Food, healing and spoilage in Anvil Empires

Food restores hunger and can also recover health over time; hunger, healing rate and recovery duration are separate properties. Cooking may consume another finished meal: Lost Bread uses Trencher Bread as an ingredient. Plan that intermediate food before deciding what to carry or eat.

The Town Tavern brings food production into one building.

Choose a meal for hunger and recovery

Raw Berries and Bloodberry Field Bar are different foods. Cooking changes what the meal provides, so compare the finished food rather than the ingredient's name. A longer recovery duration does not tell you how much hunger a meal restores, and regeneration is not an instant health refill.

Trencher Bread: 80 hunger; 0.5 health/sec for 1 min
Bloodberry Field Bar: 15 hunger; 1.5 health/sec for 2 min
Roasted Game: 30 hunger; 1.5 health/sec for 4 min
Roasted Hog’s Leg: 30 hunger; 1.5 health/sec for 4 min
Small Roasted Game: 15 hunger; 1.5 health/sec for 2 min
Grilled Whitefish: 15 hunger; 5 health/sec for 5 sec
Pemmikan: 25 hunger; 2 health/sec for 3 min
Plain Alemette: 30 hunger; 2 health/sec for 50 sec
Egg Tarte: 100 hunger; 1 health/sec for 8 min
Boiled Cabbage: 80 hunger; 1 health/sec for 30 sec
Boiled Eggs: 35 hunger; 2 health/sec for 45 sec
Mead: 20 hunger; 1 health/sec for 3 min
Lost Bread: 60 hunger; 0.5 health/sec for 10 min
Water Pie: 70 hunger; 1.5 health/sec for 15 min
Berries: 3 hunger; 1 health/sec for 30 sec

Prepare the bread inside a cooked meal

For four Lost Bread, prepare four Trencher Bread before the final cooking step. Those loaves are consumed by the recipe. Keep any bread you intend to eat separately out of that ingredient allowance.

The first step prepares four Trencher Bread for the Lost Bread recipe. These loaves are ingredients, not extra finished meals.

The bread recipe needs Flour and Water Bucket. The final Lost Bread recipe adds Animal Fat and Chicken Egg. Both cooking steps use an Oven. The ingredient list combines those steps; fuel and the materials for building the Oven remain separate.

Supplies for four Lost Bread, starting from Flour. Nine minutes is the summed cooking time, without travel, fuel or waiting for an Oven.

Plan four Lost Bread

Plan the ingredients for your meals

What are you making?

How many?

Open this crafting plan View Trencher Bread

Flour

Make 8 / 8 min

Trencher Bread

Make 4 / 6 min

Smoked food can still spoil

Smoked Fish spoils slowly rather than lasting forever. Prepare quantities you expect to use and check the item's condition and storage options before deciding what to cook next. A longer food-healing effect is not a longer storage lifetime.

Is hunger restoration the same as healing?

Hunger restoration, health recovered per second and recovery duration are separate meal properties. Compare them independently when preparing supplies.