Don't Starve: The best recipes for survival

In Don't Starve, the right recipes can save your life. In this article we show you which recipes you should better memorize for this.

Don't Starve: How to build a saucepan

You don't need as many materials to build a saucepan. To unlock the blueprint, however, you need a science machine. Here's how to do it:

• You need 3 stone bricks, 6 charcoal and 6 branches for the construction.
• You can find the scheme of the saucepan in the "food" category.
• Select the blueprint and look for a good place to place the saucepan.

These recipes are the best

With the construction of the saucepan you unlock many recipes. Unfortunately, you have to memorize them because they are not displayed as a "scheme". The saucepan has space for four ingredients. One or more places can also be filled with so-called fillers. We tell you what to look out for behind each recipe.

• Mandrake soup: This soup gives you 100 lives, 150 hunger and 5 mental health. You only need one mandrake for the basic recipe. As a filler, you can actually use anything - only Mponster meat is limited to one piece.
• Meat stew: The stew gives you 12 lives, 150 hunger and 5 mental health. To do this, you need three pieces of meat. The fountain pens are also almost unlimited. You are only not allowed to use branches.
• Meatballs: These balls are particularly suitable for wigfrid because they only eat meat. For the meatballs you need meat once and three times fruit or vegetables. You cannot add branches here either.
• For more mental health, you should make pumpkin biscuits. These only restore 37.5 hunger, but give you 15 mental health. And you only need twice honey and a pumpkin.

The best recipes at the start

Especially at the beginning it can be difficult to find your way around. Therefore, there are some items that you should definitely collect to craft tools and the like.

• A torch can be very useful to you the first few nights. Because you may not find flints to craft an ax and thus a campfire.
• For a torch you need 2 cut grass and 2 branches. You should actually collect these two ingredients until you have at least a full stack.
• In addition to the torch, an ax is also very important. With this you can cut down trees and use the logs for a campfire.
• For an ax you need a branch and a flint.
• More tips for surviving in general don't starve can be found in our next article.

If you are still unsure which character you want to play, have a look at the next article. There we show you which characters can do what and which are particularly suitable for beginners.