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Food Encyclopedia (What and How) (Updated for 14 December 2024 Patch)
By Reveniant
Explaining Stamina System, How to get food and their statistics and advice.
   
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Guide Index
Overview
Introduction 
List of food 
Cooking 
Closing and Credits 
Comments
Introduction
It bears mentioning while Dread Dawn is quite populated with survivors despite being a society collapse scenario, people still have to Eat due to Hunger and Stamina System. And due to how gameplay works, Hunger is tied and euqal to Stamina, which means your current limit of stamina for sprinting will decline as your hunger does.

For example, You have maximum hunger and stamina of 300, but when current hunger is 150, the maximum stamina after rest is also 150/300. It will not recover to 300 until you eat food and hunger replenish to maximum.

Additionally, food will also recovers health, though values, as usual, varies. I will include some of the consumables here that while not exactly considered food, will recover both of these values.
List of food
Food
Stamina
Health
Sources
Recommendation
Cockroach
+3
+2
Searching in cabinets/crates/trash bin/lockers
As early food sources. Mid game onward craft for meat scraps.
Roasted Arm
+6
+3
Cooking Zombie Arm or Giant Arm.
Unless you have a fetish for eating arms, utilizing them as such might be a waste of things. Giant Arm even much so since they sells 20 per arm. Zombie arm is much more useful as another ingredient for meat scraps.
Drinks (Soda and Beer)
+6
+3
  • Searching food container POI (food shelves, bar counter, bar cabinet etc)
  • Bought from shop.
Soda is meh but food's food on early days. Beer is much useful to craft Molotov Cocktail, which is handy for mob lure,clear & loot.
The Veggies:
  • Mushroom
  • Corn
  • Wheat
  • Herb
+10
  • +15 (herb)
  • +6 (others)
  • Harvesting from Farming/ outside farm patch (Corn/Herb/Wheat)
  • Search Food POI (Mushroom/Corn)
  • Search Medical POI (Herb)
  • Might drop from Berserker/Tentacles/Giant (Herb)
  • Bought from shop (Mushroom/Herb)
Other than herb, which actually is intended as health restoration, the rest are quite low satiety and even the description recommend you to cook them. Cooking all 4 types will result into same food: soup. Corn and Wheat harvest from fields are still recommended to be used as trading products as they have high crop/seed ratio and they sells same as any other food (aka $10)
Bread
+12
+5
  • Search Food POI
  • Bought from shop
Slightly better than the rest above and might be consider middle ground food. Better food choice exists but this is still viable even into late game.
The eggs:
  • Fish Eggs
  • Eggs
+12
+6
  • Farm Rearing Activities (feeding fish in pond/ feeding chickens)
  • Search Food POI (Eggs)
  • Bought from shop (Eggs)
While statistically better than bread, eggs seems much better use to be cooked into boiled egg. Fish egg cannot be cooked. Both can also be used as passive income, as zombie arm($3) made into meat scraps (5$) and the final products sells at 10$. But the setup is tedious for both requiring large amounts of chickens and fishes, with product maturity not faster than planting crops.
Processed food:
  • Pickles
  • Peanut Butter
+20
+10
  • Search Food POI
  • Bought from shop
These restores sufficient satiety but mid for health. Useful for pick up and eat on the go, or no farm runs, or food for party members if you do care about their well-being.
Cooked Meat:
  • Cooked Chicken
  • Cooked Meat
  • Grilled Fish
+20
+20
  • Cooking Chicken/ Human Flesh / Fish (Red Snapper / Bass / Snouted Bass)
  • Search Food POI (Cooked Chicken and Cooked Meat)
  • Bought from shop (Cooked Chicken and Cooked Meat)
Well-rounded food for mid to late game, but sources from cooking is not efficient (need to hunt for chickens, fishing took a long time), and cooked meat, well... human flesh, but gameplay only amirite. Economically, fish eggs same price with fish, cooked meat same price with human flesh, and live chickens worth more than cooked chicken.
Boiled Egg
+25
+12
Cook Eggs.
High Satiety restoration, but so far only cooking makes it. Prepare a lot of stone campfire if you want to lived on these, as there's no other known sources to acquire them.
Soup
+30
+12
  • Search Food POI
  • Cooking Corn/Herb/Mushroom/Wheat
Best Satiety restoration, Though needing fireplace to make them, which is a lot of Stone Campfire if you want large amounts. Useless for economical aspect as they sell as much as the crops that make them or less (herb).
First Aid Kit
+5
+35
  • Search Medical POI (Guaranteed drop in Ambulance)
  • Bought from shop
Counterpart of soup, horribly inefficient in satiety restoration, but its there to restore health. Also useful for party members that just got revived by pacemaker.
Cooking
Cooking Requires Campfire, Arm Campfire and Stone Campfire. Campfire only provides 4 slots, Arm 6 slots and Stone 8 slots. Fuel item stacks in campfire, food does not and will automatically convert to 1 per slot.

Currently only 4 types of Fuel can be burnt in campfire (each fuel produces 2 charcoal powder regardless of type):
  • Paper
  • Leaves
  • Wood
  • Wooden Barrier

(Not shown: Red and Purple Leaves which can be bought in shop)

Food, when fit into the Campfire, will have red bar to show that they are cooking:


The process will decrease the red bar, until it depletes:


And finally, cooked and can be taken off as cooked food.


The cooked food will stay until first collection of food. However, should player open the interface, and then ignore the food while there's still fuel to spare, then overcooking will initiate.


When the cooked food bar depletes, they will be converted into 1 charcoal powder.



Closing and Credits
My initial intention is to make these and farming/rear guide into one. However, it is tedious, and the final preview took up much the view anyway. Hence I make this independent and hopefully have enough time to publish another guide for the above. This might not be complete full information, however to complete those I might add too much information and personal biases so I just leave it be.

UPDATED
As of now having more system in place, like thirst or sleep parameters, and also new cooking recipes based on current ingredients (no more soup only), this guide is declared outdated and no longer being reliable as reference.

Special thanks, again to:
  • Director mode.
  • All readers that accidentally stumbled inside here and patiently reading all of the information.
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Baldwin IV 22 Aug @ 5:45pm 
nice one