Enshrouded: How to Cook Food Over a Fire (Making A Home Quest)

Making A Home starts right after the Flame Altar And Base Improvements quest, once you strengthen the Flame to Level 2. It has two objectives. First comes “Cook Something Over A Fire”, then “Eat The Processed Food”.

Quick answer: Put raw meat on your action bar, press E Cook at a lit Fireplace, select the meat, hold the left mouse button until “Release to finish” shows, let go, then left-click the grilled meat to eat it.

Raw meat for Making A Home

Our raw meat came from a wolf. We killed one in a small cave just south of our first base, and its loot window held Bones and Raw Wolf Meat; F Take All picked up both. Not every wolf gave us meat: one we killed earlier near the base dropped only Bones.

Raw meat needs cooking before it can be eaten. The description for Raw Lean Meat, another raw meat, says “Inedible, raw meat. Must be cooked over a campfire.” Raw Wolf Meat is the meat we cooked in the steps below.

Loot window from a wolf in a cave showing Bones and Raw Wolf Meat with the F Take All prompt — Our wolf in the cave south of the base dropped Bones and Raw Wolf Meat.

How to cook Raw Wolf Meat at the Fireplace

Cook at the stone Fireplace you built during the Building Shelter quest. A campfire shows the same E Cook prompt; we used one earlier at the Longkeep camp, as covered in our guide to fixing low health with food and cooking. Make sure the raw meat sits on an action bar before you start.

Approach the lit Fireplace. You’ll see the prompt “E Cook”; in the upper-right corner, the quest tracker displays MAKING A HOME / Cook Something Over A Fire.

Character next to a stone fire with the E Cook prompt and the Cook Something Over A Fire objective tracked — The E Cook prompt at the fire, with Making A Home tracking Cook Something Over A Fire.

Press E to sit down by the fire. The Rested list in the top left ticks Sitting, Warmth and Comfort (Level 1). The same seat is how you get the Rested buff at a campfire.

Character seated at the lit stone Fireplace with Sitting, Warmth and Comfort ticked in the Rested list — E Cook sits you down at the Fireplace; Sitting, Warmth and Comfort (Level 1) tick in the Rested list.

Press ALT+F1 if you want to see the tutorial card. It reads “Place food in your action bar, select it, and press [LMB] to cook.” If your meat is on the ALT action bar, press ALT to switch to it.

Cooking tutorial card telling the player to put food in the action bar, select it and press LMB — The cooking tutorial explains how to cook food from the action bar while seated at the fire.

Choose the slot containing the meat. Above the bar, a mouse icon appears alongside “Raw Wolf Meat” and the prompt “Hold to cook”.

Raw Wolf Meat selected on the action bar at the fire with the Hold to cook prompt above it — Raw Wolf Meat selected and ready to cook over the fire.

Hold the left mouse button and keep holding. When the prompt changes to “Release to finish”, let go.

Raw Wolf Meat cooking at the fire with the Release to finish prompt on screen — The prompt switches to Release to finish once the meat is ready.

Don’t let go early. On our first try we released before “Release to finish” showed, and the meat simply went back onto the action bar, still raw. A second, longer hold reached “Release to finish” and cooked it.

Once the cooking succeeds, a pickup line for “Grilled Wolf Meat” appears on the left, followed by “QUEST UPDATED – Making A Home”. The tracker changes to “Eat The Processed Food”, and Grilled Wolf Meat replaces the raw meat on the action bar.

Grilled Wolf Meat pickup line and QUEST UPDATED Making A Home banner with the tracker on Eat The Processed Food — Grilled Wolf Meat appears with QUEST UPDATED, and the tracker moves to Eat The Processed Food.

Eat The Processed Food to complete Making A Home

You don’t have to stay seated for this part. Stand up and walk away if you like, then select the Grilled Wolf Meat’s slot on the action bar.

Character standing at camp with the Eat The Processed Food objective active and grilled meat selected — Eat The Processed Food is now the active Making A Home objective.

Press the left mouse button to eat it. The banner “QUEST COMPLETED! Making A Home” appears with “Quest reward XP +150,” and “Maximum health increased.” shows in the middle of the screen. Your tracker then moves to A Story of Fire with the objective “Discover The Flame Obelisk”, and a new marker appears on the compass.

QUEST COMPLETED Making A Home banner with Quest reward XP +150 and the Maximum health increased message — Eating the Grilled Wolf Meat completed Making A Home: XP +150 and Maximum health increased.

Grilled Wolf Meat is one of many cooked foods. Once you have better cooking stations, see every Cooking Station recipe and food buff.

Raw meat for Making A Home

How to cook Raw Wolf Meat at the Fireplace

Eat The Processed Food to complete Making A Home

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