Search for ingredients below, then click them to add to the pot. Click a slot to remove an ingredient.
Add all items in your inventory below to see what recipes you can make. Click the + to add more items.
Stats about your food:
With these, you can make:
Find what recipes are most efficient:
About This Food Guide
This is an unofficial tool to help avoid starvation in Don't Starve, an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic by Klei Entertainment.
This page requires a modern web browser, such as a recent version of Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or Safari, and runs locally using JavaScript.
Open-source and maintained as a community effort on GitHub: github.com/bluehexagons/foodguide.
Last content addition: August 6, 2023
Sections
Simulator
The Simulator works like a Crock Pot: add items, and it will tell you what food will be prepared. Note that only the highest-priority recipes will be candidates when actually cooking in-game. The combined totals at the top reflect the ingredients added, where perish time is the shortest. The suggestions below the real results show what recipes could be made by adding different items to those already in the Crock Pot.
Discovery
The Discovery tab finds what recipes can be prepared using a collection of ingredients. It doesn't take item quantity into account, instead assuming you have four of each. You are also able to calculate efficient recipes using your ingredients to get the most health or hunger benefit from cooking them in the crock pot. This works identically to the Statistics Analyzer tab, but limited to your inventory.
Food List & Recipe List
Browse all foods and Crock Pot recipes available in the selected game version. Use the version selector in the upper-left to switch between Don't Starve Together, Don't Starve, and Hamlet.
Statistics Analyzer
The Statistics Analyzer tab is for those who just want to explore ingredient combinations. It will calculate every valid ingredient combination possible (using an "ideal" ingredient selection, generally excluding uncooked food) and allows filtration by recipe and ingredient contents. Computation may take some time on slower computers.
Advanced Use (JavaScript Globals)
The Food Guide populates window with a few properties:
food, recipes, and matchingNames. The
Statistics Analyzer writes its results to analysis and
recipeCrunchData. The local state is stored under
localStorage.foodGuideState.
For advanced use, open your browser's JavaScript console.
analysis.made contains the list of the working combinations
from the last analysis, including beyond those visible in the interface.
Links
Food Mechanics
Perish time is the time before a food item becomes Rot. Halfway through this period, it will go stale, and give health and hunger, as well as no sanity. Food spoils at three quarters, giving only hunger and no longer giving any health. Eating spoiled food will decrease sanity by . Food dropped on the ground will perish at a rate of (or in Winter, in Summer), while keeping it in the Ice Box will reduce the rate to .
Foods that provide warmth or cooling work like a thermal stone; when eaten, they provide a heat source at a particular temperature for a period of time. Eating another heating/cooling food within this period will replace the earlier effect.
Recipe priority determines which recipe a food combination will make; only the highest-priority possible recipes can be produced by a batch of ingredients.
In recipe requirements, cooked/uncooked usually doesn't make a difference. If it does, then only the valid form will be listed.
Game Versions and DLC
The game version selector in the upper-left lets you switch between Don't Starve Together (DST), Don't Starve (DS), and Hamlet. When Don't Starve is selected, you can toggle the Reign of Giants and Shipwrecked DLC on or off to control which foods and recipes are shown. You can also select a character like Warly or Webber to see their special recipes and food mechanics.
Character Food Mechanics
Warly is a chef character who can only be played in Shipwrecked, Hamlet, and DST. In Shipwrecked, his meals are more filling when prepared as recipes but less effective when eaten raw, dried, or cooked. He also has access to unique recipes not available to other characters.
Webber is a spider-human hybrid who can be played in all game versions. He can safely eat Monster Foods without any adverse health effects, and can eat Raw Meat as if it were cooked (with full health and no sanity penalty). He is also the only character who can naturally befriend Spiders.
Wigfrid is a character from Reign of Giants available in Don't Starve Together. She is a stage performer who only eats meat. In Don't Starve Together, she can also eat "goodies" such as Taffy, Jellybeans, and Volt Goat Chaud-Froid.
Favorite Foods (DST)
In Don't Starve Together, each character gains an extra 15 Hunger when eating their favorite food. This bonus is affected by freshness.
| Character | Favorite Food |
|---|---|
| Wilson | Bacon and Eggs |
| Willow | Spicy Chili |
| Wendy | Banana Pop |
| Wolfgang | Roasted Potato |
| Woodie | Honey Nuggets |
| Wickerbottom | Surf 'n' Turf |
| WX-78 | Butter Muffin |
| Wes | Fresh Fruit Crepes |
| Maxwell | Wobster Dinner |
| Wigfrid | Turkey Dinner |
| Webber | Ice Cream |
| Winona | Vegetable Stinger |
| Wortox | Pomegranates |
| Wormwood | Cooked Cave Banana |
| Warly | None |
| Wurt | Extra Smelly Durian |
| Walter | Trail Mix |
| Wanda | Taffy |
| Wonkey | Cave Banana |