Serpent Stew is an Ocean-tier food that raises your health by 80, stamina by 26, and health regeneration by 4 hp/tick for 30 minutes. It’s produced by combining a Mushroom, Cooked Serpent Meat and 2 Honey in a level 2 Cauldron.
Whenever you slay one of the serpents inhabiting the Ocean biome, they’ll drop a good number of Serpent Meat. You’ll then be able to cook this meat on an Iron Cooking Station (Iron x3, Chain x3). It takes 60 seconds to cook Serpent Meat, so make sure you pick it up when it’s done, because if you leave it on the fire for too long, it will turn into Coal. While Cooked Serpent Meat provides some respectable bonuses, it’s very heavy. But when further cooked into Serpent Stew, these bonuses increase further, while the weight becomes comparable to most other foods.
Complementing the Serpent Meat are the Mushrooms you can find growing on the ground in the Meadows, Black Forest, and Swamp biomes. You can’t farm them, but when picked, they respawn after 240 minutes. And then, you will need some Honey. It’s continuously produced by bees inside Beehives after you find and put a Queen Bee there.
Once you have all the ingredients ready, you’ll need to combine them in a Cauldron (Tin x10) improved to level 2 with a Spice Rack (Dandelion x3, Carrot x2, Mushroom x5, Thistle x3, Turnip x3). Interact with your Cauldron when holding a Mushroom, Cooked Serpent Meat, and 2 Honey, and you’ll get a bowl of Serpent Stew.
Mushrooms in the Black ForestAn Ocean serpent ready to drop its meatProductive Beehives
Uses
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When you eat it, Serpent Stew increases your health by 80, stamina by 26, and health regeneration by 4 hp/tick for 30 minutes. You can combine Serpent Stew with up to two other food types, but can’t eat more than a single bowl of Serpent Stew at a time.
The buff you get from eating Serpent Stew will start out strong, but will grow weaker with time. When there’s just 50% of its duration left, or 15 minutes, the buff icon will start flashing, allowing you to eat another Serpent Stew to refresh its effects.
Helpful Tips
The 80 health Serpent Stew provides make it one of the best health-boosting foods in the game, especially considering how early you can get it
The Mushrooms you need for Serpent Stew take 240 minutes to respawn, so you might want to mark all the mushroom-rich spots you find on your map
When hunting serpents, make sure you finish them off close to shore, or you might lose their drops
An Abyssal Harpoon is a great tool for hunting serpents
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