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While you’re able to get by eating berries and sun-dried meat inSons of the Forest, that’s no way to survive in style or get the best out of your ingredients. Instead, you can create longer-lasting dishes that provide benefits when you learn how the game’s cooking system works.
To get started, you’ll need a fire, a pot, and a water source before you can add your ingredients and get to cooking. Once you’ve acquired the basics, you can look for ingredients and learn the recipes to ensure that everyone in your camp eats the best meals they can on a remote island.

How To Cook
Theeasier wayto make cooked food is to place the meat you acquire from an animaldirectly on the fire. While faster, this won’t produce any lasting benefits and only provides enough food for a single person. Instead, you shouldfind a pot at one of the campsitesanduse it to cook longer-lasting meals.
Access to ingredients anda water resource will be incredibly usefulin your cooking, sokeep that in mindwhen building a base. To get started each time, you shouldfollow the same steps to get the base going.
If you just want tomake clean water, you canskip step fourand justclick on the metal gearas soon as you place the pot on the fire. This will cause the water to become drinkable after a cooking animation. you may also leave the open pot on the fire, allowing you tocome backandadd ingredients later.
All Cooking Recipes In Sons Of The Forest
There are arange of recipesthat provide different benefits, with Sons of the Forestoffering them every time you interact with the cooking pot. In addition to having multiple charges to feed your whole team,some recipes will also buffyour stats.
You cancarry a full pot of water in your inventory, butnot fully cooked meals.
Regardless of the recipe,the cooking animation takes over a minute and a halfto complete.
Restores health and increases strength.
Restores health and increases warmth.
Increases warmth and comfort.
Increases stealth, strength, and tree chopping.
Increases tree chopping.
Kitchen Sink
Two Fish, Two King Oysters, Two Meat, Two Oysters, Ramen, and Two Turtle Eggs
Adds to stamina, thirst, food, sleep, and health meters.
Increases strength and tree chopping.
Protein Shake
Fly Amanita, Three Guarana Berries, Meat, Meds, Turtle Egg, Aloe Vera
Increases strength and chopping speed.
Each ofthese meals serves a purposein Sons of the Forest, be it tohelp you unwind at night or to prepare you to sneak aroundcannibal camps in the coming day. As is standard in this title, all you need to do ismake sure you have the right ingredients.