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Food and Cooking
May 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Initial version (2026-05-27): food and cooking catalog with bakery, meats, fruits, drinks
Food 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.
Building | Purpose |
|---|---|
Campfire | Earliest cooking station; basic Cooked Meat and Cooked Small Game. |
Cauldron | Mid-tier; potions, stews, complex dishes. Health potion recipe fixed in patch 0.22.1_5. |
Bakery | Bakery dishes (Bread, Libum, Globi, Phoenix Stew). Requires a lit furnace for most recipes (patch 0.20.1_14). |
Brick Oven | Bakery furnace variant tuned for Volcano biome. |
Pottery | Liquid storage and processing vessels. Requires a lit furnace. |
Manual Mill / Watermill | Grain milling for Flour. The Manual Mill speeds up the more you push. |
Mills (Level 2) | Higher-output grain processing. |
Bakery 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.
Bread: 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.
Cooked 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.
Apple, 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.
Beer: 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.
Citizens 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.
Combat: buff usage in fights.
Ceres: god of agriculture and crops.
Farming and Flora: growing the inputs.
Consumables and Potions: healing and energy potions.
