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Monsters, darkness, evil magic and the weather—but the biggest threat in Don’t Starve is your own stomach. Satiate your needs with this riff on a Bloody Mary.

You’ll need

1 oz (30ml) bacon washed bourbon

2 oz (60ml) V8

.75 oz (20ml) lime juice

.25 oz (10ml) red wine reduction

2 dash Worcester sauce

Black pepper

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir swiftly to chill. Strain into a tall glass. Garnish with all kinds of nonsense. Serve!

Balls of meat make me strong! – Wolfgang

Don’t Starve: a game that has the main objective right there in the title. Get teleported somewhere weird, try to survive as long as you can, build a base and fight monsters, but most of all, don’t run out of grub.

Food, then, is a pretty important part of the game, and players have a whole cornucopia of vittles to choose from, though many of them aren’t easy to get a hold of until later in the game. Most new playthroughs will start with berry-foraging and the like, hoping to avoid running into anything that could make a meal of the player in turn.

There is, however, one particular recipe that lends itself to the early game: the Meatball. It’s easy to make, you can even use the otherwise-poisonous monster meat, and it satiates you pretty well for the resource cost.

Nearly every player, at some point in their game, will have made a Meatball or 12. So, when deciding on an item to get inspired by from Don’t Starve, it was clear to me what to recreate.

Are you a weirdo that actually likes Bloody Marys? Check out the Swallow potion recipe from The Witcher.

Just like in the game, the real life cocktail recipe features a meat ingredient (the bacon-washed bourbon) and 3 non-meat ingredients (tomatoes, celery and carrot in the V8).

Throw in some red wine reduction and some lime juice, and you turn an otherwise bland Bloody Mary riff into something a little more interesting.

Overall, it’s still a Bloody Mary at its heart, but backed with a little more oomph than it’s vodka-infused cousin. And, yes, before you ask, it is still definitely a potent hangover cure too—for when you spend a little too much time out in the dark without a torch.

I don’t like Bloody Marys, but I’m pretty fond of this. I hope you are too.

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