Eikthyrdeer Stew
Food · FoodDishMeat2★Venison stewed until it falls apart, the vegetables and meat blending into a warm, rounded richness. Grants a temporary +20% to Defense.
Eikthyrdeer Stew is 11th of 45 cooked dishes by hunger restored, at 212 against the 418 of Mammorest Curry.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack.
Eikthyrdeer Stew Crafting Recipe
Eikthyrdeer Venison
Mushroom×1
Milk×2Crafting it takes 5 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Eikthyrdeer Stew
If you would rather just buy it, the seller is Caravan Shop at 1,270 Gold.
Gold is not the only route. The stew sits on the gift table of the food-loving visitor NPC, one of ten cooked dishes there, and it hands over 3 to 10 at a time. Its weighting is at the low end of that table — roughly a one-in-seventeen pull — but a single hit is worth up to 12,700 gold at the caravan price, so it is worth taking the gift over buying stacks outright.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant | Caravan Shop | 1,270 Gold |
Using Eikthyrdeer Stew Well
The Defense buff runs for exactly 600 seconds — ten minutes on a timer that starts the moment you eat, not something tied to how full the hunger bar stays. It is also a single effect line: +20% Defense and nothing else riding along, unlike the burgers and fried dishes that pair their buff with a sanity or hunger resist. Eat it at the dungeon door or the tower lobby, not while you are still packing.
Rushoar Hot Dog carries the identical buff — +20% Defense, same ten minutes — off a far cheaper dish. What the stew adds is the meal itself: 212 hunger and 27 sanity against the hot dog's 140 and 18. So the stew is what you eat when you want the buff and a full bar in one bite; if you are only after the defense number for a boss pull, the hot dog does it for a third of the ingredients.
Eikthyrdeer Loco Moco is built on the same Eikthyrdeer Venison and gives +20% Attack for the same ten minutes. Every two cuts of venison in the box is one or the other, so decide which side of the fight you are short on before the pot goes on — a stack of venison will not cover both for a long raid.
The cook is 32,000 work. Out of 61 cooked food recipes only eight cost more (the five cakes, Mammorest Curry, Mushroom Quiche and Galeclaw Nikujaga), so this is a queue-and-leave job, not something to stand over. Put your best Kindling Pals on the pot and batch several at once — the ingredients are the slow part, the work timer is just a tax on doing it one at a time.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Roast Reindrix at 252 hunger restored; step down and it is Mushroom Stew at 212. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.
Other cooked dishs at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
