1x Focal Chili	-
Extraordinary Kibble	Special Egg	10x Mejoberry	1x Giant Bee Honey	1x Lazarus Chowder	-

Kibble (Mobile)[]

Each Kibble, shown below, is cooked with a specific egg with 1 of the Crops and 1 of either Cooked Meat, Cooked Meat Jerky or Prime Meat Jerky, in addition, almost all kibble recipes require 2 × Mejoberries, 3 × Fiber and a Waterskin (or other water-container) with at least 25% water in it. Quetzal Egg kibble is currently the only exception which requires 100 × Mejoberries and 120 × Fiber instead of the aforementioned quantities.

Kibble	Egg	Plant Matter	Other Ingredient(s)	Favorite Kibble for	Kibble Value
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	Allosaurus Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Prime Meat	Tapejara, Royal Griffin**	10
Kibble (Ankylo Egg)	Ankylo Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky	Carno	5
Kibble (Araneo Egg)*	Araneo Egg	Rockarrot	Prime Meat Jerky		N/A
Kibble (Archaeopteryx Egg)	Archaeopteryx Egg	Longrass	Cooked Fish Meat	Diplocaulus	3
Kibble (Argentavis Egg)	Argentavis Egg	Citronal	Prime Meat Jerky	Spino	10
Kibble (Baryonyx Egg)	Baryonyx Egg	Savoroot	Raw Fish Meat	Megatherium	5
Kibble (Bronto Egg)	Bronto Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Sabertooth	15
Kibble (Carbonemys Egg)	Turtle Egg	Rockarrot	Prime Meat Jerky	Bronto	5
Kibble (Carno Egg)	Carno Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat	Trike, Direwolf, Dire Bear	5
Kibble (Compy Egg)	Compy Egg	Citronal	Cooked Fish Meat	Iguanodon	1
Kibble (Dilo Egg)	Dilo Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat Jerky	Ankylo, Doedicurus, Equus, Pachy	1
Kibble (Dimetrodon Egg)	Dimetrodon Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat Jerky	Gallimimus	5
Kibble (Dimorph Egg)	Dimorph Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Megaloceros	3
Kibble (Diplo Egg)	Diplo Egg	Savoroot	Rare Flower	Allosaurus	5
Kibble (Dodo Egg)	Dodo Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Pteranodon, Ichthyosaurus, Mesopithecus	1
Kibble (Gallimimus Egg)	Gallimimus Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Terror Bird, Castoroides	3
Kibble (Griffin Egg)	Griffin Egg	Savoroot Longrass Citronal	Cooked Prime Meat Snake Plant Seeds	Royal Griffin, Unicorn	30
Kibble (Iguanodon Egg)	Iguanodon Egg	Rare Mushroom	Prime Meat Jerky	Daeodon	5
Kibble (Kairuku Egg)	Kairuku Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Angler	1
Kibble (Kaprosuchus Egg)	Kaprosuchus Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky		5
Kibble (Lystrosaurus Egg)	Lystro Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Prime Meat, Cooked Prime Fish Meat, or Prime Meat Jerky	Diplodocus	1
Kibble (Megalosaurus Egg)	Megalosaurus Egg	Rockarrot	2 × Prime Meat Jerky	Therizinosaur	15
Kibble (Moschops Egg)	Moschops Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Purlovia	10
Kibble (Oviraptor Egg)	Oviraptor Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky	Megalosaurus	3
Kibble (Pachy Egg)	Pachy Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat	Paracer	3
Kibble (Pachyrhino Egg)	Pachyrhino Egg	Citronal	Cooked Prime Fish Meat	Baryonyx	5
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	Parasaur Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Raptor	1
Kibble (Pegomastax Egg)	Pegomastax Egg	Citronal	Raw Prime Fish Meat		?
Kibble (Pelagornis Egg)	Pelagornis Egg	Citronal	10 × Chitin	Archaeopteryx	5
Kibble (Pteranodon Egg)	Pteranodon Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Carbonemys	3
Kibble (Pulmonoscorpius Egg)	Pulmonoscorpius Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky	Rex, Beelzebufo	5
Kibble (Quetzal Egg)	Quetzal Egg	3 × Rockarrot	3 × Prime Meat Jerky	Mosasaurus, Giganotosaurus, Dimetrodon	15
Kibble (Raptor Egg)	Raptor Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat Jerky	Mammoth	3
Kibble (Rex Egg)	Rex Egg	Longrass	Prime Meat Jerky	Plesiosaur, Quetzal	15
Kibble (Sarco Egg)	Sarco Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Stegosaurus	5
Kibble (Spino Egg)	Spino Egg	Savoroot	Prime Meat Jerky	Megalodon	10
Kibble (Stego Egg)	Stego Egg	Citronal	Prime Meat Jerky	Argentavis	5
Kibble (Tapejara Egg)	Tapejara Egg	Rockarrot	Cooked Prime Meat	Kaprosuchus	10
Kibble (Terror Bird Egg)	Terror Bird Egg	Citronal	Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky	Woolly Rhino	5
Kibble (Therizinosaurus Egg)	Therizino Egg	Citronal	AnglerGel	Basilosaurus	15
Kibble (Titanboa Egg)	Titanoboa Egg	Longrass	Cooked Meat Jerky	Gigantopithecus, Dunkleosteus	10
Kibble (Trike Egg)	Trike Egg	Savoroot	Cooked Meat Jerky	Sarco	3

* = This Kibble is not craftable.

** = This Creature prefers another Kibble over this one, but this Kibble can still be used to tame the Creature effectively.

RP Oriented Cooking System[]

The Custom Cooking System allows survivors to create their own Custom Consumable items with custom names and ingredients to provide different effects. In order to create a custom recipe, the items one wishes to use in the recipe should be placed into a Cooking Pot (However, this is not required as they can be added into the recipe in the cooking screen).

A Note MUST be placed in the Cooking Pot before continuing. Once the note is placed inside the inventory, exit the inventory and hold E to access the options menu and select the Create New Recipe option. A new menu will appear with the ingredients in the cooking pot and other options as well, such as the options to choose the name and description of the consumable, as well as the dish type and icon/icon color, with 3 icons for each and a precise RGB color slider with color presets. Currently, the menu does not allow hotkey transfer of items, so they must be moved by dragging and dropping the items.
Once satisfied with all options, click Make Recipe to finalize the recipe, and the new recipe will placed into the character inventory.
Place the finished recipe into the cooking pot or Industrial Cooker with the required ingredients and light the fire to begin the cooking process.
Only eight stacks of ingredients can be in a single recipe.
Drugs and Premade Dishes can not be used in a recipe.
All drinks require a Waterskin with at least 25% water; however, foods do not require water, unlike any Rockwell Recipes.
See the Custom Consumable page for values and the consumable calculator.
Crafting Skill provides a bonus to the stats of the recipe when it's created. When cooking, the crafting speed has no influence.