Food Buff Planner
Not all food buffs stack — eating a weaker item after a stronger one wastes a slot. This planner shows exactly which buffs each food applies, which groups they belong to, and how to build a combination that keeps all effect slots active simultaneously.
1 Select Your Combat Scenario
Choose the activity you are preparing for. This filters food recommendations to items that are actually useful for your situation.
2 Your Playstyle
Playstyle determines which buff categories matter most. Dodge-heavy builds need stamina; tanky builds want max HP multipliers.
3 Browse Foods & Build Your Combination
Click any food to add it to your active combination. The buff panel on the right tracks which slots are filled. Duplicate groups replace each other — only the stronger one counts.
A simple loaf baked over a campfire. Provides a small burst of health and a brief regen tick.
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Cooked directly on a campfire. A reliable early food source from fishing.
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The most straightforward combat food in the early game. Grants a +5% max HP bonus lasting 45 seconds alongside instant recovery and brief regen.
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Roasted corn and root vegetables. The stamina boost makes it a favorite for players who sprint and dodge frequently.
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Light and portable. Quick to craft from corn — good for keeping stamina topped off during long gathering runs.
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Crafted at the Cooking Bench. Provides a solid stamina multiplier and regen for sustained combat.
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Dense and calorie-rich. Gives a meaningful max-health multiplier that makes it a staple for tanky builds heading into Zone 2.
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Skewered cooked meat — no knowledge required. The extended duration makes it a strong mid-game choice for any melee fighter.
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Paired vegetables on a stick. The extended stamina boost makes it especially useful for players relying on dodges and sprints.
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Honey-glazed fruit skewer. Good for build-relying on stamina recovery — the regen and stamina multiplier last 2.5 minutes.
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Foraged mushrooms on a skewer. Requires no knowledge unlock and fits the same profile as Vegetable Kebab — solid choice for dungeon running.
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A Tier-3 prepared dish requiring the Caesar Salad recipe to be learned. Grants 6 full minutes of +30% max stamina, +5% stamina regen, and 2% HP regen every 2 seconds.
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Made from foraged berries and honey — the recipe must be learned first. The 6-minute stamina and regen window makes it ideal before entering a boss room.
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Seasoned wild mushrooms and lettuce. Shares the same top-tier stats as other Rare salads. Best used when zone-farming for extended periods.
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A full baked pie requiring Dough — and the recipe must be unlocked. Provides the best base HP expansion available from food: +15% max health for 6 minutes.
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The go-to food for high-risk combat scenarios. The +15% max HP multiplier stacks with armor stats, making it a strong pre-fight buff for boss encounters.
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Dense pumpkin filling in a baked shell. Shares the same max-health buff tier as Meat Pie — choose based on ingredient availability.
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Active Combination
Regenerates HP over time. Only the highest tier active counts — lower tiers are replaced on overwrite.
Increases maximum stamina and stamina regeneration. Overwrites weaker active effects.
Temporarily raises your maximum HP. Stacks with other effect categories but overwrites within same group.
Restores a percentage of max HP immediately on consumption. Does not persist as a status.
Click foods on the left to add them here. The planner tracks which buff slots are filled.
4 Recommended Combinations
Pre-built food sets tuned for common situations. Each set covers all three active buff slots with no wasted overlaps.
Covers all three persistent buff slots. The Meat Pie gives a 15% HP ceiling increase, Berry Salad fills the stamina slot for 6 minutes, and both carry a built-in regen effect — so the regen slot is also covered.
Caesar Salad fills the stamina slot with a full 6-minute window. Apple Pie provides the max HP multiplier with matching duration. Together they cover regen and stamina — minimizing re-buffing mid-run.
No knowledge unlock required. Meat Kebab provides the max HP boost; Vegetable Kebab fills the stamina slot. Both last 2.5 minutes — easy to maintain with regular crafting.
Campfire-only setup for fresh characters. Cooked Meat gives max HP and regen; Cooked Vegetables adds a stamina boost. Everything crafts from raw drops with no bench beyond a Campfire.
How Food Buff Stacking Works
Each food item applies one or more named effect groups. Within a group, the Overwrite rule applies — eating a weaker food after a stronger one will not replace it. Eating a stronger food replaces the current effect. Different groups (e.g. Max Health and Stamina) are independent and stack freely.
Only one health regen buff is active at a time. Eating a higher-tier regen food replaces the lower tier. Eating a lower-tier food while higher tier is active does nothing.
Only one stamina buff is active at a time. Higher tier overwrites lower.
Only the highest active max HP multiplier applies. Eating Meat Pie over Cooked Meat replaces it.
Applied immediately on consume. Stacks across all food items since it has no duration.
Health regen, stamina, and max health buffs all operate in separate slots. You can have all three active simultaneously by eating one food from each group.
How to Use This Planner
- Pick your scenario — heading into Zone 3, running a dungeon, or just doing resource loops? Each scenario filters foods to the tiers and types that matter.
- Set your playstyle — dodge-heavy fighters need stamina; tanky builds want max HP multipliers; dungeon runners need both regen and duration.
- Browse and click foods — the buff panel shows which of the four effect slots (instant heal, HP regen, stamina, max HP) each food fills. Red highlights mark conflicts within a group.
- Check the combination summary — when three different group slots are active simultaneously, you have reached the maximum possible food buffing. Any additional food will only replace an existing slot.
- Expand ingredients — each card shows the crafting recipe. Knowledge-locked recipes are flagged, so you know which ones require unlocking at the Memory Bench first.