Cooking stations, food recipes & camp essentials

The short answer

The Cooking Table prepares ingredients; the Cooking Pot makes combined dishes. A Workbench is for equipment and materials. Having one station does not replace the others.

A compact camp recipe sheet

Starter crafting reference
Make	Bring
Rope	2 Vines + 1 Stick
Small Chest	2 Planks + 3 Scrap Metal
Food Basket	3 Vines
Cooking Table	2 Planks + 1 Leather
Cooking Pot	1 Iron Pot + 3 Iron Rods

Five Cooking Pot combinations

Reported full-release food combinations — use the Cooking Pot
Dish	Ingredients	Common mix-up
Bean Soup	2 or 3 Black Beans, alone	Adding another vegetable changes the result.
Cooked Veggies	1 Tomato + 1 Wild Pepper	Two Tomatoes instead make Tomato Soup.
Stew	1 Raw Meat + 1 Wild Pepper	Two Raw Meat instead make Meat Soup.
Tomato Soup	2 Tomatoes	Keep the batch simple.
Meat Soup	2 Raw Meat	This is not the mixed Stew.

These combinations are reported from full-game data by NPC Tips. They are not our own playtest results. Make one batch and check its displayed name before repeating it.

A useful destination for these dishes

The Queen’s Door is reported to require Cooked Veggies, Bean Soup and Stew, one on each of its three table slots. Check for duplicate or spoiled dishes if it remains closed. Its exact route is not verified here, so this is a cooking reference rather than a door-location guide.

Cook with the right appliance

The Rotisserie has three slots and food can burn. Keep an eye on it. Pot recipes combine two or three ingredients; different combinations can produce different dishes. The Oven uses Coal.

Plan before you craft

List the station you actually need, then reserve its ingredients. Avoid spending all your early Iron Rods on optional camp upgrades when a nearby mechanism still needs one.

Food prepares you for exploration: the developer describes eating before an expedition for its benefits, rather than treating every meal only as an emergency heal.

Sources & version notes

Station recipes and food combinations follow published full-release research. The Queen’s Door rules are third-party game-file findings, not a walkthrough we played. This page covers practical starter cooking, not every recipe.

Banner: official Steam promotional screenshot, used as general illustration. It does not depict the exact solution.