What do you put on the Offering Plate?
A Deep Dish Pizza. The plate takes only food, and no other food starts the encounter.
Deep Dish Dungeon Offering Plate Guide
To start the Offering Plate encounter in the Deep Dish Dungeon full game, put a Deep Dish Pizza on the Offering Plate. That frees the Sanctuary Bowl, and moving the bowl all the way to its end point opens the altar.
Deep Dish Dungeon Offering Plate: what to do
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- Put down: a Deep Dish Pizza. The plate takes only food, and no other food starts anything.
- Then: move the Sanctuary Bowl. It will not budge while the pizza is missing.
- On the way: three skeleton waves, at a quarter, half and three-quarters of the way.
- Between waves: knock down every skeleton that got up, then keep moving the bowl.
- At the end: the altar opens.
How we know this. Nobody had published footage of this encounter when we checked, so these rules come from how the full game's files and code set up the Offering Plate, the Sanctuary Bowl, the skeletons and the altar, not from a run we played. Where the plate is and what the encounter looks like are not confirmed yet.
Offering Plate encounter at a glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| What goes on the plate | One Deep Dish Pizza. The plate accepts only food. Source: The full game's files and code. |
| Where the pizza comes from | You cook it: Raw Deep Dish Pizza at the Cooking Table, then the Oven. Source: The full game's files. |
| What you move | The Sanctuary Bowl, once the pizza is on the plate. Source: In-game text and the full game's code. |
| Skeletons | Two Skeleton Warriors (175 health) and four Skeleton Archers (120 health), lying down at the start. Source: The full game's files. |
| Waves | Three, at a quarter, half and three-quarters of the way. Source: The full game's code. |
| Skeletons per wave | 2, 3 and 4 with one player near; 3, 4 and 5 with more. Source: The full game's code. |
| After each wave | The bowl locks for at least 7 seconds and until every awake skeleton is down. Source: The full game's code. |
| When it ends | The bowl reaches the end and the altar opens. Source: The full game's code. |
| In the demo | Not in the dungeon. Source: The demo's files (build 23712006). |
Put a Deep Dish Pizza on the Offering Plate
The Offering Plate takes food only, and the one food that does anything is a Deep Dish Pizza. With any other dish on the plate, or nothing at all, the encounter does not start and the Sanctuary Bowl stays put.
You cannot find a Deep Dish Pizza lying around: it is not in any chest and nothing drops it. You make it in two steps:
- At the Cooking Table, make a Raw Deep Dish Pizza from Corn Dough, Tomato and Cheese. Our recipes table has the Raw Deep Dish Pizza recipe.
- In the Oven, bake it into a Deep Dish Pizza. See the Deep Dish Pizza row in the recipes table.
Bring it to the Offering Plate and put it down. The encounter does not eat the pizza: it only checks that a Deep Dish Pizza is sitting there.
Food can spoil, and a pizza that goes bad on the plate stops counting, which locks the Sanctuary Bowl again, just as taking the pizza off does. Neither costs you progress: the bowl stays where you left it and waves you have already fought do not come back. Put a fresh Deep Dish Pizza down to carry on.
Move the Sanctuary Bowl
Once the pizza is down, go to the Sanctuary Bowl and interact with it; the prompt says Slide. The bowl moves from its starting point to an end point, and the whole encounter is measured by how far along it is.
You can stop and come back: the bowl keeps its position, including in your save. When you load a save, an encounter you finished stays finished, and one you were partway through picks up from where the bowl is.
How the controls feel while you move it is not confirmed yet. If the bowl will not move, check two things: that a Deep Dish Pizza (not a spoiled one) is on the plate, and that no skeleton from the last wave is still standing.
The three skeleton waves
Six skeletons belong to this encounter, all lying down at the start: two Skeleton Warriors and four Skeleton Archers. The game files give these six placed skeletons more health than the usual values in our enemies table: the Skeleton Warriors here have 175 health, where the table's row shows 135, and the Skeleton Archers here have 120, where the row shows 70.
Each time the Sanctuary Bowl passes a quarter, half and three-quarters of the way, a wave starts:
| Wave | Bowl position | One player near | More than one player near |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wave 1 | A quarter of the way | 2 skeletons | 3 skeletons |
| Wave 2 | Halfway | 3 skeletons | 4 skeletons |
| Wave 3 | Three-quarters of the way | 4 skeletons | 5 skeletons |
The skeletons in each wave are picked at random from the six that are lying down. Ones you knocked down in an earlier wave can be picked again, so you will see some of the same skeletons twice.
When a wave starts, the Sanctuary Bowl locks. It stays locked for at least 7 seconds, and after that until every skeleton that got up is down again. Then you can move it to the next point.
The waves are the encounter's way of waking these skeletons. Whether they can also get up on their own when you walk near them is not confirmed, so be ready for a fight before you put the pizza down.
When the altar opens
Move the Sanctuary Bowl all the way to the end and the altar opens. There is no fourth wave: once the bowl reaches the end, the encounter is over.
At that point the Sanctuary Bowl locks for good, and both the bowl and the Offering Plate are removed from where they stood. Defeating skeletons is not what opens the altar; clearing a wave only lets you move the bowl again.
The encounter also includes The Seed of Life, an object you can interact with. What it does is outside this page. What the open altar reveals is something we have not seen yet. If you are working through the dungeon's other puzzles, our Queen's Door guide covers the door that takes three dishes, and our circle door guide covers the door with three turning circles.
Is there a harpy to fight?
Not in the game files. The encounter is run by a mechanism with no health, not by an enemy, and the game's text has no name for a harpy enemy. The fighting here is the skeleton waves.
Harpies do come up in the story. One of the camp diaries mentions looking for a statue of a harpy, because "That's where the Seed will be". What the encounter shows on screen while the waves come is not confirmed yet.
Where to find the Offering Plate
Where the Offering Plate sits in the dungeon is not confirmed yet, and the game's text gives its areas no names we could point you to. None of the twelve stream recordings we checked from the first two days after launch reached it.
You will know it by its name when you look at it: the game calls it the Offering Plate. The Sanctuary Bowl and six skeletons, all lying down at the start, belong to the same encounter.
The Offering Plate in the demo
You could not find the Offering Plate in the free demo, Steam build 23712006. The demo had no Offering Plate, Sanctuary Bowl or The Seed of Life in the dungeon, so this encounter could not be played before the full game.
Version notes and limits
Still open: where the Offering Plate is, what the encounter looks like, how moving the Sanctuary Bowl is controlled, whether the six skeletons can wake outside the waves, and what the open altar reveals. We will update this page once footage of the encounter confirms these, or if a patch changes the waves, the bowl or the altar.
Deep Dish Dungeon Offering Plate FAQ
Why won't the Sanctuary Bowl move?
Either there is no good Deep Dish Pizza on the Offering Plate, or a wave has just started. After each wave the bowl stays locked for at least 7 seconds and until every skeleton that got up is down.
How many skeleton waves are there?
Three: at a quarter, half and three-quarters of the bowl's way. With one player near, they bring 2, 3 and 4 skeletons; with more than one, 3, 4 and 5.
Does killing all the skeletons open the altar?
No. Clearing a wave only unlocks the Sanctuary Bowl again. The altar opens when the bowl reaches its end point.
Do I lose progress if the pizza spoils?
No. The bowl locks, but it stays where it was and finished waves do not repeat. Put a fresh Deep Dish Pizza on the plate to carry on.
Is there a harpy boss?
Not in the game files. The encounter has no enemy with health beyond its six skeletons.
What does the open altar reveal?
We do not know yet. Nobody had published footage of the open altar when we checked.
Is the Offering Plate in the demo?
No. The Offering Plate and the Sanctuary Bowl are full-game only.
Sources and version history for this guide: Deep Dish Dungeon sources and versions.
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