Dumud Chowder
Food · FoodDishFish2★Dumud buried under a thick, creamy soup. Work speed goes up and fullness holds a bit longer for a while.
Dumud Chowder is among the best cooked dishes by hunger restored — 2nd of 13, at 170 against the 193 of Seafood Pasta.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack.
Dumud Chowder Crafting Recipe
Raw Dumud
Lettuce×2
Tomato×2Crafting it takes 5 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Dumud Chowder
Dumud Chowder shows up as world loot — chests in the Desert. Higher-grade chests carry the better rolls, so the ones guarded by a camp are usually worth the detour.
Chests inside Cavern of the Dunes can hold it as well.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| World loot | Chests in the Desert | Grade 1 · 33.3% chance · 1 at a time · also in Cavern of the Dunes |
| Dungeon chest | Cavern of the Dunes | Chest loot |
Using Dumud Chowder Well
"Work speed goes up" is +50% Work Speed for 600 seconds, with 25% hunger resistance riding alongside it for the same ten minutes. Nothing else you can cook beats that 50% — only Mozzarina Hamburger matches it, and it trades the hunger half for SAN resistance. Minestrone is the next dish down at 40%.
The huge work-speed numbers you may have seen elsewhere are not a substitute: Mysterious Mushroom Juice is +600% and Strange Juice +400%, but both expire after 10 seconds. The chowder runs sixty times longer, which makes it the only work buff worth building a crafting or construction session around.
Three separate ingredients put this out of reach of the Cooking Pot. The earliest bench that will list it is the Electric Kitchen at Technology 41 — which needs a generator feeding it power — followed by the Large-Scale Stone Oven at 49 and the Ancient Kitchen at 70. The crops are not the gate: the Tomato Plantation opens at 21 and the Lettuce Plantation at 25, so by the time you can cook this, both plots have been running for twenty levels.
It is 32,000 work per bowl, twenty times the 1,600 that turns the same Raw Dumud into Broiled Dumud. Queue a batch onto a Kindling worker and walk away rather than standing at the kitchen; one bowl of hand-cranked cooking costs more time than the ten minutes of buff gives back.
Dumud drops a guaranteed 2 Raw Dumud per kill, so a single Dumud covers two bowls. If you would rather not hunt, the meat sells for 220 gold at caravan and dungeon shops and returns from the Hidden Sanctum of the Desert expedition (50% for 3-8), while Lettuce and Tomato are 80 gold each at the Desert and Volcano shops if your plots are behind.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Seafood Pasta at 193 hunger restored; step down and it is Fried Kelpsea at 108. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other cooked dishs at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
