Crafting

Cooking

Cook what you catch over a fire. Food heals you slowly.

Group: Crafting
Title it gives: Cook
Grows your stats: Intelligence (50%), Dexterity (50%)
Head start: No people starts with it

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try at a recipe trains it, more for harder recipes. Failures teach too.

All your skills together hold 600 points. Set Cooking to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Intelligence (50%), Dexterity (50%).

Titles

When Cooking is your best skill, it names you:

30 Neophyte Cook
40 Novice Cook
50 Apprentice Cook
60 Journeyman Cook
70 Expert Cook
80 Adept Cook
90 Master Cook
100 Grandmaster Cook

The Cooking tree

Every 10 points of Cooking gives a point to spend here. Some places need another first; some ask you to choose one or the other. Unlearn the whole tree for gold with F4.

Hearth Cook

Food that does you more good, for longer.

Hearty3 ranks
Food you eat gives 10% more health, stamina and energy per rank.
Slow Burn2 ranks
Food you eat lasts 15% longer per rank.
Needs Hearty
Feast1 rank
Room for a fourth dish.
Needs Slow Burn

Preserver

More meals from the same pot.

Batch Cook3 ranks
+10% chance per rank to cook two at once.
Trail Rations1 rank
+25% chance a dish takes none of its ingredients.
Needs Batch Cook

What you can make (19)

Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.

Baking

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
sacks of flour	0 to 30	2 sheaf of wheat	Anywhere
dough	5 to 35	1 sacks of flour1 pitchers of water	Anywhere
loaves of bread ×2	10 to 45	1 dough	fire
pumpkin pies ×2	40 to 80	1 pumpkins1 sacks of flour	fire

Farm

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
fried eggs	0 to 30	2 eggs	fire
wheels of cheese	10 to 45	2 jugs of milk	fire

Fish

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
fish steaks	0 to 40	1 cod	fire
fish steaks	0 to 40	1 trout	fire
fish steaks ×2	0 to 40	1 salmon	fire
fish steaks ×2	0 to 40	1 pike	fire
fish steaks	0 to 40	1 carp	fire
fish steaks	0 to 40	1 perch	fire
fish steaks	0 to 40	1 catfish	fire
fish steaks ×4	20 to 60	1 big fish	fire
char fillets	25 to 65	1 ice char	fire