Food

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Food can be obtained by foraging, trapping, farming or hunting Animals and Monsters. Food refills Hunger and some Health, depending on the quality of the food eaten. Almost all raw food can be Cooked on a Campfire to increase the amount of Health/Hunger they restore.

Notably, Meats can be used as bait, for the recruitment of Pigs, as offering to the Pig King for gold, and are a requirement to construct the Meat Effigy. Some Food, such as Monster Meat or Durian can damage health instead of restoring it.

Categories

There are several Food categories:

• Meats —
• Vegetables —
• Fruits —
• Crock Pot recipes —
• Other —File:Otherfood.png

Types of Food

Food	Name					Value
	Berries	+1	+9.375	0	6	× 0.5	Yes
	Roasted Berries	+1	+12.5	0	3	× 0.5	Yes
	Butter	+40	+25	0	40		Yes
	Butterfly Wings	+8	+9.375	0	6		Yes
	Carrot	+1	+12.5	0	10		Yes
	Roasted Carrot	+3	+12.5	0	6		Yes
	Corn	+3	+25	0	10		Yes
	Popcorn	+3	+12.5	0	15		Yes
	Deerclops Eyeball	+60	+75	-15	Never		No
	Guardian's Horn	+60	+75	-15	Never		No
	Dragon Fruit	+3	+9.375	0	6		Yes
	Prepared Dragon Fruit	+20	+12.5	0	3		Yes
	Drumstick	0	+12.5	-10	6	× 0.5	Yes
	Fried Drumstick	+1	+12.5	0	10	× 0.5	Yes
	Durian	-3	+25	-5	10		Yes
	Extra Smelly Durian	0	+25	-5	6		Yes
	Egg	0	+9.375	0	10		Yes
	Cooked Egg	0	+12.5	0	6		Yes
	Eggplant	+8	+25	0	10		Yes
	Braised Eggplant	+20	+25	0	6		Yes
	Fish	+1	+12.5	0	3		Yes
	Cooked Fish	+1	+12.5	0	6		Yes
	Frog Legs	0	+12.5	-10	6	× 0.5	Yes
	Cooked Frog Legs	+1	+12.5	0	10	× 0.5	Yes
	Garland	+3	0	+10	6		No
	Ham Bat	-8	+25	-15	10		No
	Honey	+3	+9.375	0	40		Yes
	Koalefant Trunk	+30	+37.5	0	6		No
	Winter Koalefant Trunk	+30	+37.5	0	6		No
	Koalefant Trunk Steak	+40	+75	0	15		No
	Mandrake	+60	+75	0	Never		Yes
	Cooked Mandrake	+100	+150	0	Never		No
	Meat	+1	+25	-10	6		Yes
	Cooked Meat	+3	+25	0	10		Yes
	Jerky	+20	+25	+15	20		Yes
	Monster Meat	-20	+18.75	-15	6		Yes
	Cooked Monster Meat	-3	+18.75	-10	15		Yes
	Monster Jerky	-3	+18.75	-5	20		Yes
	Morsel	+1	+12.5	-10	6	× 0.5	Yes
	Cooked Morsel	+1	+12.5	0	10	× 0.5	Yes
	Small Jerky	+8	+12.5	+10	20	× 0.5	Yes
	Blue Mushroom	+20	+12.5	-15	10	×0.5	Yes
	Cooked Blue Cap	-3	0	+10	10	×0.5	Yes
	Green Mushroom	0	+12.5	-50	10	×0.5	Yes
	Cooked Green Cap	-1	0	+15	10	×0.5	Yes
	Red Mushroom	-20	+12.5	0	10	×0.5	Yes
	Cooked Red Cap	1	0	-10	10	×0.5	Yes
	Petals	+1	0	0	6		No
	Dark Petals	0	0	-5	6		No
	Pomegranate	+3	+9.375	0	6		Yes
	Sliced Pomegranate	+20	+12.5	0	3		Yes
	Pumpkin	+3	+37.5	0	10		Yes
	Hot Pumpkin	+8	+37.5	0	6		Yes
	Rot	-1	-10	0	Never		No
	Rotten Egg	-1	-10	0	Never		No
	Seeds	0	+4.6875	0	40		No
	Toasted Seeds	+1	+4.6875	0	10		No
	Tallbird Egg	+3	+25	0	Never	× 4	Yes
	Fried Tallbird Egg	0	+37.5	0	6	× 4	Yes
	Cave Banana	+1	+12.5	0	10		Yes
	Cooked Cave Banana	+3	+12.5	0	6		Yes
	Lichen	+3	+12	-5	2	×0.5	Yes

Health Hunger Sanity Perish Time (days) Crock Pot ingredient

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 20%, it becomes spoiled.

Stage	Effect
Green (Fresh)	Restores the full amount of , and for a given food
Yellow (Stale)	Restores 2/3 of , 1/3 of for a given food and doesn't restore any
Red (Spoiled)	Restores 1/2 of for a given food, doesn't restore any and decreases by 10

• Any kind of cooked meat lasts longer than any raw meat, but any kind of raw vegetable lasts longer than any cooked vegetable.
• Food dropped on the ground will perish at a rate of 150%, while keeping it in the Ice Box will reduce the rate to 50%. At Winter the food perish rate is additionally reduced by 25%.
• The stale and spoiled effects do not apply when eaten by WX-78.
• The effects of eating stale or spoiled food are worse when playing as Wickerbottom. (how much exactly?)
• 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. This can be used to "save" a nearly-rotten food item, by stacking it with a fresh item, then ctrl+clicking to separate it from the rest of the stack again.
• Cooking Food on fire or in Crock Pot halves the spoiled amount of the Food.
• Tallbird Eggs, Mandrakes (raw and cooked), the Deerclops Eyeball and the Guardian's Horn are the only Food items which don't spoil.
• Food cooked in the Crock Pot and meat dried on the Drying Rack do not begin to spoil until picked up.

External Links

• Don't Starve Food Guide

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Other
Event Food
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