Cooking
In the game: help cook
cook <dish>
eat <dish>
professions cooking (the Professions window, on Cooking)Cooking turns fish, spices and herbs into dishes, anywhere you like. Fish come from Fishing, spices now and then with a herb you gather, herbs from Botany, and the Simple Spice most recipes need from the Old Skull Inn in Daleville, for 100 gold a pouch. Easy dishes take any fish of their tier; better ones ask for particular fish, a spice of their tier and a herb, and more of them.
Type "cook" and the dish's name, or pick it in the Professions window and click Cook. It takes a moment; moving, a fight or another command stops it. You learn as you cook, as with every profession (see PROFESSIONS). Dishes stack and weigh nothing.
Eat a dish for its meal. Every 20 seconds while it lasts, it gives back hit points, mana or move, and the better dishes give more: a sense, a bonus, resistance to cold or fire, a raise to your maximum hit points, mana or move for a while. Meals stack: eat different dishes and they all work at once; the same dish again only starts its time over. Of the raises to a maximum, only the largest of each counts. A meal lasts through quitting, as spells do, and counts down while you play. Dishes hardly fill you, so you can eat several. Some are, shall we say, lively.
| Tier | Skill | Dish | Ingredients | Meal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | Salted Fish Skewer | any tier 1 fish, Simple Spice | +3 hp every 20 s for 15 min; burps |
| 1 | 15 | Fisher's Broth | 2 any tier 1 fish, Dewpetal, Simple Spice | +2 hp, +3 move every 20 s for 20 min; +5% to land a fish |
| 1 | 30 | Thyme-Baked Perch | Brook Perch, Wild Thyme, Simple Spice | +3 hp, +2 mana every 20 s for 30 min; +1 to saving throws |
| 2 | 50 | Peppered Trout | Rainbow Trout, Black Peppercorn, Simple Spice | +6 hp every 20 s for 30 min; +5 armor |
| 2 | 65 | Catfish Stew | 2 any tier 2 fish, Black Peppercorn, Stillwort | +5 hp, +5 move every 20 s for 30 min; +5% to land a fish; farts |
| 2 | 80 | Cinnamon-Glazed Eel | River Eel, Cinnamon Bark, Emberthistle, Simple Spice | +4 hp, +5 mana every 20 s for 30 min; water breathing |
| 3 | 100 | Mustard-Crusted Snapper | Red Snapper, Mustard Seed, Ironmoss, Simple Spice | +10 hp, +8 move every 20 s for 30 min; +1 to hit |
| 3 | 115 | Saffron Salmon | Silver Salmon, Saffron Thread, Moonfern, Simple Spice | +8 hp, +8 mana every 20 s for 30 min; spells fail 5% less |
| 3 | 130 | Moonscale Supper | Moonscale Trout, Glowfin Cavefish, Saffron Thread, Mustard Seed | +8 hp, +8 mana, +8 move every 20 s for 30 min; infravision |
| 4 | 150 | Ember Bass | Thunder Bass, Ember Pepper, Dragon's Tongue, Simple Spice | +15 hp every 20 s for 30 min; resist cold; burps |
| 4 | 165 | Bluefin Tartare | Bluefin Tuna, Ghost Vanilla, Ghostcap, Ember Pepper | +12 hp, +12 mana every 20 s for 30 min; resist fire |
| 4 | 180 | Angler's Lantern Soup | Phosphor Angler, Ghost Eel, Ghost Vanilla, Ember Pepper, Ghostcap | +10 hp, +10 mana, +10 move every 20 s for 30 min; detect invisible; +10% to land a fish |
| 4 | 190 | Prospector's Pike Pie | Ironjaw Pike, Swordfish, Ember Pepper, Dragon's Tongue, Simple Spice | +10 hp, +10 move every 20 s for 20 min; 50% chance of double ore |
| 5 | 200 | Sunscale Platter | Sunscale Mahi, Dragonscale Carp, Sunfire Chili, Starlily | +20 hp, +12 move every 20 s for 30 min; sense life |
| 5 | 215 | Stormray Curry | Stormray, Abyssal Cod, Sunfire Chili, Moonpetal Nutmeg, Bloodthorn | +15 hp, +15 mana every 20 s for 30 min; max hp +5% for 10 min; resist cold; farts |
| 5 | 230 | Wyrdlight Feast | Wyrdlight Eel, Shadow Gar, Moonpetal Nutmeg, Sunfire Chili, Starlily | +15 hp, +15 mana, +15 move every 20 s for 30 min; max mana +10% for 10 min; true sight |
| 5 | 240 | Alchemist's Frostfin Chowder | Frostfin Char, Abyssal Cod, Moonpetal Nutmeg, Starlily, Bloodthorn | +15 mana every 20 s for 5 min; potions mixed 2 at once |
| 6 | 250 | Seraph Koi Banquet | Seraph Koi, Elder Sturgeon, Seraph Anise, Seraph's Bell, Simple Spice | +25 hp, +25 mana, +25 move every 20 s for 30 min; max hp +5%, mana +5%, move +5% for 10 min; resist cold and fire; +2 to saving throws |
| 6 | 265 | Tempest Marlin Steak | Tempest Marlin, Leviathan Grouper, Void Saffron, Seraph Anise, Voidroot | +30 hp, +20 move every 20 s for 20 min; max hp +10% for 10 min; +1 damage; burps |
| 6 | 280 | Starfin Royale | Starfin, Starlight Lanternfish, Void Saffron, Seraph Anise, Seraph's Bell, Voidroot | +30 hp, +30 mana, +30 move every 20 s for 20 min; max hp +10%, mana +10%, move +10% for 5 min; +10% experience |
The inn buys dishes back at four fifths of their worth, but that is a waste of a good meal.
Game data
- Level: any
- Position: resting or better
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