Use a Cooking Table for meal preparation

Budget Planks and Leather

The hand-crafting recipe is 2 Wood Planks + 1 Leather → Cooking Table. Check that the recipe is in your menu before setting aside the construction materials.

If Leather is the missing ingredient, follow the find-and-unlock step first, then craft more at a Workbench. The cost is recorded in the demo recipe reference.

Harvest first, then prepare the carcass

The v1013 changes let you harvest bat and scorpion carcasses rather than expecting enemies to drop ready-made food. Their carcass recipes are at the Cooking Table.

Scorpion Tail then has a Cooking Pot recipe. Treat collecting, table preparation and pot cooking as separate stages rather than trying to do the whole meal at one station.

Match the ingredient to its station

• Captured Rat: process it into Raw Meat in hand crafting; this also gives Animal Hide.
• Bat or scorpion carcass: use the Cooking Table's preparation recipes.
• Broths and soups: use Cooking Pot recipes.
• Roasting: use the Rotisserie over a Bonfire.

Continue to Rats and Animal Hide for that resource chain, or cooking and food care for spoilage and meal handling.

Sources

• MeowDB: demo v1013 crafting inputs and stations
• MeowDB: demo v1013 item descriptions
• Official demo updates