The Crock Pot is a Structure that is used to cook a variety of belly-filling dishes from basic Foods. It's found on the Food Tab, it requires a Science Machine to prototype, and it costs 3 Cut Stone, 6 Charcoal, and 6 Twigs to build.
Some Crock Pot functionalities have been altered in Uncompromising Mode.
An ingredient is "filler" if it can be added to a partially prepared recipe without changing the Crock Pot's output. Most recipes call for less than four ingredients, so fillers need to be added to fill the pot.
Using 2 or more Inedibles, such as Twigs, will override any dishes and cook into Wet Goop.
Using 2 or more Monster foods will cook into Monster Lasanga.
Using 2 Ice, or a combination of 1 Ice and 1 Twig will always result in a Snowcone.
Forget-Me-Lots and Foliage have 1 Foliage food value, cooking with 2 Foliage value will result in Simple Salad, and using any combination of Foliage with Ice or Inedible, will result in Wet Goop.
Butterfly Wings and Scorpion Carapaces have 0.5 Insectoid food value, which has a hard limit of 1 per Crock Pot dish without resulting in Wet Goop.
When preparing a dish, if the total Monster Value of the ingredients is higher than the Meat Value or the Egg Value if no Meat is being used, then the result will always be Monster Lasagna or Deviled Eggs depending on the recipe.
Monster Foods have had their Monster value severely increased in Uncompromising Mode:
In the Crock Pot, Meat Dilution is when the Meat value is higher or equal to the Monster value, nullifying the Monster value and making the recipe successful.
When cooking, Monster foods will need to be dried for maximum efficiency and diluted with Meat to not result in Monster Lasagna.
If there's no Meat value in the Crock Pot, and Monster Eggs are being used, then the Monster value can be diluted by Egg value instead, following the same rule of Egg value ≥ Monster Value for a successful recipe.
When cooking with no Meat, Monster Eggs will need at least one other common Egg to be diluted and not result in Deviled Eggs.
*Note:Though using 2 Monster Eggs will result in Monster Lasagna, because of the Monster value being 3, putting an Inedible ingredient, such as Twigs, in the recipe and following the rules of Egg dilution will make the recipe successful, reason being that Monster Lasagna does not accept Inedible value.
Below is a list of food items that can't be consumed by player characters (with the exception of Winky), but can be consumed by Pigs, Spiders, Hounds, Rats and other specific mobs. That group of items is known as "Horrible Foods".
The following is a list of the new Crock Pot recipes of Uncompromising Mode.
Under Ingredients, icons with a numeric value (like 1.0) represent any ingredient from that food group. Icons without values are specific ingredients. Required ingredients are the minimum food items to make a dish, and attempting to fill a dish with restricted ingredients would lead to a different dish.
Kabobs can be a nice way to discard Monster Meat without the need of Meat dilution, as it triumphs over lasagna due to lasagna not allowing twigs.
To maximize monster meat used, try to use Monster Morsels instead of Monster Meat, as the Morsels require more meat to be diluted and thus are not as easy to cook with. Use one Monster Morsel, and then only one Monster Egg or dried Monster Morsel.
Dried monster meat is always better than the raw/cooked one. If a recipe works with raw/cooked Monster Meat, the result will be the same using the dried versions.
Sometimes you will just have far too much monster meat/morsels to cook with, and rather than letting it go off and attract rats, you could cook it all up to make monster lasagna, and then sleep to offset the hunger and sanity loss while still having a net hunger gain.
You could also attempt to freshen up the resulting lasagna by transforming 3 of the monster foods into fresh monster eggs, and cooking any remaining monster meat.
Using the Craft Pot mod is highly recommended, but be aware that sometimes it fails to predict the result; a blank prediction suggests lasagna.