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112233Boiled Crab is a simple Uncommon-tier meat dish cooked at the Cooking Fire. A single Crab Meat produces one serving of a 15-minute Maximum Health buff.4455Summary6677PropertyValueRarityUncommonStationCooking FireBuff duration15 minutesEffectIncreases Maximum Health (no secondary stat)88Recipe991010IngredientQuantityCrab Meat11111How Food Buffs Work12121313Windrose allows up to two active food buffs at once, which must come from different dishes. Eating Boiled Crab while another uncommon-tier dish is active replaces one of the two slots. Pairing Boiled Crab with a different-stat dish (for example, a Vitality food alongside a Strength food) gives the full benefit of both slots.14141515Ingredient Sourcing16161717Boiled Crab is the cheapest cooked dish in the game, needing a single Crab Meat and no upgraded station. That makes it the natural first recipe to learn the moment you place a Cooking Fire.18181919IngredientWhere to Get ItCrab MeatHarvested from beach crabs along the starter shoreline and the Coastal Jungle. Crabs are slow and respawn quickly, so a single shore loop refills a full stack.2020How It Compares21212222Boiled Crab raises only maximum health, so it pairs well with a Strength dish in the second buff slot. The table below shows where it sits next to the other early crab and starter recipes.23232424DishEffectRarityDurationBoiled CrabIncreases Maximum HealthUncommon15 minutesSpicy Skewered Crab+5 StrengthUncommon15 minutesMeat in Tangy Mushroom SauceMax Health, +10 StrengthRare30 minutes2525Tips26262727Slot it alongside a Strength dish such as Spicy Skewered Crab so both buff slots are working at once.Because it crafts instantly and weighs only 0.3, it is a cheap way to pad your effective health pool before a Foothills run.Once you can build a Cutting Table, graduate to Rare dishes for the longer 30-minute buffs; Boiled Crab stays useful as a quick top-up.28282929See Also30303131Cooking - the crafting system this recipe belongs toCooking Recipes - full recipe indexFood - food category overview32323333Verified Recipe Data34343535PropertyValueRarityUncommonEffectIncreases Maximum HealthDuration15 minutesCraft stationCooking Fire (Level 1)Craft time0sOutput1Stack size103636Ingredients37373838IngredientQuantityCrab Meat13939Best Use40404141The first cooked recipe most players encounter. Crab Meat is abundant on starter beaches, so this is the baseline HP food before stat-boosting recipes unlock.42424343Flavor44444545"Five minutes ago, it was scuttling along the shore."46464747Game Data48484949Properties50505151PropertyValueWeight0.3Stack105252Crafted By53535454Crafted at: Cooking Fire55555656IngredientQuantityCrab Meatx1