Tamale

Tamale is an Uncommon-tier cooked food in Windrose. Eating it increases Maximum Health and grants +5 Mastery for 15 minutes, which makes it the earliest crit-chance food a Mastery build can keep in rotation.

Summary

Recipe

Tamale is crafted at a Cooking Fire from one Crocodile Tail and one Leek. It is the only cooked recipe with a non-zero craft time, taking 10 seconds per batch of one.

Ingredient Sourcing

• Crocodile Tail: a butchering drop from crocodiles in the Cursed Swamps, so this dish is gated behind reaching that biome.

• Leek: wild Leek grows inside ruin structures in the Cursed Swamps, and harvesting it also yields Leek Seeds that can be planted at a Seedbed for a steady supply.

How Food Buffs Work

Windrose allows up to two active food buffs at once, which must come from different dishes. Eating Tamale while another uncommon-tier dish is active replaces one of the two slots. Pairing Tamale with a different-stat dish (for example, a Vitality food alongside a Strength food) gives the full benefit of both slots. Because Tamale carries the Mastery stat, it stacks cleanly with a pure Max Health dish such as Pastechi.

See Also

• Cooking - the crafting system this recipe belongs to

• Cooking Recipes - full recipe index

• Food - food category overview

Verified Recipe Data

Ingredients

Best Use

Tamale is the early-game Mastery (crit chance) buff for crit-scaling builds before Burrito unlocks. Since each point of Mastery is worth 0.5% critical hit chance, the +5 buff adds roughly 2.5% crit while it is active, which suits Precision and Agility damage dealers. Both ingredients come from the Cursed Swamps, so farm Leek and crocodile tails together on a single swamp run, then craft in bulk where the 10-second craft time is the only bottleneck.

Flavor

"Corn dough with filling, wrapped in corn husks and steamed. Crocodile meat makes it especially hearty."

Notes

• Tamale is the only cooked recipe with a non-zero craft time (10 seconds). Every other cooked recipe is instant.

• It shares the Crocodile Tail ingredient with Crocodile in Swamp Sauce, so a single butchering haul can supply both a Mastery dish and a Vitality dish.

Game Data

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Cooking Fire

Unlocked By

• Discovery: first harvesting Leek, which grows in the Cursed Swamps, adds Tamale to the cookbook.