The Best Oxygen Not Included Foods to Keep Your Dupes Smiling (and Stuffed)
Feeding a few dupes is easy when they crash land in the middle of an asteroid and don’t expect much. But as time goes on and their tastes develop, those snobs start expecting a better quality of food. If you aren’t careful, you’ll end up with a colony of starving duplicants, stressed to the max, because all they have to eat is meal lice (and there isn’t enough of it).
If you take note of the following foods, you won’t need to worry. These resources are easy to find, grow, harvest, and cook, and will quickly feed your dupes (and keep them happy).
Let's get the egg rolling.
10. Frost Bun
Keep your warm buns frosty! Frost Buns are made from Sleet Wheat Grain, provide 1200 kcal, and have a food quality of Standard [+2]. Frost Buns are incredibly convenient in the Spaced Out! DLC, as the abundance of Sleet Wheat offers plenty of ingredients without the necessity of immediately building a farm.
What’s so great about it?
- Grow Time of 18 Cycles
- Spoil Time of 4 Cycles
- 1200 kcal
- Food Quality Standard [+2]
- Popular for Spaced Out! DLC
Get it:
- Harvest Sleet Wheat Grain from Sleet Wheat (in ice biomes)
- Cook Sleet Wheat Grain (3 units) at Electric Grill
9. Berry Sludge
It’s like intergalactic fruit cake; only I imagine it actually tastes good. Berry Sludge is made from Bristle Berry and Sleet Wheat Grain and has a Good [+3] food quality. You can make it at the Microbe Musher, and it never spoils. If you’re next to an ice biome (and all the wild Sleet Wheat), Berry Sludge is the best way to go.
What’s so great about it?
- NEVER spoils
- 4000 kcal
- Food Quality Good [+3]
- Great for rocket trips
Get it:
- Sleet Wheat Grain (5 units) and Bristle Berry (1600 kcal)
- Cook at Microbe Musher
8. Grubfruit Preserve
Easy-peasy-Grubfruit-squeezy! Add a little solar sugar (aka Sucrose) to Grubfruit and make a jam that lasts for almost ever. Grubfruit Preserves have a Good [+3] food quality and offer 2400 kcal. Cook some up at the Electric Grill.
What’s so great about it?
- Spoil Time of 16 Cycles
- 2400 kcal
- Food Quality Good [+3]
- Long-lasting
Get it:
- Grubfruit (2000 kcal) and Sucrose (4000 g)
- Cook at Electric Grill
- Harvest Sucrose and Grubfruit in the Wasteland Biome
7. Mushroom Wrap
If you have a lot of saltwater around your base, Mushroom Wraps may be a good option for you. Lettuce is easy to find in the saltwater biomes and (apparently) goes well with Fried Mushrooms. Make a Mushroom Wrap for a Great [+4] quality food and 4800 kcal. These offer a high morale boost but spoil after two cycles.
What’s so great about it?
- 4800 kcal
- Food Quality Great [+4]
- Lettuce is plentiful
- Popular in Saltwater Biomes
Get it:
- Fried Mushroom (2800 kcal) and Lettuce (1600 kcal)
- Harvest Lettuce from the Waterweed plant in the Tidal Pool Biome
- Cook at Gas Range
6. Fried Mushroom
Mushrooms harvested from the Dusk Cap can be fried at the Electric Grill to make Fried Mushrooms. These shrooms have a food quality of Poor [+1] and provide 2800 kcal. Your dupes can eat the Fried Mushrooms like this or cook them on the Gas Range and make Mushroom Wraps for another quality tier boost.
What’s so great about it?
- Spoil Time of 4 Cycles
- 2800 kcal
- Food Quality Poor [+1]
- Use for Mushroom Wrap
Get it:
- Harvest Mushroom from Dusk Cap in Swamp Biome
- Fry Mushroom at Electric Grill
5. Mushroom
The Mushroom not only provides a fair amount of food, but it’s also useful for managing slime in the early game. Harvest mushrooms from Dusk Caps and eat ‘em raw. With a food quality of Terrible [0], they will offer a decent morale boost until you can fry them up.
What’s so great about it?
- Grow Time of 7.5 Cycles
- Spoil Time of 4 Cycles
- 2400 kcal
- Food Quality Terrible [0]
- Use for Fried Mushroom
Get it:
- Harvest from Dusk Cap in Swamp Biome
4. Gristle Berry
Grill up some Bristle Berries for a quick and easy morale boost. Like most other recipes, Gristle Berries gain 400 kcal, and a food quality tier (from Terrible to Poor) in the cooking process and are made at the Electric Grill.
What’s so great about it?
- Spoil Time of 4 Cycles
- 2000 kcal
- Food Quality Poor [+1]
- Use for Stuffed Berry
Get it:
- Harvest Bristle Berry from Bristle Blossom
- Cook Bristle Berry at Electric Grill
3. Bristle Berry
Harvested from the Bristle Blossom plant, the Bristle Berry can be eaten raw, made into Berry Sludge and Gristle Berry, and used in the juicer. Off the bat, the Bristle Berry has a food quality of Terrible [0], which is better than meal lice or mush bars and takes only six cycles to grow.
Sure, it requires light, but a ceiling light only uses 10W, and the returns are undoubtedly worth it.
What’s so great about it?
- Grow Time of 6 Cycles
- Spoil Time of 4 Cycles
- 1600 kcal
- Food Quality Terrible [0]
- Use for Gristle Berry, Berry Sludge, Juicer
Get it:
- Harvested from Bristle Blossom
2. Omelette
Yep, just a typical omelette. It’s made from Raw Egg at the Electric Grill. Use an Egg Cracker to bust open any extra critter eggs you have and cook up a Standard [+2] quality Omelette. It provides 2800 kcal and spoils in 2 cycles.
What’s so great about it?
- 2800 kcal
- Food Quality Standard [+2]
- Make from excess eggs
Get it:
- Critter farms or wild critters
- Cook Critter Egg at Electric Grill
1. Barbecue
Sometimes poor, helpless critters die (or are killed), but that doesn’t mean we should let those resources go to waste. Barbecue up the leftover/hunted meat at the Electric Grill for a Good [+3] quality food that offers 4000 kcal. Barbecue spoils in 2 cycles, so make sure to store it (and the other perishables) in Carbon Dioxide.
What’s so great about it?
- 4000 kcal
- Food Quality Good [+3]
- Use excess meat from Hatch farms
Get it:
- Farms or wild critters
- Cook meat at Electric Grill
