Don't Starve food guide: Crock Pot recipes and monster meat
Four dependable base-game Crock Pot dishes and safe ingredient substitutions.
Edition covered
The original single-player survival game with its standard two-season world. Reign of Giants, Shipwrecked, Hamlet and Don't Starve Together change recipes, characters or seasons and are outside this reference. Pictures come from Klei's single-player Steam listing.
Four useful Crock Pot dishes
Each Crock Pot meal uses four ingredient slots. These examples are deliberately specific so a missing ingredient does not silently change the dish.
| Dish | Example ingredients | Main purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Meatballs | 1 Morsel + 3 Berries | Stretch a small amount of meat into hunger restoration |
| Meaty Stew | 3 Meat + 1 Berry | Large hunger refill; eat when very hungry |
| Pierogi | 1 Egg + 1 Morsel + 1 Carrot + 1 Berry | Reliable healing food |
| Fishsticks | 1 Fish + 1 Twig + 2 Berries | Healing meal using a pond fish |
Handle risky ingredients
Monster Meat can be useful as the meat component of many dishes. Doubling monster ingredients can override the recipe and produce Monster Lasagna.
| Ingredient | Safe use | Important limit |
|---|---|---|
| Monster Meat | Use one piece in a compatible dish | Avoid two monster ingredients in ordinary filler recipes |
| Twigs | Allowed by recipes such as Fishsticks | Not a universal edible filler |
| Berries | Filler for Meatballs and other compatible dishes | Do not meet vegetable or egg requirements |
| Egg | Supplies the egg requirement for Pierogi | Still needs meat and vegetables |
Construct the Crock Pot
Prototype a Crock Pot at a Science Machine using 3 Cut Stone, 6 Charcoal and 6 Twigs. Make charcoal by burning trees away from structures and harvesting the burned trunks.
Check spoilage before long trips
Use food that will spoil soon first. Carry a mixture of meals and practical ingredients rather than leaving all your hunger recovery in one unharvested pot.
References
| Reference | Website |
|---|---|
| Don't Starve publisher listing | store.steampowered.com |
| Single-player wiki: Crock Pot | dontstarve.wiki.gg |
| Single-player wiki: Winter | dontstarve.wiki.gg |
| Single-player wiki: Characters | dontstarve.wiki.gg |
| Single-player wiki: Crafting | dontstarve.wiki.gg |