In Hytale's early access, the Chef's Stove is an essential workbench for advanced cooking. It lets you create multi-ingredient meals that provide powerful healing and temporary buffs like health regeneration or stamina boosts, perfect for long adventures or tough fights. Unlike the basic Campfire, which handles simple 1:1 raw-to-cooked conversions, the Stove combines foods, veggies, and fuels for superior results - though some recipes trade efficiency for buffs.

Gathering Materials

You'll craft the Chef's Stove at a basic Workbench. Here's what you need:
Material Quantity How to Obtain
Copper Ingots 2 Mine copper ore (surface or shallow underground), smelt in Furnace.
Tree Trunks 10 Chop any trees with an axe (type doesn't matter).
Stone 5 Mine stone blocks from hills, caves, or underground (any variant).

Prioritize a Furnace first (crafted with tree trunks and stone) to smelt copper.

Crafting the Chef's Stove

  1. Open your Workbench (crafted early with basic wood and stone).
  2. Navigate to the Workbench tab.
  3. Arrange materials in the 3x3 grid (exact layout may vary, but typically metals in center, wood around, stone base - check in-game).
  4. Craft it - no upgrades available yet.

Placing and Using the Chef's Stove

  1. Place the Stove in your base, ideally near a farm or storage for easy ingredient access.
  2. Interact (press F or right-click) to open the interface.
  3. Select a recipe from the list (unlocks via progression/exploration) or drag in ingredients.
  4. Add required items and fuel if needed (e.g., 3x sticks/logs).
  5. Hit Craft - a progress bar fills as it cooks.
  6. Collect your meal and eat (right-click from hotbar) for instant heal + buffs (shown on HUD).

Fuel like sticks burns quick and cheap; logs last longer for batch cooking.


Key Recipes

Many recipes need processed ingredients like Dough (Flour + Eggs + Water). Here are early access standouts requiring the Stove:

Recipe Ingredients Effects (Example)
Apple Pie 1 Dough, 3 Apple, 1 Spices, 3 Fuel 15% heal + Health Regen III + Stamina Boost III (6 min)
Pumpkin Pie 1 Dough, 1 Pumpkin, 1 Spices, 3 Fuel Same as above
Meat Pie 1 Dough, 1 Any Meat, 1 Spices, 1 Salt Strong heal + combat buffs
Caesar Salad 1 Cheese, 1 Lettuce, 1 Salt, 1 Spices Utility buffs

Note: Meat sticks may cost 4 raw meat for 1 (vs. Campfire's 1:1), so use Stove for buffed dishes only.

Campfire vs. Chef's Stove

Feature Campfire Chef's Stove
Recipes Basic (raw meat/fish -> cooked) Multi-ingredient buffs/heals
Efficiency 1:1, portable, cheap Higher cost, but stronger effects
Best For Quick survival heals Stockpiling for bosses/exploration

Start with Campfire (4 Sticks + 2 Rubble), upgrade to Stove for progression.

Pro Tips

  • Farm ingredients via Farmer's Workbench for sustainability.
  • Batch-cook before expeditions - meals stack efficiently.
  • Discover recipes by experimenting/looting; more coming in updates.
  • Logs > Sticks for fuel to minimize trips.