Red Cap

Red Cap / Cooked Red Cap
Stats
	Inventory Icon
Raw
Cooked
-20
1
12.5
0
0
-10
10 Days
10 Days
none
15/7.5 sec
Stacks up to
40 items
40 items
Properties
Food Value	× 0.5
Sources
Dropped by	, ()
Spawncode
Raw	"red_cap"
Cooked	"red_cap_cooked"

“It smells funny.”

–Wilson

“I like the color.”

–Willow

“Oh! Is pretty and shiny!”

–Wolfgang

“A mushroom after my own heart.”

–Wendy

“POISONOUS FUNGUS”

–WX-78

“Red usually indicates poison.”

–Wickerbottom

“I don't know...”

–Woodie

“I forget what this one does.”

–Maxwell

“Liable to cause me intestinal distress in its current form.”

–Wagstaff

“Umami ör nöt, I dön't want it.”

–Wigfrid

“It smells funny.”

–Webber

“It might be a bad idea to just eat stuff I find on the ground.”

–Walani

“Perhaps I could make a good soup.”

–Warly

“Hope th' color ain't a warnin'...”

–Woodlegs

“WILBA EAT-ETH!”

–Wilba

“Yummy friend hat”

–Wormwood

“Nothing safer than eating a strange mushroom off the ground.”

–Wheeler

“Let Max try it first.”

–Winona

“Oh, no thank you.”

–Wortox

“These ones bad for you, florp.”

–Wurt

“That definitely looks poisonous.”

–Walter

“I'm pretty sure red is the bad color.”

–Wanda

The Red Cap is a Vegetable food item that can be harvested from Red Mushrooms or Red Mushtrees. Eating it raw will restore 12.5 at the cost of 20 , making it unviable as a food source for every character except for Wormwood. However, it can be used as a Crock Pot filler without any health penalty. Red Caps can be dropped on the ground to indirectly damage Mobs if they eat it.

Cooked Red Cap

“It's different now...”

–Wilson

“I changed it with fire!”

–Willow

“Is not same.”

–Wolfgang

“All is malleable.”

–Wendy

“MODIFIED FUNGUS”

–WX-78

“Chemistry has happened.”

–Wickerbottom

“Only if I get really hungry.”

–Woodie

“Kind of bitter.”

–Maxwell

“I can reasonably deduce this will cause me psychic harm.”

–Wagstaff

“I wön't eat it, but it was fun tö put in the fire.”

–Wigfrid

“It smells better now.”

–Webber

“I'm not THAT hungry.”

–Walani

“Could use cream and salt...”

–Warly

“Me favorite color o' 'shroom.”

–Woodlegs

“WILBA EAT-ETH!!”

–Wilba

“Hurts head”

–Wormwood

“Cooking toxic mushrooms make them...safer?”

–Wheeler

“Not too interested in trying that.”

–Winona

“My head aches just looking at it!”

–Wortox

“Bit better...”

–Wurt

“Did cooking it make it less poisonous?”

–Walter

“This seems like a bad idea.”

–Wanda

Cooked Red Cap is a Vegetable Food item made by Cooking a Red Cap on a fire (Campfire, Fire Pit, or a Dwarf Star). Unlike its raw counterpart, the Cooked Red Cap will not deduct any health points, instead restoring 1 . However, it will now take away 10 instead, while restoring no hunger. The Cooked Red Cap can also be used as fuel.

Downloadable Content

In the Shipwrecked DLC, Red Caps can be obtained by using the Slot Machine.

Don't Starve Together

In Don't Starve Together, the Toadstool has a chance to drop Red Caps upon death. Red Caps are required to craft Sunrise Lures and the Red Funcap. A Mushroom Planter can be used to grow Red Mushrooms by planting a Red Cap or Red Mushroom Spores in it.

Usage

Crafting Recipes

6×

2×

1×

1×

10×

Only during Hallowed Nights event

Crock Pot Recipes

Tips

• Red Caps damaging Mobs that eat it is especially useful when dealing with Gobblers as 3 Red Caps in a stack can kill one Gobbler, providing Drumsticks. 13 Red Caps fed to Beefalo in a row will kill it without attracting attention of the herd.
• Wormwood can eat Red Caps to gain easy Hunger, as he doesn't lose Health when eating them.

Trivia

• The Red Cap's appearance and toxicity is likely based on the Amanita muscaria which contain a toxin that causes hallucinations and intoxication.

Gallery

Wilson in a poster announcing the release of Don't Starve: Giant Edition on the Wii U.