Which DRAPLINE meal should I pick?

Pick by category first and price second. The category decides which of the six stats grows, so it should match the skill tree you are building toward; the star rating only decides how much you pay. A 3,000 G meal in the right category beats a 14,600 G meal in the wrong one.

Is a three-star meal always better?

No. Second-tier meals often scale with your weakness — Wild Meat gives Strength +400 base and grows when Strength is low — which makes them the efficient choice for fixing a lagging stat. Third-tier meals add special effects and size, but a cheap meal you can afford every week compounds further.

What are the meal traits?

Poisonous costs 35 stamina, Rapid Growth scales its bonus off how low the fed stat is, Nutritious trades stat size for 30 stamina back, and Reversal swaps two of Coo's stats.

How much do DRAPLINE meals cost?

Three tiers: one star is 3,000 G, two stars 6,600 G, three stars 14,600 G. You can take a loan from Calico to pay, but staying indebted is one of the losing endings.

Database · 12 categories

DRAPLINE meals, sorted by the only thing that matters: which stat they grow

Meals are the only way to make Coo stronger. Every week offers three of them, each with a category, a star rating and a price — and that is the whole decision. This is the full category map with documented examples and numbers, instead of the three options one playthrough happens to show you.

3,000 G

★ — One clean stat gain, no downside.

6,600 G

★★ — Larger gain, and many second-tier meals scale up when the fed stat is still low. The efficient tier for fixing a lagging stat.

14,600 G

★★★ — Large single-stat gain or a special effect — but not automatically better than a cheap meal you can afford every week.

The DRAPLINE weekly meal screen: three meal cards — Water, Trees and Carbs — with their stat gains and prices, beside Coo's six-stat panel and the WILD–RULE personality bar — The whole decision, once a week: category, star rating, price — next to the stat panel that says which one is lagging. © KANAWO / Vaka, Inc. (official Steam screenshot)

Category	Stat direction	Documented example	Notes
Carbohydrate	HP	Rice — HP +2,500	The cleanest HP line and the cheapest way to buy survivability. It also makes the Whimsical condition harder to hold, since it pushes the defensive half of the ledger.
Bone	HP + AGI	Animal Bone — HP +2,000, AGI +50, recovers 30 stamina	The only first-tier food that gives stamina back, which makes it the value pick in a week where the action just cost 15–25 stamina.
Meat	STR	Livestock Meat — STR +250	The direct route to Adored and Mischievous, and the reason second-tier Meat is the best value in the game for a run that started slow on Strength.
Egg	STR + VIT	Assorted Egg — STR +200, VIT +50	A paired category: it pushes two stats at once, at the cost of a penalty elsewhere.
Metal	VIT	Used Steel — VIT +250	A pure defensive line, and the cleanest way to hold the Chill and Reserved ledger without dragging Agility along.
Stone	VIT + STR	Rock — VIT +200, STR +50	The defensive category that quietly feeds a Strength run. Worth knowing if the aura you want is Chill.
Seafood	INT	Coastal Seafood — INT +250	The strongest Intelligence line and therefore the fastest route to Steady and Whimsical. The Kraken is one of the few documented meals where a lower star count beats a higher one — Rapid Growth makes it scale off your weakness.
Crystal	INT + RES	Magic Crystal — INT +200, RES +50	The magic mirror of Stone: Intelligence with a defensive passenger, which is exactly what a Whimsical run needs to keep Strength down while still surviving.
Wood	RES	Log — RES +250	Fandom files this category as Tree; other sources say Wood. Same meals either way. Pure Resilience, which is what the Moon fight in December is actually testing.
Fungus	RES + INT	Edible Mushroom — RES +200, INT +50	Resilience with an Intelligence passenger — a useful double for Steady runs that still need to survive Noir and Moon.
Plant	AGI	Wildflower — AGI +250	Pure Agility, and the lever for the Whimsical condition that Agility must sit above Strength.
Water	HP + AGI	Spring Water — AGI +202, HP +505	Skews Agility hard despite the HP half, which makes it the sneaky pick for a player trying to raise Agility without raising Strength.

What the six stats actually do

HP: How much damage Coo absorbs before a battle loss.
STR: Physical damage dealt.
VIT: Reduces physical damage taken.
INT: Magical damage dealt.
RES: Reduces magical damage taken.
AGI: Turn order, plus a small evasion bonus.

Skills scale off specific stats, so the feeding direction and the skill tree have to agree. That is the whole reason the category matters more than the price.

The four meal traits

Poisonous
Costs 35 stamina when eaten.
Rapid Growth
The lower the fed stat, the larger the bonus — best used on a weakness.
Nutritious
Smaller stat gain, recovers 30 stamina.
Reversal
Swaps two of Coo's stats.

Meal names are procedurally prefixed — the noun (Log, Bone, Kraken) is the stable part, the adjective is not. Guide for a specific name and what you are really looking for is the noun and the numbers.

Category examples and printed numbers: the in-game meal list as transcribed on the Fandom wiki, cross-checked against meal prices recorded independently. Trait behaviour and stamina costs: in-game observation via Fandom. Tier prices: verified against the current patch.