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11Food in Romestead is both survival fuel and a combat tool. Citizens require food to stay loyal; players require food for buffs before tough fights. Bakery dishes give significant pre-fight boosts, and most prepared foods (since patch 0.20.1_14) carry permanent buff effects rather than just restoring health.22Cooking Buildings44BuildingPurposeCampfireEarliest cooking station; basic Cooked Meat and Cooked Small Game.CauldronMid-tier; potions, stews, complex dishes. Health potion recipe fixed in patch 0.22.1_5.BakeryBakery dishes (Bread, Libum, Globi, Phoenix Stew). Requires a lit furnace for most recipes (patch 0.20.1_14).Brick OvenBakery furnace variant tuned for Volcano biome.PotteryLiquid storage and processing vessels. Requires a lit furnace.Manual Mill / WatermillGrain milling for Flour. The Manual Mill speeds up the more you push.Mills (Level 2)Higher-output grain processing.66Bakery Dishes77Bakery dishes provide pre-fight buffs. The Bakery storage was expanded in patch 0.23.3_0; many recipes received critical-hit buff changes in patch 0.22.1_8.99Bread: base bread; flour-and-water recipe.Sausage: meat-based.Cheese: dairy.Libum: a Roman sweet bread.Globi: small fried balls.Dulca Domestica: a dessert recipe.Gustum de Praecoquis: an apricot-themed entree.Minutal Ex Praecoquis: an apricot stew.Phoenix Stew: added in patch 0.22.1_8; a Bakery dish using Phoenix Wings.Isicia Marina: a seafood dish.Cornucopia: a large bounty dish.1111The Bread Chain1313Bread is the food that actually sustains a town, and it takes a short production line rather than a single station. Wheat Seeds are planted on Farm Land; harvested Wheat is milled into Flour at a Manual Mill or, once the relevant quest unlocks it, automatically at a Watermill; Flour is then baked by citizens working the Bakery, which burns Coal while it runs.1515The quantity matters more than it looks. Before the Bakery is unlocked, Bread can be made directly at the Campfire for 2 Flour a loaf, while the Bakery needs only 1 Flour. Halving the flour cost is the real reason to chase the Bakery unlock, on top of handing the work to citizens instead of doing it by hand.1717Hunting is the reliable stopgap before all of that is running. Cooked meat from wildlife comfortably feeds around five citizens, and the same animals drop crafting materials, but it does not scale: a town of ten or more citizens needs agriculture.1919Cooked Meat and Fish2121Cooked Meat Cut, Raw Meat Cut: small portions.Cooked Meat Haunch, Raw Meat Haunch: large portions.Cooked Small Game, Raw Small Game Meat: pigs/mice/rabbits.Deep Fried Fish: requires Fish.Eel: special fishing item; the eel market returned in patch 0.22.1_6.Egg: from livestock.Strange Crab Meat: rare fishery drop.Phoenix Wings: from Phoenix kills; small foods variant added to Bakery.2323Fruits and Crops2525Apple, Apricot, Pomegranate, Dates, Olives, Cabbage.Currants: Red Currant, White Currant; Blackberry.Mushrooms: Boletus, Chanterelle (plantable from mycelium); Amanita (planted from Amanita Mycelium); Poison Mushroom (rare; harmful).Yellow Onion, Garum, Grape Paste, Olive Paste, Mint: cooking inputs.2727Drinks and Liquids2929Beer: produced in the Beer Dolium.Wine: produced in the Wine Dolium.Olive Oil: produced in the Olive Oil Dolium.Garum: produced in the Garum Dolium.Aloe Salve: medicinal liquid.3131Citizens and Food3333Citizens require Food Storage to be stocked, or they will leave (patch 0.21.1_5 made citizen food gifting heal them to full health). Gluttonous trait citizens consume more food; food costs scale with citizen stats. See Citizens and Artisans.3535Related Pages3737Combat: buff usage in fights.Ceres: god of agriculture and crops.Farming and Flora: growing the inputs.Consumables and Potions: healing and energy potions.
