Overview
Cutting Table is a cooking craft station in Windrose. It is an upgrade extender for the Cooking Fire that unlocks knife-prep recipes: fish fillet cuts, trimmed meat cuts, and diced produce. These prepped ingredients then feed the larger cooked dishes on the Cooking Fire's recipe list.
Role in the Kitchen
The Cutting Table is the first step in the cooking chain. Raw Meat, whole fish, and uncut produce are turned into the prepped components that mid-tier and high-tier Food recipes call for. Without the table attached, the Cooking Fire is limited to simple whole-ingredient cooking, so anything that lists a cut or diced component as an input stays locked. As with every extender, the table has no menu of its own: its recipes appear on the Cooking Fire craft list while the table sits inside the fire's footprint.
Station Info
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Category | Cooking station |
Station Type | Upgrade extender |
Max Health | 4,500 |
Within Bonfire Range | Required |
Construction Materials
Material | Quantity |
|---|---|
x10 | |
x2 |
Upgrade Path
Cutting Table is an upgrade extender that snaps to a Cooking Fire. Placing it inside the base station's extender footprint unlocks the recipes gated behind this extender on the base station's own craft list. It does not craft items on its own; the base station handles all recipes. Pair it with the Cookware Shelf for a fully fitted cooking bench.
Placement Strategy
The Cutting Table is the cheapest and earliest-unlocked Cooking extender. Ten Wood and two Copper Ingots puts it within reach of a first-day camp. It snaps onto the Cooking Fire footprint and immediately opens the fillet and diced-cut recipe family on the base station's craft list.
Material Note
The only refined material in the build is the Copper Ingot. Each ingot is smelted at the Smelting Furnace from raw copper, so a furnace is the only prerequisite station. If you have not built one yet, both ingots can be bought from a Merchant: Natural Resources to skip the smelting step entirely.
Tips
Attach the Cutting Table first among the Cooking extenders. It unlocks the most widely-used recipes and its construction cost is a fraction of the later extenders.
Copper Ingots come from the Smelting Furnace. Build the Furnace before the Cutting Table or buy Copper Ingots from a Merchant: Natural Resources if you are in a rush.
The Cutting Table itself has no craft menu; all recipes live on the Cooking Fire once the extender is placed.
Prep before you cook. Run a batch of cuts and dices at the start of a cooking session so the recipes that need them, such as the platters and pies, can be made back to back without stopping to chop.
See Also
Details
Properties
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Max Health | 4,500 |
Build Cost
Duration: 1s
Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
x10 | |
x2 |
Unlocked By
The Cutting Table recipe unlocks alongside the early discovery that opens one-handed weapons, copper tools, and other copper-tier items, the same milestone reached once you are smelting Copper Ingot from Coastal Jungle copper.
Extends
Place the table near the Cooking Fire so the fire registers it as an attached extender and adds its prep recipes to the craft list. The Disassembly Table is a separate breakdown station and is not required for the Cutting Table to function.
Progression Notes
Cutting Table is part of the crafting progression chain rather than a standalone collectible. Use the recipe, station, and ingredient rows to trace what unlocks it, what it consumes, and which linked upgrades or materials should be prepared before crafting it.