Crafting and Cooking Guide

How to make gear in this game, and be confident it's better than it was before.

Picks

Different materials in your pick can give different benefits. Here's a list of what each materials does.

Handle	Binding	Metal
Log No special effect.	Leather No special effect.	Pure Steel No special effect.
Writhing Vine Increases the range of your attacks.	Hudan Leather Heavily reduced charge time for charge attacks	Ancient Alloy +1 damage
Brightbark Gain Divine charge when getting hit.	Beast Hide +1 damage, reduced charge time for charge attacks	Kadocite +1 damage during invincibility frames
Duskwood Makes your Divine attack a unique AoE strike that deals double damage (instead of your charge attack).	Scaled Hide +5 luck, reduced charge time for charge attacks	Shaedrite +1 damage

Additionally, there are four special recipes that make unique picks. The picks still gain any benefits their materials would normally give them.

Handle	Binding	Metal	Pick
Log	Scaled Hide	Pure Steel	Dragon Pick Attacking an enemy stuns them for a little longer.
Brightbark	Beast Hide	Ancient Alloy	Enetha's Touch (1+luck)% chance of instantly killing undead monsters on hit. NOTE: Due to a bug this recipe does not work.
Writhing Vine	Leather	Kadocite	Ignia Pick +X damage, where X is half your missing health.
Duskwood	Hudan Leather	Shaedrite	Shroud Nail Removes all armour from bosses.

Boots

Boots work in the same way picks do, though the same material can have different effects in boots than it did in picks.

Lining	Cloth	Metal
Spikes No additional effect.	Leather No additional effect.	Pure Steel +1 armour
Umbral Cloth Heavily increased invulnerability period after taking damage.	Hudan Leather Reduced charge time for charge attacks	Ancient Alloy +1 armour
Ancient Plate +1 armour, reduced knockback after getting hit.	Beast Hide +1 damage	Kadocite +2 armour
Discordant Ichor Knockback immunity.	Scaled Hide +1 armour	Shaedrite +2 armour

Just like picks, there are four special recipes that make unique boots. The boots still gain any benefits their materials would normally give them.

Lining	Cloth	Metal	Boots
Spikes	Leather	Pure Steel	Guide Boots Immune to slipping on ice. NOTE: There is no ice in this game.
Ancient Plate	Scaled Hide	Ancient Alloy	Titan Boots (1+luck)% chance of avoiding damage when hit. NOTE: Due to a bug this recipe does not work.
Discordant Ichor	Beast Hide	Kadocite	Sidian Step Drains your health to deal double damage.
Umbral Cloth	Hudan Leather	Shaedrite	Reaper Greaves (1+luck)% chance of dealing double damage.

Food

Food is slightly different from picks and boots. The individual ingredients do not matter at all, except to decide which of the 8 dishes it makes.
Similar to picks and boots, 4 of the dishes have set recipes, and the other 4 are chosen by their main ingredient (the first column).

Main	Side	Spice	Meal
Beast Meat	Mystery Meat	Jerky	Meateor +2 damage
Beast Meat	Anything else	Anything else	Steak Dinner +1 damage
Old Cheese	Berries	Fruit	Cheese Plate +10 luck
Old Cheese	Anything else	Anything else	Light Meal Immunity to fall damage.
Tuber	Peppers	Jerky	Meat N Taters No effect.
Tuber	Anything else	Anything else	Heavy Meal +1 armour
Bones	Veg	Herbs	Bone Broth Increased invulnerability period after getting hit.
Bones	Anything else	Anything else	Mish Mash When you would take lethal damage, heal to half your maximum health and lose this buff.

Unlike boots and picks, this leaves a single ingredient, Bite Root, not used in any recipe.

[Fastolph]

Looks like we can get unique Boots and Picks back easily. Does it retains the buffs from materials though? Also, do we lose material buffs on Death or only food?

[迷你🧊饼干]

So helpful and comprehensive

[KingBobson]

Looks like they fixed the special boots in an update, thankfully. At least two of them.

[PigeonHead]

Wow, this really just confirms to me that the crafting system is borked. All 4 of the special Boots do nothing lmao.

[Cleric]

the ice boots bugged me so much when i made them like wtf