5 of the strongest buff dishes that will completely change the early stages of dinkum! A complete strategy guide that can be made immediately after playing to increase efficiency and tricks to expand the buff frame to 5

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set in the Australian outback. The process of developing an island, attracting residents, and building a city while exploring various biomes is fascinating, but managing your stamina and physical strength will be the biggest challenge in the early stages. Chopping trees, hunting animals, and digging for ore will quickly deplete your stamina, often forcing you to stop working before nightfall. The key here is the buffing effect of cooking.

In this guide, we will thoroughly explain the 5 best early-game buff dishes that can be prepared with ingredients available immediately after playing. Utilizing these will increase the cutting speed. Defense power will be strengthened. Your strength and stamina will increase significantly. The pain in the beginning is dramatically reduced. In addition, we will introduce in detail management techniques to maximize the effects of buffs, how to intentionally reset buffs, and how to utilize the anniversary event that expands the buff slots from the usual 3 slots to 5 slots. All based on the latest specifications. If you follow this guide while playing, you should be able to live comfortably on the island within a week.

Dinkum's buff system basic knowledge: Complete understanding of the mechanism that holds the key to survival in the early stages

In Dinkum, physical strength (heart mark) and stamina (lightning mark) limit the player's actions. Health will be reduced by enemy attacks. If it reaches zero, you will be knocked out and have penalties such as your money being reduced by 20% and the durability of your tools being reduced. Stamina, on the other hand, is consumed by tasks such as logging, mining, and hunting. When it reaches zero, you can't move. Normal recovery speed is slow. Automatic recovery at night is not enough. The buffs you get from eating food there are important.

The main types of buffs are as follows.

• Increased amount of physical strength recovered: The amount automatically recovered every tick (approximately every 20 seconds) will be increased.
• Maximum Health Increase: The upper limit of your health bar will be expanded to improve your survival rate.
• Stamina recovery amount increased: Automatic recovery speed per second will be accelerated.
• Maximum stamina increase: The upper limit of the stamina bar is expanded, allowing you to work for longer periods of time.
• Defense power enhancement: Reduces damage received (approximately 10-20% cut at Lv1).
• Enhanced logging/mining/hunting/fishing: Increases the speed and success rate of response operations.

These buffs are activated when you eat cooked food. The effective time is about 5 to 60 minutes. However, there are two important limitations.

1. Limits on buff slots: Normally you can only have 3 slots at the same time. Old buffs will be overwritten.
2. Full state: You cannot consume additional food while buffed.

The early goal is to build the optimal buff combination that takes advantage of these limitations. To check your buffs, check the icon in the top right corner of your inventory screen. If you want to reset your buff, the outdoor toilet mentioned below is convenient. A “bonfire'' (stone x3 + eucalyptus log x2) and a “cooking table'' (wood x10 + stone x5) are required for cooking food. Both can be created instantly on your workbench. The beginning begins with a bonfire. Build your cooktop early and move on to more complex recipes.

With these basics in mind, we will introduce the top five choices below. All can be made within the 2nd or 3rd day of play. Materials can be gathered naturally on the island or by simple hunting.

1. Fruit salad: A classic all-purpose food in the early stages that simultaneously increases defense power and cutting speed.

Fruit salad is one of the easiest and most effective buff foods in the early stages of Dinkam. Since your defense power increases, you can fight safely even when attacked by enemies such as crocodiles and dogs. Enhanced logging will speed up wood collection. Collect fruits from the first day of play. If you make the cooking table on the second day, it will be completed immediately.

Materials and how to obtain them

• Bush Lime x2: Collected from green shrubs that grow all over the island. A large number of them occur near the starting point.
• Apple x2: A fruit with white leaves. There are many in the central biome.
• Banana x2: A yellow bunch-shaped fruit. Collected from trees in tropical areas.
• Quan Dong x2: Red fruit tree. Found in dry areas and around rocky areas.

Shovel the fruit into the ground and the tree will grow. It can be reharvested after a few days. The early stages will focus on collecting items. Create an orchard near your base. The growth cycle is seasonal, such as apple 12 days and banana 6 days, but it is available all year round.

Cooking procedure and effect details

Just set the ingredients on the cooking table and press the cooking button. The selling price of the finished product is high at about 1,100 dinks, making it an excellent way to make money.

• Effect time: 10 minutes
• Health recovery: +3/tick (3 times faster than normal)
• Stamina recovery: +3.6/s (more than double work efficiency)
• Felling enhancement Lv1: Ax speed increased by 20%
• Defense power enhancement Lv1: Damage reduced by 10%

Eat this during battle. Withstand enemy attacks and counterattack. Prevents stamina depletion when felling. We can cut hundreds of trees in a day.

Practical Tips

• Fruits can provide a simple buff when cooked alone on a bonfire, but the combined effect of a salad will outweigh it.
• If you don't have enough bananas, you can't substitute them, so explore the tropical areas. Please use insect repellent at night.
• Long-term stock can be preserved through jam processing (after obtaining a brewing license).

This one dish will increase your survival rate in the early stages. Make 10 pieces before moving on.

2. Glove stick (meat skewer): Stabilizes work efficiency with a versatile long-term buff that lasts 15 minutes.

Grove stick, whose official name is “meat skewer,'' is a skewered dish made with mangrove sticks. Excellent balance between defense and stamina recovery. It has a long effect time of 15 minutes, making it ideal for long work in the early stages. You can find the materials in the dark brown area (mangrove forest) on the map. No hunting license required.

Materials and how to obtain them

• Raw Meat x2: Defeat Digo and Jackaroo (dog-type enemies). It springs up endlessly in the rocky areas and nest areas of the island.
• Mangrove Stick x1: Use an ax to cut down the root trees along the river in the brown area of ​​the map. Multiple drops in one bottle.

Digo is weak. It can be easily defeated with a spear. The raw meat sells for 400 dinks, but can be cooked for 800 dinks. It also serves as a financial aid. You can easily find mangroves by looking for them in wetlands near jungles.

Cooking procedure and effect details

A cooking table is required. It's an image of grilling it on a skewer.

• Effect time: 15 minutes
• Health recovery: +3/tick
• Stamina recovery: +3/s
• Defense power enhancement: Lasts for 15 minutes

Stamina never runs out due to continuous work of logging and mining. Daily production will be doubled.

Practical Tips

• Meat can be obtained without taking any damage by waiting for a fight between animals and picking it up.
• The alpha enemy (red eyes) will give you the best meat, but normal meat is enough in the early stages.
• When it rains, natural recovery is faster, so use it together.

This will stabilize the basic work. Next, we will move on to high-power buffs.

3. Cooked Giant Bone Meat: A powerful recovery food that greatly increases your physical strength and stamina.

Cooked Giant Bone Meat increases your maximum health and stamina. This is a dish that is strong against sustained competition. Obtained by defeating Moon Roach. Recommended target after obtaining hunting license Lv1. Effect lasts for 12 minutes and gives durability equivalent to early boss battles.

Materials and how to obtain them

• Huge Bone Raw Meat x1: Hunt moon roaches (pale giant insects) in caves and night fields. Attack with a spear or bow.

Moon consumes a lot of stamina. However, if you strengthen your defense with fruit salad, you can avoid any damage. It has a high drop rate and a selling price of 1,500 Dink.

Cooking procedure and effect details

Just grill it over an open fire or barbecue.

• Effect time: 12 minutes
• Health recovery: +5/tick (highest class)
• Max stamina: +10
• Stamina recovery: +3/s

Ideal for long hours of mine exploration.

Practical Tips

• The moon tends to appear at night. Bring your lighting tools.
• Continuous buffing is possible with multiple stocks.

4. Cooked Crocodile Meat: Boosts maximum health and dramatically improves survival rate

Cooked Crocodile Meat is a specialized type that increases your maximum health by 20. Crocodile hunting is a wall in the early stages, but you can defeat it without any damage by using the steps. It also comes with a bonus that enhances hunting.

Materials and how to obtain them

• Crocodile Meat x1: Hunt crocodiles in rivers and wetlands. Climb up two or more steps and use a spear attack from below to ensure safety.

The step gimmick is the key. Alpha Wani also serves the best meat.

Cooking procedure and effect details

Cook over a bonfire.

• Effect time: 15 minutes
• Max health: +20
• Stamina recovery: +2/s
• Max stamina: +10
• Hunting Enhancement Lv1

It can be further enhanced with crocodile skewers (add onions).

Practical Tips

• Use earth blocks to build steps.
• Meat can be sold for a high price.

5. Cooked shrimp and crayfish: Increase fishing efficiency and accelerate money and permit points

Cooked Shrimp/Crawfish will enhance your fishing speed and reel reel. Indispensable for fishing for money in the early stages. Obtained from bubbles underwater.

Materials and how to obtain them

• Shrimp/Crayfish: Diving into foam points in the sea or river. Pay attention to your breathing duration.

Cooking procedure and effect details

Cook over a bonfire.

• Increase fishing speed
• Reel speed up

You can repeatedly catch high-value fish in fishing tournaments.

Buff management technique: Activate 5 frames simultaneously with reset and frame expansion

Buff reset: Install an outdoor toilet (wood x5 + stone x3). When used, all buffs will be cleared. You can delete unnecessary buffs and create the optimal combination.

Expanded slot: Obtain sausages from Fletch at the Island Anniversary event on Spring 28th. If you eat it, you get +2 slots, up to 5 slots. Please take advantage of it every year.

Optimal combination example: Fruit salad + meat skewer + giant bone meat + crocodile meat + shrimp (5 slots)

Early stage strategy summary: Now you can start your dinkum life comfortably

Make use of the 5 options above. If you manage your buffs thoroughly, the stress of the early stages will disappear. Day 1: Gathering fruits, Day 2: Creating a cooking table and skewering meat, Day 3: Crocodile/Moon hunting, Spring 28th: ​​Expanding the frame. Earn permission points. Accelerate your license acquisition process. With this guide, your dinkum will undergo a drastic change. Please practice and aim to become the king of the island.