Red Cap

Don't Starve

DST

“It smells funny.”

–Wilson

“I like the color.”

–Willow

“Oh! Is pretty and shiny!”

–Wolfgang

“A mushroom after my own heart.”

–Wendy

“POISONOUS FUNGUS”

–WX-78

“Red usually indicates poison.”

–Wickerbottom

“I don't know...”

–Woodie

“I forget what this one does.”

–Maxwell

“Liable to cause me intestinal distress in its current form.”

–Wagstaff

“Umami ör nöt, I dön't want it.”

–Wigfrid

“It smells funny.”

–Webber

“It might be a bad idea to just eat stuff I find on the ground.”

–Walani

“Perhaps I could make a good soup.”

–Warly

“Hope th' color ain't a warnin'...”

–Woodlegs

“WILBA EAT-ETH!”

–Wilba

“Yummy friend hat”

–Wormwood

“Nothing safer than eating a strange mushroom off the ground.”

–Wheeler

“Let Max try it first.”

–Winona

“Oh, no thank you.”

–Wortox

“These ones bad for you, florp.”

–Wurt

“That definitely looks poisonous.”

–Walter

“I'm pretty sure red is the bad color.”

–Wanda

The Red Cap is a Vegetable food item that can be harvested from Red Mushrooms or Red Mushtrees. Eating it raw will restore 12.5 at the cost of 20 , making it unviable as a major food source for every character except for Wormwood, whose Health is unaffected by food. Still, Red Caps are a viable last resort against starvation since 12.5 will delay starvation by long enough to make up for the 20 penalty. Red Caps can be used as a Crock Pot filler without any health penalty. Red Caps can be dropped on the ground to indirectly damage Mobs if they eat it.

Cooked Red Cap

“It's different now...”

–Wilson

“I changed it with fire!”

–Willow

“Is not same.”

–Wolfgang

“All is malleable.”

–Wendy

“MODIFIED FUNGUS”

–WX-78

“Chemistry has happened.”

–Wickerbottom

“Only if I get really hungry.”

–Woodie

“Kind of bitter.”

–Maxwell

“I can reasonably deduce this will cause me psychic harm.”

–Wagstaff

“I wön't eat it, but it was fun tö put in the fire.”

–Wigfrid

“It smells better now.”

–Webber

“I'm not THAT hungry.”

–Walani

“Could use cream and salt...”

–Warly

“Me favorite color o' 'shroom.”

–Woodlegs

“WILBA EAT-ETH!!”

–Wilba

“Hurts head”

–Wormwood

“Cooking toxic mushrooms make them...safer?”

–Wheeler

“Not too interested in trying that.”

–Winona

“My head aches just looking at it!”

–Wortox

“Bit better...”

–Wurt

“Did cooking it make it less poisonous?”

–Walter

“This seems like a bad idea.”

–Wanda

Cooked Red Cap is a Vegetable Food item made by Cooking a Red Cap on a fire (Campfire, Fire Pit, or a Dwarf Star). Unlike its raw counterpart, the Cooked Red Cap will not deduct any health points, instead restoring 1 . However, it will now take away 10 instead, while restoring no hunger. The Cooked Red Cap can also be used as fuel.

Downloadable Content

In the Shipwrecked DLC, Red Caps can be obtained by using the Slot Machine.

Usage

Tips

• Red Caps damaging Mobs that eat it is especially useful when dealing with Gobblers as 3 Red Caps in a stack can kill one Gobbler, providing Drumsticks. 13 Red Caps fed to Beefalo in a row will kill it without attracting attention of the herd.
• Wormwood can eat Red Caps to gain easy Hunger, as he doesn't lose Health when eating them.

Trivia

• The Red Cap's appearance and toxicity is likely based on the Amanita muscaria which contain a toxin that causes hallucinations and intoxication.

Gallery

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  Wilson in a poster announcing the release of Don't Starve: Giant Edition on the Wii U.

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