Don’t Starve Together is the online multiplayer adaptation of Don’t Starve, a wilderness survival game uniquely built in RPG format with open-world exploration elements. In it, you choose a character to play from the game world’s heroes, each with a unique set of skills and inherent talents, and try to make it through the long winters and scorching summers without starving, falling ill, or losing your mind.
But you can’t eat meatballs forever! The longer you make it, the more options reveal themselves to you with the mysteries of this magical world, including more and more ingredients that you can cook in your makeshift crock pot into delicious life and sanity-saving recipes. Here are some of the most essential dishes you need to know.
Turkey Dinner is one of the most satisfying and restorative foods you can make in Don’t Starve. This hearty meal not only restores a good amount of health and hunger, but also provides a sanity boost, making it a great feast for surviving the harsh world. In this ultimate guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about crafting and using Turkey Dinner.
What is Turkey Dinner?
Turkey Dinner is a crockpot food made by combining 2 raw drumsticks, 1 meat, and 1 fruit or vegetable. It takes 60 seconds to cook and spoils in 6 days
When consumed Turkey Dinner restores 20 health 75 hunger, and 5 sanity. It also provides a short warmth buff, temporarily increasing the player’s temperature. This makes it extremely useful during winter or wet seasons.
Turkey Dinner has a festive appearance, with a whole roast turkey displayed on a platter. During special events like the Pig Fiesta in Hamlet DLC, it takes on an even more decorative look.
How to Craft Turkey Dinner
To make Turkey Dinner, simply add the following ingredients to a crockpot:
- 2 Raw Drumsticks
- 1 Meat (any type)
- 1 Fruit or Vegetable (any type)
Raw drumsticks are essential for this recipe. Do not use cooked drumsticks, as that will result in Meatballs instead.
The meat can be any type – morsel, monster meat, etc. Just make sure to only use 1 piece.
For the fruit/veggie, you can use common options like berries, carrots, or dragon fruit. Just avoid inedible filler like twigs.
Once combined in the crockpot, it takes 60 seconds to cook. Then you’ll have a fresh hot Turkey Dinner ready to eat!
Where to Find the Ingredients
Raw drumsticks can be obtained by hunting Turkeys. Kill them with weapons or traps, then harvest the corpse. Each Turkey drops 1-2 Raw Drumsticks.
Meat can be found through hunting, trapping, and fishing. Some common sources include Rabbits, Beefalo, Pigs, Frogs, Butterflies, etc. Monster meat also works if you cook it first.
Fruits and veggies grow wild throughout the world. Look for berry bushes, grass and saplings (for seeds), cactus, etc. Carrots and dragon fruit make good crockpot fillers.
Once you have a basic food supply established, obtaining the ingredients for Turkey Dinner shouldn’t be too difficult.
Benefits of Turkey Dinner
Here are some of the main benefits of cooking and eating Turkey Dinner:
- Restores 75 hunger, making it very filling.
- 20 health restoration helps recover from injuries.
- The 5 sanity boost helps fight off madness.
- Provides warmth, useful during winter or wetness.
- Long 6 day spoil time means you can stockpile them.
- More efficient than eating raw drumsticks alone.
- Decorative appearance complements base.
With its excellent stats and spoil time, Turkey Dinner is well worth the effort to make. A few of these will keep your belly full and sanity high for days!
Tips for Using Turkey Dinner
Here are some useful tips to get the most out of Turkey Dinner:
- Farm Turkeys in a pen to ensure a steady supply of drumsticks.
- Cook up several Turkey Dinners at a time and store them in ice boxes.
- Bring them on long journeys or adventures to restore health.
- Eat them as soon as you find your sanity dropping to regain poise.
- Combine them with crockpot filler like berries to stretch ingredients.
- Avoid using fried or spoiled drumsticks, as this alters the recipe.
- Serve Turkey Dinner before or after big battles to recover.
DLC Variants
In the Reign of Giants and Shipwrecked DLCs, Turkey Dinner provides an extra benefit – it gives 10 seconds of warmth when eaten.
In the Hamlet DLC, you can purchase Turkey Dinner from The Sterling Trough Deli for 10 oincs.
During special events like the Pig Fiesta, Turkey Dinner takes on a more festive appearance. It’s the perfect item to celebrate your survival!
Turkey Dinner is a Must-Craft Item
Turkey Dinner takes a bit of preparation, but it’s well worth it. The high hunger and health restoration provide excellent healing and fuel for adventures. Plus, the sanity boost helps fight off the creeping madness. For surviving the harsh world in style, cook up this satisfying turkey feast!
7 Froggle Bunwich
If you’re slumming it, with not that many ingredients left to whip up a good meal, a Froggle Bunwich is a nice snack that will do the trick and extinguish your hunger. All you need to do is head on over to the nearest swamp, catch a couple of frogs, of which there are aplenty, and fill up the remaining slots with vegetables and twigs.
Rendering 20 Health and 37.5 Hunger, two frogs are enough to give you two Froggle Bunwiches that will last you through the night, until you get a chance to catch something more nutritious. Froggle Bunwiches also take 15 days to spoil, so take them with you the next time you go hunting and foraging. You never know how long you’ll stay out.
4 Meaty Stew
Meaty Stew gives you the best bang for your buck, especially since it provides double the value of its ingredients, sometimes equally even as its ingredients are about to spoil. Rendering 150 Hunger, this dish is great on an empty stomach after a full night’s sleep or a long trip out in the wild. This dish is vital for an upgraded WX-78, who has a higher hunger capacity and a much higher tolerance for spoiled food.
To make it, you can fill out your crock pot slots with meat, or add three meats to one red mushroom or an egg. Make sure not to add more than one monster meat, however, or you’ll find yourself with a Monster Lasagna instead.
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FAQ
What’s the best food in Don’t Starve Together?
Trail Mix is one of the best early game food sources in Don’t Starve Together since it only requires 1x Roasted Birchnut, 1x Berry, and 1x Fruit Filler. Furthermore, players who eat Trail Mix as Walter will recover an extra +15 Hunger, making it even better.
What is DST turkey food?
Turkey Dinner is a Meat Food Item cooked in the Crock Pot by adding 2 Raw Drumsticks, 1 Meats, and 1 Fruit or Vegetable. It takes 60 seconds to cook and 6 Days to Spoil. Adding a Mandrake may result in Mandrake Soup. Using Fried Drumsticks may result in Meatballs, as the recipe strictly requires uncooked drumsticks.
What are turkey legs in DST?
A Drumstick is a Meat Food Item dropped when a Gobbler or Pengull is killed. Two raw drumsticks can be added to a Crock Pot along with another piece of meat, and 1 Fruit or Vegetable to produce a Turkey Dinner.