FIELD NOTE // COOKING

Doloc Town Cooking Guide: Recipes, Buffs & Ingredients

Cooking turns your harvest into survival power. With 80+ recipes, the right meal can restore energy or buff your speed and defense — learn what to cook, when, and why it matters.

Doloc Town Cooking Guide: Recipes, Buffs & Ingredients
BASICS

Cooking Basics

Cooking turns your harvest into survival power.

  • 80+ recipes across the game.

  • Meals restore 50-100 energy — enough to keep working all day.

  • Some meals add buffs: speed, defense and more.

  • Recipes unlock through friendship and the tech tree.

  • A sickle harvests whole groups — more ingredients, less time in the field.

BUFFS

What Food Buffs Do

Match the meal to the day's plan.

EffectUse case
Energy restoreKeep farming or exploring all day
Speed buffFaster harvesting and travel
Defense buffSafer ruin diving and boss fights
⚠️ Full tableBeing verified in 1.0
CATEGORIES

What the 80+ Recipes Cover

A stocked kitchen covers three needs: fuel, tempo and safety.

  • Energy meals — the everyday staple; restore 50-100 energy.

  • Speed meals — for harvest days and long travel days.

  • Defense meals — for ruin dives and boss fights.

  • Friendship-gated recipes — some of the best buffs sit behind villager hearts (e.g. the Alchemy Station).

  • ⚠️ A full recipe-by-recipe list is being verified in 1.0.

KITCHEN

Stocking a Kitchen (A Routine)

A stocked kitchen is a survival plan.

  1. Plant a variety of crops

    Recipes need many ingredients — diversity beats volume.

  2. Raise friendship

    Friends unlock unique recipes (e.g., the Alchemy Station).

  3. Fish and ranch

    Protein sources round out the pantry.

  4. Cook before big trips

    Buffs are cheap insurance — never leave without food.

MISTAKES

Common Mistakes

Selling every harvest instead of keeping ingredients for recipes. Ignoring friendship-gated recipes (some of the best buffs are behind hearts). And cooking only energy meals — the speed and defense buffs save more time than raw calories.

QA

Quick Answers

How many recipes are there?+
80+ recipes across the game, confirmed by the official store page.
How do meals restore energy?+
Most meals restore 50-100 energy — enough to keep working a full day.
How do I unlock friendship recipes?+
Raise villager hearts — friends gate unique recipes like the Alchemy Station.
Which buff should I cook for?+
Defense before ruin dives and boss fights; speed for harvest and travel days; energy for everything else.
Is cooking worth it early?+
Yes — cooked meals beat raw ingredients for energy per inventory slot, and buffs pay for themselves.