Preparedfoods

Based on game build 714014 | Last updated: 2026-03-10

Overview

The preparedfoods file defines a collection of prepared food prefabs and their associated properties—such as nutrition values, effect duration, and special status triggers—within DST's crafting system. It specifies how each recipe behaves upon consumption or storage, including integration with core components like health, grogginess, and sleeper, and manages in-inventory behaviors like learnable cookbook stats.

Usage example

-- Example of adding a custom prepared food that applies grogginess
inst:AddComponent("food")
inst.components.food:SetHealthMultiplier(1)
inst.components.food:SetHungerMultiplier(1)
inst.components.food:SetSanityMultiplier(0)
inst.components.food:AddTag("honeyed")
inst.components.food:AddTag("monstermeat")
inst.components.food:SetEffectFunction(function(eater)
    if eater.components.grogginess then
        eater.components.grogginess:AddGrogginess(5, 10)
    end
end)

Dependencies & tags

Components used:

• components/grogginess — used in shroomcake and beefalotreat; calls ResetGrogginess() and AddGrogginess() respectively
• components/health — used in shroomcake; calls IsDead() to check eater state
• components/sleeper — used in beefalotreat; calls AddSleepiness()

Tags:

• honeyed: applied to taffy, pumpkincookie, honynuggets, honeyham, powcake, jellybean
• catfood: applied to fishsticks
• monstermeat: applied to monsterlasagna
• donotautopick: applied to powcake
• fooddrink: applied to vegstinger, frozenbananadaiquiri, bananajuice, sweettea

Properties

Property	Type	Default Value	Description
recipe	table	nil	Per-recipe configuration, including ingredients, components (health, hunger, sanity), tags, and recipefilterfn (optional)
prefab	string	nil	The prefab name associated with the food (e.g., beefalotreat)
effectfn	function	nil	Optional custom logic executed on consumption (e.g., status application, conditional checks)

Main functions

No top-level or exported functions are defined in this file. All logic resides in recipe-level effectfn fields and inventory hooks.

Events & listeners

Pushes:

• learncookbookstats: Fired when beefalofeed or beefalotreat recipes are placed in a player’s inventory. Triggers UI updates and stat tracking for the associated cookbook entry. Listens to: None (no explicit listeners are defined in this file).