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11 Overview
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33 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.
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55 Station Info
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77 PropertyValueCategoryCooking stationStation TypeUpgrade extenderMax Health4,500Within Bonfire RangeRequired
88 Construction Materials
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1010 ImageMaterialQuantityFish Filletx5Hardwoodx5Lobster Mushroomx5Ropex5
1111 Upgrade Path
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1313 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.
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1515 Placement Strategy
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1717 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.
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1919 Recipes Unlocked
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2121 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.
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2323 Dried OutputNotesDried fishPreserved Fish Fillet that stacks higher than fresh-cooked fish for sea travel.JerkyDried meat ration with a long shelf life, useful as steady stamina food on voyages.Long-shelf provisionsPreserved meals built around Lobster Mushroom that carry well between islands.
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2626 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.
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2828 Unlocking and Discovery
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3030 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.
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3232 PropertyDetailExtendsCooking FireKey build materialsFish Fillet, Lobster Mushroom, Hardwood, RopeOutput focusLong-shelf, high-stack Provisions for voyages.
3333 See Also
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3535 Craft StationsBase BuildingCraftingCooking FireCutting TableFish Fillet