Enshrouded Guide: Cooking, Recipes, and Food Buffs at a Glance

Unlike most survival titles, food in Enshrouded isn’t directly required for your survival. You don’t get hungry, so you don’t have to worry about filling your stomach. Food in Enshrouded plays a different role: support. It grants enhanced status effects that help you in combat or on other adventures. So it’s still important, even if it isn’t vital to staying alive. The many different buffs also make Enshrouded’s food selection quite complex, with dozens of ingredients and recipes to choose from. Today we’ll take a closer look at the entire system for you.

Enshrouded cooking basics: foods and recipes

You can gather or cook food in many different ways. From simple berries in the wild, to butchering animals, all the way to complex recipes with multiple ingredients, you have plenty of options. In general, you can eat up to three meals at once, which are then shown in your character menu. With the “Dessert Stomach” skill in the Survival tree, you can even unlock a fourth slot if you want to eat more.

There are also different preparation methods depending on what you want to eat. We always recommend not eating ingredients raw, but processing them first. Most can simply be grilled at the cooking station, while others must be prepared with the Farmer’s Oven or Seafood Oven. Not everything can be processed, though. Each meal has two attributes you need to watch: the effect and the duration. Both are equally important and need to be balanced.

We already have separate articles on different ways to get food:

• (Enshrouded animal taming: Build a barn and breeding guide)
• (Enshrouded Fishing Guide: Bait, Rods, Fish & Locations)
• (Enshrouded Farming Guide: Grow Crops, Soils, & Update 7)

Enshrouded ingredient categories and foods at a glance

Enshrouded meat: recipes for health and long duration

You can, of course, live on meat in Enshrouded—plenty of animals drop it. Whether it’s wolves, goats, or chickens, you’ll find a wide variety of hearty meats. Meat lasts a very long time—most buffs remain for around 50 minutes.

Buffs:

• Health
• Damage
• Frost resistance

We recommend:

• Chicken Soup
• Meat Wrap
• Beef Stew

Enshrouded fish: recipes for underwater breathing and stamina

Fish were added with Update 7 and can be obtained through fishing. A number of fish species and matching recipes came with it. They cover a wide range of effects and foods to choose from. Fish are especially good for stamina and breathing underwater while diving.

Buffs:

• Health
• Stamina
• Underwater breathing

We recommend:

• Fish Soup
• Sushi
• Grilled Fish with Coconut Rice

Enshrouded fruits for fast in-combat regeneration

Enshrouded also offers a large selection of fruits to fill up on, and they’re great for farming on your homestead. Generally, fruits regenerate your health, which can be especially important in combat. Some heal you slowly but for a long time, while others give you a quick boost that runs out after just a few seconds.

Buffs:

• Health regeneration
• Stamina regeneration

We recommend:

• Fruit Salad
• Strawberry Milkshake
• Plantain Curry

Enshrouded vegetables: buffs for rangers and assassins

If you play as an archer or with daggers, you should definitely eat vegetables. They increase your ranged damage and dagger damage, making them perfect for anyone who wants to play as an assassin. Vegetables are also perfect for your farm and can be grown sustainably.

Buffs:

• Dagger damage
• Ranged damage
• Stamina regeneration

We recommend:

• Pumpkin Soup
• Mashed Vegetables
• Taro Root Curry

Enshrouded herbs for strong mana regeneration

As a mage, you should grow herbs, since they’re essential for regenerating your mana. Many herbs can be picked and eaten as-is without processing first, making them much more flexible than most other foods. Depending on your progress and the biome, herbs you find last longer and restore more mana. Some herbs can also be used for potions.

Buffs:

• Mana regeneration

We recommend:

• Gentian
• Seaweed
• Grilled Seaweed Buds

Enshrouded mushrooms for more magic damage and mana

You’ll find mushrooms all over Embervale, and they’re best suited for mages. They won’t regenerate your mana, but they do grant more damage and overall more mana. Grill the mushrooms you find or process them into other recipes to get the most out of them.

Buffs:

• Mana boost
• Magic damage

We recommend:

• Roasted Shiitake Mushroom
• Seaweed Salad
• Yellow Glow Soup

Enshrouded grains: recipes for melee damage

Naturally, there are also fitting recipes for anyone who charges into battle with sword and shield. Focus on grain recipes to boost your melee damage. You can also grow different grains like rice or corn yourself to make them renewable.

Buffs:

• Melee damage
• Health
• Stamina regeneration

We recommend:

• Sandwich
• Fried Rice
• Creamy Mushroom Spätzle

Enshrouded sweets and snacks for short regeneration

Enshrouded actually offers a whole range of tasty sweets and snacks. Depending on the type, these generally provide regeneration for your stamina or mana. Some can also boost your damage. The downside is that their duration is very short, so they’re better for a quick, active boost. Just like in real life, sweets are energy-dense but not necessarily filling.

Buffs:

• Health regeneration
• Mana regeneration
• Stamina regeneration
• Damage boost

We recommend:

• Strawberry Cake
• Purple Berry Cake
• Banana Baked in Honey

Enshrouded drinks for stamina and universal buffs

Finally, you can craft a wide variety of drinks to accompany you on your adventures. They benefit every player, with a primary focus on stamina. Some drinks also grant health regeneration or improve the damage output of all attacks, making them great all-rounders.

Buffs:

• Stamina boost
• Stamina regeneration
• Health regeneration
• Damage for all classes

We recommend:

• Coconana Smoothie
• Rooibos Tea
• Coffee (3 types depending on class)

Conclusion: making the most of Enshrouded cooking and food buffs

With a huge variety of recipes, Enshrouded offers a diverse diet for every player. Depending on your class and combat style, it pays to specialize in certain categories. While mushrooms and herbs are great for mages, rangers benefit more from vegetables, and melee fighters from grain products. Some other foods are universally strong and boost your health and stamina.

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