Food


 * Note:
 * If you are referring crock pot and its recipes, please read Crock Pot

Food can be obtained by foraging, trapping, Farming and killing Animals and Monsters. Food heals Hunger and potentially Health, depending on the food item eaten. Almost all foods can be Cooked on a campfire for greater healing effects. Most get an extra third food and health.

Notably, Meat can be used as bait, the recruitment of Pigs, and is a requirement to construct the Meat Effigy. Some Foods, such as Monster Meat or Durian can damage player's health instead of restoring. For a full list of items you can create using the Crock Pot, visit the page.

Categories
Among various items, there are several select Food categories:


 * Meats — Meats.png
 * Vegetables — Vegetables.png
 * Crock Pot recipes — Crock Pot Foods.png
 * Other — Seeds.png Petals.png Honey.png Tallbird Egg.png Butterfly Wings.png Rot.pngEgg.png

Food Spoilage
Almost all Food slowly perishes and turns eventually into Rot. When Food perishes below 50%, it becomes stale. When Food further perishes below 25%, it becomes spoiled.


 * Food dropped on the ground will perish at a rate of 150% (or 75% in Winter), while keeping it in the Ice Box will reduce the rate to 50%.
 * The stale and spoiled effects do not apply when eaten by WX-78.
 * Stacked Food items share the same level of spoiling. Combining items with different spoil levels into a single stack averages the spoiled amount between them.
 * Cooking Food on fire or in Crock Pot halves the spoiled amount of the Food.
 * Only Tallbird Eggs, Mandrakes, and Deerclops Eyeball don't spoil.