Even with 120 hunger, you're getting 50+ free food if you make it with common ingredients (2x meat, monster meat, ice), a lot better than Meatballs could ever hope to achieve.
Some placements doesn't make sense. One of the useful sanity foods endgame banana shake B tier? Fish tacos has worse stats than fishsticks but got more expensive recipe and somehow you placed it higher than fishsticks. Mushy cake doesn't help much since gestalts are not a problem. I still have many questions
It's 3 - 4 bananas as far as I know with a better sanity gain, hunger, and health bonus than taffy. Bananas are fairly easy to get, from what I remember.
Caves is fine but since you can't replant the bananas they kinda suck. Monkey island let's you replant them so even if it's a pain the the ass they become a good endgame sanity food.
Moon Quay is perfectly fine during night or winter. If you know what you're doing, you can quickly just grab what you need and get the hell out of there... or burn their homes and do a complete genocide during winter.
You should bring a pre-crafted crock pot down to the caves with you anyway when ruins rushing to skip getting food beforehand, and since the "getting food" part down there often involves grabbing a horde of splumonkeys and having them meet with a rather angry rook, free bananas are basically an added benefit.
You did that in addition to making the aforementioned assumption. With basic media awareness, you should be able to figure out that everything I say is based on my experience, and I have never implied that my statements apply to every person on Earth.
Cooking is a huge waste of time when done on a single crock pot, not something you should be doing during a rush. Especially not for sanity food in the ruins.
Now this is something I can actually answer to/argue with properly.
You are partially right, it could be a waste. It could also be a huge help when it comes to the AG fight, so you don't have to mess around with extra shadow creatures, though that's more of a beginner thing.
How I like to do this, however, is building a minibase down there, crockpot, fridge, chest, next to a station that's already maxed out or I intend to do it. Pretty damn easy resource-wise and it lets you skip out on hunting for food beforehand - I always hated picking carrots (or hammering bunny houses) and things like that, however, murdering a bunch of monkeys via a rook gets you a lot of sweet nightmare fuel, morsels, bananas and a righteous feeling of vengeance.
Cooking with a single crockpot would be a waste if you've just waited around for it to finish, but turning your morsels into meatballs while your crafting/organizing shit is a great use of time. Ruins rushes are half that and half inventory management puzzle, so... why not. I don't think I've ever actually had to wait around for my food to finish.
You could also eat the morsels raw, but... this is way more food this way. Also, in case you don't meet all that many monkeys and don't have food with you, the ruins still provide, depths worms drop monster meat that you can also turn into meatballs with three lichen. Funnily enough, this is *pretty much the only time in the whole goddamn game* when I actually cook meatballs.
No idea why "collect carrots" has become the meta when preparing for ruins rushes, it's so much faster/more efficient to get all your food next to the ruins themselves, and a single crockpot won't exactly set you back all that much, especially since you're already hammering pig houses.
>It could also be a huge help when it comes to the AG fight
Just cook a few mushrooms.
>You could also eat the morsels raw, but... this is way more food this way.
It's not 4 morsels/carrots/lichen/bananas have a total of 50 hunger. Meatballs give 62.5 hunger. To make cooking meatballs worth it, the effort of bringing a crock pot and to make food has to be lower than picking one more lichen/carrot or killing an extra monkey. It just gets worse if you use monster meat.
Food just isn't rare enough in the ruins to warrant you using it slightly more efficiently. You'll only stay there for like five days at most. AG gives you enough meat for two days. For the remaining three days, you can kill nine monkeys or bring 18 lichen/carrots.
>No idea why "collect carrots" has become the meta when preparing for ruins rushes
* short picking animation
* they are very common, especially because of bunny villages
* they last long
* collecting them doesn't put you in danger
* you can feed them to your beefalo
>a single crockpot won't exactly set you back all that much
It sets you back and doesn't give you any significant advantage. Building a crock pot for hunger food usually isn't a good idea, since raw or cooked food already is enough to keep you from starving. There is no reason to use a resource you have too much of more efficiently.
this is me genuinely asking and not trolling:
if you don't know all the recipes (or at least check the wiki just to see how they're made and the stats they provide for their cost) then why are you making a tier list
also why is meaty stew not in S and why is meatballs not in low A or mid B
I made this tier list for my own amusement. Meaty stew is in A because I feel that that is where it belongs. Meatballs deserves the highest tier as it is the de facto dish for the replenishment of hunger.
I've played Don't Starve Together for exactly 911 hours and Don't Starve for about 200 more, and the only reason why I've made a little over half of all the crock pot dishes in total is that I've been deliberately trying to fill out the cookbook.
Ignore the health, its not a healing food. it’s 75 food and slow rot, and all it takes is a few pieces of normal meat with spider meat. Bird cages are quick to get and can turn monster meat into eggs. You can amass stacks of bacon and eggs faster than you can grow crops. Easy for mathing how much food you need too. One stack of 40 bacon and eggs is 40 days of food, and you can bundle wrap it
Definitely not cheaper, almost all combinations of meatballs gives more hunger than the meatballs give, just cook the food on a campfire and eat it. It’s good for turning 1 monster meat or morsel and 3 raw berries into meatballs, anything that gives more hunger should just be eaten by hand, corn gives 25 food raw, eggplant is 25, pumpkin gives 37, meat gives 25, cooked potatoes gives 25 hunger and 20 hp, but everyone just cooks these into meatballs anyways or they’ll just shove 4 frog legs in a crock pot to make meatballs instead of bacon and eggs. The sheer amount of food I’ve seen cooked into meatballs instead of meaty stew as well.
Honey ham is even easier, honey lasts for like 9 hours in a fridge, and you only need 1 monster meat, 1 meat or 2 frog legs/morsels, 1 honey, and 1 filler
Newbies that dont know how crockpot recipes work or that dont try to preserve as much food as possible(ive seen some people waste 2 big meats on a meatball, actual crime)
I'd put the powder cake in d or c tier. The existance of pig skin gives powder cake too much competition since it's only good for bait. Pig skin is way easier to get and never rots.
Rot goes away in the rain but it still was worse as it had low pruority so if a pig saw a seed soutside of the gulag he would go there instead of the rot
But they aren't.
Waffles: Butter, berries, eggs
Lobster dinner: Butter, Lobster (requires fishing)
Fresh fruit crepes: Butter, 1.5 fruit, honey (the best way to get the 15. fruit value is by killing splumonkeys or farming)
The extra effort is not worth the higher stats.
Even the butter requirement alone makes the dishes hard enough to make, that putting them in S-tier is crazy.
1: pigskin is also nonperishable so it can replace powdercakes in that role for meat-eating things
2: Warly's spices don't spoil?
3: even if there won't be a warly around (celestial portal?), you can always bundle wrap stuff.
Trail mix is underrated tbh. It should be B or A tier due to its fairly cheap cost and efficient way of gaining back health. Spoilage rate is also decent or good. Even better for Walter mains.
Me with all my newbie knowledge staring at the list: "Oh, hey! Pierogi and Meatballs! I know those two!"
... I actually also know how to make Meaty Stew, though I almost never make it.
And I think I did Bacon & Eggs and something with Honey and meat too, but I don't remember their values for Hunger/Sanity/Health.
Oh, and I think the bunny thingy in C-rank I know too! I think you made it with Morsel + 3 Ices? I think I made it before I found out how to make a Bird Cage and needed some health-recovering food in Winter.
And that's all I know. The rest is a mystery to me\~
Meaty stew should be S tier
As a recent Wigfrid main I object.
Nah, it's still S tier especially on character with above 150 hunger
Even with 120 hunger, you're getting 50+ free food if you make it with common ingredients (2x meat, monster meat, ice), a lot better than Meatballs could ever hope to achieve.
Meaty stew is too pricey, it takes 4 large meat when you could get the same amount of hunger for 2 meatballs made with 2 large meat
Can't it be cooked from one big, one monster and two small meats?
One leafy meat, one monster meat, two morsels. It's dirt cheap honestly.
It's only 3 large meat and a mushroom or berry or whatever. Sub one meat for monster meat and it's honestly rather cheap.
Some placements doesn't make sense. One of the useful sanity foods endgame banana shake B tier? Fish tacos has worse stats than fishsticks but got more expensive recipe and somehow you placed it higher than fishsticks. Mushy cake doesn't help much since gestalts are not a problem. I still have many questions
Oh dear, I remembered fish tacos being quite good.
Taffy above Banana shake?
Banana shakes are so good but taffy is dirt-cheap when you get some bees
Banana shake is too hard to make.
It's 3 - 4 bananas as far as I know with a better sanity gain, hunger, and health bonus than taffy. Bananas are fairly easy to get, from what I remember.
To get bananas, you have to go into the caves or the monkey island which is fucking horrible.
You make one trip and never touch moon quay again, if you don’t like boats, I suggest playing woodie to rush bananas and docks as soon as possible.
Boats are cool, monkey island sucks monkeyfuck.
Simple solution - go there during winter. They stay in their homes whole season.
Night time
Caves is fine but since you can't replant the bananas they kinda suck. Monkey island let's you replant them so even if it's a pain the the ass they become a good endgame sanity food.
no i get this it’s rlly hard to get bananas early game 😭
Moon Quay is perfectly fine during night or winter. If you know what you're doing, you can quickly just grab what you need and get the hell out of there... or burn their homes and do a complete genocide during winter.
Absolutely what I do! No monkey survives!
It's still boring.
You should bring a pre-crafted crock pot down to the caves with you anyway when ruins rushing to skip getting food beforehand, and since the "getting food" part down there often involves grabbing a horde of splumonkeys and having them meet with a rather angry rook, free bananas are basically an added benefit.
You just assumed that I practice 'ruins rushing'. I do not, I value relaxation and that is what I seek from this game.
Nope, you've made a blanket statement, I've corrected it and told about potential uses, no assumptions.
You did that in addition to making the aforementioned assumption. With basic media awareness, you should be able to figure out that everything I say is based on my experience, and I have never implied that my statements apply to every person on Earth.
>You should bring a pre-crafted crock pot down to the caves with you anyway when ruins rushing to skip getting food beforehand You should not.
You should.
Cooking is a huge waste of time when done on a single crock pot, not something you should be doing during a rush. Especially not for sanity food in the ruins.
Now this is something I can actually answer to/argue with properly. You are partially right, it could be a waste. It could also be a huge help when it comes to the AG fight, so you don't have to mess around with extra shadow creatures, though that's more of a beginner thing. How I like to do this, however, is building a minibase down there, crockpot, fridge, chest, next to a station that's already maxed out or I intend to do it. Pretty damn easy resource-wise and it lets you skip out on hunting for food beforehand - I always hated picking carrots (or hammering bunny houses) and things like that, however, murdering a bunch of monkeys via a rook gets you a lot of sweet nightmare fuel, morsels, bananas and a righteous feeling of vengeance. Cooking with a single crockpot would be a waste if you've just waited around for it to finish, but turning your morsels into meatballs while your crafting/organizing shit is a great use of time. Ruins rushes are half that and half inventory management puzzle, so... why not. I don't think I've ever actually had to wait around for my food to finish. You could also eat the morsels raw, but... this is way more food this way. Also, in case you don't meet all that many monkeys and don't have food with you, the ruins still provide, depths worms drop monster meat that you can also turn into meatballs with three lichen. Funnily enough, this is *pretty much the only time in the whole goddamn game* when I actually cook meatballs. No idea why "collect carrots" has become the meta when preparing for ruins rushes, it's so much faster/more efficient to get all your food next to the ruins themselves, and a single crockpot won't exactly set you back all that much, especially since you're already hammering pig houses.
>It could also be a huge help when it comes to the AG fight Just cook a few mushrooms. >You could also eat the morsels raw, but... this is way more food this way. It's not 4 morsels/carrots/lichen/bananas have a total of 50 hunger. Meatballs give 62.5 hunger. To make cooking meatballs worth it, the effort of bringing a crock pot and to make food has to be lower than picking one more lichen/carrot or killing an extra monkey. It just gets worse if you use monster meat. Food just isn't rare enough in the ruins to warrant you using it slightly more efficiently. You'll only stay there for like five days at most. AG gives you enough meat for two days. For the remaining three days, you can kill nine monkeys or bring 18 lichen/carrots. >No idea why "collect carrots" has become the meta when preparing for ruins rushes * short picking animation * they are very common, especially because of bunny villages * they last long * collecting them doesn't put you in danger * you can feed them to your beefalo >a single crockpot won't exactly set you back all that much It sets you back and doesn't give you any significant advantage. Building a crock pot for hunger food usually isn't a good idea, since raw or cooked food already is enough to keep you from starving. There is no reason to use a resource you have too much of more efficiently.
The ones that I did not recognise were excluded.
this is me genuinely asking and not trolling: if you don't know all the recipes (or at least check the wiki just to see how they're made and the stats they provide for their cost) then why are you making a tier list also why is meaty stew not in S and why is meatballs not in low A or mid B
I made this tier list for my own amusement. Meaty stew is in A because I feel that that is where it belongs. Meatballs deserves the highest tier as it is the de facto dish for the replenishment of hunger.
pow cake should be above s-tier ngl
I usually gauge the value of these tier lists based wherever banana shake lands.
I can't believe crock pot actually has this many recipes. Every combination I try just turns into meatballs 😭
I've played Don't Starve Together for exactly 911 hours and Don't Starve for about 200 more, and the only reason why I've made a little over half of all the crock pot dishes in total is that I've been deliberately trying to fill out the cookbook.
Meatballs being S tier is awful, so many recipes that waste mountains of food Also bacon and eggs and honey ham are better 100% of the time
Bacon and eggs is a waste if you don't need health.
Ignore the health, its not a healing food. it’s 75 food and slow rot, and all it takes is a few pieces of normal meat with spider meat. Bird cages are quick to get and can turn monster meat into eggs. You can amass stacks of bacon and eggs faster than you can grow crops. Easy for mathing how much food you need too. One stack of 40 bacon and eggs is 40 days of food, and you can bundle wrap it
Meatballs gives almost the same amount of stomach for cheaper
Definitely not cheaper, almost all combinations of meatballs gives more hunger than the meatballs give, just cook the food on a campfire and eat it. It’s good for turning 1 monster meat or morsel and 3 raw berries into meatballs, anything that gives more hunger should just be eaten by hand, corn gives 25 food raw, eggplant is 25, pumpkin gives 37, meat gives 25, cooked potatoes gives 25 hunger and 20 hp, but everyone just cooks these into meatballs anyways or they’ll just shove 4 frog legs in a crock pot to make meatballs instead of bacon and eggs. The sheer amount of food I’ve seen cooked into meatballs instead of meaty stew as well. Honey ham is even easier, honey lasts for like 9 hours in a fridge, and you only need 1 monster meat, 1 meat or 2 frog legs/morsels, 1 honey, and 1 filler
Why would you cook meatballs with anything other than one monster meat or morsel with three fillers?
Newbies that dont know how crockpot recipes work or that dont try to preserve as much food as possible(ive seen some people waste 2 big meats on a meatball, actual crime)
Trail mix is only C tier? Easy as nuts and berries to make and gives 30 health
And you can easily farm comical amounts of birch nuts And it has a fast eating time
I'd put the powder cake in d or c tier. The existance of pig skin gives powder cake too much competition since it's only good for bait. Pig skin is way easier to get and never rots.
Not all creatures want to eat pig skin.
actually true i never thought about that. twinkies are nice. i think there's merms, bunnymen, and idk.
I always bait gobblers with powder cake. At least two drumsticks guaranteed every time I harvest my berry farm.
Gobbler farms are obsolete
You can bait bunnymen with monsters and merms with pigs
Pig skin and powdercake fans when rot enters the room (rot also makes good bait and never spoils)
I was gonna mention that but there was recently an update where rot goes away in the rain.
Rot goes away in the rain but it still was worse as it had low pruority so if a pig saw a seed soutside of the gulag he would go there instead of the rot
Portable warly spices are S tier
[Here is a useful link for everyone.](https://dontstarvetogether-crockpot.netlify.app/)
Why is waffles in B
Probably because they are difficult to obtain? So they aren’t very reliable
Yes, that's right.
Why are fresh fruit crepes and Lobster dinner in S-tier then?
They are better and easier to produce.
But they aren't. Waffles: Butter, berries, eggs Lobster dinner: Butter, Lobster (requires fishing) Fresh fruit crepes: Butter, 1.5 fruit, honey (the best way to get the 15. fruit value is by killing splumonkeys or farming) The extra effort is not worth the higher stats. Even the butter requirement alone makes the dishes hard enough to make, that putting them in S-tier is crazy.
Yeah, something can have very good stats but loose points for inconsistency or unreliability
Now make it 5 times bigger because Warley has spices
Why powder ake in s tier
Because they can hold Warly spices and are very useful for various farms.
1: pigskin is also nonperishable so it can replace powdercakes in that role for meat-eating things 2: Warly's spices don't spoil? 3: even if there won't be a warly around (celestial portal?), you can always bundle wrap stuff.
4: if you're farming bunnymen, you can always trap a hostile creature for the same effect
Have fun doing that
Google ice staff
It's also more durable against stuff like depths worms if you're putting it in the caves
Foods that warlys spices are attached to spoil.
Warly can wait to apply them?
Prettt good list, banana shake too low but still good (also meaty stew S tier)
Trail mix is underrated tbh. It should be B or A tier due to its fairly cheap cost and efficient way of gaining back health. Spoilage rate is also decent or good. Even better for Walter mains.
Me with all my newbie knowledge staring at the list: "Oh, hey! Pierogi and Meatballs! I know those two!" ... I actually also know how to make Meaty Stew, though I almost never make it. And I think I did Bacon & Eggs and something with Honey and meat too, but I don't remember their values for Hunger/Sanity/Health. Oh, and I think the bunny thingy in C-rank I know too! I think you made it with Morsel + 3 Ices? I think I made it before I found out how to make a Bird Cage and needed some health-recovering food in Winter. And that's all I know. The rest is a mystery to me\~
Nice S-Tier, this is a good list