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COOKING

Best Food in Core Keeper: Cooking Recipes for Every Build

How cooking works and the strongest two-ingredient combos for melee, ranged, magic, summoner, tanking, healing and mining, calculated from the game data.

Data: the game files (version 1.3.0.6)

Summary

How to cook, and the best food combos for each goal

  1. You cook by putting two ingredients into a Cooking Pot. Golden crops turn into the rare version of a dish (effects ×1.25).

  2. For fighting with melee weapons: Golden Pinegrapple + Tornis Kingfish

  3. For fighting with ranged weapons: Golden Pewpaya + Tornis Kingfish

  4. For fighting with magic: Golden Sunrice + Tornis Kingfish

  5. For fighting with minions: Golden Lunacorn + Greenhorn Pico

  6. For healing: Atlantean Worm Heart + Starlight Nautilus

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How Cooking Works and How Effects Are Decided

  • A dish is made from two ingredients in the Cooking Pot. Each ingredient has separate effects for when it is eaten raw and when it is cooked; the dish gets the cooked effects of both ingredients.
  • Only the higher value of the same effect counts. When both ingredients have the same effect, only the higher one is kept, so combine ingredients with different effects. The exception is a permanent max health bonus: those add together.
  • Rare and epic dishes are stronger. In the game's program a rare dish has effects ×1.25 and an epic dish ×1.5. Permanent effects (such as permanent max health) are not boosted.
  • Golden crops are stronger. With the Gardening talent "Expert gardener", planted crops sometimes turn golden (golden crops). Each golden crop is linked to the rare version of its dish, and a dish made only from golden crops gets another ×1.15. Putting one golden crop in the pot is enough to make the dish rare; a rare ingredient such as a rare fish or Shiny Larva Meat does not do the same.
  • Cooking skill can give an extra dish. In the game's words, grabbing cooked food from the cooking pot “increases the chance of gaining additional cooked food” as the Cooking skill rises. The talent "Master chef" gives a chance “for additional food gained from cooking to be rare”. It only upgrades that extra dish, not every meal.
  • Eating two dishes with the same effect. Different effects can run at the same time, but the same effect never stacks. A new dish replaces the active effect only if its full duration is at least as long, even when its value is lower, so a weaker dish of the same length can overwrite a stronger one. Eat your everyday food first and your strongest dish last.

Multipliers and links between ingredients and dishes are read from the game files of Core Keeper 1.3.0.6 (ingredient prefabs, Conf/Talents, the official English skill text and the constants in the game's program). The rule that the same effect does not add up, permanent bonuses, the golden-crop rule for rare dishes and how a new meal replaces an active effect are based on the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) page Cooking (CC BY-SA 3.0); it could not be checked in the game data.

The combinations below are calculated with the effects of a normal (not rare or epic) dish.

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Best Food for Melee (physical) builds: Strongest Combo

Strongest combo

Golden PinegrappleGolden Pinegrapple+Tornis KingfishTornis Kingfish
  • +9 health every sec (20 s)
  • +28.2% physical melee damage (10 min)
  • +8.4% melee attack speed (10 min)
  • +50.4% damage (10 min)

Combo with easier ingredients (no epic or better)

Golden PinegrappleGolden Pinegrapple+Elder DragonfishElder Dragonfish
  • +9 health every sec (20 s)
  • +28.2% physical melee damage (10 min)
  • +8.4% melee attack speed (10 min)
  • +14% critical hit chance (10 min)
  • Immune to burning (10 min)

Ingredients with strong effects

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Best Food for Ranged (physical) builds: Strongest Combo

Strongest combo

Golden PewpayaGolden Pewpaya+Tornis KingfishTornis Kingfish
  • +8.2 health every sec (20 s)
  • +28.2% physical range damage (10 min)
  • +8.4% range attack speed (10 min)
  • +50.4% damage (10 min)

Combo with easier ingredients (no epic or better)

Golden PewpayaGolden Pewpaya+Elder DragonfishElder Dragonfish
  • +8.2 health every sec (20 s)
  • +28.2% physical range damage (10 min)
  • +8.4% range attack speed (10 min)
  • +14% critical hit chance (10 min)
  • Immune to burning (10 min)

Ingredients with strong effects

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Best Food for Magic builds: Strongest Combo

Strongest combo

Golden SunriceGolden Sunrice+Tornis KingfishTornis Kingfish
  • +4 glow (10 min)
  • +43.3% magic damage (10 min)
  • +91 magic barrier (10 min)
  • +7.8 health every sec (20 s)
  • +50.4% damage (10 min)

Combo with easier ingredients (no epic or better)

Golden SunriceGolden Sunrice+Elder DragonfishElder Dragonfish
  • +4 glow (10 min)
  • +43.3% magic damage (10 min)
  • +91 magic barrier (10 min)
  • +14% critical hit chance (10 min)
  • Immune to burning (10 min)

Ingredients with strong effects

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Best Food for Summoner builds: Strongest Combo

Strongest combo

Golden LunacornGolden Lunacorn+Greenhorn PicoGreenhorn Pico
  • +4 blue glow (10 min)
  • +39.5% minion damage (10 min)
  • +55.2% minion attack speed (10 min)
  • +6.6 health every sec (40 s)
  • +12% minion critical hit chance (10 min)

Ingredients with strong effects

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Best Food for Health & defense: Strongest Combo

Strongest combo

Glistening DeepstalkerGlistening Deepstalker+Jasper Angle FishJasper Angle Fish
  • +13% dodge chance (10 min)
  • +27.2% movement speed (1 min)
  • +96 max health (10 min)
  • +45 armor (10 min)

Ingredients with strong effects

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Best Food for Healing: Strongest Combo

Strongest combo

Atlantean Worm HeartAtlantean Worm Heart+Starlight NautilusStarlight Nautilus
  • +20 health every sec to you and all nearby allies (20 s)
  • +100 max health
  • +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

Combo with easier ingredients (no epic or better)

Dodo EggDodo Egg+Golden Bloat OatGolden Bloat Oat
  • +12.1 health every sec (20 s)
  • +25% more healing from health over time regeneration (10 min)
  • +10% less food drained when running (10 min)

Ingredients with strong effects

  • Atlantean Worm HeartAtlantean Worm Heart
    • +20 health every sec to you and all nearby allies
    • +100 max health
  • Starlight NautilusStarlight Nautilus
    • +17.7 health every sec
    • +7% critical hit chance
    • +8.5% melee and range attack speed
    • +100 max health
  • Golden Bloat OatGolden Bloat Oat
    • +12.1 health every sec
    • +10% less food drained when running
  • Bright Lava EaterBright Lava Eater
    • +7.1 health every sec
    • +21% more healing from health over time regeneration
  • Pinkhorn PicoPinkhorn Pico
    • +9.5 health every sec
    • +52.1% minion damage
  • Dodo EggDodo Egg
    • +4.3 health every sec
    • +25% more healing from health over time regeneration
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Best Food for Faster mining: Strongest Combo

Strongest combo

Orex TruffleOrex Truffle+Terra TrilobiteTerra Trilobite
  • +12% mining speed (10 min)
  • +7% mining damage (10 min)
  • +103 max health (10 min)
  • +344 mining damage (10 min)

Ingredients with strong effects

List of Dishes (What You Can Cook)

The kind of dish (soup, salad, steak and so on) depends on the ingredients you use. Each ingredient's effects are listed in the food effects list (all ingredients).

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.