Get Immunity from a potion or pizza
In Deep Dish Dungeon, an Immunity potion or Deep Dish Pizza grants the named Immunity effect for 1 minute. Damage reduction, shield buffs and healing are separate effects, so choose the item that matches what you need.
Which foods provide protection?
| Food or potion | Effect and preparation |
|---|---|
| Deep Dish Pizza — baked in the Oven | Grants Immunity for 1 minute, plus +60 Max HP and +40 Max SP for 43 minutes. Prepare Raw Deep Dish Pizza at the Cooking Table, then bake it. |
| Flat Bread — prepared at the Cooking Table | Provides +15% Damage Reduction and +10 Max HP for 18 minutes. Its defensive bonus is damage reduction rather than the named Immunity effect. |
| Meat Soup — cooked in the Cooking Pot | Provides +20% Fall Damage Reduction, +20 Max HP and +12 Max SP for 20 minutes. Choose it specifically for its fall-damage bonus. |
Keep the pizza's Immunity timer separate from its food-buff duration: Immunity lasts 1 minute, while its Max HP and Max SP bonuses last 43 minutes. Plan your dangerous encounter around the shorter effect.
Prepare the cooking stations
Pick up Leather to unlock the Cooking Table crafting recipe. Build the table from 2 Wood Planks and 1 Leather. It prepares Dry herbs, Corn Dough and Raw Deep Dish Pizza for the recipes below.
For the potion route, craft a Kettle from 1 Iron Pot and 2 Chains. The Kettle needs water before it can brew. Keep its fire burning while you prepare the potion.
For the pizza route, build an Oven from 5 Clay and 1 Grate. Have Coal ready to fuel it. Prepare the raw pizza at the Cooking Table before putting it into the Oven.
Brew an Immunity potion
- Combine 1 Cilantro and 1 Basil at the Cooking Table to make 2 Dry herbs. This prepares the ingredient used for the Immunity potion.
- Fill the Kettle with water so it is ready to brew the potion.
- Drink the finished Immunity potion shortly before the danger you want to face. It grants Immunity for 1 minute, so save it until you are ready to act.
Gather ingredients and bake Deep Dish Pizza
The pizza route uses Corn Dough, Cheese and Tomato. Wild Corn grows near the fountain after you clear the central rocks with explosives and turn the fountain lever. Keep the Empty Bottles left after drinking potions for the Water Bottle needed in the dough recipe.
- From the main hub, go up the stairs, turn left, then left again across the wooden plank, and climb the spiral staircase. This reaches the room on the route to the Corn Gem.
- Use a Grappling Hook to reach the high door on the right of that room. Beyond the door, you can collect Cheese and Tomatoes for the pizza.
- Gather Wild Corn near the fountain on the way to the final room. Bring it back for the Corn Dough recipe.
- Combine 1 Wild Corn and 1 Water Bottle at the Cooking Table to make 1 Corn Dough.
- Combine 1 Corn Dough, 1 Tomato and 1 Cheese at the Cooking Table to make 1 Raw Deep Dish Pizza.
Use damage reduction and shield buffs
For Flat Bread, combine 1 Corn Dough and 1 Basil at the Cooking Table to make 2 Flat Bread. Eating it provides +15% Damage Reduction for 18 minutes. This gives you a different defensive option from spending an Immunity potion.
A shield's passive buff applies while it is equipped, and its active buff applies while blocking. Improvised, Wooden and Iron Shields transfer damage to stamina while blocking. Keep stamina available for defense, and remember that armor has its own separate defensive or noise-related effects.
Choose healing, stamina or vision separately
A Stamina Potion uses Cilantro, while a Vision Elixir uses an Azurea Mushroom. The Vision Elixir lets you see silhouettes in the dark and reveals Apparitions for 10 minutes. Select it for visibility, and keep your healing and protection choices separate.
Time pizza Immunity for the final-room fight
Prepare a pizza for the offering and an extra serving to eat during the encounter. Save the extra serving for the skeletons. That gives you a clear moment to use its short Immunity effect.
- Place Deep Dish Pizza on the Offering Plate to unlock the Sanctuary Bowl.
- Use the Sanctuary Bowl's Slide interaction to advance the encounter until it locks and skeletons awaken.
- Eat your extra Deep Dish Pizza when the first skeleton rises. This grants Immunity for 1 minute alongside the pizza's Max HP and Max SP bonuses.
- Defeat the awakened skeletons so the bowl can move again once its lock releases.
- Resume sliding the bowl toward the end, dealing with the skeletons whenever it locks again. Reaching the end reveals the last treasure.