Miners Stew

Miners Stew is a Gourmet Food item that can be consumed by the player or given to NPCs for a happiness bonus. It is primarily a mining-focused buff food, making it useful before long excavation runs, cave exploration, and large-scale ore gathering.

When eaten by the player, Miners Stew grants the following effects for 16 minutes:

• +50% Mining Speed
• +1 Mining Range
• +15% Movement Speed

These bonuses make it especially effective for clearing stone, digging tunnels, and reaching ore veins more quickly. The extra mining range helps when working around walls, pits, or awkward terrain, while the movement speed increase improves travel between mine shafts and resource pockets. Because the buff lasts a relatively long time, it is practical to eat before heading underground or before starting a long building and terraforming session.

Miners Stew can also be consumed by NPCs, where it provides +35% Happiness. This makes it useful in settlement management if you want to improve villager satisfaction without relying only on other happiness sources. Since it is a food item, it also functions as part of the normal hunger and spoilage system rather than as a permanent upgrade.

A few practical notes:

• It has a spoilage time of 2 hours, so it is best stored and used relatively quickly.
• The player effects are strongest when preparing for intensive mining, especially in areas where travel time matters.
• The NPC happiness bonus gives it value even outside of combat or resource gathering, since it can support a stable settlement.

Overall, Miners Stew is a strong utility food for players who spend a lot of time mining, and it is also a convenient morale item for NPCs. Its combination of mining speed, reach, and movement speed makes it a straightforward but efficient buff for underground work.