Cooking Station

The Cooking station is a basic food-processing building used to cook raw meat and fish over a fire. It must be placed directly above a Campfire or Hearth, and if food is left on it too long it will burn into coal instead of being cooked. It is one of the first dedicated kitchen structures available, and it becomes especially useful once a player starts hunting and fishing regularly.

A standard Cooking station can prepare Neck Tail into Grilled Neck Tail, Boar Meat into Cooked Boar Meat, Deer Meat into Cooked Deer Meat, Raw Fish into Cooked Fish, and Wolf Meat into Cooked Wolf Meat. The listed cooking time for these foods is generally 25 seconds, with Neck tail taking 20 seconds in the fr source table. Hare Meat also appears in the English recipe list and takes 60 seconds to cook. Placing the food on the station and waiting for the prompt to collect it at the right time prevents burning; leaving it too long converts it to coal.

The station has a clear progression path through the Iron Cooking Station, which is treated as an upgrade to the wooden version. The iron variant expands what can be cooked and is required for more advanced meats, including Lox Meat and Serpent Meat, as well as later-game foods such as Seeker Meat, Bonemaw Meat, Asksvin Tail, and Volture Meat. The basic Cooking station cannot cook Serpent meat or Lox meat.

Practical placement matters a lot. A single Campfire can support up to 7 Cooking stations at once, and by building in two levels it is possible to fit 14 stations around one Campfire. This makes the structure useful for mass food preparation early in the game, especially when the player is processing large amounts of hunted meat. Because the station requires a heat source below it, it is usually built as part of a compact cooking area rather than placed randomly.

• Place it over a Campfire or Hearth to use it.
• Remove food promptly to avoid turning it into coal.
• Use multiple stations around one fire to speed up meal prep.
• Upgrade to the Iron cooking station when higher-tier meats become available.
• The basic version handles early meats and fish, but not Serpent meat or Lox meat.