Enshrouded: Best Food Recipes for Early Game

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Enshrouded Best Early Game Food Recipes.

Are you looking for the best early-game food recipes in Enshrouded? Let’s explain how food works and list your best choices when starting out.

Overall, the best early-game food combo includes Grilled Wolf Meat, Purple Berries, and Water.

Let’s go through everything you need to get started with cooking, including how food works.

Food Explained in Enshrouded

Enshrouded Best Early Game Food Recipes.

There are eight food categories in Enshrouded:

  • Fruit
  • Vegetable
  • Gran
  • Herb
  • Meat
  • Liquid
  • Sweet
  • Mushroom

Players can eat up to three different food types, and each one grants different temporary buffs to their stats (endurance, strength, constitution, etc.).

Thus, your main goal is always to have three recipes of different types available that grant the best buffs. However, not all recipes are available from the start.

How to Cook

Enshrouded Best Early Game Food Recipes.

Thankfully, cooking is fairly straightforward. All you need is to craft any cooking station, such as a Campfire, Fireplace, or Oven.

Then, once you’ve gathered the required materials for the recipe you want to make, stand next to the cooking station and hold down the cooking button.

Once the food starts looking slightly brown, stop holding the button, and you’ll be good to go. If you stop holding it too early, the food will still be raw; if you stop holding it too late, it will be overcooked.

Keep in mind that raw and overcooked foods are less effective and generally not worth keeping. Thus, you should be careful not to mess things up when cooking.

Best Early Game Food Recipes

Enshrouded Best Early Game Food Recipes.

The best early game food recipes in Enshrouded stand out due to providing solid stat buffs while also being easily available without having to progress too much. Based on those, here are your best options:

  • Grilled Wolf Meat (+2 Constitution for 20 minutes): This can be made by cooking Raw Wolf Meat. Wolves are some of the easiest and most common enemies in the early game, as you can take them down with a torch.
  • Purple Berries (+2 Health Regeneration for 30 seconds): They are the most common early-game food source, and the regeneration is very helpful when starting out. Additionally, once you recruit the Hunter NPC, you can craft the Drying Rack; this allows you to make these into Dried Purple Berries (+1 Health Regeneration for 5 minutes).
  • Water (+1 Endurance and +2 Stamina Recharge for 10 minutes): Water can be found in any well, with the closest one to the spawn being Longkeep. From there, you can stockpile a lot of water and use it to gain some much-needed Endurance and Stamina buffs.

How to Unlock More Recipes

The best way to unlock new recipes in Enshrouded is by progressing the game. Specifically, you’ll need to complete main and side quests, pick up new materials as you explore new areas, and free NPCs from their respective vaults so that they can unlock new cooking and meal-prep stations.

For more details, check out our guide on all craftspeople locations in Enshrouded. You can unlock them fairly early, and each unlocks a new useful item.

Wrapping up

To summarize, the best early-game food recipes in Enshrouded include Grilled Wolf Meat, Purple Berries, and Water. Always consume Water and Meat, and keep the berries on the side for when you need to regenerate your HP.

Just keep in mind that as you progress in the game and unlock more NPCs for your base, you’ll be able to craft better and more effective recipes.

Which recipes are you using in the early game? Do you have any mid-game suggestions next? Feel free to share them in the comments below.

For more early-game content, here’s how to upgrade the Scrappy Pickaxe in Enshrouded.

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