Reindrix Stew
Food · FoodDishMeat1★Venison raised in the cold, stewed down with vegetables until the meat falls apart into a delicate sweetness. Keeps hunger down slightly longer for a time.
Reindrix Stew is 21st of 45 cooked dishes by hunger restored, at 132 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.
Reindrix Stew Crafting Recipe
Reindrix Venison
Tomato×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 Reindrix Stew
Reindrix Stew shows up as world loot — chests in the Snowfields and enemy camp loot in the Snowfields, usually 1–2 at a time. Higher-grade chests carry the better rolls, so the ones guarded by a camp are usually worth the detour.
Chests inside Astral Mountains Cavern can hold it as well.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| World loot | Enemy camp loot in the Snowfields | Grade 1 · 34.2% chance · 1 at a time |
| World loot | Chests in the Snowfields | Grade 1 · 27.4% chance · 1–2 at a time · also in Astral Mountains Cavern |
| Dungeon chest | Astral Mountains Cavern | Chest loot |
Using Reindrix Stew Well
The "keeps hunger down" line is a real buff with numbers behind it: eating the stew applies 25% hunger resistance for 600 seconds, so for ten minutes your fullness bar drains a quarter slower than normal. That is the whole point of the dish — the 132 hunger it restores is beside the point, and it is the buff you are paying for.
Do not stew venison you were going to eat. The same Reindrix Venison cooked plain becomes Roast Reindrix at 252 hunger, nearly double what the stew returns, and costs you no tomatoes. Stew it only when you want the ten-minute hunger-resist window and the 17 SAN — before a long haul across the map, a deep dungeon run or a build session where you do not want to stop and eat. For refilling the bar, or for feeding the meat to a pal, roast it and keep the tomatoes.
The tomatoes, not the meat, are what gate this recipe. A Campfire cannot handle a two-ingredient dish, so the earliest station that will cook it is the Cooking Pot at Technology level 17 — and the Tomato Plantation does not unlock until level 21, so in practice the stew starts at 21 unless you buy Tomato from a wandering merchant, the Desert shop or the Volcano shop at 80 gold each. Past that, the Electric Kitchen (41), Large-Scale Stone Oven (49) and Ancient Kitchen (70) cook the identical stew and only buy you throughput and Kindling seats. One plantation harvest yields 10 tomatoes, which is exactly five stews.
Both halves of the recipe are farmable on a timer rather than hunted. Reindrix gives a guaranteed 2 Reindrix Venison per kill, so one Reindrix covers two stews' worth of meat, and if you would rather not go north for it the venison also sells at a wandering merchant for 350 gold and comes back from the Astral Frost Cavern expedition (50% for 3-6) and the PAL Genetic Research Laboratory expedition (guaranteed 10-20). Pair that with a tomato plot at base and the stew becomes something you batch rather than something you find.
Trading Reindrix Stew with NPCs
An NPC will take Reindrix Stew as a hand-in and pay 1 Stamina Remedy — worth knowing before you sell a stack to a merchant for gold.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Rushoar Hot Dog at 140 hunger restored; step down and it is Carbonara at 129. 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:
