Core Keeper has a ton of gear that gives you increased status effects to your character. There are permanent status effect boosts and temporary ones. The Food Items in the game can be cooked well with different ingredients and give you temporary overpowered buffs that will help in any boss fight, or even exploring!
This guide will show you all the overpowered food items in Core Keeper!
Overpowered Food Items: Core Keeper
The Food Items that are going to be cooked are planned for late game. The main ingredient that you will need for all the cooked foods will be the Mold Shark item.

You can find this item in the Mold Dungeon biome. This biome can be found around the green wilderness biome. Where Azeos the Sky Titan is located.
The item is not hard to get, you just need to fish a ton of these items to get well prepared.
Mold Shark & Bomb Pepper (Moldy Pepper Wrap)
Combining these two items will grant you the Moldy Pepper Wrap.
This food is overpowered due to the high melee damage that it gives. 38.6% melee damage for 7 minutes and 30 seconds is super high.

A great food item that will give you extra melee damage, and you will also get +15% damage against bosses for 1 minute and 18 seconds.
You can also get a rare version of this food by having the Expert Gardener skill 5/5. With this skill you will be able to obtain Golden Bomb Pepper. Combining a Mold Shark and a Golden Bomb Pepper will give you a Rare Moldy Pepper Wrap.
This food will grant you the following damage bonuses:
- +3.8% Melee Attack Speed for 1 Minute and 18 Seconds
- +48.2% Melee Damage for 7 Minutes and 30 Seconds
- +15% Damage against Bosses
The rare version will boost the melee damage that you do.

Mold Shark & Puffungi (Moldy Mold Cheese)
Combining these two ingredients will grant you the Moldy Mold Cheese. This food item will grant you the following stats:
- +32 Food
- +8% Reduced Damage Taken from Bosses for 7 Minutes and 30 Seconds
- +5.5 Health Every second for 26 seconds
- +38.6% Melee Damage for 7 Minutes and 30 Seconds
- +15% Damage against bosses for 1 minute and 18 seconds
This food item is an alternative if you don’t have the previous one. You get great damage buffs and you also can deal extra damage to bosses.

You can use the Golden Puffungi if you have the Expert Gardener skill 5/5. Combining this Golden version of the food and the Mold Shark will grant you the Rare Moldy Mold Cheese. This is also another rare version of the food that will give even more effects.

Epic Variants
You can normally make rare food items by having golden variants of the foods required. You can also make epic variants of the foods by having the Master Chef skill 5/5.
This skill will give you a 25% chance for rare quality foods to turn into epic quality foods and give you even better status effects.
The foods need to be made the same way in the cooking station, you just need to hope to get a better version.



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