Don’t Starveis a quirky survival game that places players in a hostile wilderness where the title is their only instruction.The game can be played alone or with friends, and each time a player dies they will gain experience for unlocking new characters to use in future games.
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One of the most useful items in the game is the Crock Pot which allows players to turn food into meals that can restore hunger points, HP, or Sanity. Meals are often much more powerful than their individual ingredients and also take much longer to expire, making it possible to always save them for a rainy day if needed.
10Trail Mix Is Great For Long Journeys
The environment ofDon’t Starveis as hostile as it is beautiful. As well as monsters, poisonous mushrooms, and swarms of angry wildlife, food can also expire after a set number of days making it toxic to consume.
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Trail mix requires Birchnuts and any combination of twigs and berries in the other three slots. This recipe is useful for traveling long distances through the game’s expansive wilderness, as it lasts up to 15 days and can be easily made from natural resources found in a single biome. Players willneed to have the Reign of Giants DLCin order to find Birchnuts for making this tasty snack.
9Create A Butterfly Farm To Make Waffles
Each meal players can make in their Crock Pot has its own effects. While some foods will simply restore hunger points, others can restore health and even sanity. In order to prevent wasting food, especially when it comes to valuable recipes that use rare ingredients, players should schedule their meals to maximize stat recovery.
Waffles offer the most HP recovery of any dish in the game, regaining 60 hp. Unfortunately, they require butter which can only be obtained as a rare drop from butterflies. Evenif players do create a basewith a butterfly farm, the yield will probably still be too low for players to cook waffles regularly.
8Boost Wigfrid’s Sanity With Jelly Salads
There are23 playable characters inDon’t Starveand its 3 DLCs. Each of the characters has their own perks. However, some come with drawbacks as well. Wigfrid is a character who excels in combat but she is restricted to only eating meat, making it hard to find food in the early game.
Since her dietary restriction prevents her from eating ice cream, there aren’t many foods Wigfrid can eat to restore her lost sanity. Jelly salad is made from leafy meat and honey and is one of the only sanity-boosting foods Wigfrid will consume. This food can also be useful for other characters as well if they are struggling to find the necessary dairy products required to make ice cream.
7Bacon And Eggs Can Be Stored For A Very Long Time
The Crock Pot’s main benefit is its versatility. For many recipes, players will be able to use any type of meat, fruit, or vegetable they can find, and extra slots can be filled with twigs if necessary.
Bacon and eggs can be made from any meats and up to two eggs. This food restores 75 hunger points and 20 HP. Furthermore, this dish can be stored for up to 20 days without going rotten. In order to have enough eggs for this meal players will need to build a base with a birdcage.
6Mandrake Soup Is A Healthy Use For A Rare Ingredient
Some resources inDon’t Starveare easier to find than others, and several of the materials required to build useful machines and equipment are incredibly difficult to find. When players find their first mandrake they should keep it for making a pan flute, which can be used to put creatures to sleep.
If there are multiple mandrakes, players may want to make some of their spare ones into a hearty soup that recovers 150 hunger points and up to 100 HP. Since the main ingredient is so rare, players should only use this soup in an emergency to make the most of its exceptional qualities.
5Dragon Pie Is A Veg Based Meal That’s Easy To Make Regularly
While meat-based dishes are often the most filling, there are benefits to not eating meat inDon’t Starve. One reason to stick to fruit and vegetables is if the player encounters Bunnymen. Like Pigmen, these creatures can actually be befriended, although if the player is carrying any meat they will instantly attack which canquickly lead to another senseless death.
Dragon pie is a filling meal that also restores 40 HP and works as one of the best alternatives to meat stew or bacon and eggs. Farming dragon fruit is relatively simple, meaning players can use this as their staple meal if they need to befriend any roaming Bunnymen.
4Meaty Stew Can Still Be Eaten After It Expires
Once a portion of food has gone rotten it cannot be eaten without causing harm to the player. In order to make a meal in the Crock Pot, players must fill all four slots, although twigs can be used as filler to save valuable resources if necessary.
Meaty stew is made from 4 meats or 4 morsels of any variety and will restore 150 hunger points. Since it requires much more common ingredients, this stew is a great alternative to mandrake soup, although it doesn’t have the same health regain potential. Meat stew can still be eaten after it has gone stale, (unless the player has started as Wickerbottom) which makes it useful for surviving long periods without a regular food supply.
3Ice Cream Is The Best Food For Regaining Sanity
Hunger and health will be the player’s first priorities when they first start Don’t Starve. These stats tick down the fastest but are also regained quite easily. Sanity, on the other hand, is much harder to regain and if players go too insane they will quickly be beset by Shadow Creatures.
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Ice cream is difficult to make as it requires dairy products and ice, both of which are quite rare items. While it doesn’t have much effect on hunger or health, ice cream restores 50 sanity points making it a great meal for keeping the player sane and free from shambling monstrosities.
2Guacamole Can Be Easily Mass Produced
One of the mostimportant things to know when startingDon’t Starveis which biomes contain which resources. Deserts are often quite barren regions with rocks, grass, and occasionally burrowing animals such as rabbits or Moleworms.
Moleworms and cactus flesh can be combined with two twigs to make Guacamole, a food that restores a small amount of hunger and HP. Snacking on this food is a great way to survive in the desert, as it is easy to stun a Moleworm with a hammer and transport it to the desert. Once the player has a Moleworm farm they can produce as much guacamole as they can eat.
1Surf And Turf Heals HP And Sanity
Each of the characters inDon’t Starvehas their own favorite food that will grant them special benefits. The librarian Wickerbottom is a difficult character to master, but she is much easier to manage if players can access her favorite meal Surf and Turf.
This dish is made from 4 fish and only restores a paltry 37.5 hunger points ( 52.5 for Wickerbottom). However, surf and turf makes up for this by also recovering 60 HP and 33 sanity making it a great all-rounder meal for struggling characters.
