[Dinkum]A complete guide to the 5 most powerful buff dishes that will overwhelmingly accelerate the early stages! Can be used immediately after playing & explains all methods to expand the buff frame to a maximum of 5 frames

Dinkum is a fascinating survival life simulation game set in the Australian outback. In this game, you play as a pioneer on an island, collecting resources, building a city, and unlocking various permits to enrich your life. However, the biggest barrier in the early stages is the lack of physical strength and stamina. The tasks of chopping down trees, digging mines, and defeating enemies are one after another, and you'll quickly run out of energy. The key here is buff cooking. By using buff dishes, you can increase your maximum health and maximum stamina, increase your recovery speed, and improve the efficiency of certain tasks. It is not uncommon for this to more than double the amount of work per day.

In this article, we will thoroughly explain the 5 most powerful buff dishes that can be made by collecting ingredients immediately after starting the game. We will delve into the details of each dish, from where to get the ingredients to the cooking procedure, exact buff effects, and usage scenarios. In addition, we will cover how to manage buffs, how to reset unnecessary buffs, and how to use events to expand the buff slots from the default 3 slots to a maximum of 5 slots. If you master these, the stress at the beginning will be drastically reduced and you will be able to enjoy a comfortable life on the island in no time.

Basic knowledge of Dinkum early stage buff cooking and the secret of its utilization

Understanding Dinkum's buff system is the first step to an efficient early game strategy. Buffs are temporary status enhancement effects obtained by eating food. The main types of buffs are as follows. Increases maximum physical strength, increases maximum stamina, increases physical strength recovery speed, increases stamina recovery speed, strengthens defense power, strengthens felling speed, strengthens fishing, etc. These effects are displayed as icons in the status bar at the top of the screen, and you can also check the remaining time.

In the early stages, there are only three buff slots, and you can only stack non-overlapping buffs. For example, health increasing buffs of the same type will be overwritten. The effect time varies from 5 minutes to 25 minutes depending on the dish, but the strongest ones in the early stages tend to last more than 10 minutes. The trick to making the most of buffs is to start by eating multiple buffs before starting work, and replenish them when they run out. Also, for cooking you will need a bonfire, a barbecue stove, and a cooking table. Bonfires can be crafted right from the start, and can be made with 20 stones and 50 branches. The cooktop will be unlocked after accumulating permit points and obtaining a hunting license.

Furthermore, it is important to collect materials that take advantage of the island's environment. Fruits can be collected from trees that grow around the island, meat can be dropped by defeating enemies, and crustaceans can be obtained by diving near the water. By combining these dishes, you can create the optimal buff set for each purpose, such as logging, combat, fishing, etc. In the next section, we will dig deeper into each dish one by one.

1. Fruit salad: A must for defense and logging! A cost performance champion that can be mass-produced from the second day of the early stages.

Fruit salad is a standard buff dish in the early stages of Dinkum. You can collect fruits from the first day and craft them the moment you build a cooking table. The effects are very well-balanced, as you can strengthen your defense and speed up felling at the same time, making you invincible when working as a lumberjack or fighting enemies. The specific buff effects are as follows. Effect duration: 10 minutes, physical strength recovery +3/tick, stamina recovery +3.6/sec, defense enhancement 10 minutes, felling enhancement 10 minutes. This felling buff greatly increases the swing speed of the axe, allowing you to take down a single tree in half the time.

We will explain in detail how to obtain the materials. 2 Apples: Collect apples by hitting them with an ax from apple trees that are found in the northern hilly area of ​​the island. 2 Bananas: Aim for ripe yellow fruit in the southern jungle area. 2 Quandong: Target the northeast wasteland from the shrubs that grow in the dry sand. 2 Cactus Figs (or Prickly Pear): Harvest by hand in the western part of the cactus zone, being careful of the thorns. You can collect 20 or more in one search, so sell the rest to earn Dink. The selling price is several hundred dink per piece.

The cooking procedure is simple. First, craft a cooking table (10 pieces of wood, 5 pieces of fiber rope). Put the ingredients in your inventory, access the cooking table and select Fruit Salad. The time required is about 30 seconds in real time. The selling price of the finished product is as high as 1,110 dinks, making it an excellent financial aid. The usage scene is when expanding the house at the beginning. If you buff and cut down a large amount of wood, you can collect 500 trees in one day. Please note that fruits change seasonally, so concentrate on harvesting in spring and summer.

This one dish will solidify the foundation in the early stages, so be sure to have at least 10 in stock. If you eat fruit salad and combine it with other meat buffs, you can safely fight while cutting down trees.

2. Glove Stick: Hidden MVP of all-purpose long-term buff! Available immediately in the dark brown area

Grove Stick (a dish using Mangrove Stick) is a versatile buff dish that lasts the longest in the early stages. Cut the material in the dark brown area on the map, that is, the mangrove forest, and create it on the cooking table. The effect is a triple buff that recovers physical strength, recovers stamina, and increases defense power, and lasts approximately 15 minutes. As a specific example, the meat skewer recipe (2 pieces of raw meat + 1 mangrove stick) gives you 15 minutes of fullness, 3 health recovery, 3 seconds of stamina, and 15 minutes of defense. With this long-lasting effect, one meal can cover half a day's work.

The tips for obtaining materials are as follows. Mangrove trees are concentrated along rivers and in dark brown zones of wetlands. When cut down with an ax, each tree will drop 5 to 10 sticks. For raw meat, small animals such as scrub turkeys are hunted with clubs. The safest area is south of the river in the center of the island. It is possible to get more than 50 sticks in one hour of exploration. Cooking instructions select meat skewers or similar on the countertop. It's easy and you can't go wrong.

As a usage, it is ideal for general exploration. Eat it before entering the mine to maintain stamina and provide a defensive buff in enemy-crowded areas. This is essential for earning permission points in the early stages. Alternatively, crocodile skewers (crocodile meat + onion + stick) have the same effect, so upgrade them as you get more meat. Always carry 5 in your inventory. Thanks to this dish, the fatigue of traveling in the early stages is dramatically reduced.

3. Cooked giant bone meat: The most durable food in the early stages that greatly increases physical strength and stamina.

Cooked Giant Bone Meat is a divine dish that increases maximum stamina and recovery speed. All you have to do is roast the huge bone-in raw meat you get by defeating Moon enemies on a bonfire. Effect duration: 12 minutes, health recovery +5/tick, maximum stamina +10, stamina recovery +3/sec. This will extend your stamina bar by 30%, allowing you to work for longer periods of time. The selling price is 1,500 Dink and the money plan is also excellent.

The acquisition strategy is as follows. The Moon is nocturnal and appears on the plains of the island. It is slow and attacks from behind with a club. If you defeat one, the raw meat drop rate is 100%. As a safety measure, set up multiple bonfires and guide them to burn them. You can get 3-5 pieces per night. Cooking is best done on a barbecue colo (after permission) and takes 1 minute.

Utilization is ideal for deep mines and large-scale logging. Combined with fruit salad, it becomes the perfect set for felling and durability. It can also be used for Franklin migration conditions. Requires stock and eliminates bottlenecks in the early stages.

4. Cooked crocodile meat: A unique premium buff that increases maximum health

Cooked Crocodile Meat is the only early game food that gives you +10 to your maximum health. Effect: 12 minutes, maximum health +10, health recovery +3/tick, maximum stamina +5, stamina recovery +1/sec. By raising the HP, the risk of instant death becomes zero.

To obtain it, hunt crocodiles in the shallows of rivers. You can use the two-step difference to safely defeat it with a club attack from above. The drop rate is high, and you can get 2 pieces of meat from one body. Cooking can be completed instantly over a bonfire, and the selling price is 1,750 dinks.

Utilization is the base buff for all tasks. Alternate with giant bone meat for infinite durability. Essential for early boss fights and exploration.

5. Cooked shrimp/crayfish: Special buff that dramatically increases fishing efficiency.

Cooked shrimp and crayfish are specialized for fishing. Effect: 8 minutes, physical strength +1/t, stamina +3/s, fishing enhancement 8 minutes. By increasing the reel speed, you will catch high quality fish one after another.

To obtain it, dive into the bubbling body of water. It is possible from the first day, and 10 or more per dive. Cooking is completed over a bonfire.

Use to earn a lot of dinks by fishing. It is possible to make tens of thousands of dinks in one day.

Complete guide to professional buff management skills and limit expansion: Toilet usage and island anniversary events

The basics of buff management is that you can reset all buffs by sitting on the outdoor toilet (crafted with 10 pieces of wood). Required for correcting mistakes.

The default 3 frames can be expanded to 5 frames. Obtain sausages from Fletch during the Island Day event on the 28th of Spring every year, and eat them to get +1 slot (up to 5 slots). You can also enjoy fireworks after 8pm.

This will allow you to activate 5 buffs at the same time. Completely invincible with fruit salad + giant bone meat + crocodile meat + shrimp/crayfish + glove stick.

Early stage strategy summary: This will drastically change Dinkum's life

If you use the above 5 choices and management techniques, the early stages will become dramatically easier. If you prepare a buff set every day and wait for the anniversary, it will be perfect. Please enjoy a comfortable island life.