Cooking

Crafting Also trains Intelligence

Cook monster meat, herbs and spices into dishes at a stove or campfire. A dish gives a timed buff (one food buff at a time). Higher skill: Hearty and Gourmet dishes.

Kind

Crafting

Stat training

Intelligence ×1 (per action, relative to combat training)

Station

Stove / campfire, Campfire

Recipes

13

How to level Cooking

All tradeskills share one training curve. Each action (a swing, a smelt, a forge, a brew...) adds training points; when the bar reaches the cost of the next skill point, your skill goes up by 1. The cost of the next point at skill s is 1 × (1 + s / 12)^1.7 points, so it is fast early and slower higher up. An action adds 1 + 0.35 × tier points while your skill is inside the recipe's (or node's) optimal range – from its required level up to 20 levels above it. Above that the gain shrinks and reaches zero (“trivial”) 25 levels later: nothing more is learned from that item, and the game tells you to try something harder. Each action also trains a core stat a little (see “Stat training” above). Skills are trained by use and have a soft cap of 250 (like every skill; they can reach 1000).

Cooking basics

• Cook monster meat, herbs and spices at a stove or campfire. A dish gives a timed buff; only one food buff is active at a time (a new dish replaces it); you can also have one elixir per category (Might, Fortitude, Swiftness, Insight, Warding) active alongside the food buff.
• Each dish rolls Normal / Hearty / Gourmet. Hearty chance = 5% + 0.6% per skill point above the recipe's requirement (max 40%). Gourmet needs 20 points over the requirement, then 0.4% per point (max 15%). Hearty and Gourmet dishes have stronger, longer buffs.
• Trains Intelligence.

What trains best at each level

For each skill level: items still inside their full-rate range (highest tier first). Higher tier = more training per action.

Stations & where they are

Campfires (21 placed outside towns) work as stoves.

All 13 recipes

The skill curve

Training points needed per skill point, and how many actions that is (at full rate) for items of tier 1, 5 and 9. Tier of crafted items and nodes: see the tables above (iron = tier 3, steel 4, mithril 5 …).