Deep Dish Dungeon Guide: Find Your Next Route

Start with food, then follow your next obstacle

Start by cooking food, filling your stomach and reaching the main hub camp; then choose the guide for the tool, material or puzzle blocking your route. If you already have the Tomato Gem, follow the deeper sewer walkthrough toward the Guarana Gem.

Keep camp at the center of your plans. Exploration supplies ingredients and crafting materials, while meals and tools help you tackle previously blocked areas. Return with a purpose: prepare for the barrier you found, refresh your food and leave space for the next useful discovery.

Get through the entrance and establish camp

Cook an apple and a mushroom at the starting campfire. Prepare these opening foods before attempting the door that requires a full stomach.
Fill your stomach with the cooked food and a drink from the fountain. Drinking fills the remaining stomach slot in the opening route, letting you proceed through the full-stomach door.
Open the next locked door with its key. This leads to the large room with a campfire, sleeping bag and chest, giving you a place to organize your next expedition.
Set the sleeping bag as your spawn point. Use it to make the camp your return point after death, and plan your next trip around the supplies you can prepare there.

Choose the route for your next progression item

Retrieve the Hammer at the end of the rusty-pipe climb past the early sewer water wheel. It breaks rusty gates; watch the opening sewer exploration if you need to see the pipe route.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Collect the Prison Key from the chest in the room behind the Iron Key door. Make this your next key objective when the prison entrance is the barrier stopping you.
Retrieve the Pickaxe in the lower spider prison, behind the door with skeleton archers above. It breaks yellow goo, so it is the tool to bring when those piles block further sewer exploration.
Defeat the Giant Spider in the prison to obtain the Tomato Gem. Keep the gem for later progression, and use the full walkthrough for the prison's levers, cells and elevator route.
Follow the sewer walkthrough toward the Guarana Gem after obtaining the Tomato Gem. This route covers the drained passages, Water Clock, boat repair and carried handle before the Giant Moray Eel fight.
Retrieve the Axe at the end of the tunnel beyond the grassy area reached from the sewer path. It cuts brown roots, including the roots near the hub campsite, opening another set of routes.
Descend through the crypt toward the Bean Gem. Use the Axe and Bean Gem walkthrough for the nail-and-rope descents and sliding doors; the elevator near the bottom provides a shortcut back toward the prison.
Retrieve the Corn Gem from the chest behind roots above the hub's spiral stairs. Bring an Axe and Grappling Hook; the upper route starts by going left from the hub stairs and crossing the wooden plank.

Turn each camp visit into meals and useful tools

Prioritize Leather when you want to expand your crafting options. Picking it up unlocks the Cooking Table, which costs 2 Wood Planks and 1 Leather; the Workbench costs 3 Wood Planks, 2 Iron Rods and 1 Leather. At the Workbench, 2 Animal Hide make 1 Leather.

Use the items guide when Iron Rods or Clay are holding up a construction project. Ready-made Iron Rods are available in the prison, while a Smelter turns Scrap Metal and Coal into more rods. Clay goes into the Oven, Smelter and Water Pot, and the Pickaxe breaks the goo piles that supply it.

Match your ingredients to the cooking station before spending them. The Cooking Table prepares dough and raw dishes, the Cooking Pot makes soups and stews, and the Oven bakes with Coal. Open the recipe table for ingredient amounts, and collect food from the Rotisserie before it burns.

Store food in a Food Basket when you are preparing supplies for later. It keeps food fresh longer and costs 3 Vines to craft. Keep ordinary materials in camp storage so your next expedition has room for the items you actually need.

Pick the puzzle guide that matches the room

For the dining hall table, prepare Cooked Veggies, Bean Soup and Stew in the Cooking Pot. Place the dishes on the table slots to open the Queen's Door. Use the recipe table to plan the meals before carrying them over.

For the astronomy room, follow the Lantern section of the endgame walkthrough. Its circle-door solution connects the rotating constellation, sundial and wall patterns. The Lantern provides an infinite light source, and you can reach the credits without collecting it.

For the final room, bring the Tomato, Guarana, Bean and Corn Gems to the statues before the Sanctuary Door. The offering is a cooked Deep Dish Pizza made through the Cooking Table and Oven. Follow the final-room walkthrough for the ingredient route and altar encounter; taking the last treasure triggers the credits, after which you can keep playing.

Recover your supplies before repeating a route

Your Backpack stays on you after death, while items you do not keep go into a death pack. If a treasure has gone missing, the host can recover it through the Catalogue, including from another player's inventory. Check that option before retracing a long treasure route.

Look on the water's surface for a death pack lost in water, or on the last solid ground after a death in mid-air. Packs that fall below the world return to camp or spawn. If you need a replacement Pickaxe, check the Workbench for its recipe.