Food, Meals and Cooking

Please note that this guide is outdated and food ingredients can no longer be lost.



Food can't be consumed without being cooked into a meal first! You can find food at the Goods Market or you can get it yourself from fields, animals etc. If you have any type of food, you will find them at Your Residence - Inventory - Food.

When made into a meal they will give these skills when consumed:

Food	Skill
Meat	Strength
Vegetables	Charisma
Fish	Intelligence
Egg	Bodybuilding
Grapes	Patience
Cheese	Luck
Poultry	Agility
Potatoes	Endurance

Note that milk is not an ingredient, but a Drink. You can have up to 5 Drinks per day (5 Bottles of Milk a day).
1 bottle of milk will give you 0.01 experience on your Physical Resistance Skill.
Milk is used to make cheese with a cheese curdle.

To make your food in to a meal go to Your Residence -> Cooking.

Whenever you are in your residence you can start cooking meals. Meals decrease your hunger and depending on the ingredients you use, your personal skills (like strength or agility) will increase.
You can eat your meals whenever they are cooked, or you can save them for later. You also can sell your meals in the Town Restaurant/Bistro.

You can choose to have up to 5 ingredients in your meal. Logically:

Ingredients	Type of meal
1	Simple
2	Basic
3	Variated
4	Delicious
5	Perfect

Cooking requires 8 stamina to make a meal. This will reduce as your Cooking skill increases.

You can also choose a name for your meal when you cook it. When you have made a meal, it can be found at Your Residence - Meals. If you decide to sell it, you have the choice to re-name it and decide how much to sell it for. It will then show up in the Town Restaurant/Bistro where you can also cancel your sale.

Unfortunately you can only carry breads outside the town. It has been proven many times that traveling with a plate full of food is seldom a good idea. You can't eat meals when outside of the town, traveling etc, you can only eat bread.

Edited by JpRagavan : Added grapes |21-Feb-2013|
Edited by JpRagavan : Minor Update & Spelling |11-Jan-2013|

Poultry increases your Agility Skill.

Also Meals can't be eaten when you are outside of a town. (It is possible you can do that still, but it shouldn't be possible anymore very soon!)
Breads however, can still be eaten outside a town.

Change of burning a ingredient during cooking.

The chance of buring ingrediants depends on 2 factors; your Cooking Skill and the amount of ingredients you use.

The first ingredient always succeed, no matter what skill you have or what amount of ingredients you use. (tip: use your most expensive food ingredient first!)
If your cooking skill is 25 or higher then the second ingredient will also succeed automaticly.
If your cooking skill is 50 or higher then the third ingredient will also succeed automaticly.
If your cooking skill is 75 or higher then the fourth ingredient will also succeed automaticly.
If your cooking skill is 100 then the lastingredient will also succeed automaticly.

However if your skill is lower, there is still a chance that you can succesfully add the ingredient to your meal!

chance: 20 / ingredient number in your meal + your cooking skill / 2

Example:

if you have 30% on cooking and you try to make a meal with 3 ingrediants, then will your first two ingrediants will succeed for sure.
but for your third ingredient you will have only 21% chance of succes. (20 / 3(third ingredient) + 30(skill) / 2).


I hope that this is a little understandable
Also feel free to add your comments, your suggestions and your experiences Just like everything this can be changed and updated if needed

You did a good work!

Many thanks for this thread. I have found it was just the answer to my problem. Now I can go ahead and cook. When I get aqround to cakes will send you one''

one problem I keep getting a bit mixed up over. How do I get ingredients into my kitchen? I am not sure if I am missing something but can't work out how you do this. Cannot find anywhere that will tell me either.

If you purchase anything from the Food Market (which is the second tab in the Town Market), that will show up as a meal ingredient. Also, if you catch fish, gather eggs or slaughter an animal, those results will be available in your kitchen as well.

Once you have any of these, and are in town at Your Residence, you should be able to prepare a meal. Bear in mind, anything more than 1 ingredient requires some luck in addition to your cooking skill, as the second and any subsequent ingredients may burn and be wasted.

Good luck.

What about the stamina needed to cook meals better than simple? Or is it 8 stamina per meal all the way?

Your Cooking Skill: 100.000
Cooking a meal costs: 5 stamina.
You make Grail Meals without burning.

Thank you both!