How to cook fish
The fish decides the dish
Fish in the Cooking Pot turn into Fillet, Fish Balls or Sushi, depending on the kind of fish.
Effects differ by fish
A dish combines the effects of its two ingredients (for the same effect, only the higher value counts). Choose the fish with the effect you want (tables below).
A talent for boss damage
With the Fishing talent "Power of Omega-3!", eating fish dishes raises your damage against bosses for 60 seconds (+3% per point, up to 15%).
Fish That Become Fillet and Their Cooked Effects
| Fish | Cooked effect (from the fish) |
|---|---|
 Orange Cave Guppy | +2.1 health every sec (20 s) +8 mining damage (10 min) |
 Blue Cave Guppy | +2.2 health every sec (20 s) +16 magic barrier (10 min) |
 Dagger Fin | +3.9 health every sec (20 s) +23.3% minion damage (10 min) |
 Yellow Blister Head | +2.6 health every sec (20 s) Immune to being slowed by slime (10 min) |
 Green Blister Head | +2.5 health every sec (20 s) Immune to acid damage (10 min) |
 Mold Shark | +4.8 health every sec (20 s) +38.6% physical melee damage (10 min) |
 Azure Feather Fish | +8.1 health every sec (20 s) |
 Emerald Feather Fish | +3 health every sec (20 s) +29 max mana (10 min) +21% magic damage (10 min) |
 Bottom Tracer | +5.8 health every sec (20 s) +2.8 mana every sec (10 min) |
 Solid Spikeback | +38 armor (10 min) +50 thorns damage (10 min) |
 Sandy Spikeback | +78 max health (10 min) +206 mining damage (10 min) |
 Verdant Dragonfish | +41% critical hit damage (10 min) Immune to burning (10 min) |
 Elder Dragonfish | +14% critical hit chance (10 min) Immune to burning (10 min) |
 Glistening Deepstalker | +13% dodge chance (10 min) +27.2% movement speed (1 min) |
 Splendid Deepstalker | +10% dodge chance (10 min) +21.2% movement speed (1 min) +11.3% melee and range attack speed (10 min) |
 Litho Trilobite | +5.5 health every sec (20 s) +69 max mana (10 min) +79 magic barrier (10 min) |
Fish That Become Fish Balls and Their Cooked Effects
| Fish | Cooked effect (from the fish) |
|---|---|
 Rock Jaw | +2.5 health every sec (20 s) +15.9% physical melee damage (10 min) |
 Pink Palace Fish | +3.9 health every sec (20 s) +9.2% melee attack speed (10 min) |
 Teal Palace Fish | +4 health every sec (20 s) +10.4% range attack speed (10 min) |
 Devil Worm | +3 health every sec (20 s) +22.8% physical range damage (10 min) |
 Rot Fish | Immune to mold infection (10 min) |
 Spirit Veil | +36.2% movement speed (2 min) |
 Pink Coralotl | +4.7 health every sec (20 s) +50 max mana (10 min) +65 magic barrier (10 min) |
 White Coralotl | +5.8 health every sec (20 s) +14.8% mining speed (10 min) |
 Gray Dune Tail | +6.7 health every sec (20 s) +13.9% melee attack speed (10 min) |
 Brown Dune Tail | +8.1 health every sec (20 s) +13.9% range attack speed (10 min) |
 Dark Lava Eater | +7.8 health every sec (20 s) +7 health on melee hit (10 min) |
 Bright Lava Eater | +7.1 health every sec (20 s) +21% more healing from health over time regeneration (10 min) |
 Cosmic Form | +30.9% damage dealt by your pet (10 min) |
 Riftian Lampfish | +7.2 health every sec (20 s) +58 max mana (10 min) +27.6% magic damage (10 min) +5 blue glow (10 min) |
Fish That Become Sushi and Their Cooked Effects
| Fish | Cooked effect (from the fish) |
|---|---|
 Gem Crab | +3.1 health every sec (20 s) +14 armor (10 min) |
 Crown Squid | +5 health every sec (20 s) +19% chance to knockback on melee hit (10 min) |
 Vampire Eel | +3.5 health every sec (20 s) +3 health on melee hit (10 min) |
 Black Steel Urchin | +3.6 health every sec (20 s) +22 armor (10 min) +15 thorns damage (10 min) |
 Astral Jelly | +5.2 health every sec (20 s) +63 fishing (10 min) |
 Silver Dart | +5.5 health every sec (20 s) +31% critical hit damage (10 min) |
 Golden Dart | +5.7 health every sec (20 s) +11% dodge chance (10 min) |
 Tornis Kingfish | +7.8 health every sec (20 s) +50.4% damage (10 min) |
 Starlight Nautilus | +17.7 health every sec (20 s) +7% critical hit chance (10 min) +8.5% melee and range attack speed (10 min) +100 max health |
 Beryll Angle Fish | +136 max health (10 min) |
 Jasper Angle Fish | +96 max health (10 min) +45 armor (10 min) |
 Terra Trilobite | +103 max health (10 min) +344 mining damage (10 min) |
Fish Cooking Tips
- Add effects with the second ingredient: pair a fish with another ingredient to get both sets of effects (for the same effect, the higher value).
- Rare dishes: golden crops are linked to the rare version of their dish (golden crops). Among fish, only Starlight Nautilus is linked to the rare version of Sushi. Any other rare fish does not stand in for a golden crop: add one golden crop to make a fish dish rare.
- Where to catch them: see the fishing guide for each fish's location, and best food for overall cooking advice.
Which fish makes which dish is read from each fish's prefab, the talent value from Conf/Talents and the 60-second duration from the game's program (Core Keeper 1.3.0.6). Effect text is the game's official English. That a rare fish does not replace a golden crop is from the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) page Cooking (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Unless a note on the page says otherwise, numbers are read from the game files of Core Keeper 1.3.0.6 (prefabs, configuration files, drop tables and the game's program) and calculated by this site, including upgraded (per-level) values, sell prices and mana costs. Names and descriptions are the game's official English text. Only reinforcing materials, minion and pet attacks and some food values are based on the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) data (CC BY-SA 3.0). Core Keeper and its images are © Pugstorm. This is an unofficial fan site.