Undead Cuisine in Dragonwilds: One Dish Heals 180, Another Heals 2
Fellhollow's undead ingredients cook into four dishes, and the gap between the best and worst of them is the widest in the game. Undead Delight restores 180 health. Cauterised Undead Steak restores 2. Same shelf, same station, ninety times the difference — which makes undead cooking the clearest demonstration that in Dragonwilds the recipe matters far more than the ingredient.
The Undead Menu
| Dish | Health | Sustenance | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Undead Delight | 180 | 70 | 0.7 |
| Grilled Undead Bass | 80 | 25 | 1.0 |
| Braised Undead Eel | 60 | 25 | 1.0 |
| Cauterised Undead Steak | 2 | 25 | 1.0 |
All four have burnt versions too — Burnt Undead Bass, Burnt Undead Eel and Burnt Undead Steak appear in the burnt food list, so Fellhollow cooking is exactly as unforgiving as anywhere else.
Three of the four sit at 25 sustenance, which puts them in the same bracket as ordinary fish dishes — modest food value, healing as the point.
Undead Delight is the exception on every axis at once. More than double the healing of the next-best undead dish, nearly three times the sustenance, and the lightest of the four.
Cauterised Undead Steak Is a Warning
| Cauterised Undead Steak | |
|---|---|
| Health | 2 |
| Sustenance | 25 |
| Weight | 1.0 |
Two health is effectively nothing. It is not a small heal — it is a rounding error, and it is the lowest health figure attached to any prepared dish in the game.
Compare it to Undead Delight, made from the same ingredient family: 180 health. That is ninety times the healing for the same shelf of Fellhollow ingredients.
The name is the clue, and it is worth reading as flavour. "Cauterised" is what you do to a wound to stop it bleeding, not what you do to a steak — the dish is described as cooked to the point of sterility, and the health value reflects it.
Its 25 sustenance is ordinary, so it is not worthless as food — it simply has no combat use at all. Eat it at base if you have made one; never pack it.
And this is the general lesson about Fellhollow cooking. The undead ingredients are not inherently poor — one recipe turns them into the third-best healing food in the game. Cooking the wrong recipe wastes them entirely.
Undead Delight Is the Prize
At 180 health, Undead Delight sits third in the whole game — behind only the Swabbie Pie (220) and Stuffed Catfish (200), as our healing foods guide sets out.
And it does it at 0.7 weight. With 70 sustenance that is a ratio of 100 sustenance per unit of weight — better than every 2.0-kilo meal in the game and comfortably into the top tier.
So it is light, filling and healing at once, which is the combination almost nothing else manages. Only Stuffed Catfish beats it, and only slightly.
Which makes Fellhollow worth farming for food, not just for progression. As our Fellhollow guide covers, the region is usually approached for the Withering, Death's shop and your first mount — the ingredient supply for a top-three healing food is a fourth reason.
Stock the recipe before a boss attempt. Two Undead Delights weigh 1.4 and carry 360 health between them — which against something like Imaru's poison endurance test is worth more than the same weight in anything else except catfish.
And keep the ingredients rather than selling them. Undead meat looks like vendor fodder and cooks into one of the best items in the game.
Practical tips
- Four undead dishes, plus burnt versions of three of them.
- Undead Delight: 180 health, 70 sustenance, 0.7 weight — third-best healing in the game.
- Cauterised Undead Steak: 2 health — the lowest of any prepared dish.
- That is a ninetyfold difference from the same ingredient family.
- Three of the four sit at 25 sustenance — healing is the point.
- Undead Delight's ratio is 100 sustenance per unit of weight.
- Fellhollow is worth farming for food, not only for progression.
- Never sell undead ingredients — check the recipe first.
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Conclusion
Fellhollow's undead ingredients produce four dishes, and the range between them is the widest in Dragonwilds. Undead Delight gives 180 health, 70 sustenance at 0.7 weight — the third-highest healing in the game behind only the Swabbie Pie and Stuffed Catfish, with a ratio of 100 sustenance per unit of weight. Cauterised Undead Steak gives 2 health — the lowest figure on any prepared dish, and ninety times less than Undead Delight from the same shelf of ingredients. Grilled Undead Bass (80) and Braised Undead Eel (60) fill the middle, and all three of them sit at the standard 25 sustenance. The lesson generalises well beyond Fellhollow: the recipe decides the value, not the ingredient — so check what a fish or a cut of meat can become before you cook the obvious thing, and never sell undead ingredients that turn into a top-three healing food.
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