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Overview
Food Dryer is a cookingcraft station in Windrose. An upgrade extender for the Cooking Fire that unlocks dried-food recipes: jerky, dried fish, and long-shelf provisions keyed on Lobster Mushroom.
Station Info
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Category | Cooking station |
Station Type | Upgrade extender |
Max Health | 4,500 |
Within Bonfire Range | Required |
Construction Materials
Image | Material | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| x5 | |
| x5 | |
| x5 | |
| x5 |
Upgrade Path
Food Dryer 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.
Placement Strategy
The Food Dryer is the most unusual of the Cooking extenders because its construction cost includes five Fish Fillet and five Lobster Mushroom, both of which are consumables in their own right. That makes the Food Dryer a late-game build: you pay dry-goods directly to unlock longer-shelf recipes at the Cooking Fire.
Recipes Unlocked
The Food Dryer is the preservation extender on the Cooking Fire. It opens dried-food recipes that trade the higher restore values of fresh meals for far longer shelf life and denser stacks, which matters most on long voyages far from a resupply camp. Its recipes are keyed on Lobster Mushroom and on Fish Fillet cut at the Cutting Table.
Dried Output | Notes |
|---|---|
Dried fish | Preserved Fish Fillet that stacks higher than fresh-cooked fish for sea travel. |
Jerky | Dried meat ration with a long shelf life, useful as steady stamina food on voyages. |
Long-shelf provisions | Preserved meals built around Lobster Mushroom that carry well between islands. |
Tips
Stockpile Fish Fillets at the Cutting Table before starting the Food Dryer build. Five fillets is trivial after a single long fishing run but slow to grind without the Cutting Table.
Lobster Mushroom spawns in swamp and jungle biomes; keep a map of three or four reliable spawns for refills.
Dried provisions unlocked here stack higher than fresh meals, which is critical for multi-island voyages far from a resupply camp.
Unlocking and Discovery
The Food Dryer is unusual among the cooking extenders because its build cost spends finished consumables: five Fish Fillet and five Lobster Mushroom. That makes it a later build, since both come from active fishing and swamp foraging rather than a raw node.
Property | Detail |
|---|---|
Extends | |
Key build materials | |
Output focus | Long-shelf, high-stack Provisions for voyages. |