Cooking

Cooking is a crafting skill. You cook fish and game from Fishing & Hunting and bake with crops from Farming, with logs as fuel. Meals heal you in fights, and a few drinks work as potions.

How to train

Start with Cook fish stew at level 1. New activities open as you level up: see the table below.
16 of the 22 activities need the old well rebuilt first.
Tool: Millstone (+15% speed, made with Masonry). Better ones: Iron frying pan (+20%), Cobalt cleaver (+30%).

Activities

Potions

Level	Activity	Makes	Materials	Sells for
8	Brew wayfarer's tea	Wayfarer's tea	1 × Comfrey, 1 × Wild honey	10
14	Brew clerk's small beer	Clerk's small beer	2 × Barley sheaf, 1 × Wild honey	12

Food and remedies

Level	Activity	Makes	Materials	Sells for
1	Cook fish stew	Fish stew	2 × Minnow, 1 × Pine log	8
3	Bake hearth loaves	Hearth loaf	2 × Barley sheaf, 1 × Pine log	7
4	Roast hare	Roast hare	1 × Hare, 1 × Pine log	9
6	Bake honeycake	Honeycake	1 × Barley sheaf, 2 × Eggs, 1 × Wild honey	24
6	Cook perch stew	Perch stew	2 × Perch, 1 × Birch log	13
10	Make road rations	Road ration	1 × Roast hare, 1 × Roots	16
12	Cook trout stew	Trout stew	2 × Trout, 1 × Willow log	21
12	Salt perch	Salt perch	2 × Perch, 1 × Rock salt	28
15	Boil marrow broth	Marrow broth	1 × Ogre bone, 2 × Perch, 1 × Birch log	50
16	Roast wild fowl	Roast fowl	1 × Wild fowl, 1 × Pine log	20
18	Bake root pie	Root pie	2 × Roots, 1 × Eggs, 1 × Barley sheaf	18
20	Cook pike stew	Pike stew	2 × Pike, 1 × Oak log	29
30	Cook carp stew	Carp stew	2 × Carp, 1 × Maple log	37
36	Roast venison	Roast venison	1 × Venison, 2 × Pine log	40
42	Cook salmon stew	Salmon stew	2 × Salmon, 1 × Ash log	45
42	Salt salmon	Salt salmon	2 × Salmon, 1 × Rock salt	80
55	Cook eel stew	Eel stew	2 × Eel, 1 × Yew log	53
68	Cook sturgeon stew	Sturgeon stew	2 × Sturgeon, 1 × Elder log	61
82	Cook icefish stew	Icefish stew	2 × Icefish, 1 × Ironwood log	69
95	Cook kingfish stew	Kingfish stew	2 × Kingfish, 1 × Whitebeam log	77

"Sells for" is what one action's items sell for, at the level the activity opens, before bonuses. Every skill uses the same XP table: see Levels and XP.

Mastery

Each of the 22 Cooking activities has its own mastery level, from 1 to 99. Every completed action gives that activity mastery XP, and higher mastery makes the activity better (table below).

A quarter of that mastery XP (half once Cooking is level 99) also goes into the Cooking mastery pool, which holds up to 20,350,000 XP. You can spend pool XP on any Cooking activity: 1 pool XP gives 1 mastery XP. See Mastery for the exact numbers.

Each activity's own mastery

Activity mastery	Adds to that activity
10	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
20	+5 points high-quality chance
30	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
40	+5 points high-quality chance
50	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
60	+5 points high-quality chance
70	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
80	+5 points high-quality chance
90	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
99	+10% sell price on the items it makes, +10% chance to spare materials (or arrows)

Pool checkpoints

While the pool is filled to a checkpoint or above, its bonus counts for every Cooking activity. If you spend the pool below a checkpoint, that bonus stops until the pool fills up again.

Pool filled	Pool XP	Adds to every activity of the skill
10%	2,035,000	+5% mastery XP
25%	5,087,500	+10% XP
50%	10,175,000	+5% speed
95%	19,332,500	+10% chance to spare materials (or arrows)

Gear for this skill

Counting charm — +10% XP, 5% chance to spare materials
Millstone — +15% speed
Cook's book — +15% XP
Iron frying pan — +20% speed
Cobalt cleaver — +30% speed, +1 item per action
Gold tasting spoon — +8 points high-quality chance

Gear only helps while it is equipped. A high-quality piece gives 1.5 times the bonus, rounded down. See also every boost for Cooking.

Faster from rebuilt places

The flooded mill — +10% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt

Story

Cook fish, meat and bread into food that heals you in fights. Most recipes need clean water from the old well.