Cookhouse
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| Type | City |
|---|---|
| Max Level | 10 |
| Function | Provides food for your Survivors |
The Cookhouse provides food to satisfy your Survivors' appetite. It is the second building a player opens, and becomes available once the Furnace reaches Level 1.
Overview
The Cookhouse turns Meat into meals for the Survivors of the city. Part of that Meat comes from the Hunter's Hut, which is not its only source. A menu inside the building decides which meal the cooks serve, and that choice sets both how much Fullness the meal restores and how much Meat it consumes: the richer the meal, the faster the Meat stock drains.
Tapping the building brings up a small menu button at the bottom of the screen, which opens the window where the meal is changed.
Meals
Three meals are available. Healthy Gruel is the default and restores the least Fullness; Nutritious Meal sits in between; Fancy Meal restores the most Fullness and consumes the most Meat.
Survivors fed on food of too low a quality lose mood and eventually fall sick. This happens independently of heating and housing — it occurs even when the Furnace is kept on Max Power through nights and snowstorms and the Shelters are fully upgraded. A sick Survivor stops working until recovered, and recovers at the Clinic; before the Clinic is built, Survivors recover in the Shelters instead.
Progression
The Cookhouse has ten levels, and each one requires the Furnace to be at that same level: Cookhouse Level 5 needs Furnace Level 5. Upgrades are paid in Wood, Coal and Iron — Coal first appears in the Level 4 cost, Iron in the Level 6 cost.
Unlike resource production buildings such as the Hunter's Hut or the Sawmill, whose levels continue up to Furnace Level 30, the Cookhouse stops at Level 10. From Level 2 onward its progression is identical to the Clinic's: the same costs, the same base construction times and the same building power at every level.
Levels
Upgrade cost, time and power per level (resource costs from official data, shown abbreviated).
| Level |  Wood |
 Coal |
 Iron |
Time | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | — | — | 2s | 100 |
| 2 | 50 | — | — | 9s | 190 |
| 3 | 240 | — | — | 45s | 325 |
| 4 | 540 | 105 | — | 2m 15s | 505 |
| 5 | 2.2k | 455 | — | 4m 30s | 775 |
| 6 | 5.7k | 1.1k | 285 | 9m | 1,180 |
| 7 | 20k | 4.1k | 1k | 18m | 1,765 |
| 8 | 37k | 7.5k | 1.8k | 27m | 2,350 |
| 9 | 78k | 15k | 3.9k | 40m 30s | 2,935 |
| 10 | 130k | 27k | 6.9k | 54m | 3,785 |
See also
- Hunter's Hut — produces the Meat the Cookhouse serves
- Clinic — where sick Survivors recover
- Shelter — houses the Survivors who eat here
- Furnace — caps the Cookhouse's level
- Buildings