Crock Pot

Crock Pot
"Make better food."
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“It makes me hungry just to look at it.”

–Wilson, examining an empty crock pot.

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

–Willow, examining an empty crock pot.

“Empty pot make Wolfgang think hungry thoughts.”

–Wolfgang, examining an empty crock pot.

“As empty as my soul.”

–Wendy, examining an empty crock pot.

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

–WX-78, examining an empty crock pot.

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

–Wickerbottom, examining an empty crock pot.

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

–Woodie, examining an empty crock pot.

“Just the thought makes my mouth water.”

–Maxwell, examining an empty crock pot.

“In need of ingredients.”

–Wagstaff, examining an empty crock pot.

“Nöthing in there.”

–Wigfrid, examining an empty crock pot.

“Food goes in, other food comes out.”

–Webber, examining an empty crock pot.

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

–Walani, examining an empty crock pot.

“Empty pot, empty heart.”

–Warly, examining an empty crock pot.

“Th'pot be empty.”

–Woodlegs, examining an empty crock pot.

“IT MOCKS WILBA WITH EMPTINESS”

–Wilba, examining an empty crock pot.

“Nothing there”

–Wormwood, examining an empty crock pot.

“Meals are typically better if they contain food.”

–Wheeler, examining an empty crock pot.

“I make a mean stew.”

–Winona, examining an empty crock pot.

“Can souls simmer?”

–Wortox, examining an empty crock pot.

“Wish there was food inside, flurp.”

–Wurt, examining an empty crock pot.

The Crock Pot is Structure that is used to cook a variety of belly-filling dishes from basic Foods. It's found on the Food Tab, it requires a Science Machine to prototype, and it costs 3 Cut Stone, 6 Charcoal, and 6 Twigs to build.

Building a Crock Pot early on greatly enhances food's value and efficiency. For example, otherwise useless Monster Meat can be used in a very filling recipe by combining it with 2 Meats and 1 Carrot.

Usage

A Crock Pot has 4 slots for ingredients, each of which must be filled with a piece of Food for it to start cooking. Most recipes take 10–20 seconds to cook. (Exact times for each recipe are listed below.) Completed Crock Pot dishes can be stacked to 40, and none of them can be used in the Crock Pot again.

Cooking basics

A cooking attempt's ingredients have to match a recipe. There are 58 recipes available for the Crock Pot, including those from Don't Starve Together & the DLC. If an attempt fails to match any recipe at all, Wet Goop ends up being the product.

When a recipe is attempted (i.e. the pot starts cooking), the food groups the ingredients fit into are considered. Almost all recipes are listed as requiring some amount of Food from certain food groups, but there are a lot of recipes with specific Food requirements (like the Froggle Bunwich).

Lots of ingredients fulfill recipe requirements more readily than others (e.g. 1 Turkey Leg has the same effect on a dish as 2 Morsels). More filling ingredients tend to have greater food values.

Each recipe has weight, so that a result can be decided when a set of ingredients fits more than one valid recipe. These weights are called recipe priorities.

When spoiled ingredients are used, the completed dish's freshness becomes half the average freshness, sometimes turning it into Rot. In the vanilla game, a meal doesn't begin to spoil until a player removes it from the Crock Pot. Meals remain in the Crock Pot until either a player removes it, a Lureplant "eats" it, or the pot is destroyed.

Ingredients

Food groups

There are 9 recognised food groups when cooking with a Crock Pot:

1. Meats
2. Fishes
3. Eggs
4. Fruits
5. Vegetables
6. Sweeteners
7. Monster Foods
8. Dairy ()
9. Bugs ()

Some Foods do not fall into any of these groups (e.g. Butterfly Wings). Some fall into multiple (e.g. Fish). Some might count as a meat, fruit, or vegetable when fed to a Pig but not when used in a Crock Pot.

A 10th food group, Fat, has gone unimplemented.

Valid ingredients

The following items can be used in a Crock Pot:

Any Meat (raw or cooked)

Any Monster Food (raw or cooked)

Any Fish or Seafood

Any Egg (raw or cooked)

Any Fruit (raw or cooked)

Any Vegetable (raw or cooked)

Any Sweetener

Certain inedible items (See Inedible)

Butterfly Wings

Mandrake

Any Dairy

Ice

Moleworm

Roasted Birchnut

Wobster

Any Bug

Foliage

Nettle

Kelp Fronds (raw, cooked or dried)

Lesser Glow Berry

Moon Moth Wings

Invalid ingredients

Although the following items are edible, they cannot be used in any Crock Pot dishes:

Batilisk Wing (raw or cooked)

Dark Petals

Deerclops Eyeball

Foliage ( only)

Garland)

Glow Berry

Guardian's Horn

Hatching Tallbird Egg

Koalefant Trunk

Leafy Meat (raw or cooked)

Lesser Glow Berry

Light Bulb

Mandrake (cooked – raw o.k.)

Petals

Rot

Rotten Egg

Seeds (raw or cooked)

Tuber

Winter Koalefant Trunk (raw or cooked)

Birchnut (raw – roasted o.k.)

Coconut (whole – halved or roasted o.k.)

Dead Swordfish

Dead Wobster (raw or cooked - alive o.k.)

Dragoon Heart

Eye of the Tiger Shark

Rainbow Jellyfish (alive, dead, or cooked)

Blooming Tuber (raw or cooked)

Bramble Bulb

Clippings

Flytrap Stalk

Lotus Flower (raw or cooked)

Magic Water

Nectar

Poison Dartfrog Legs (raw or cooked)

Seed Pod (raw or cooked)

Lune Tree Blossom

The following recipes do not work with any cooked foods:

Turkey Dinner

Mandrake Soup

Melonsicle ()

Guacamole ()

Banana Pop ()

Mussel Bouillabaise ()

Sweet Potato Souffle ()

Filler

An ingredient is "filler" if it can be added to a partially prepared recipe without changing the Crock Pot's output. Most recipes call for less than four ingredients, so fillers need to be added to fill the pot.

When filler is called for, most valid ingredients (see above) will usually work, though some recipes explicitly prohibit a couple ingredients or food groups. For example, Dragonpie cannot have any Meat ingredients in it.

Twigs can fill a lot of dishes, but a lot of recipes prohibit their use. One dish, Kabobs, actually requires them. Using them when possible is efficient, as Twigs are usually easier to get than Food.

Monster Food

If two or more Monster Foods are used in the pot, the crock pot produces Monster Lasagna unless Twigs are added (which makes Wet Goop) or higher priority food is available. As such, only one Monster Food should ever be attempted as filler for a dish.

The following is 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

These "food values" measure of how plentifully an ingredient can fulfill a recipe's need for certain food groups. Combined ingredients' food values (in addition to recipe priority) are what determine an attempt's final dish. For example, Honey Ham requires meatiness greater than or equal to 2.0, so in addition to Honey its ingredients can be 3 Jerky; 2 Jerky & 1 filler; or 1 Jerky and 2 Drumsticks; but 1 Jerky, 1 Drumstick, & 1 filler won't cut it.

The overall set of food values for an attempted dish is the sum of its component ingredient's values. In attempting a dish like , the component values are:

• +1 meat, +1 monster
• +1 meat
• +1 meat
• +0.5 fruit

Those are added up, and the final dish's set of value will 3.0 meat, 1.0 monster, 0.5 fruit.

Some ingredients values for two food groups. For example, raw Tropical Fish provides 1.0 fish unit & 0.5 meat units (though Cooked Fish Morsel provides 0.5 fish units & 0.0 meat units).

Meat value

Meat ingredients come in two levels of meatiness: half & full.

Foods with meat value of 0.5

Foods with meat value of 1.0

Fish/Seafood values

Fish & seafood come in three levels of fishiness: half, full, and double.

Foods with fish value of 0.5

Foods with fish value of 1.0

Food with fish value of 2.0

Fruit value

Fruit ingredients come in half-size & full-size.

Foods with fruit value of 0.5

Foods with fruit value of 1.0

Durian counts as monster food as well as a full fruit.

Vegetable value

Vegetable ingredients come in half-size & full-size.

Foods with vegetable value of 0.5

Foods with vegetable value of 1.0

Egg value

Egg ingredients come in small & enormous.

Foods with egg value of 1.0

Foods with egg value of 4.0

Sweetener value

Sweeteners are Honeys & Royal Jelly.

Foods with sweetener value of 1.0

Food with sweetener value of 3.0

Dairy Product value

Dairy includes Butter & Electric Milk.

Foods with dairy value of 1.0

Bug value

Bugs are unique to the Don't Starve: Hamlet DLC.

Foods with bug value of 1.0

Priority

Also known as "importance", recipes' priority ratings are used to determine the result of an ingredient set 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 valid 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 recipes of positive importance. One such recipe is Wet Goop, which is in fact always a valid result, but it's never chosen over anything else because it has -2 importance. The only exception is the basic 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 Meat Ingredient. Some recipes may also have hidden exclusions, for example Dragonpie excludes the Meat group.

The Crock Pot requires 4 food items to begin cooking, however, some recipes require less than 4 ingredients to qualify for the recipe. 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, a successful Meatballs dish requires a meat value of 0.5–2.5. (A meat value of 3.0 or higher prioritises Meaty Stew.) If the first ingredient is Morsel, then the remaining three are filler if they won't change the recipe: 3 Berries, 3 Butter, or 3 more Morsels would be acceptable. Twigs would not work as filler, because that allows for Kabobs as a final dish, and that recipe with higher priority.

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. For example, has a chance to produce Bacon and Eggs or Monster Lasagna.

Here is a final example; a dish that uses as ingredients fulfills four different recipes. Only one meal can be made, so the winner is determined using recipe priority:

Outcome	Priority rating	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 actually tied between Fishsticks and Fish Tacos (both have priority of 10). In the case of a tie, the final dish will be randomly chosen.

Recipes for the Crock Pot

The following is a list of Crock Pot recipes. There are also recipes exclusive to the Portable Crock Pot, not listed here.

Under Ingredients, icons with a numeric value (like 1.0) represent any ingredient from that food group. Icons without values are specific ingredients. Required ingredients are the minimum food items to make a dish, and attempting to fill a dish with restricted ingredients would lead to a different dish.

Visual Reminder
Vegetables	Meats	Fruits	Fishes	Eggs
Sweeteners	Monster Foods	Dairy ()	Bugs ()	Inedible

Icon	Dish	DLC						Recipe
									Ingredients	Notes
	Asparagus Soup		20	18.75	5	15d	10s	10	+ ×0.5
									+ ×1.5	No
	Bacon and Eggs		20	75	5	20d	40s	10	×1.5 + ×2.0	No
	Banana Pop		20	12.5	33	10d	10s	20	+ + ×1.0	No
									+ + ×1.0
	Bisque		60	18.75	5	10d	20s	30	+ + +
	Butter Muffin		20	37.5	5	15d	40s	1	+ ×0.5	No ——— O.K.
									+ ×0.5
	California Roll		20	37.5	10	10d	10s	20	+ + ×1.0
									+ + ×1.0
	Caviar		3	12.5	33	10d	40s	20	+ ×1.0	Easier with fresh Roe
									+ + + ×1.0
	Ceviche		20	25	5	10d	10s	20	+ ×2.0
										No
	Coffee		3	9.375	-5	10d	10s	30	+ +	Only
	Creamy Potato Purée		20	37.5	33	15d	20s	20	+ +	No
	Dragonpie		40	75	5	15d	40	1s		No
	Fancy Spiralled Tubers		3	37.5	15	10d	15s	10	+ ×1.0	No Max ×2.0
	Feijoada		20	75	15	8d	70s	30	+ + + ×0.5	O.K.
	Fish Tacos		20	37.5	5	6d	10s	10	+ ×0.5
	Fishsticks		40	37.5	5	10d	40s	10	×0.5 + ×1.0	Max ×1.0
	Fist Full of Jam		3	37.5	5	15d	10s	0	×0.5	No
	Flower Salad		40	12.5	5	6d	10s	10	+ ×2.0	No
	Froggle Bunwich		20	37.5	5	15d	40s	1	+ ×0.5
	Fruit Medley		20	25	5	6d	10s	0	×3.0	No
	Guacamole		20	37.5	0	10d	10s	10	+	No
									+
	Gummy Cake		-3	150	-5	20d	40s	1	+ ×1.0	No
	Hard Shell Tacos		20	37.5	5	15d	20s	1	+ + ×0.5
	Honey Ham		30	75	5	15d	40s	2	+ ×2.0	No Max ×1.0
	Honey Nuggets		20	37.5	5	15d	40s	2	+ ×0.5	No Max ×1.5
	Ice Cream		0	25	50	3d	10s	10	+ ×1.0 + ×1.0	No
	Iced Tea		3	12.5	33	6d	10s	30	+ + + ×1.0
	Jellybeans		122 in 2 min	0	5	Never	50s	12		No
	Jelly-O Pop		20	12.5	0	3d	10s	20	+ + ×1.0
	Kabobs		3	37.5	5	15d	40s	5	×0.5 + ×1.0	Max ×1.0×1.0
	Lobster Bisque		60	25	10	10d	10s	30	+
	Lobster Dinner		60	37.5	50	15d	20s	25	+	No
	Mandrake Soup		100	150	5	6d	60s	10
	Meatballs		3	62.5	5	10d	15s	-1	×0.5	No
	Meaty Stew		12	150	5	10d	15s	0	×3.0	No
	Melonsicle		3	12.5	20	3d	10s	10	+ + ×1.0	No
	Monster Lasagna		-20	37.5	-20	6d	10s	10	×2.0	No
	Nettle Rolls		20	25	5	6d	10s	0	+ +
	Pierogi		40	37.5	5	20d	20s	5	×1.0 + ×0.5 + ×0.5	No
	Powdercake		-3	0	0	18750d	10s	10	+ + ×1.0
	Pumpkin Cookie		0	37.5	15	10d	40s	10	+ ×2.0
	Ratatouille		3	25	5	15d	20s	0	×0.5	No
	Salsa Fresca		3	25	33	15d	10s	20	+	No
	Seafood Gumbo		40	37.5	20	10d	20s	10	×2.5
	Shark Fin Soup		40	12.5	-10	10d	10s	20
	Snake Bone Soup		40	25	10	10d	20s	20	+ + ×2.0
	Spicy Chili		20	37.5	0	10d	10s	10	×1.5 + ×1.5
	Spicy Vegetable Stinger		3	25	33	15d	10s	15	+ + ×1.5	or ——— See Vegetable Stinger recipe
									+ + ×1.5
	Steamed Ham Sandwich		40	37.5	15	6d	40s	5	+ + ×1.0	O.K. No
	Stuffed Eggplant		3	37.5	5	15d	40s	1	+ ×0.5
	Stuffed Pepper Poppers		30	25	-5	15d	40s	20	+ ×0.5	No Max ×1.5
	Surf 'n' Turf		60	37.5	33	10d	10s	30	×2.5 + ×1.5	No
	Taffy		-3	25	15	15d	40s	10	×3.0	No
	Tea		3	12.5	33	1d ()	10s	25	+ + ×1.0	No
	Trail Mix		30	12.5	5	15d	10s	10	+ + ×1.0	No
	Tropical Bouillabaisse		20	37.5	15	10d	40s	35	+ + + ×1.0
	Turkey Dinner		20	75	5	6d	60s	10	+ + ×0.5 + ×0.5	or
									+ + ×0.5 + ×0.5
	Unagi		20	18.75	5	10d	10s	20	+
	Vegetable Stinger		3	25	33	15d	10s	15	+ + ×1.5	or ——— See Spicy Vegetable Stinger recipe
									+ + ×1.5
	Waffles		60	37.5	5	6d	10s	10	+ + ×1.0
	Wet Goop		0	0	0	6d	5s	-2		Results when nothing else works

Downloadable Content

In 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. Foliages can be used in the Crock Pot in this DLC.

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.

Trivia

• Characters have quotes when the remaining cooking time is less than 15 seconds

“It's almost done!”

–Wilson

“The fire is doing its thing!”

–Willow

“Is almost cook!”

–Wolfgang

“It needs to boil.”

–Wendy

“IT IS ALMOST COMPLETE”

–WX-78

“Almost done!”

–Wickerbottom

“Oh boy! Here it comes!”

–Woodie

“Here it comes!”

–Maxwell

“Shouldn't be long now!”

–Wigfrid

“Almost ready!”

–Webber

“Nearly there...”

–Warly

“Done soon”

–Wormwood

“Almost!”

–Winona

“I'm shivering with anticipation!”

–Wortox

“Will be done quick!”

–Wurt

• Characters have quotes when the remaining cooking time is larger than 15 seconds

“This is going to take a while.”

–Wilson

“The fire still has quite a bit of work to do.”

–Willow

“This take long time.”

–Wolfgang

“Whatever's in there isn't dead yet.”

–Wendy

“MORE TIME IS REQUIRED”

–WX-78

“It's got a bit to go before it's ready.”

–Wickerbottom

“It'll be a bit longer, eh?”

–Woodie

“Wait for it...”

–Maxwell

“Might as well do something whilst I wait.”

–Wigfrid

“It won't be done for a while.”

–Webber

“A masterpiece takes time.”

–Warly

“Waiting...”

–Wormwood

“Still got a bit of a wait.”

–Winona

“It will take quite some time.”

–Wortox

“This take foreverrr...”

–Wurt

• Characters have quotes when cooking is finished

“Mmmmm! It's ready to eat!”

–Wilson, examining an finished dish.

“Fire makes everything better. Mmm!”

–Willow, examining an finished dish.

“Is time to eat!”

–Wolfgang, examining an finished dish.

“Finally, food.”

–Wendy, examining an finished dish.

“THE COOKING PROCESS IS DONE”

–WX-78, examining an finished dish.

“Supper time!”

–Wickerbottom, examining an finished dish.

“Time for supper!”

–Woodie, examining an finished dish.

“Finally, some quality grub.”

–Maxwell, examining an finished dish.

“What have we here?”

–Wigfrid, examining an finished dish.

“Supper is served.”

–Webber, examining an finished dish.

“Ahh, fini!”

–Warly, examining an finished dish.

“Done!”

–Wormwood, examining an finished dish.

“Soup's on!”

–Winona, examining an finished dish.

“Looks like my treat is ready to eat!”

–Wortox, examining an finished dish.

“Time for yums!”

–Wurt, examining an finished dish.

• Characters have quotes for burnt Crock Pot

“The pot got cooked.”

–Wilson

“At least it went out in a blaze of glory.”

–Willow

“Pot is dead.”

–Wolfgang

“Burnt to a crisp.”

–Wendy

“POT MALFUNCTIONING”

–WX-78

“Now it's truly derelict.”

–Wickerbottom

“Burned to a crisp.”

–Woodie

“A bit overdone for my tastes.”

–Maxwell

“The fire reigned supreme.”

–Wigfrid

“Someone must have left the fire going.”

–Webber

“Tragique.”

–Warly

“Oh”

–Wormwood

“You guys like gristle, right?”

–Winona

“I don't understand how to make mortal food.”

–Wortox

“Oops...”

–Wurt

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.

Crock Pot as seen on the 2018 Valentine Cards.

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