Originally posted by warrenchmobile:

Perhaps the wolf-based food you are now able to craft is not meant to help with progression to the Plains. Wolf-based food better than wolf jerky and cooked wolf meat may be dependent upon the discovery of a new ingredient or a new cauldron improvement.

Perhaps your belief that wolf jerky and cooked wolf meat should help with progression to the Plains makes no sense. What leads you to that belief?

good questions.. i have been all over three mountains checking chests since the update and have yet to see an onion seed.. apparently i need to sail to a new area and create some new mountain biome, then keep looking