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Boiled Crab
May 23, 2026 at 08:12 PM
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Boiled 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.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Rarity | Uncommon |
Station | |
Buff duration | 15 minutes |
Effect | Increases Maximum Health (no secondary stat) |
Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
1 |
Windrose 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.
Boiled 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.
Ingredient | Where to Get It |
|---|---|
Harvested 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. |
Boiled 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.
Dish | Effect | Rarity | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Increases Maximum Health | Uncommon | 15 minutes | |
+5 Strength | Uncommon | 15 minutes | |
Max Health, +10 Strength | Rare | 30 minutes |
Slot 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.
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Property | Value |
|---|---|
Rarity | |
Effect | Increases Maximum Health |
Duration | 15 minutes |
Craft station | Cooking Fire (Level 1) |
Craft time | 0s |
Output | 1 |
Stack size | 10 |
Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
1 |
The 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.
"Five minutes ago, it was scuttling along the shore."
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Weight | 0.3 |
Stack | 10 |
Crafted at: Cooking Fire
Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
x1 |