Core Keeper is an exploration game where taming the wilderness and resource hunting is the core for in the sandbox adventure. However, to truly thrive in the subterranean world, you need to master various skills including cooking. This detailed guide has everything you need to unlock cooking mechanics, cooking methods, and the best recipes in Core Keeper.
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How To Unlock Cooking Mechanics In Core Keeper
Craft the Cooking Pot to unlock Cooking in Core Keeper. This can be done at the Workbench once you have collected 2 * Wood and 4 * Copper Bars. Once completed, you can now combine ingredients and use recipes to cook food that give buffs, increase max health, give an attack boost and so on.
How To Cook In Core Keeper
Once you have successfully crafted a Cooking Pot in Core Keeper, you can place it in any desired location in your base and start cooking:
- Interact with the Cooking Pot.
- Place the ingredients of your choice into the two empty slots.
- Wait for the dish to be cooked.
- Collect the dish when it is ready.
When you combine two ingredients in Core Keeper, the resulting dish will inherit the best stats from both ingredients. As you progress through the game you will be able to unlock more advanced cooking stations and also unlock more recipes.
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Best Recipes In Core Keeper
Currently, there are seventy-four ingredients in Core Keeper that can be combined together to create 2775 unique combinations. There are two additional unobtainable ingredients which if unlocked allow you to create 2926 combinations. However, instead of having thousands of unique recipes, the game focuses on a stat-based system with limited outcomes. You can cook the same food using different recipes, but the stats of the final dish will vary based on the quality of the ingredients.
Here are some of the best recipes in Core Keeper right now:
| Recipe | Ingredients | Effect |
| Dark Crystal Sushi | Jasper Angle Fish + Dark Lava Eater | Boosts health restoration, good for melee builds. |
| Shiny Meat Steak | Marbled Meat + Shiny Larva Meat | Increases critical hit chance and damage. |
| Rare Spicy Oat Cereal | Golden Bloat Oat + Golden Bomb Pepper | Offers a substantial increase in movement speed, health regeneration, melee attack speed, and food efficiency. |
| Royal Shark Fillet | Mold Shark + Tornis Kingfish | Provides a significant boost to physical melee damage and overall damage output. |
| Gooey Worm Fish Balls | Devil Worm + Larva Meat | Boosts physical ranged damage and critical hit chance. |
| Moldy Gold Steak | Shiny Larva Meat + Mold Shark | Increases physical melee damage, critical hit chance, and health regeneration. |
| Yellow Pepper Wrap | Bomb Pepper + Yellow Blister Head | Grants immunity to slow debuff and increases movement speed. |
| Hearty Pepper Wrap | Bomb Pepper + Heart Berry | Increases movement speed and max health. |
| Moldy Berry Pudding | Mold Shark + Golden Heart Berry | Boosts melee damage and max health. |
| Crunchy Pepper Wrap | Golden Carrock + Golden Bomb Pepper | Boosts movement speed, armor, and attack speed. |
| Radiant Moon Sandwich | Golden Lunacorn + Golden Sunrice | Boosts minion and magic damage, plus a magic barrier. |
| Sweet Fruit Smoothie | Golden Pewpaya + Golden Pinegrapple | Boosts damage and attack speed for melee and ranged weapons. |
| White Fossil Sushi | White Coralotl + Terra Trilobite | Increases mining damage and speed, and max health. |
| Yummy Mold Cheese | Dodo Egg + Golden Puffungi | Boosts damage against bosses, reduces damage taken from them. |
And with that, we come to the end of this guide on how to cook food in Core Keeper. The game was released in August this year on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X, and is scheduled to launch on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One next week.
