Build, Prototype, Survive
Crafting
Don't Starve Together's crafting menu is a clean system of searchable filters. Most recipes you prototype at the right station — but some can never be prototyped at all. Use the tabs below to browse each set.
The Crafting Menu
Overview
Don't Starve Together's crafting menu was rebuilt into a clean system of searchable filters. Most recipes you can learn at the right station — but some can never be prototyped at all.
Two kinds of recipe
Recipes are grouped into filters so you can find what you need fast. Those filters fall into two camps: the everyday Regular recipes you prototype at a science or magic station, and the Prototyping Impossible recipes locked behind events, ruins and special conditions.
Using this page
Switch between the tabs above to browse each set — the everyday Regular filters, and the locked Prototyping-Impossible recipes that no science machine can teach.
The Everyday Kit
Regular Filters
Regular filters cover the bread-and-butter of survival: the recipes you unlock by prototyping at the appropriate station, then keep forever.
Survival & tools
Survivor Items, Tools, Light Sources and Prototypers & Stations — the very first things you build to make it through night one.
Materials & building
Refined Materials, Structures, Storage Solutions and Decorations — everything that turns a campfire into a base.
Combat
Weapons, Armour and Healing — the kit you bring to a fight and the bandages you bring home.
Clothing & seasons
Clothing plus Winter Items, Summer Items and Rain Gear — dressing for a world that swings from freezing to blistering.
Food & the sea
Cooking, Food & Gardening, Fishing, Seafaring and Beefalo Riding — feeding yourself and getting around.
How prototyping works
To learn a regular recipe you stand near the right station — a Science Machine, Alchemy Engine, magic station and so on — and prototype it once. After that it's permanently in your crafting menu, buildable anywhere you have the ingredients.
Filter, don't scroll: the redesigned menu lets you search and filter recipes by category, so finding the exact item you need is far faster than the old tab-by-tab hunt.
Recipes You Can't Teach Yourself
Prototyping Impossible
Some recipes carry the label 'prototyping impossible' — no science machine will ever teach them. Instead they unlock through events, rare stations, or specific conditions.
Event recipes
Special Event, Cawnival Creation and Winter's Feast Cooking filters only appear while their seasonal event is running — craft them now or wait a year.
Ancient & ruins
Ancient Pseudoscience recipes are unlocked deep in the ruins at the Ancient Pseudoscience Station, gating the most powerful Thulecite gear behind exploration.
Celestial & lunar
The Celestial and Brightsmithy filters come from the moon and the Lunar Island — late-game tech tied to the Return of Them story.
Specialist crafts
Cartography, Critters, Mad Science, Offerings, Sculptures, Seasonings and Trinket Trove cover companions, decoration, cooking flavour and the oddities that don't fit anywhere else.
Why some recipes are locked
These restrictions exist to make discovery meaningful. You can't shortcut your way to ruins gear or moon tech from a starting base — you have to go find the station, survive the event, or earn the condition first.
Plan ahead: if you want event cosmetics or recipes, catch the event while it's live. Many of these filters simply vanish from the menu when their season ends.
Now you know what to build
Crafting keeps you alive — but the bosses decide how far you get.
Face the mobs