The long-anticipated update to 7 Days to Die, Alpha 21 (A21), was released on June 21, 2023. The update came with many changes including: doing away with glass jars, creating dew collectors, and having to boil murky water.
How did this effect the food in game?
In 7 Days to Die, you must survive the zombie apocalypse, survive Horde night, and your own cooking to stay alive. As you gain experience you will notice your character. Hunger starts to become a battle of its own. Which foods should you cook to help you survive?
Note: Since this game is still in open development, these recipes and stats are subject to change.
10. Vegetable Stew
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Each food has a skill level needed for cooking that food. You gain skill levels by reading Home Cooking Magazines each magazine gives you 1 skill level. Make sure to check your skill tree attributes and perks. If you are the one cooking the food, you will need to place points in the MasterChef perk under your Strength Attribute. There are only 3 MasterChef perks, each one allowing your character to cook foods fast, salvage foods from dumpsters and loot more home cooking magazines.
Make sure to check mailboxes, newspaper dispensers and bookshelves to find magazines. Leave no mailbox unchecked!
What makes Vegetable Stew a Top 10 food:
Early-Game Food
Only uses 4 ingredients
Only food that uses only farmed ingredients
Stats – food, hydration, health, and stamina
Only requires cooking pot
Vegetable Stew Food Stats:
Skill Level 22/100
Food +31
Water +20
Health +15
Stamina +20
9. Bacon and Eggs
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In 7 Days to Die, the early game food is helpful as you work to complete quests, stack up on loot and needed items for future crafting, and collect weapons. Beginning to work on your Horde base and fortify it will take a lot of time and energy, especially when doing so much by hand. If I only had a nail gun?
Note: If you find eggs hard to come by, place a point or two in the Lucky Looter perk before foraging in bird nests.
What makes Bacon and Eggs a Top 10 food:
Early-Game Food
Only uses 2 ingredients
Only requires cooking pot
Raw meat is easy to come across through hunting
Low Skill level to make
Bacon and Eggs Food Stats:
Skill Level 10/100
Food +36
Water +0
Health +18
Stamina +10
8. Blueberry Pie
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Early-Game food, Mid-Game food and Late-Game food will make a difference with how often you are hungry, how often you replenish stamina and some even rehydrate you as well. Most foods also have a health rating to give you a health boost over time. Consider your next meal as a boost to go along with your medical aids.
Don’t ignore your cravings…Did someone say braaaiiins?!
What makes Blueberry Pie a Top 10 food:
Early/Mid-Game Food
Requires 5 ingredients
Ingredients that are not too hard to get
Only requires cooking pot
Low Skill level
Blueberry Pie Food Stats:
Skill Level 11/100
Food +45
Water +0
Health +22
Stamina +20
7. Fish Tacos
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Questing (and looting) should be your main goal between Horde nights. That’s right – I’m talking to you loot goblins out there! Every finished quest will allow you to gain experience and quest loot from the trader’s for completing each quest. You can purchase canned foods from the trader’s using Duke coins and through working vending machines.
What makes Fish Tacos a Top 10 food:
Mid-Game food
2 ingredients to make
All ingredients can be found while looting
Characters always have an abundance of cornmeal
Needs a cooking pot and a grill to cook
Fish Tacos Food Stats:
Skill Level 43/100
Food +40
Water +0
Health +40
Stamina +30
6. Steak and Potato Meal
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Potatoes are not as abundant as corn in 7 Days to Die, but that doesn’t mean they are scarce either. Potatoes can be looted in the Shamway Food Store, grown in your own farm plots, and found growing wild in Navezgane. The hardest part is trying to save as many as you can rather than eating them raw or as baked potatoes. They are better as a Steak and Potato Meal!
What makes the Steak and Potato Meal a Top 10 food:
Mid-Game food
4 ingredients to make
Low skill for large gain
Characters always have an abundance of raw meat
Requires a cooking pot and a grill to cook
Steak and Potato Food Stats:
Skill Level 26/100
Food +50
Water +0
Health +25
Stamina +20
5. Pumpkin Pie
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Eggs take some foraging to find in 7 Days to Die. You can find eggs by foraging in bird nests or looting them from coolers. Like the potatoes, the hardest part is trying to save as many as you can rather than eating while running low on food. If you need animal fat, the best sources are from wolves, bears, and…. roadkill, oh my!
What makes Pumpkin Pie a Top 10 food:
Mid-Game food
5 ingredients to make
Low skill for large gain
Characters always have an abundance of cornmeal
Only requires a cooking pot
Pumpkin Pie Food Stats:
Skill Level 14/100
Food +50
Water +0
Health +25
Stamina +20
4. Chili Dog
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Just like the Canned Salmon, you can purchase Canned Chili from the trader’s using Duke coins and through working vending machines and you can find them while questing/looting. Cornbread is a food item you cook using cornmeal and water. If you have enough dew collectors, water will not be an issue and you will always have an abundance of cornmeal and Raw Meat.
What makes the Chili Dog a Top 10 food:
Mid-Game/Late-Game food
3 ingredients to make
Abundance of Raw Meat
Abundance of cornmeal
Only requires a cooking pot
Chili Dog Food Stats:
Skill Level 51/100
Food +53
Water +0
Health +30
Stamina +30
3. Hobo Stew
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Hobo Stew is one of the only foods you can make using rotting flesh. It won’t make you sick so let’s consider that a win. The skill level required for making Hobo Stew is less than that of the Chili Dog or the Fish Tacos. The skill level is more the equivalent of the Steak and Potato Meal yet the stats for food, health and stamina is greater than any of the former, without any major ingredient issues to combat.
What makes Hobo Stew a Top 10 food:
Late-Game food
5 ingredients to make
Few ingredients for large gain
Abundance of corn and rotting flesh
Only requires a cooking pot
Hobo Stew Food Stats:
Skill Level 35/100
Food +64
Water +20
Health +32
Stamina +30
2. Sham Chowder
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Sham Chowder is the only canned food that you must find through looting, purchase through a vending machine or through the trader until you find or are rewarded with the Shamway Secret Recipe. The Shamway Secret Recipe allows you to create the Can of Sham on your own using rotting flesh, bone, and animal fat, yummy…!
What makes Sham Chowder a Top 10 food:
Late-Game food
Highest health of any food
Few ingredients for large gain
Abundance of corn
Only requires a cooking pot
Sham Chowder Food Stats:
Skill Level 59/100
Food +53
Water +10
Health +80
Stamina +30
Fortitude +1
Duration 10min
1. Spaghetti
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Spaghetti is the hardest food to make due to the difficulty in finding the canned Beef Ration. The result is worth it, though! Eating one spaghetti is nearly the same as consuming 2 Hobo Stews or 2 Chili Dogs.
