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.

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.

BUFFS

What Food Buffs Do

Match the meal to the day's plan.

Effect	Use case
Energy restore	Keep farming or exploring all day
Speed buff	Faster harvesting and travel
Defense buff	Safer ruin diving and boss fights
⚠️ Full table	Being verified in 1.0

KITCHEN

Stocking a Kitchen (A Routine)

A stocked kitchen is a survival plan.

Plant a variety of crops
Recipes need many ingredients — diversity beats volume.
Raise friendship
Friends unlock unique recipes (e.g., the Alchemy Station).
Fish and ranch
Protein sources round out the pantry.
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.

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