Food – ICARUS

Crafting your way from the stone age to rifles and carbon-composite armor is hungry work, and you’ll need to make sure you keep your belly full while prospecting. In this guide, we’ll go over the basics of finding and processing food, and list all of the foods currently available in ICARUS.

First Foods

Berries & Vegetables

When you first land on ICARUS, you’ll be able to harvest Berries from bushes in the Forest biome. These fill your food as well as your Water meter, and are a great way to tide yourself over until you can do some hunting. There are other edible plants, though many need to be cooked over a fire in order to unlock their full benefits (see food list).

Note that depending on your draw-distance settings and your graphics card, Berry Bushes may be indistinguishable from other bushes until you get fairly close to them. Plants like Watermelon and Pumpkin lie flat on the ground, so you’ll need to pay close attention in order to find them if they’re in amongst bushes.

Meat and Fish

Once you’ve crafted yourself a Bow and some Arrows, you’ll be able to take down Icarus’ animals instead of subsisting on berries. Smaller animals like rabbits and racoons go down in only one arrow, as do baby deer. Larger creatures require a headshot, a stealth attack, or both — land a headshot while crouched to ensure you take down medium deer and other larger herbivores in one arrow, otherwise they’ll run away. Lakes are another good source of food, since fish are easy targets. You can also try to take on wolves, assuming they’re alone. Have a knife crafted and ready to go as well, since it’s much easier to deal the finishing blow in melee (the wolf will attack you once you start rudely shooting arrows at it).

You can eat raw meat and raw fish, but cooking it provides additional benefits and makes it significantly more filling.

How to Cook

Basic Cooking – Meat and Fish

Until there’s a Prospector perk that allows you to eat raw meat and raw vegetables, you’ll have to cook what you hunt and gather to make it edible. This can be done at a Campfire, or in a Fireplace once you’ve reached Planetary Tech Tier 2. Open the Campfire/Fireplace’s inventory, and place your raw meat in one of the available slots. Then put fuel in the fuel slot (this can be wood, fiber, sticks, or coal), and click the “Activate” button to begin cooking.

Basic Meals – Cooking Station & Potbelly Stove

Once you reach Tier 2 (the Crafting Bench) you’ll be able to craft a Cooking Station. The cooking station will allow you to craft simple meals, like the Fruit Salad and Wild Salad — these meals offer significantly bigger bonuses than foods cooked at a campfire. It’s also where you create Animal Fat, which is a component in some advanced recipes. The Potbelly Stove allows for even more complex and beneficial meals than the Cooking Station, but these meals require harder-to-collect ingredients.

Advanced Meals

Once you’ve teched up to Tier 3 (the Machining Bench) you’ll be able to craft the Kitchen Bench and its attachment, the Biofuel Stove. The Kitchen Bench allows you to craft Pastry and Bread Dough, while the Biofuel Stove has recipes for a number of advanced meals. These meals give big boosts to your stats, and even offer significant bonuses to XP gain while you digest them.

How to Make Bread

Bread is significantly more involved than cooking meat: You’ll need a Mortar and Pestle to create Flour from Wheat, and then a Kitchen Bench to combine your Flour with Yeast to create Bread Dough. Bread Dough can then be cooked in a Biofuel Stove to create Bread. You can also make Flatbread Dough instead if you don’t have any Yeast.

How to Stop Food From Spoiling

While it’s in your inventory, you can stop food from spoiling by eating one item from the stack. This resets the spoilage meter of the entire stack. Note that when food is in a stack, only the top item spoils, not the whole stack. Once one item spoils, that item turns to spoiled food and the spoilage meter of the stack resets.

For food you want to store at your shelter, you’ll need to tech up to an Ice Box or Refrigerator to prevent food from spoiling.

Food List

The following foods are currently available in Icarus. You’ll need specific crafting tables or materials to create many of them — foods have therefore been organized by where they can be crafted.

Hunted/Foraged Food (Raw)

A Campfire or Fireplace is used to cook any hunted/foraged foods that are cookable.

Food	Effects	Duration (sec)	Misc
Berries	+4 Food +2 Water +50 Max Health +75 Max Stamina	600	Ingredient in Fruit Pie
Watermelon	+50 Food +30 Water +50 Max Stamina -10% O2 Consumed	600	Ingredient in Fruit Pie
Squash	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Cook to create Roast Squash. Ingredient in Roast Vegetables
Pumpkin	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Cook to create Grilled Pumpkin. Ingredient in Wild Salad, Roast Vegetables, Pumpkin Bread
Carrot	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Cook to create Barbeque Carrot. Ingredient in Soy Bean Stir Fry, Roast Vegetables, Stew, Pickled Carrot
Corn	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Cook to create Charred Corn. Ingredient in Vegetable Pie.
Mature Coconut	+10 Food +2 Water +50 Max Health -10% Food Consumption	600	Ripens from Ripe Coconut
Mushroom	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Ingredient in Mushroom Soup, Stew, Meat Pie
Raw Fish	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Cook to create Cooked Fish. Ingredient in Fish Curry, Crumbed Fish Fillet
Raw Meat	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Cook to create Cooked Meat. Ingredient in Stew, Meat Pie.
Raw Prime Meat	+20 Food +10% Max Health	60	Cook to create Cooked Prime Meat.
Young Coconut	+2 Food +10 Water +25 Max Health -10% Food Consumption	600	Ripens into Ripe Coconut

Campfire & Fireplace

Food	Effects	Duration (sec)	Required Elements
Barbeque Carrot	+50 Food +75 Max Stamina +5% Projectile Damage	600	Carrot (1)
Charred Corn	+50 Food +75 Max Stamina -10% Stamina Consumed by Actions	600	Corn (1)
Cooked Fish	+80 Food +30 Health +100 Max Health +75 Max Stamina	600	Raw Fish (1)
Cooked Meat	+80 Food +20 Health +100 Max Health +75 Max Stamina +15 Health regen per min	600	Raw Meat (1)
Cooked Prime Meat	+150 Food +30 Health +10 Max Stamina +150 Max Health +20 Health regen per min +5% XP Gain	600	Raw Prime Meat (1)
Flatbread	+50 Food +10 Health +10% Health Regen +100% Stamina Regen	1200	Flatbread Dough (1)
Grilled Pumpkin	+50 Food +75 Max Stamina	600	Pumpkin (1)
Mushroom Soup	+50 Food +75 Max Health +5% Stamina Regen	600	Water, Mushroom (5)
Roast Squash	+50 Food +75 Max Stamina +5% Melee Damage	600	Squash (1)

Cooking Station

Note that the Cooking Station is also where Animal Fat can be crafted.

Food	Effects	Duration (sec)	Required Elements
Creamed Corn	+100 Food +75 Maximum Stamina +150 Maximum Health -10% Stamina Consumed by Actions	900	Water, Animal Fat (1), Corn (1)
Fruit Salad	+100 Food +75 Maximum Stamina +75 Maximum Health -10% Oxygen Consumption -10% Water Consumption	900	Watermelon (1), Berries (1)
Wild Salad	+100 Food +150 Maximum Stamina +10% Exposure Resistance +10% Melee Damage	900	Pumpkin (1), Squash (1)

Potbelly Stove

Food	Effects	Duration (sec)	Required Elements
Cooked Prime Meat	+150 Food +30 Health +10 Max Stamina +150 Max Health +20 Health regen per min +5% XP Gain	600	Raw Prime Meat (1)
Fish Curry	+100 Food +225 Max Health +10% Health Regeneration +10% Stamina Regeneration	900	Animal Fat (1), Soy Bean (5), Raw Fish (1)
Roast Vegetables	+100 Food +225 Maximum Stamina +10% Exposure Resistance +10% Melee Damage	900	Pumpkin (1), Squash (1), Carrot (1)
Soy Bean Stir Fry	+100 Food +150 Max Health +75 Max Stamina +10% Projectile Damage +10% Stamina Regeneration +10% Health Regeneration	900	Carrot (1), Mushroom (5), Soy Bean (5)
Stew	+100 Food +150 Maximum Health +75 Maximum Stamina +10% Stamina Regeneration +10% Health Regeneration +10% Projectile Damage	900	Mushroom (5), Carrot (1), Raw Meat (1)
Sweetcorn Soup	+100 Food +75 Max Stamina -20% Stamina Consumed by Actions	900	Water, Corn (1)

Kitchen Bench

The Kitchen Bench is also where Bread Dough and Pastry are crafted.

Food	Effects	Duration (sec)	Required Elements
Beer	+40 Water +125 Max Stamina +100% Stamina Regen	900	Beer Bottle (1), Wheat (20), Yeast (1)
Berry Jam	+40 Food +125 Max Stamina -20% Water Consumption +10% Shared Experience	900	Glass Jar (1), Berries (5)
Pickled Carrot	+150 Food +150 Max Stamina +20% Projectile Damage +20% Shared Experience	1200	Glass Jar (1), Carrot (4)
Wine	+40 Water +125 Max Stamina +100% Stamina Regen	900	Wine Bottle (1), Berries (10), Reed Flower (1)

Biofuel Stove

The Biofuel Stove can only be placed attached to a Kitchen Bench.

Food	Effects	Duration (sec)	Required Elements
Bread	+80 Food +10 Health +100 Max Health +125 Max Stamina +10% XP	1200	Bread Dough (1)
Crumbed Fish Fillet	+150 Food +150 Maximum Health +75 Maximum Stamina -15% Stamina Regeneration +10% Experience Gained	1200	Raw Fish (1), Animal Fat (1), Bread Dough (1)
Fruit Pie	+150 Food +75 Max Health +150 Max Stamina -15% Oxygen Consumption -15% Water Consumption +10% XP Gain	1200	Pastry (1), Berries (1), Watermelon (1)
Meat Pie	+150 Food +225 Max Health +15% Exposure Resistance +15% Stamina Regen +15% Health Regen +10% Experience Gained	1200	Pastry (1), Mushroom (5), Pumpkin (1), Raw Meat (1)
Pumpkin Bread	+150 Food +150 Max Stamina +15% Exposure Resistance +15% Experience Gained	1200	Pumpkin (1), Bread Dough (1)
Vegetable Pie	+150 Food +150 Max Health +150 Max Stamina -15% Stamina Consumed by Actions +15% Melee Damage +10% Experience Gained	1200	Pastry (1), Squash (1), Soy Bean (1), Corn (1)

Orbital Meals

Orbital meals are researched and crafted via the Workshop before missions.

Meal	Effects	Duration	Research Cost	Crafting Cost
Micromeal	+100 Food +10% Stamina Regeneration +10% Health Regeneration -10% Water Consumption -10% Food Consumption -10% Oxygen Consumption	1200	25	10
Ultrameal	+200 Food +10% Stamina Regeneration +10% Health Regeneration -10% Water Consumption -10% Food Consumption -10% Oxygen Consumption	3600	50	25
Endurogel	+50 Stamina	Instant	25	25
Oxygel	+150 Oxygen	Instant	25	10
Go	+100 Water +10% Health Regeneration -10% Water Consumption -10% Oxygen Consumption	1200	25	10

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