Lucky Lunch

Lucky Lunch is a cooked dish made in an upgraded farmhouse kitchen or with a Cookout Kit. It restores a modest amount of energy and health when eaten, and has an edibility of 40 with a sell price of 250g. The dish is notable for its strong luck-boosting effect, which makes it a useful meal to carry for mining, Skull Cavern runs, and other activities where finding ladders, treasure, or rare drops matters.

It is also a profitable recipe when prepared with the lowest-quality ingredients, since the finished dish sells for more than the combined cost of its basic ingredients. Because of that, Lucky Lunch can be turned into a steady source of income if its ingredients are easy to obtain.

Lucky Lunch may appear in a variety of sources rather than being craft-only food. It can randomly show up in Krobus' shop on Saturdays, the Traveling Cart, the Garbage Can outside the Saloon, or the Stardrop Saloon's rotating stock. It is also sold by the Calico Egg Merchant during the Desert Festival for Calico Eggs. In addition, one or two Lucky Lunches can be found by opening a Mystery Box, and two can be found in a Golden Mystery Box.

Beyond eating, Lucky Lunch has a few other uses:

• It can be used in the Sewing Machine spool to create a Shirt.
• It can be used in dyeing as a yellow dye at the dye pots in Emily's and Haley's house.

Because it combines a useful buff with several alternate acquisition methods, Lucky Lunch is one of the more versatile cooked dishes in the game. Even players who do not make it often can still benefit from keeping a few on hand when it appears in shop inventory or as a random find.