Pumpkin Pie

Extra room in your health bar for a short while: that is the whole job. On top of the usual boost to health, hunger and hydration, its game text raises your maximum health for a short time, the same kind of buff the Advanced Max Health Tea gives from a cup.

The real difference is the shopping list. The tea wants berries and a Mixing Table. The pie wants pumpkins, which a planter grows without much fuss, and a Cooking Workbench. Neither text says the two add up, so treat them as alternatives and carry whichever your base makes more easily.

The timer is short, which makes timing everything. Say a cargo ship is passing your coast and your duo takes the boat out to it. Eat the pie as you pull up to the hull, not back at the base, so the extra health is still running when you reach the top of the ladder.

A pork pie covers the other half of the job, faster healing instead of more health, and the two suit a fight you plan in advance. The rich pumpkin pie adds cream and, by its text, increases maximum health greatly.