Food Preparation Table is a Swamp-tier crafting station where you can prepare foods for baking, assemble Feasts, process Raw Fish, and create advanced fishing bait.
How to Craft
When looking to craft a Food Preparation Table, you’ll need 5 Iron, 20 Finewood, 15 Leather Scraps, and a Workbench close by
Food Preparation Table needs to be covered by a roof to work
Food Preparation Table is an advanced cooking station that serves a multitude of purposes. The main one is assembling advanced meals before you bake them in an oven. You’ll mostly be doing that after reaching the Plains, however. Before that, since you won’t have to go past the Swamp biome to build a Food Preparation Table, you’ll be able to use it to create special fishing baits, process Raw Fish, and even set up some early Feasts. With that in mind, here’s what you’ll need to assemble a Food Preparation Table:
Iron is created from Scrap Iron mined from Muddy Scrap Piles in the Sunken Crypts dungeons in the Swamp
Finewood is gathered by chopping down Birch and Oak trees in the Meadows and Plains biomes
Leather Scraps are a guaranteed drop from Boars in the Meadows
In order to progress to the Swamp biome, you’ll need to defeat the Black Forest boss – the Elder. This boss will drop a Swamp Key among other things. Use this key to enter the Sunken Crypts dungeons in the Swamp. Inside, you’ll find plenty of Muddy Scrap Piles. Mine them with a pickaxe to get Scrap Iron. You’ll then need to process that Scrap Iron into actual Iron. You do that at a Smelter (Stone x20, Surtling Core x5) that uses Coal as fuel.
A Sunken Crypts dungeonMine these scrap piles for Iron and occasional Leather ScrapsSmelting Scrap Iron into workable Iron
Finewood is a special kind of lumber you’ll find in Birch and Oak trees. These trees are found in the Meadows and Plains biomes. In order to chop them down, you’ll need at least a Bronze Axe.
Leather Scraps can be obtained from multiple sources, including while mining Muddy Scrap Piles. However, the easiest and most reliable way to get them is to hunt Boars in the Meadows biome. These beasts are guaranteed to drop some Leather Scraps when slain, and can even be tamed and bred to get easy access to their resources.
A sample Birch treeAnd a sample Oak treeHunting a Boar in the Meadows
Once you’ve gathered 5 Iron, 20 Finewood, and 15 Leather Scraps, head to your designated kitchen area. Open the Hammer crafting menu and go to the Crafting tab where you’ll find the Food Preparation Table. Keep in mind that you’ll need to set up a Workbench nearby first.
Once the Food Preparation Table is selected, place it on a flat surface. You might need to use the mouse wheel to rotate it to find a good spot. An important thing to remember is that while you can place a Food Preparation Table wherever, as long as there’s a Workbench nearby, in order to work, Food Preparation Table needs to be placed inside, or at least have a roof over it.
Food Preparation Table in the crafting menuFood Preparation Table doesn’t work outsideA functional Food Preparation Table
How to Use
Interact with the Food Preparation Table to open its cooking menu
With ingredients in your inventory select a recipe in the cooking menu, then hit the Craft button
After you’ve properly set up your Food Preparation Table, using it is extremely simple. Interact with the Food Preparation table and the game will show you its cooking menu on the right side of your screen. When you have the ingredients for what you want to prepare in your inventory, select that recipe in the cooking menu, then hit the Craft button located in the bottom right part of your screen.
The recipes you have the ingredients for will be written in white in the cooking menu, while those where you lack something will be greyed out. It takes a second for the Food Preparation Table to work. After it’s done, the output will go directly into your inventory.
Processing some freshly-caught Perch at a Food Preparation TableRaw Fish goes directly to your inventory when prepared
Helpful Tips
Since Food Preparation Table is often used to prepare meals that will later go into a Stone Oven, consider setting them up close together
You need a Workbench to build a Food Preparation Table, but you don’t need one to use it. After your Food Preparation Table is up, you can safely remove the Workbench
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