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Ghost of Yotei
How to Get Food and List of All Food Buffs
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Food is an Common Resource found in Ghost of Yotei. Learn more about how to use Food, where to get it, and see a list of all food perks in the game!
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How to Get Food
Forage Mushrooms in the Forest
Mushrooms can be found in barks or damp areas like forests and mountains. For an example, the forest south of Lake Shikotsu in Yotei Grasslands is abundant of mushrooms.
Use Yari To Fish
Apart from picking up fishes from fish traps along the river. You will be taught to use your Yari (Spear) to catch fish in ponds and rivers. This will be part of your training in Sensei Takahashi of Ishikari Plain. Rivers such as Niikappu River in Tokachi Range is abundant with fishes.
Trade With Merchants
You can buy and sell fish and food resources with the merchants. A fish can be bought for 15 common metals, while it can be sold for 5 young bamboos. Meanwhile, mushrooms can be sold for a single common metal each.
This can help you manage your resources and enables you to have food without the need of hunting and gathering.
How to Use Food
Cook In a Campfire
Even though it is shown as a single resource, food has different types and are used to be cooked in a campfire and provides specific buffs for a day including a temporary spirit orb.
List of Food Buffs
Minor and Major Perks from Eating
| Type | Major (Fish) | Minor (Mushroom) |
|---|---|---|
| Utility | Increase in Oni Flame Damage Increase in Minerals and Plants collected |
Increase in Wood, Flowers, and other plants collected |
| Defense | Increase in Healing potency, Spirit, and Defense against all damage | Increase Heal Technique Potency |
| Melee | Increase in All Melee Damage | Increase in Yari damage Increase in Stagger damage Increase in Kusarigama Damage Increase in Odachi Damage |
| Stealth | Reduced Detection Speed and Detection Distance | Reduced Detection Speed |
| Range | Increase in Ranged Weapon Damage and Concentration Time Duration | Increase in Ammo Collected |
Cooking a meal will increase your Spirit and grant you a temporary bonus perk. Only one food-based perk can be active at a time.
After eating, you must wait approximately 24 minutes in real-time before you are able to cook again. This cooldown is not affected by in-game actions like sleeping. The perk you receive is determined randomly and cannot be changed by reloading a save.
Ghost of Yotei Related Guides
Currency Resources
 Coin |
 Flowers |
 Sake |
Common Resources
 Food |
 Plants |
 Textile |
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 Young Bamboo |
 Metal |
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Uncommon Resources
 Oni Raider Mask Pieces |
 Shinobi Steel |
 Gun Parts |
 Black Powder |
Rare Resources
 Precious Woods |
 Precious Metals |
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