Deep Dish Dungeon tools and crafting: work out what blocks a route

If a death pack was stuck, loading your save after this patch can recover it with its contents intact. That covers packs in the eel boss room's roof, beneath the three-pipes pool, in the clock chamber's roof or stone, and underwater in the fungi pool. Eel boss area packs return to the nearby room, and clock chamber packs to the dry room beside the clock. If that room is completely blocked, the pack waits and retries once there's space.

Items that return to the fungi pool now land on clear ground near the staircase. The Water Gate handle and other returning objects should no longer appear inside movable props. Weapons placed on the Temple statue now keep their upgrades, including after a save and load, and upgrades on food statues can no longer be deleted. Eels can no longer hit you through the Sewers boat or solid obstructions.

The October 23 hotfix adds the Pickaxe recipe to the Workbench and reduces the Hammer’s IronRod requirement by one. The note gives a change, not the full new recipe, so check the Workbench before gathering supplies.

From patch 1.0.50.0 (October 21), the host can recover a lost treasure from the catalogue, wherever it ended up, even in another player's inventory. The developer says this clears a progression lock caused by losing a unique item. Tools such as the Hammer, Pickaxe and Axe are not recovered this way; craft them again at the workbench.

The same patch moves two recipes: craft the Grappling Hook from the inventory and the Hook at the Workbench. Kingy has not tested the catalogue recovery.

1. Update to patch 1.0.50.0 or later.
2. As the host, open the catalogue and pick the lost treasure to bring it back.
3. For a lost tool, recraft it at the workbench instead.

The developer names hammers, pickaxes, ropes, hooks and other tools, but does not supply their acquisition order in the post. A named item is not proof it is obtainable in your current demo area.

This is a suggested investigation method. The demo intentionally omits bosses and the larger puzzles, so a full-game trailer may show a challenge you cannot reach in the demo.

1. Record the room or landmark and what prevents progress.
2. Check interactions and nearby clues without committing scarce materials blindly.
3. Return to camp and compare your current tool and workstation options.
4. Bring back the relevant tool only after confirming what it does.
5. Check whether the route opens, then update your saved note.

Check the station as well as the ingredients: the June update specifically distinguishes Cooking Table carcass preparation from a Cooking Pot recipe. If no documented interaction applies, keep the obstacle unresolved; this edition does not invent an ingredient combination or puzzle sequence.