Le Wasteland Gastronomique (AKA The Fallout76 Foodie Bible Vol I—Intro and Buff/Mutation Table)

Volume I – Introduction. – FoodDrink Primary BuffMutation Table.

Volume II – All Drinks Buffs modified by MutationMagazinesStrange In Numbers

Volume III – All Foods A-I modified by MutationMagazinesStrange In Numbers.

Volume VI – All Foods M-Z modified by MutationMagazinesStrange In Numbers.

Volume V – Hard to find Ingredient list. – Things Bethesda Needs to Fix.

“You’ll never be OP eating Dogfood.” — anonymous

Le Wasteland Gastronomique (Vols I-V) is a compendium for maximizing your FO76 character’s build with the addition of food and drink buffs. The benefits of fooddrinks—anything that can be crafted at the various Cooking Stations—are increased by having the HerbivoreCarnivore mutation and increased with the use of Backwoodsmen Issue 6, Live and Love Issue 3 and the Strange In Numbers perk. (You can’t have both mutations at once though it is possible to suppress whichever mutation you choose with a serum in order to gain the base benefits of that mutation’s opposite, which can then be further augmented with magazines.)

Although, in my testing, I did not put special effort into seeing what the maximum number of possible buffs were, there were several occasions when I had more than twelve buffs active simultaneously. I estimate that it is possible to have 27 separate buffs active at the same time though I have not personally confirmed this.

It would appear that, of the Primary buffs, only Melee DMG stacks within its own category so one “Max AP” buff will replace another “Max AP” buff, etc. S.P.E.C.I.A.L. buffs stack so long as you only have one buff per each of the seven S.P.E.C.I.A.L. categories…one Str buff…one Chr buff…and so on….

In some cases when I ate the food to verify the buff duration, some buffs appeared slightly different when viewing the item as opposed to the actual buff that appeared in my “STAT—EFFECTS” section of my Pip-Boy, what would appear as, say, a +2 Perception when viewing the food item would actually appear in my effects as +1.5, I did my best to catch these differences when recording the data but I’m bound to have missed a few things, furthermore, as a flawed human being, it’s impossible that I didn’t make a mistake or two at some point…any corrections provided by my fellow players are welcome though please do take the steps to verify them before bringing them to my attention.

The tables below show all craftable food and drink items arranged by their primary buff; the reference of “H”, “N” and “C” show which mutation positively affects each item so: H = Herbivore, N = Neutral (not affected by mutations) and C = Carnivore.

Of all the primary buffs only the Melee DMG buffs stack (and EVERY Melee DMG buff food can be stacked for a total of +7 different increases in Melee DMG). A few other exceptions to the “Primary FoodDrink Buffs Don’t Stack” rule are from foods in the “Unusual Buffs” category. The DR buff from Fried Fog Crawler stacks with any one single buff from the DMG Res Table. Though it is redundant the “Breathe Underwater” buffs, from the unusual table, stack…and ALL of the unusual buffs function for both Carnivores and Herbivores.

Sunshine Oil is delineated “NC” because, though it is neutral, Herbivore negatively affects the Oil’s DR buff.

AP

AP Regen

Max AP

Bonus XP

Carry Weight

Crit DMG

Damage Res

Disease Res

Does Not Spoil

Energy Res

Health Regen

Max HP

Melee DMG

Rad Res

SPECIAL Stats

Unusual Buffs

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