Onion Soup

Onion Soup is a great source of stamina for when you’re out climbing Mountains.

Acquisition

• Onion Soup is the better use for your Onions
• To start growing Onions, you’ll first need to find some Onion Seeds in the Mountains biome
• You’ll need a level 2 Cauldron to cook Onion Soup

The only ingredient in Onion Soup are Onions. They can be surprisingly hard to obtain, as they don’t naturally grow anywhere. Instead, you’ll need to explore the abandoned structures in the Mountains biome in search for Onion Seeds. Then, you’ll be able to start growing Onions back at your base with the help of the Cultivator tool (Corewood x5, Bronze x5).

Once you have an Onion farm going, you’ll want a Cauldron (Tin x10) with the Spice Rack that’s its level 2 improvement (Dandelion x3, Carrot x2, Mushroom x5, Thistle x3, Turnip x3). When exploring the Mountains biome, you should already have both of these.

When you have everything ready, interact with the Cauldron and combine 3 Onions into a bowl of Onion Soup.

Farming Onions

When you have some Onion Seeds, you will want to create an Onion farm. Since Onions can grow in the Meadows, Black Forest, and Plains biomes, you can farm them in your main Meadows base. All farming is done with the Cultivator tool (Corewood x5, Bronze x5) that you can craft once you’ve explored the Black Forest.

To create a farm, find a flat plot of land or flatten it out yourself. Then equip the Cultivator and right click with it selected on your hotbar. In the menu that appears, select Cultivate and then start left-clicking on the ground to create soil fit for planting. Once you have enough soil, right click again and select Onions. Plant them in the cultivated soil, then wait for several in-game days. Then go back to your farm and you’ll be able to harvest your Onions.

Onions need plenty of room to grow, so don’t plant them close to walls or each other. If you plant an Onion wrong, it will turn brown and if you hover over it, you’ll get a message saying that the Onionneeds more room to grow. If you do it right, you’ll get a message that your Onion is healthy.

Once you have your first Onions, don’t rush to eat them all. Instead, take your first harvest and again using the Cultivator, turn them into Seed-onions. That way each Onion can be turned into 3 Onion Seeds, allowing you to farm Onions indefinitely.

Uses

• Food
• Feast ingredient

Food

When you cook your Onions into Onion Soup and then eat it, you’ll gain 20 health, 60 stamina, and 1 hp/tick extra health regeneration for 20 minutes. The soup can be eaten together with up to two other foods, but you can’t eat more than one bowl of Onion Soup at a time.

Initially, you’ll get the full effects of Onion Soup, but they will fade with time. When the buff has just 50% of its duration left, or 10 minutes, you’ll be able to eat another Onion Soup and refresh the effects.

Feast Ingredient

The Bog Witch trader NPC introduced with her own content update brought with her a Feast system. When you find the Bog Witch, you’ll be able to purchase a Serving Tray from her for 140 Coins, plus some special Feast spices. Onion Soup is an ingredient in one of these Feasts. The Recipes section below holds the details.

Recipes

Here’s what you can do with your Onion Soup apart from eating it.

Helpful Tips

• The buildings where Onion Seeds can spawn include abandoned huts, crumbling towers, and stone circles.
• Planting on Seed Onion for every three regular Onions you get will ensure you never run out.
• The massive stamina boost provided by Onion Soup will help you a great deal while exploring the Mountains biome.