Food functions mostly the same as it did in original PD, but satiation values were rebalanced. A few new food items were also added, as well as seasonal food variants which only appear during certain times of the year.
Usage[]
The Hero can eat food to replenish satiation; certain food items provide other benefits like buffs or healing. This action usually takes 3 turns, but some talents shorten it to 1 turn. Some talents also provide additional on-eat benefits. Besides eating it, the Hero can use food to upgrade the Horn of Plenty. It provides a long-term investment, supplying more satiation as the Hero gains EXP.
Eating serves to stave off starvation and maintain health regeneration (although there are other ways, like resurrection). However, it's not as vital as one might think. Regeneration becomes negligible at higher levels (without the Chalice of Blood), and starvation damage can be countered by healing items (potions, dewdrops). Food is also heavily nerfed when the On Diet challenge is enabled, only restoring 1/3 of its normal satiation value.
Obtaining[]
As a resource very important for the Hero's survival, a single food item is guaranteed to generate as a prize item on every non-boss floor including Old Mine. This item can be either a Ration of Food (80% chance) or a Pasty (20% chance). Floors with "Large floor" level feeling contain 2 food items to compensate for lengthier exploration. No food items spawn randomly in standard rooms. However, additional food can be found in certain special and secret rooms.
Food items[]
Mystery Meat[]
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| Eat at your own risk! | ||
Mystery meat is dropped from Albino Rats, Sewer Crabs, Cave Spinners, Scorpios and Giant Piranhas. When eaten, it restores 1/3 of maximum hunger (150 points). It is quite dangerous to eat as it has a 80% chance to trigger 1 of 4 possible harmful effects:
- Oh it's hot! - Inflicts Burning debuff for 8 turns
- You can't feel your legs! - Inflicts Rooted debuff for 10 turns
- You are not feeling well. - Poisons the Hero for 1/5 of max HP
- You are stuffed. - Slows the Hero for 10 turns
Eating this item should be avoided whenever possible as simply burning or freezing it turns it into a completely safe food.
Frozen Carpaccio[]
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| It's a piece of frozen raw meat. The only way to eat it is by cutting thin slices of it. And this way it's suprisingly good. | ||
Frozen carpaccio can be created by freezing mystery meat (for example, when throwing mystery meat onto a freezing trap). It's safe for consumption, and no longer is able to apply the mystery meat debuffs. When eaten, it restores 1/3 of hunger just like other meat variants, but it also has a 80% chance to trigger 1 of 4 possible beneficial effects:
- You see your hands turn invisible! - Grants Invisibility for 20 turns.
- You feel your skin harden! - Grants Barkskin armor equal to 1/4 of Hero's max HP decreasing by 1 every turn.
- Refreshing! - Removes most common debuffs (same as the Mageroyal plant).
- You feel better! - Restores 1/4 of Hero's max HP.
Chargrilled Meat[]
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| It looks like a decent steak. | ||
Chargrilled meat can be created by burning mystery meat or frozen carpaccio - dropping one of the meat types on any burning tile, or by a random chance when Hero is on fire for longer than 2-3 turns. When eaten, it restores 1/3 of hunger. It's safe for consumption, and no longer is able to apply the mystery meat debuffs.
Phantom Meat[]
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| A large glistening translucent steak, cut from a phantom piranha. This magical meat doesn't need to be cooked and grants a number of defensive benefits in addition to fully satiating you. When eaten it will grant invisibility, barkskin, some healing, and cures many harmful effects. | ||
Phantom meat is the most powerful food item in the game, fully satiating the Hero and granting all possible benefits of Frozen Carpaccio at once. Since it grants invisibility, it's safe to eat it during combat. It can only be obtained by killing a Phantom Piranha.
Small Food Ration[]
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| It looks exactly like a standard ration of food but smaller. | ||
2 small food rations will generate at each Shop. Up to 6 of them can also be found by the Rogue if the Cached Rations talent is active. It restores 1/3 of hunger when eaten.
Ration of Food[]
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| Nothing fancy here: dried meat, some biscuits - things like that. | ||
Ration of food is the most common food source in the game, at least one will appear in every regular floor (unless replaced by a pasty). It restores 2/3 of hunger when eaten.
Pasty[]
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| This is authentic Cornish pasty with traditional filling of beef and potato. | ||
Pasty has a 20% chance to replace any ration of food. It restores full hunger when eaten.
Festive variants[]
During certain times of the year, pasty is replaced with a festive food item. This item usually restores the same amount of satiety but grants a minor on-eat effect on top.
Steamed Fish
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| A whole steamed fish, magically preserved on a bed of greens. It's tradition to save some fish for later around this time of year, so you'll keep some leftovers instead of eating it all at once.Happy Lunar New Year!
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| Some surplus fish from your previous meal. You can eat it any time you like to restore a little hunger.
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the Lunar New Year. It only restores 300 satiety points, but it also leaves behind remains, which can be eaten for 150 satiety points. This lets the Hero trigger on-eat talent twice.
Easter Egg
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| A great big chocolate egg, wrapped in colorful yellow foil. There's easily enough chocolate here to fill you up, and the sugar might give your artifacts a tiny bit of extra charge.Happy Easter!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the Easter. It restores full satiety similar to Pasty, but it also instantly procs 2 turns of Artifact Recharging.
Amulet of Yendor?
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| You've finally found it, the magical amulet of - wait a minute, this is just a foil-wrapped chocolate made to look like the amulet! It won't grant you limitless power, but at least it'll fill you up and give you a little artifact charge.April Fools!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during April 1st. It restores full satiety similar to Pasty, but it also instantly procs 2 turns of Artifact Recharging, just like Easter Egg.
Rainbow Potion
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| This colorful potion is a kind of liquid food. In addition to satisfying your hunger, it has a little magic in it which will calm an adjacent non-boss enemy, making them temporarily hesitant to fight you.Happy Pride!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the Pride Month. It restores full satiety similar to Pasty, but it also briefly charms a non-boss enemy.
Green Cake
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| This large slice of vanilla cake has colorful sprinkles and green frosting. The cake was made to celebrate years of experience, and will grant a small amount of that experience to you when eaten.Shattered Pixel Dungeon was first released on August 5th 2014. Happy birthday Shattered Pixel Dungeon!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the Shattered Pixel Dungeon anniversary. It restores full satiety similar to Pasty, but it also grants a small amount of experience.
Pumpkin Pie
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| A great big slice of pumpkin pie! Its sweet and spicy flavor will fill you up and give you a tiny bit of healing.Happy Halloween!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the Halloween. It restores full satiety similar to pasty, but it also restores 3 HP or 5% of Hero's max HP, whichever is larger.
Blue Cake
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| This large slice of vanilla cake has colorful sprinkles and blue frosting. The cake was made to celebrate years of experience, and will grant a small amount of that experience to you when eaten.The original Pixel Dungeon was first released on December 4th 2012. Happy birthday Pixel Dungeon!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the Vanilla Pixel Dungeon anniversary. It restores full satiety similar to Pasty, but it also grants a small amount of experience.
Candy Cane
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| A huge sugary sweet candy cane! It's big enough to fill you up, and the sugar might give your wands a tiny bit of extra charge too.Happy Holidays!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the winter Holidays. It restores full satiety similar to pasty, but it also restores half a wand charge.
Sparkling Potion
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| This sparkling potion is a kind of liquid food. It satisfies hunger and simulates sparkling wine, but isn't actually alcoholic. The warm feeling in your belly will grant a little bit of shielding.Happy New Year!
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This food replaces all instances of Pasty in game during the New Year. It restores full satiety similar to Pasty, but it also grants a small amount of shielding.
Alchemy-produced food[]
Stewed Meat[]
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| Stewing the meat has cleansed it of any disease or parasites. It should be safe to eat. | ||
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Stewed meat can be created by cooking mystery meat in alchemy pot. Up to 3 meat can be cooked at once, cooking more consumes less energy per meat. When eaten, it restores 1/3 of hunger.
Functionally identical to chargrilled meat. As cooking the meat costs alchemy energy and there are many free fire/freezing sources in the dungeon, it is usually a better idea to prepare meat differently, unless there is no better alternative.
Meat Pie[]
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| A delicious pie filled with savoury meat. This will satiate you far more than any other meal. | ||
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Meat pie is the best food available in Shattered PD, and can be obtained only through alchemy. When eaten, it restores full hunger and applies the "well fed" buff for 450 turns, which prevents hunger from increasing and restores 1 HP every 18 turns (25 HP in total). Keep in mind that while you will not become more hungry when fighting a boss, the well fed buff duration will still deplete over time.
Cooked Blandfruit[]
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| The fruit has plumped up from its time soaking in the pot and has even absorbed the properties of the seed it was cooked with. It will have the effect of whatever potion the seed corresponded to. Positive effect: It looks ready to be eaten!Negative effect: It seems pretty volatile, it might be best to throw it. |
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Can be obtained by cooking a Blandfruit with a seed at an alchemy pot. The raw variant is completely inedible and cannot be added to the Horn of Plenty artifact. Cooked blandfruit mimics the potion corresponding to the seed used to cook it, eating/throwing the fruit has the same effect as drinking/throwing the respective potion. Eating the fruit fully satiates the Hero, while throwing a harmful one leaves edible Blandfruit Chunks behind.
There are 12 types of cooked blandfruit (one for each seed/potion):
- Sunfruit - Cooked with a Sungrass seed, works like a Potion of Healing.
- Rotfruit - Cooked with a Rotberry seed, works like a Potion of Strength.
- Earthfruit - Cooked with an Earthroot seed, works like a Potion of Paralytic Gas.
- Blindfruit - Cooked with a Blindweed seed, works like a Potion of Invisibility.
- Firefruit - Cooked with a Firebloom seed, works like Potion of Liquid Flame.
- Icefruit - Cooked with an Icecap seed, works like Potion of Frost.
- Fadefruit - Cooked with a Fadeleaf seed, works like a Potion of Mind Vision.
- Sorrowfruit - Cooked with a Sorrowmoss seed, works like Potion of Toxic Gas.
- Stormfruit - Cooked with a Stormvine seed, works like Potion of Levitation.
- Magefruit - Cooked with a Mageroyal seed, works like a Potion of Purity.
- Swiftfruit - Cooked with a Swiftthistle seed, works like a Potion of Haste.
- Starfruit - Cooked with a Starflower seed, works like a Potion of Experience.
Blandfruit Chunks[]
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| The blandfruit has exploded on impact, leaving inert chunks behind.Despite a bit of dirt, these large chunks of cooked blandfruit seem perfectly edible. | ||
The remains of a thrown blandfruit. It can be safely eaten, restoring full satiation.
Food from talents[]
The following food items can be only obtained with a specific talent. They don't restore much saturation, but have on-eat effects and take only 1 turn to eat instead of the usual 3 turns.
Dungeon Berry[]
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| This small berry was found by the huntress among the dungeon's vegetation. It can be eaten quickly, restores a small amount of satiety, and might contain a usable seed! | ||
Up to 6 of them can be found when the Hero tramples grass if the Nature's Bounty talent is active. It restores 100 satiation when eaten. Every second berry eaten will drop a random seed.
Supply Ration[]
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| This ration was left in the dungeon by and for members of the thieves guild. It's specifically designed to be eaten on the go, and aid with general skullduggery. While it doesn't fill you up as much as a regular ration, it can be eaten quickly, provides a little direct healing, and will restore a charge to the Rogue's cloak of shadows.
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Hunger mechanics[]
- Every Hero starts the game at 0 hunger.
- Hunger starts after 300 turns, starvation starts after 450 turns.
- Starvation periodically damages character and prevents natural regeneration. Speed of HP draining is equal to
MaxHP/1000every turn. - Energy from food does not stack above 450, so eating food that restores more satiation than currently missing is effectively partially wasting it.
- Starvation doesn't accumulate below the minimum value.
| Food | Satiety points |
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| Cooked blandfruit & Blandfruit chunks | 450 |
| Mystery meat | 150 |
| Cooked meat | 150 |
| Stewed meat | 150 |
| Frozen carpaccio | 150 |
| Ration of food | 300 |
| Pasty | 450 |
| Meat pie | 900 |
| Dungeon berry | 100 |
| Small ration | 150 |