Cooking Fire

Overview

A hearth, a pot, and a handful of hot coals are all an island crew needs to stay fed.

Cooking Fire is a cooking craft station in Windrose. The base cooking station in Windrose. Prepares meals, grog bases, and simple sailor fare, and anchors the four cooking extenders.

Station Info

Construction Materials

Upgrade Extenders

The Cooking Fire accepts the following upgrade extenders. Each extender widens the base station's craft list and must be placed inside the station's footprint. Extenders do not stack across multiple base stations.

• Cutting Table

• Cookware Shelf

• Supplies Rack

• Food Dryer

What Each Extender Adds

Each extender snaps inside the Cooking Fire footprint and widens the recipe list. They do not raise Max Health or Comfort on their own; the value is purely the recipes they unlock.

Recipes Crafted

The Cooking Fire handles recipes including Fish Stew, Cooked Fillet, Cooked Meat, Bread, Grilled Fowl, Fruit Platter, Ship's Ration, Soup, Basic Stew, and Dried Fruit.

Comfort and Rested Buff

The Cooking Fire contributes +1 to your base Comfort total, counted once for the Hearth category. A single fire source covers that category, so adding a second Bonfire or Charcoal Kiln in the same room does not raise the score further. Comfort feeds the Rested buff, which speeds Stamina regeneration by roughly two and a half times while active. Rested lasts about seven minutes at base and gains an extra minute of duration for every additional Comfort Level, so spreading unique Comfort sources (one fire per room, plus beds, decorations, and trophies) is what lengthens the buff. See Comfort System for the full breakdown.

Placement Strategy

The Cooking Fire is one of the two essential early-game stations (with the Workbench) that should go up within an hour of your first camp placement. It costs only Wood and Stone, provides a +1 Comfort bonus, and unlocks every core meal recipe. Extenders attach afterward to widen the recipe list; the base Cooking Fire on its own is enough to feed a small crew through the early islands.

Tips

• Place the Cooking Fire under a roof early. Rain does not extinguish it, but indoor placement keeps the Comfort bonus stable through weather and lets the Cookware Shelf snap cleanly.

• Attach the Cutting Table first. It unlocks fish-fillet and cut-meat prep, which gates about a third of the remaining recipes.

• Cooked food applies short-duration stat buffs that do not exist on raw ingredients (Windrose has no hunger or thirst meter); cook before every long voyage.

• The Cooking Fire Comfort bonus does not stack with Bonfire or Charcoal Kiln fire sources. Place one fire per indoor room to maximize unique Comfort coverage.

• You can hold two cooked-food buffs at once, and each buff lasts about fifteen minutes from the base Cooking Fire tier. Higher cooking tiers extend that window, so an early Cutting Table then a Cookware Shelf pays off quickly for long voyages.

• Build cost is only 3 Wood and 3 Stone with a one second build time, so there is no reason to delay it. Pair it with the Workbench as your opening two stations.

See Also

• Craft Stations

• Base Building

• Crafting

• Cooking Recipes

• Food Dryer

• Bonfire

• Cutting Table

Details

Properties

Build Cost

Duration: 1s

Comfort