Crock Pot

Crock Pot
"Make better food."
Crafting
Recipe	×3 ×6 ×6
Tab
Tier
Perk
Allows the player to make unique food.
Code
"cookpot"

“It makes me hungry just to look at it.”

–Wilson

“I could put food in it and fire underneath it.”

–Willow

“Empty pot make Wolfgang think hungry thoughts.”

–Wolfgang

“As empty as my soul.”

–Wendy

“I CAN REFINE MEATS AND VEGETABLES INTO MORE ROBUST FORMS”

–WX-78

“It looks derelict when it's not cooking something.”

–Wickerbottom

“It seems a waste to just leave it sitting there, empty.”

–Woodie

“Just the thought makes my mouth water.”

–Maxwell

“In need of ingredients.”

–Wagstaff

“Nöthing in there.”

–Wigfrid

“Food goes in, other food comes out.”

–Webber

“My kind of cooking... Just dump everything in and wait!”

–Walani

“Empty pot, empty heart.”

–Warly

“Th'pot be empty.”

–Woodlegs

“IT MOCKS WILBA WITH EMPTINESS”

–Wilba

“Nothing there”

–Wormwood

“Meals are typically better if they contain food.”

–Wheeler

“I make a mean stew.”

–Winona

“Can souls simmer?”

–Wortox

The Crock Pot is a Food Tab Structure that is used to cook various Food Items. It requires a Science Machine to prototype and costs 3 Cut Stone, 6 Charcoal, and 6 Twigs to craft.

There are 58 recipes available (including DLC and Don't Starve Together recipes) for the Crock Pot.

Despite its relative high cost in early game, rushing a Crock Pot may provide a boost to any players, as it greatly enhances the value and efficiency of food items to players; for example, it can turn a Monster Meat into a very efficient food item by combining with 2 Meats and 1 Carrot. Wet Goop may be produced if wrong ingredients are input which results in an unsuccessful cooking process (read more recipes below).

Usage

A Crock Pot has four Food item slots which must be filled in order to begin the cooking process. Only one item can be placed in each slot. Most recipes take 10-20 seconds to cook (exact times are listed in each individual recipe). All Crock Pot dishes can be stacked to 40, and actual Crock Pot meals cannot be added to a Crock Pot slot. Spoiled Food used in a Crock Pot has a chance to result in Rot; the spoilage value is averaged among the ingredients, then halved.

Cooked meals in the vanilla game will not begin to spoil until the player removes them from the Crock Pot. In other words, Crock Pot meals will remain in the Crock Pot until either the player removes it, a Lureplant "eats" it, or the pot is destroyed.

Food categories

Crock Pot recipes differentiate between the following 9 food categories:

• Meats
• Monster Food
• Fishes
• Eggs
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Sweeteners
• Dairy ()
• Bugs ()
• Fat (unimplemented)

Some foods do not fall into any of these categories (e.g. Butterfly Wings). Some foods may also act like a meat or vegetable/fruit when fed to Pigs, but do not count as that category for Crock Pot recipes.

Ingredients

Valid Ingredients

The following items can be used in a Crock Pot:

Meats (Raw or Cooked)

Monster Food (Raw or Cooked)

Fishes

Eggs (Raw or Cooked)

Fruits (Raw or Cooked)

Vegetables (Raw or Cooked)

Sweeteners

Dairy ()

Bugs ()

Inedible

Mandrake

Butterfly Wings

Ice ()

Roasted Birchnut ()

Moleworm ()

Wobster ()

Nettle ()

Foliage ()

Moon Moth Wings ()

Glow Berries and its lesser variant ()

Invalid Ingredients

The following edible items cannot be used in a Crock Pot:

Rot

Seeds (Raw or Cooked)

Petals / Dark Petals (including Garland)

Foliage ( only)

Rotten Egg or Hatching Tallbird Egg

Cooked Mandrake

Koalefant Trunk / Winter Koalefant Trunk (Raw or Cooked)

Deerclops Eyeball

Guardian's Horn

Batilisk Wing (Raw or Cooked)

Leafy Meat (Raw or Cooked)

Light Bulb

Glow Berry or its lesser variant (Exception:)

Birchnut (only when raw, roasted ones can be added) ()

Coconut (only when whole, halved and roasted ones can be added) ()

Dead Wobster (Dead or Cooked - alive ones can be added) ()

Dead Swordfish ()

Dragoon Heart ()

Eye of the Tiger Shark ()

Rainbow Jellyfish (Alive, Dead or Cooked) ()

Clippings ()

Flytrap Stalk ()

Lotus Flower (Raw or Cooked) ()

Magic Water ()

Nectar ()

Poison Dartfrog Legs (Raw or Cooked) ()

Seed Pod (Raw or Cooked) ()

Tuber / Blooming Tuber (Raw or Cooked) ()

Bramble Bulb ()

Kelp Fronds (Raw, Cooked or Dried) ()

Lune Tree Blossom ()

Note: Most recipes accept the "Cooked" versions of foods as ingredients, with the exception of the following:

Turkey Dinner

Mandrake Soup

Melonsicle ()

Guacamole ()

Banana Pop ()

Mussel Bouillabaise ()

Sweet Potato Souffle ()

Filler

Most recipes call for less than four specific ingredients, but the Crock Pot always requires four items to cook. In this case, the remaining slots can be filled with "filler" ingredients.

Any item that can be used as an ingredient can be used as filler, though many recipes explicitly prohibit certain foods from being used as filler. For example, Dragonpie requires only one Dragon Fruit, but cannot have any Meat as filler.

Unless prohibited, the otherwise-inedible Twigs can be used as a filler. This is commonly considered the "most efficient" filler. Despite being edible, Seeds (and Toasted Seeds) cannot be used as filler.

Monster Food

If two or more Monster Food is used as ingredients (including Filler), the recipe will produce Monster Lasagna, unless Twigs have been added or higher priority food is available.

The following is considered Monster Food:

Monster Meat (Raw or Cooked)

Monster Jerky

Durian (Raw or Cooked)

Dead Jellyfish (Raw or Cooked) ()

Dried Jellyfish ()

Food values

See also: Food

Food value can be defined as a food's usefulness, potency, or strength in regards to how well it can fulfill a particular recipe.

Meat value

Different Meats have different Meat values:

Meat value = 0.5:

Meat value = 1.0:

The term "meatiness" is sometimes used to describe Meat value. Hence, the total meatiness of ingredients added, is the sum of individual Meat values. If Honey Ham requires a Meat value greater than or equal to 2.0, then two Meats can be used, or one Meat and two Drumsticks could be used, but not one Meat and one Drumstick.

Tropical Fish provide 0.5 units of Meat value when uncooked, but none when cooked (as they give a Cooked Fish Morsel when cooked).

Fish/Seafood value

There are different types of fish and seafood that add to fish and seafood value:

Fish Value = 0.5:

Fish Value = 1.0:

Fish Value = 2.0:

Tropical Fish provide 1 full unit of Fish value when uncooked, but only 0.5 when cooked (as they give a Cooked Fish Morsel when cooked).

Fruit value

Fruit value = 0.5:

Fruit value = 1.0:

Berries and Juicy Berries only count as half a Fruit (Fruit value of 0.5). Recipes requiring Fruits will require at least 2 Berries to fulfill the requirement. Note, that Durian also counts as Monster Food as well as 1 fruit.

Vegetable value

Vegetable value = 0.5:

Vegetable value = 1.0:

Egg value

Egg value = 1.0:

Egg value = 4.0:

Sweetener value

Sweetener value = 1.0:

Sweetener value = 4.0:

Dairy Product value

Dairy Product value = 1.0:

Bugs value

Bugs value = 1.0:

Priority

Also known as "importance", the Priority rating decides the result of a particular cooking session based on the ingredients used. The recipe with the highest rating will always be chosen. If there are several recipes with the same importance, a random one of those specific recipes will be chosen. Some recipes have importance of 0 or below, which means they will never be chosen over other recipes. Such as, Wet Goop, which is always a valid result, but never chosen over anything else due to having -2 importance. The only exception is 0 importance recipes Fist Full of Jam, Fruit Medley and Ratatouille, which appear to always get chosen in that order.

Each recipe requires certain items to be present, for example Meatballs requires at least 1 piece of Meat. Some recipes may also have hidden exclusions, for example Dragonpie excludes Meats.

The Crock Pot always requires 4 food items to begin cooking, however some recipe requirements can be fulfilled with less than 4 items. In such recipes, the remaining slots can be filled by any cookable item that doesn't affect the original recipe or produce a different recipe. For example, Meatballs requires a Meat value between 0.5-2.5 (a Meat value of 3.0 or higher will make Meaty Stew); if 1 Morsel is added, then the remaining three slots are considered "Filler", so adding 3 more Morsels, or 3 Berries, or 3 Butter would be acceptable. However, adding Twigs will result in Kabobs, as they are a higher Priority than the Meatballs.

If there is more than one matching recipe for given ingredients the game will pick one with the highest "Priority". If there is more than one recipe with highest priority the game will pick at random.
E.g.: (1) Monster Meat + (1) Monster Meat + (1) Egg + (1) Egg has a chance to produce Bacon and Eggs or Monster Lasagna.

Here is a final example; adding (1) Fish, (1) Frog Legs, (1) Corn, and (1) Twigs to the Crock Pot fulfills the requirements of four (4) different Crock Pot meals. Only one (1) Crock Pot meal can be made, and its determined by the meal with the highest Priority (see Table below).

Outcome	Priority	Requirements*
Fishsticks	+10	×1 ×1
Fish Tacos	+10	×1 ×1
Kabobs	+5	×0.5 ×1
Froggle Bunwich	+1	×1 ×0.5

*All Food values are shown with decimal points.

The result is a tie between Fishsticks and Fish Tacos, both with a Priority of +10, which means the final result will be Fishsticks 50% of the time and Fish Tacos 50% of the time.

Crock Pot recipes

The following is a list of Crock Pot recipes. Other exclusive recipes can be found in Portable Crock Pot page.

Food	Name	DLC							Recipe
									Requirements*	Filler Restrictions
	Asparagus Soup	/	+20	+18.75	+5	15	10	10	×1 ×0.5 (×1.5)	()
	Bacon and Eggs		+20	+75	+5	20	40	10	×1.5 ×2.0	No
	Banana Pop	/	+20	+12.5	+33	10	10	20	()×1 ×1 ×1	No
	Bisque		+60	+18.75	+5	10	20	30	×3 ×1
	Butter Muffin		+20	+37.5	+5	15	40	1	×1 / ×1 ×0.5	No
	California Roll		+20	+37.5	+10	10	10	20	×2 ×1.0
	Caviar		+3	+12.5	+33	10	40	20	×1 or ×3 ×1.0
	Ceviche	/	+20	+25	+5	10	10	20	×2.0 ×1	()
	Coffee		+3	+9.375	-5	10	10	30	×3	Only
	Creamy Potato Purée		+20	+37.5	+33	15	20	20	×2 ×1	No
	Dragonpie		+40	+75	+5	15	40	1	×1	No
	Fancy Spiralled Tubers		+3	+37.5	+15	10	15	10	×1 ×1	No Maximum ×1
	Feijoada		+20	+75	+15	8	70	30	×0.5 ×3
	Fish Tacos		+20	+37.5	+5	6	10	10	×0.5 ×1
	Fishsticks		+40	+37.5	+5	10	40	10	×0.5 ×1	Maximum ×1
	Fist Full of Jam		+3	+37.5	+5	15	10	0	×0.5	No
	Flower Salad		+40	+12.5	+5	6	10	10	×1 ×2.0	No
	Froggle Bunwich		+20	+37.5	+5	15	40	1	×1 ×0.5
	Fruit Medley		+20	+25	+5	6	10	0	×3.0	No
	Guacamole		+20	+37.5	0	10	10	10	×1 / ×1 ×1	No
	Gummy Cake		-3	+150	-5	20	40	1	×1 ×1	No
	Hard Shell Tacos		+20	+37.5	+5	15	20	1	×2 ×0.5
	Honey Ham		+30	+75	+5	15	40	2	×2.0 ×1	No , ≤ 1.0
	Honey Nuggets		+20	+37.5	+5	15	40	2	×0.5 ×1	No , < 2.0
	Ice Cream		0	+25	+50	3	10	10	×1 ×1 ×1	No
	Iced Tea		+3	+12.5	+33	6	10	30	×2 ×1 ×1
	Jellybeans		+122 (over 2 minutes)	+0	+5	Never	50	12	×1	No
	Jelly-O Pop		+20	+12.5	0	3	10	20	×1 ×1 ×1
	Kabobs		+3	+37.5	+5	15	40	5	×0.5 ×1	Maximum ×1 ×1
	Lobster Bisque		+60	+25	+10	10	10	30	×1 ×1
	Lobster Dinner		+60	+37.5	+50	15	20	25	×1 ×1	No
	Mandrake Soup		+100	+150	+5	6	60	10	×1
	Meatballs		+3	+62.5	+5	10	15	-1	×0.5	No
	Meaty Stew		+12	+150	+5	10	15	0	×3.0	No
	Melonsicle		+3	+12.5	+20	3	10	10	×1 ×1 ×1	No
	Monster Lasagna		-20	+37.5	-20	6	10	10	×2.0	No
	Nettle Rolls		+20	+25	+5	6	10	0	×3
	Pierogi		+40	+37.5	+5	20	20	5	×1.0 ×0.5 ×0.5	No
	Powdercake		-3	0	0	18750	10	10	×1 ×1 ×1
	Pumpkin Cookie		0	+37.5	+15	10	40	10	×1 ×2
	Ratatouille		+3	+25	+5	15	20	0	×0.5	No
	Salsa Fresca		+3	+25	+33	15	10	20	×1 ×1	No
	Seafood Gumbo		+40	+37.5	+20	10	20	10	×2.5
	Shark Fin Soup		+40	+12.5	-10	10	10	20	×1
	Snake Bone Soup		+40	+25	+10	10	20	20	×2 ×2.0
	Spicy Chili		+20	+37.5	0	10	10	10	×1.5 ×1.5
	(Spicy) Vegetable Stinger		+3	+25	+33	15	10	15	or ()×1 ×1.5 ×1
	Steamed Ham Sandwich		+40	+37.5	+15	6	40	5	or ×1 ×1.0 ×1	No
	Stuffed Eggplant		+3	+37.5	+5	15	40	1	×1 ×0.5
	Stuffed Pepper Poppers		+30	+25	-5	15	40	20	×1 ×0.5	No ≤1.5
	Surf 'n' Turf		+60	+37.5	+33	10	10	30	×2.5 ×1.5	No
	Taffy		-3	+25	+15	15	40	10	×3	No
	Tea		+3	+12.5	+33	1 ()	10	25	×2 ×1	No
	Trail Mix		+30	+12.5	+5	15	10	10	×1 ×1 ×1	No
	Tropical Bouillabaisse		+20	+37.5	+15	10	40	35	×1 ×1 ×1 ×1
	Turkey Dinner		+20	+75	+5	6	60	10	×2 ×0.5 ×0.5 or ×0.5
	Unagi		+20	+18.75	+5	10	10	20	×1 ×1
	Waffles		+60	+37.5	+5	6	10	10	×1 ×1.0 ×1
	Wet Goop		0	0	0	6	5	-2	Any invalid recipe

*All Food values are shown with decimal points.

Downloadable Content

In the Reign of Giants (RoG) and Shipwrecked (SW) DLCs, items left in the Crock Pot will start to spoil before they are collected, and they spoil even quicker if it is raining. Some existing recipes gain the ability to warm or cool the player and new recipes have been added which can lower or raise the player's temperature. The Crock Pot itself also generates heat when cooking, which can possibly Overheat the player during Summer and Dry Season.

If a regular or RoG save file has been set to be compatible with SW, any recipes added by SW will also be available in such a file. Consequently, recipes such as Surf 'n' Turf can be created to easily restore large amounts of Health and Sanity in the Ruins by combining 2 Monster Meats with 2 Eels.

The Hamlet DLC introduces the first Crock Pot recipe that turns into a different recipe when it has spoiled. Tea will spoil after one day, but instead of becoming Rot it will become Iced Tea. Even though this transformation likely represents the cooling of the hot drink, putting Tea in an Ice Box will slow its spoilage like any other food item.

Tips

• The light emitted by an active Crock Pot is enough to keep Charlie away.
• Warly has his own Portable Crock Pot.
• Some Crock Pot dishes give fewer Hunger / Health points than the sum of their components.
  • For example, it's better to eat four Roasted Carrots (+12 / +50 ), versus using them to make Ratatouille (+3 / +25 ).
  • However, most Crock Pot recipes restore 5 , which may be desirable.

External links

• Don't Starve Food Guide (Crock Pot simulator)
• Crock Pot Simulator for mods

Gallery

The Crock Pot interface.

A Crock Pot in action.

A Crock Pot with Meatballs in it, ready to be obtained.

Faint light from a cooking Crock Pot.

A burnt Crock Pot from the Reign of Giants DLC.

Webber and Wickerbottom cooking Pierogi in a Crock Pot in an artwork make by Klei Entertainment for the Lunar New Year.

A summer-themed drawing from Rhymes With Play #201 featuring Winona using the Crock Pot.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST