Grilled Lamball
Food · FoodDishMeat1★Marinated mutton taken slowly over the grill. Nudges work speed up and eases SAN loss for a time.
Grilled Lamball is 19th of 45 cooked dishes by hunger restored, at 147 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.
Grilled Lamball Crafting Recipe
Lamball Mutton
Lettuce×2Crafting it takes 3 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 2× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Grilled Lamball
Grilled Lamball is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Grilled Lamball Well
A campfire will not take this recipe — it needs the Cooking Pot, which is technology level 17. Before that unlock the same cut only becomes Lamball Kebab, so level 17 is the point where Lamball meat stops being a snack and starts being a work buff. The Electric Kitchen (41), Large-Scale Stone Oven (49) and Ancient Kitchen (70) cook the identical recipe, just faster.
The vague buff line is +30% work speed and 20% slower SAN drain, both running 600 seconds — a flat 10 minutes off one plate, regardless of how much of the 147 nutrition you actually needed. Eat it at the start of a mining or crafting stint rather than whenever hunger nags, or most of that window burns while you are walking.
Supply is exactly one dish per Lamball: Lamball yields a single Lamball Mutton every time and nothing else on the island produces it. The greens are never the constraint — Lettuce is 80 gold at the Caravan, Desert and Volcano shops, and one lettuce plot returns 10 every 5.5 minutes, which is five dishes' worth per cycle. You will run out of mutton long before you run out of greens.
Herb Roasted Lamball is the same one mutton and the same 7,000 work, but 94 nutrition and a +10% Defense buff instead of the work speed. Berries are cheaper than lettuce, so keep the herb version for combat trips and spend the lettuce version on base days — the mutton itself is the thing you are allocating, not the vegetables.
Salad gives the identical +30% work speed for 4,000 work, no meat at all, and 2 Lettuce plus 2 Tomato off your own plots. What you pay the extra mutton and 3,000 work for is the 20% SAN resist and 147 nutrition against the salad's 84. On a long dungeon run or a night shift, where sanity is draining anyway, that half is the reason to cook this; if you only want the work bar to move at home, farm salads and bank the mutton.
Cooking is not a margin here — 120 gold of mutton and 160 of lettuce become a 340-gold dish, and 7,000 work is fourteen times the Lamball Kebab you could have made instead. Cook it because 3.0 weight of raw ingredients becomes a 0.5-weight plate that does not spoil, which is what makes it worth carrying on a long trip. Mozzarina Hamburger beats it outright at +50% work speed and +25% SAN resist, but asks 32,000 work and a flour mill.
Trading Grilled Lamball with NPCs
An NPC will take Grilled Lamball as a hand-in and pay 8 Hyper Sphere — worth knowing before you sell a stack to a merchant for gold.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Galeclaw Nikujaga at 150 hunger restored; step down and it is Rushoar Hot Dog at 140. 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:
