You can't live on nuts, berries, and roasted cockroaches forever in Soulmask. Well, maybe you can, but your tribe members' moods would suffer terribly, and you'd miss out on all the buffs you get from well-cooked meals.
The Ultimate Soulmask Food Guide
After you craft your first stove, you’ll see a lot of recipes for broth, juice, and various soups that require water consumption as a material requirement. Any meal that doesn’t just involve roasting the main ingredient will require water. But if you’re like me and weren’t entirely sure how to get the stove menu in Soulmask, here’s the trick.
To fulfill the Water Consumption requirement for cooking recipes, you must store water in a container that fits in the stove's inventory. If you have a full water bottle in your action bar, the game will not recognize it as being in your inventory; you must move the water bottle to your actual inventory space for the stove to recognize it.
For this reason, I keep a separate water bottle in the stove and take it to the nearby pond to refill it when I cook. A water bottle holds 100 water, which is good for five to ten meals, depending on which one you make. Finally, you can also make a water tank on the pottery table with 20 clay, two leather ropes, and two ceramic molds. A water tank holds 1,000 water.