How to get Cooked Rice in Enshrouded

Enshrouded’s latest aptly named update, Wake of the Water, introduced an entirely new mechanic: water. There are tons of new areas to explore and treasures to find all underwater, but before you can go about diving great depths, you first need Rice. Why? Well… it’s a long story.

Rice is one of the newest crafting ingredients in Enshrouded, right up there with Shiitake Mushrooms and Paper Reeds. Unlike the latter, though, you can only find Raw Rice in the Veilwater Basin, Enshrouded’s newest biome. It took me quite a while to find this pesky grain, but the location where I first discovered it has quite a bit for you to harvest.

Rice location in Enshrouded

As of writing, there’s only one place I know where rice spawns in Enshrouded: a small farming village to the east of Lake Heartblood called Orville. If you travel to Orville, you’ll find a ton of various crops on the west side of village at the location marked on the map below. The lower farming beds house Raw Rice and Rice Seedlings, which you can then take back to your own base and grow on your own.

How to get Cooked Rice in Enshrouded

If you’re like me, you probably browsed through all of the new recipes available at each of the townspeople’s workshops after the Wake of the Water update hit live servers. One of the most enticing of these new recipes is Sushi—and no, I’m not just jumping on the bandwagon. It’s one of the only few recipes in the game that allow you to lengthen the amount of time you can spend underwater, and it requires Cooked Rice.

When you pick up Rice for the first time, you’ll automatically unlock the Cooked Rice recipe at a Cooking Station. This recipe takes five minutes to complete and requires the following ingredients:

Consuming Cooked Rice on its own grants you a 21-percent increase to your melee damage for 50 minutes. But of course, just like in real life, it’s always better to combine your ingredients instead of eating them individually. If you take your Cooked Rice to the farmer, Emily Fray, you’ll find a handful of recipes that offer much better effects than just eating the ingredient by itself.

Cooked Rice recipes in Enshrouded

There are a handful of recipes worth cooking using Cooked Rice, all of which can be done with the help of the farmer. Refer to the table below for each of the recipes and their effects:

Recipe	Required Ingredients	Effect
Plantain Curry	5 Cooked Rice 5 Plantain 5 Coconut Milk 2 Spice	+21 Health Regeneration +9 Stamina Regeneration (55 minutes)
Fried Rice	5 Cooked Rice 5 Eggs 3 Bell Pepper 3 Corncob 2 Raw Taro	+10 Stamina +21% melee damage (55 minutes)
Taro Root Curry	5 Raw Taro 5 Cooked Rice 3 Bell Pepper 2 Coconut Milk 2 Spice	+60 Mana +21% Ranged Damage +21% Dagger Damage
Sushi	5 Algae 5 Cooked Rice 5 Silverback	+30 Health +40 Maximum Oxygen

How to grow rice in Enshrouded

Okay, so clearly you’re going to need a lot of rice if you want to become Embervale’s next big sushi chef. The best way to get as much rice as humanly possible is to grow your own. That way, you won’t have to keep running back to Orville anytime you run out.

Rice isn’t like other crops, though; you can’t just stick it in the ground and call it a day like with tomato plants or strawberry seeds. Rice Seedlings need covered ground—ground that’s topped off with a nice layer of water—to grow.

The simplest way to do this is to carve out a flat trough in the ground using the “Remove” option of the terrain tool in the Construction Hammer. Then lay down your soil. Use a Water Dispenser, which can be crafted at a Workbench, to then fill the cut-out section of earth with water. This will create a mini-pond-like effect, keeping your crops covered with water. Then plant the Rice Seedlings into the ground.

If you did it correctly and your Rice Seedlings are happy, they’ll turn from brown to green within a couple of seconds after being planted. Give them some time and when you come back, you’ll be able to harvest Raw Rice from your very own rice farm. If you want to speed up the process, be sure to use Fertile Veilwater Basin Dirt instead of any other type of soil.