Cooking Workbench

The Level 2 station for advanced recipes: buff pies, plus fuel, ammo and explosives. Plain meat still goes on a fire; you build this for the extras.

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Characteristics

Category: Items

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Health: 500

Overview

In-game description

Used to cook advanced recipes for food, fuel, ammunition and explosives.

Build it when plain cooked meat stops being enough. The game calls it the station for advanced recipes in four groups: food, fuel, ammunition and explosives. For most groups the food side is the reason, because that is where pies come from, and pies do more than fill your stomach.

Every pie tops up health, hunger and hydration and adds a short buff on top. A pumpkin pie raises your maximum health for a while, a hunters pie cuts bleeding, and a survivor's pie increases yield when you harvest corpses. The last one is farming food; the first two are fight food.

The blueprint needs a Level 2 workbench and 30 scrap, and the station costs metal fragments, stones and wood. It does not replace the barbeque for cooking steaks in bulk.

Where it earns its place: your group sees an online raid coming and has a few minutes to get ready. A round of pumpkin pies before the first rocket hits means everyone starts the fight with a bigger health pool.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Satchel Charge cheapest	2	960
Beancan Grenade	8	960
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	50–56	1,250–1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
High Velocity Rocket	12	2,400
Rocket	2	2,800
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	23	300
Propane Explosive Bomb	2	1,800
Mortar Shell	6	1,800
Survey Charge	36	2,160
Homing Missile	42	4,200
MLRS Rocket	2	—
40mm HE Grenade	8	—
Hammerhead Bolt	20	—

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.