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A Cooking Pot is a tool primarily used for melting snow, boiling water, and Cooking food. A cooking pot will reduce the amount of time required for food inside it to cook by 20% and will allow for the creation of broths, stews, and porridges that cannot be cooked directly by the fire.

Overview[]

A cooking pot can melt or boil up to 2.00 liters of snow or water at a time. The amount of time required to melt snow per liter does decrease a bit when using a Cooking Pot, compared to a Recycled Can.

A Cooking Pot will degrade by 5% if its contents are burned or boiled dry. The Cooking Pot will not degrade in any other circumstances.

A Cooking Pot can be harvested for 1 unit of Scrap Metal.

It can also be repaired with Simple Tools or Quality Tools for 1 unit of Scrap Metal.

Cooking Pots typically spawn in houses and buildings with kitchens, especially kitchens with wood-burning cooking stoves (e.g., in Milton House (Grey Mother's) and the Pleasant Valley Farmstead).

Recipes[]

The following recipes can only be created within a Cooking Pot, and are available to cook from the start:

Cooking Item Weight Cooking Times Cooking Level
Broth icon Broth 0.80 kg 60 min 1
Ptarmigan Stew icon Ptarmigan Stew 0.35 kg 2 hr 1
Venison Stew icon Venison Stew 0.35 kg 2 hr 1
Trout Stew icon Trout Stew 0.35 kg 2 hr 1
Rabbit Stew icon Rabbit Stew 0.35 kg 2 hr 1
Porridge icon Porridge 0.20 kg 20 min 1

These Unique Recipes can only be cooked after their Recipe Cards are found:

Cooking Item Weight Cooking Times Cooking Level
Camber Flight Porridge icon Camber Flight Porridge 0.30 kg 20 min 4
Ranger Stew icon Ranger Stew 0.40 kg 2 hr 4
Thomson Family Stew icon Thomson Family Stew 0.35 kg 2 hr 4

Trivia[]

The Cooking Pot was originally a harvestable environmental object called the Metal Pot, which was cut in the Vigilant Flame update and added as an item using the same model as the Metal Pot.

Update history[]

  • HOTFIX 28 Apr 2021 (Update):
    • [Audio] Cans and Pots now play sound effects when placed onto a cooking slot, as intended.
  • UPDATE 19 May 2020 (Update):
    • [Gameplay] The Cooking Pot now provides the correct bonus when cooking meat.
  • UPDATE 17 December 2018 (Update):
    • [All] Fixed Cooking Pots sinking into cooking surfaces
  • HOTFIX 27 August 2018 (Update):
    • [ALL] Player’s last Cooking Pot will no longer drop during a Struggle.
  • HOTFIX 20 June 2018 (Update):
    • [All] Fixed players being able to use a Recycled Can/Cooking Pot to cook when the item was at 0% Condition.
  • UPDATE 14 June 2018 (Update):
    • Added to game.
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