Jerky also restores twenty sanity and only takes a single piece of meat to make all you’ll have to do is make a drying rack. If you craft bee boxes and obtain honey, you can use the honey with other fruit and meat to make honey nuggets, which restores twenty health and five sanity. Cooked blue and green mushrooms will instantly restore a good amount of sanity and can be used in a crockpot to make meatballs or ratatouille, which restore sanity by five points. Certain food items or recipes will have a greater effect and can be your only source of sanity boost if you know what you’re doing. Luckily, your food can also raise your sanity quite a bit, depending on what you’re putting in your mouth. Remember to swap these items for armour if you enter combat, such as the football helmet. If you want a better passive sanity boost, a top hat can be crafted with six spider webs and provides a 3.3 increase to sanity per minute. If you collect twelve flowers, you can craft a garland hat, which will passively bring up your sanity by 1.33 every minute. Literally, go pick some flowers up off the ground, and it will bring up your sanity. If you’re starting and need a quick and easy fix to boost your sanity, it’s as simple as picking flowers. Thankfully, it’s much easier than it looks. Since the game doesn’t teach you how to deal with this stat, you may be confused when your sanity starts to drop, and you have no idea how to raise it again. While overall health and hunger are relatively straightforward, sanity is tricky.

You’ll want to pay attention to three main statistics in Don’t Starve your health, hunger, and sanity.

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