Cooking

Cooking is a major gameplay system that, unlike thirst, does not act as a resource limiter but instead as a means of receiving buffs. It's tied in to hunger.

Cooking can be done at a lit campfire or a clay oven. At a campfire, Cooking and Gathering is required in order to receive meal effects. Ovens have pre-cooked meals available depending on what village or chef they're associated with.

The player may cook at a campfire or oven up to three times. After that, they must wait until they become hungry or famished before they can cook again.

Cooking effects

Cooking effects are granted when a player prepares a cooked meal, which grants a metabolizing effect. The types of effect(s) granted by the meal are controlled by the particular ingredients that are selected when cooking.

• The Meal Preparation skill allows cooking with up to two selected ingredients.
• The Spicer skill allows cooking with up to three selected ingredients.
• The Fasting Way and Mind over Body skills extend the duration of metabolizing and its associated cooking effects.
• The Carbide Chef skill allows choosing from 3 of the possible random recipe outcomes based on the ingredients you cook with when you are inspired. When you cook from ingredients while inspired, you also remember the recipe, allowing you to cook it again and receive the same outcome, with a few exceptions.

Basic and Triggered Effects

There are two different types of effects one may gain from a cooked meal.

• Basic effects: Singular effects that are associated with one ingredient.
  • For example, cooking with honey can grant the basic effect +3 to saves vs. Disease.
  • A basic effect always occurs when cooking with one ingredient. Multiple basic effects may be granted when cooking with two or more ingredients.
• Triggered effects: Dual effects that represent the combination of two different ingredients. One of the provided ingredients randomly provides a trigger condition, while the other provides the resulting effect.
  • For example, cooking with dried lah petals and freeze-dried hoarshrooms can grant the triggered effect: Whenever you become afraid, you emit a ray of frost per Freezing Hands at level 5-6.
  • A triggered effect has a chance of occurring whenever cooking with two or more ingredients. The game randomly selects which ingredient will provide the trigger condition and which will provide the resulting effect.
  • Not all ingredients are capable of being combined with other ingredients to create a triggered effect. Some ingredients have only basic effects.

Recipes

When cooking, you can choose either to cook from ingredients, or you can cook from a recipe. When cooking from a recipe, you will always use the ingredients of the recipe and receive the benefit of that specific recipe, even if there are other possible outcomes from cooking with that combination of ingredients.

There are a few different ways to learn recipes.

• You can create your own recipes by cooking with ingredients while inspired from the Carbide Chef skill.
• Recipes can also be learned while performing the water ritual with certain creatures, particularly those residing in villages and settlements, as well as legendary chefs.
• Recipes can also be learned by reading recipe books, which will always have a green name.

Recipes can also be traded as secrets with the pariahs faction.

Tasty Bonus

There is a 10% chance when cooking a meal that it'll give the message "It's tastier than usual." This will give the player one small bonus in addition to the meal effects already given. These can be guaranteed if one of the cooking ingredients is salt.

Possible Effects
+10% HP
+1 MA
+6% Movement Speed
+3% Quickness
+1 Strength, Intelligence, Willpower, Agility, Toughness, or Ego
+10% to natural healing rate
+1 to hit for melee weapons

Additional Notes

• canned Have-It-All is a notable ingredient because it contributes random cooking effects to recipes. It can generate almost any cooking effect that would normally be caused by other ingredients. For more information about the probabilities of obtaining specific effects from canned Have-It-All, refer to its wiki page.
• To see a full list of cooking effect domains, refer to the Category:Cooking Effects page.
• Adding the same cooking domain to the same recipe multiple times has no effect; you cannot, for instance, meaningfully combine two different types of jerky.

List of Basic Effects and Ingredients

Basic Effect	Cooking Domain	Possible Ingredients
+10-15 Acid Resist	acid	No Results!
Can use Corrosive Gas Generation at level 1-2. If you already have Corrosive Gas Generation, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	acid	No Results!
Can use Corrosive Breath at level 1-2. If you already have Corrosive Breath, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	acid	No Results!
+4 Agility	agility	congealed skulk
+2 AV	armor	bone meal
Can use Psychometry at level (1-2). If you already have Psychometry, it's enhanced by (3-4) levels.	artifact	sun-dried banana
Can use Burrowing Claws at level 5-6. If you already have Burrowing Claws, it's enhanced by 3-4 levels.	burrowing	congealed skulk
+10-15 Cold Resist	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
Can use Freezing Hands at level 1-2. If you already have Freezing Hands, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
Can use Cryokinesis at level 1-2. If you already have Cryokinesis, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
Can use Ice Breath at level 1-2. If you already have Ice Breath, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
Can use Confusing Breath at level 5. If you already have Confusing Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	confusion gas-breathing	mazebeard gland paste
Can use Corrosive Breath at level 5. If you already have Corrosive Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	corrosive gas-breathing	tartbeard gland paste
Can use Quills at level 5-6. If you already have Quills, it's enhanced by 3-4 levels.	damage reflection	spine fruit jam
Reflect 3-4% damage back at your attackers, rounded up.	damage reflection	spine fruit jam
+4 DV	darkness	congealed skulk, dried vanta petals
+3 to saves vs. Disease	disease prevention and curing	fermented yuckwheat stem
You only get Ill for 1/10th the usual length of time.	disease prevention and curing	fermented yuckwheat stem
As long as your body isn't your own, you gain +(40-70) Quickness.	dissociation	dream smoke
Can use Electromagnetic Pulse at level 2-3. If you already have Electromagnetic Pulse, it's enhanced by 3-4 levels.	electric	spark tick plasma
Can use Electrical Generation at level 1-2. If you already have Electrical Generation, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	electric	spark tick plasma
+10-15 Electric Resist	electric	spark tick plasma
+2 MA	fear	dried lah petals
Can use Intimidate. If you already have Intimidate, gain a +2 bonus on the Ego roll when using Intimidate.	fear	dried lah petals
Can use Fire Breath at level 5. If you already have Fire Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	fire-breathing	flamebeard gland paste
+300 reputation with fungi	fungus	freeze-dried hoarshrooms, pickled mushrooms
75% chance that itchy skin doesn't develop into a fungal infection	fungus	freeze-dried hoarshrooms, pickled mushrooms
Can use Flaming Hands at level (1-2). If you already have Flaming Hands, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
Can use Fire Breath at level (1-2). If you already have Fire Breath, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
Can use Pyrokinesis at level (1-2). If you already have Pyrokinesis, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
+10-15 Heat Resist	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
+10-15% max HP	HP	barkbiter jerky, bear jerky, beetle jerky, boar jerky, crab jerky, croc jerky, fish jerky, frog jerky, goat jerky, scorpiock jerky, worm jerky
Can use Ice Breath at level 5. If you already have Ice Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	ice-breathing	sleetbeard gland paste
+4 Ego	love and loyalty	congealed love
Can use Beguiling at level (1-2). If you already have Beguiling, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	love and loyalty	congealed love
Can use Normality Breath at level 5. If you already have Normality Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	normality gas-breathing	nullbeard gland paste
Whenever you take damage, there's a 15-20% chance you start phasing for 8-10 turns.	phasing	congealed shade oil, phase silk
Can use Phasing at level 1-2. If you already have Phasing, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	phasing	congealed shade oil, phase silk
Phase effects last twice as long.	phasing	congealed shade oil, phase silk
Can use Poison Breath at level 5. If you already have Poison Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	poison gas-breathing	gallbeard gland paste
Can use Confusing Breath at level 10. If you already have Confusing Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful confusion gas-breathing	concentrated mazebeard gland paste
Can use Corrosive Breath at level 10. If you already have Corrosive Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful corrosive gas-breathing	concentrated tartbeard gland paste
Reflect 15-18% damage back at your attackers, rounded up.	powerful damage reflection	mirror dust
Can use Fire Breath at level 10. If you already have Fire Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful fire-breathing	concentrated flamebeard gland paste
Can use Ice Breath at level 10. If you already have Ice Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful ice-breathing	concentrated sleetbeard gland paste
Can use Normality Breath at level 10. If you already have Normality Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful normality gas-breathing	concentrated nullbeard gland paste
Can use Burgeoning at level 7-8. If you already have Burgeoning, it's enhanced by 5-6 levels.	powerful plant	crushed grave moss
+200 reputation with flowers, roots, succulents, trees, vines, and the Consortium of Phyta	powerful plant	crushed grave moss
Can use Poison Breath at level 10. If you already have Poison Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful poison gas-breathing	concentrated gallbeard gland paste
+100% to natural healing rate	powerful regeneration and healing	soul curd
Whenever you jump, you may immediately jump two more times.	powerful rubber	sliced bop cheek
+50-75 Electric Resist	powerful rubber	sliced bop cheek
Falling damage you take is reduced by 90%.	powerful rubber	sliced bop cheek
Can use Sleep Breath at level 10. If you already have Sleep Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful sleep gas-breathing	concentrated dreambeard gland paste
Can use Stun Breath at level 10. If you already have Stun Breath, it's enhanced by 10 levels.	powerful stun gas-breathing	concentrated stillbeard gland paste
+8-12 to saves vs. Bleeding	regeneration and healing	congealed salve, starapple jam
+10-15% to natural healing rate	regeneration and healing	congealed salve, starapple jam
Whenever you jump, you may immediately jump again.	rubber	congealed rubbergum
+10-15 Electric Resist	rubber	congealed rubbergum
Falling damage you take is reduced by 50%.	rubber	congealed rubbergum
Reveals a secret to you.	secret	psychal gland paste
Causes your tongue to rot away.	self-diseasing	black ooze
Poisons you.	self-poisoning	brown sludge, green goo
+10-15 Acid Resist	simple acid	acid
Can use Corrosive Gas Generation at level 1-2. If you already have Corrosive Gas Generation, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	simple acid	acid
Can use Corrosive Breath at level 1-2. If you already have Corrosive Breath, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	simple acid	acid
Causes you to multiply 1 to 3 times.	simple cloning	cloning draught
+10-15 Cold Resist	simple cold	convalessence
Can use Freezing Hands at level 1-2. If you already have Freezing Hands, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	simple cold	convalessence
Can use Cryokinesis at level 1-2. If you already have Cryokinesis, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	simple cold	convalessence
Can use Ice Breath at level 1-2. If you already have Ice Breath, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	simple cold	convalessence
+3 to saves vs. Disease	simple disease prevention	honey
You only get Ill for 1/10th the usual length of time.	simple disease prevention	honey
Can use Flaming Hands at level (1-2). If you already have Flaming Hands, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	simple heat and fire	lava
Can use Fire Breath at level (1-2). If you already have Fire Breath, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	simple heat and fire	lava
Can use Pyrokinesis at level (1-2). If you already have Pyrokinesis, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	simple heat and fire	lava
+10-15 Heat Resist	simple heat and fire	lava
Can use Burgeoning at level 1-2. If you already have Burgeoning, it's enhanced by 2-3 levels.	simple plant	Ekuemekiyyen greens, algae
+100 reputation with flowers, roots, succulents, trees, vines, and the Consortium of Phyta	simple plant	Ekuemekiyyen greens, algae
+4-5 Quickness	simple Quickness	cider
+8-12 to saves vs. Bleeding	simple regeneration and healing	convalessence
+10-15% to natural healing rate	simple regeneration and healing	convalessence
+6 to saves vs. Move, Knockdown, Knockback, and Restraint.	simple stability	asphalt
Guaranteed to be tasty if eaten while hungry.	simple taste	crusty loaf, salthopper chip, salt
+4 Willpower	simple Willpower	mashed lag
Can use Sleep Breath at level 5. If you already have Sleep Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	sleep gas-breathing	dreambeard gland paste
Can use Slime Glands at level 1.	slime-spitting	slime
+13 + (Photosynthetic Skin level * 2) Quickness	special Quickness	No Results!
+20% + (Photosynthetic Skin level * 10)% to natural healing rate	special regeneration	No Results!
+4 Strength	strength	congealed hulk honey
Can use Intimidate. If you already have Intimidate, gain a +2 bonus on the Ego roll when using Intimidate.	strength	congealed hulk honey
Can use Stun Breath at level 5. If you already have Stun Breath, it's enhanced by 5 levels.	stun gas-breathing	stillbeard gland paste
Can use Teleport Other at level (1-2). If you already have Teleport Other, it's enhanced by (2-3) levels.	teleport	fermented yondercane, voider gland paste
Whenever you take damage, there's a 20-25% chance you teleport to a random space on the map instead.	teleport	fermented yondercane, voider gland paste
Can use Sticky Tongue at level (4-5). If you already have Sticky Tongue, it's enhanced by (4-5) levels.	tongue	fermented tongue
25% chance to gain +1 Strength, Agility, Toughness, Intelligence, Willpower, and Ego permanently.	uncertain attribute	drop of nectar
+1 AV permanently. Small chance of gravitational collapse.	volatile density	neutron flux
You thirst at half rate.	water and thirst	pickles, vinewafer sheaf

List of Trigger Conditions and Ingredients

Trigger Condition	Cooking Domain	Possible Ingredients
Whenever you perform a critical hit,...	agility	congealed skulk
Whenever you suffer a 2X or greater physical penetration,...	armor	bone meal
Whenever you identify an artifact,...	artifact	sun-dried banana
Whenever you deal cold damage, there's a 25% chance...	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
Whenever you are slowed by cold,...	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
Whenever you take damage, there's a 8-10% chance...	damage reflection	spine fruit jam
Whenever you reflect damage, there's a 50% chance...	damage reflection	spine fruit jam
Whenever you drink honey,...	disease prevention and curing	fermented yuckwheat stem
Whenever you eat an unfermented yuckwheat stem,...	disease prevention and curing	fermented yuckwheat stem
Whenever you deal electric damage, there's a 25% chance...	electric	spark tick plasma
Whenever you eat a dreadroot tuber or lah petal,...	fear	dried lah petals
Whenever you become afraid,...	fear	dried lah petals
Whenever you eat a mushroom,...	fungus	freeze-dried hoarshrooms, pickled mushrooms
Whenever you get itchy skin,...	fungus	freeze-dried hoarshrooms, pickled mushrooms
Whenever you deal fire damage, there's a 10% chance...	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
Whenever you are set on fire,...	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
Whenever you take damage, there's a 8-10% chance...	HP	barkbiter jerky, bear jerky, beetle jerky, boar jerky, crab jerky, croc jerky, fish jerky, frog jerky, goat jerky, scorpiock jerky, worm jerky
Whenever you drop below 20% HP,...	HP	barkbiter jerky, bear jerky, beetle jerky, boar jerky, crab jerky, croc jerky, fish jerky, frog jerky, goat jerky, scorpiock jerky, worm jerky
Whenever you gain a new follower,...	love and loyalty	congealed love
Whenever you phase in,...	phasing	congealed shade oil, phase silk
Whenever you phase out,...	phasing	congealed shade oil, phase silk
Whenever you take damage, there's a 16-20% chance...	powerful damage reflection	mirror dust
Whenever you reflect damage, there's a 100% chance...	powerful damage reflection	mirror dust
Whenever you take damage from a plant,...	powerful plant	crushed grave moss
Whenever you take damage, there's a 30-40% chance...	powerful regeneration and healing	soul curd
Whenever you use a salve or ubernostrum injector,...	powerful regeneration and healing	soul curd
Whenever you go prone,...	powerful rubber	sliced bop cheek
Whenever you jump,...	powerful rubber	sliced bop cheek
Whenever you take damage, there's a 8-10% chance...	regeneration and healing	congealed salve, starapple jam
Whenever you use a salve or ubernostrum injector,...	regeneration and healing	congealed salve, starapple jam
Whenever you go prone,...	rubber	congealed rubbergum
Whenever you jump,...	rubber	congealed rubbergum
Whenever you take damage, there's a 12-15% chance...	strength	congealed hulk honey
Whenever you drop below 30% HP,...	strength	congealed hulk honey
Whenever you teleport,...	teleport	fermented yondercane, voider gland paste
Whenever you get stuck, there's a 50% chance...	tongue	fermented tongue
Whenever you drink freshwater, there's a 25% chance...	water and thirst	pickles, vinewafer sheaf

List of Triggered Effects and Ingredients

Triggered Effect	Cooking Domain	Possible Ingredients
...you shank your opponent.	agility	congealed skulk
...you gain +8 Agility for 50 turns.	agility	congealed skulk
...you gain +6 AV for 50 turns.	armor	bone meal
...you identify all artifacts on the local map.	artifact	sun-dried banana
...you gain 40-50 Cold Resist for 6 hours.	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
...you freeze an area per Cryokinesis at level 5-6.	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
...you emit a ray of frost per Freezing Hands at level 5-6.	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
...you gain 125-175 Cold Resist for 50 turns.	cold	freeze-dried hoarshrooms
...you expel quills per the Quills mutation at level 8-9.	damage reflection	spine fruit jam
...you reflect 100% damage the next time you take damage within 50 turns.	damage reflection	spine fruit jam
...you can't acquire new diseases for 6 hours.	disease prevention and curing	fermented yuckwheat stem
...you are cured of an incubating disease with a 25% chance.	disease prevention and curing	fermented yuckwheat stem
...you are cured of the Ill status effect.	disease prevention and curing	fermented yuckwheat stem
...you release an electrical discharge per Electrical Generation at level 5-6.	electric	spark tick plasma
...you release an electromagnetic pulse at level 8-9.	electric	spark tick plasma
...you gain 125-175 Electric Resist for 50 turns.	electric	spark tick plasma
...you gain 40-50 Electric Resist for 6 hours.	electric	spark tick plasma
...you become immune to fear for 6 hours.	fear	dried lah petals
...you intimidate creatures around you.	fear	dried lah petals
...you are immune to fungal spores for 6 hours.	fungus	freeze-dried hoarshrooms, pickled mushrooms
...you gain 40-50 Heat Resist for 6 hours.	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
...you emit a ray of flame per Flaming Hands at level 5-6.	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
...you toast an area per Pyrokinesis at level 5-6.	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
...you gain 125-175 Heat Resist for 50 turns.	heat and fire	congealed blaze, cured dawnglider tail, fire ant gaster paste
...you heal to full 15% of the time.	HP	barkbiter jerky, bear jerky, beetle jerky, boar jerky, crab jerky, croc jerky, fish jerky, frog jerky, goat jerky, scorpiock jerky, worm jerky
...you get +30-40% max HP for 1 hour.	HP	barkbiter jerky, bear jerky, beetle jerky, boar jerky, crab jerky, croc jerky, fish jerky, frog jerky, goat jerky, scorpiock jerky, worm jerky
...you beguile a creature at per Beguiling at level 7-8.	love and loyalty	congealed love
...you can't be phased for 2 hours.	phasing	congealed shade oil, phase silk
...you phase out for 20 turns.	phasing	congealed shade oil, phase silk
...you reflect 100% damage the next 3 times you take damage within 50 turns.	powerful damage reflection	mirror dust
...you cause plants to spontaneously grow in a random nearby area.	powerful plant	crushed grave moss
...you heal 40-50 HP.	powerful regeneration and healing	soul curd
...one of your major negative status effects is removed at random. If no major effects, then a minor effect is removed instead.	powerful regeneration and healing	soul curd
...you jump three times in a row, each time at +2 range.	powerful rubber	sliced bop cheek
...you heal 15-20 HP.	regeneration and healing	congealed salve, starapple jam
...one of your minor negative status effects is removed at random.	regeneration and healing	congealed salve, starapple jam
...you stop bleeding.	regeneration and healing	congealed salve, starapple jam
...you jump twice in a row, each time at +1 range.	rubber	congealed rubbergum
...you have a 50% chance to Dismember or Slam your opponent.	strength	congealed hulk honey
...you gain +8 Strength for 50 turns.	strength	congealed hulk honey
...you teleport.	teleport	fermented yondercane, voider gland paste
...you teleport all creatures surrounding you.	teleport	fermented yondercane, voider gland paste
...you shoot out up to three sticky tongues per Sticky Tongue at rank 10.	tongue	fermented tongue
...you don't thirst for the next 12 hours.	water and thirst	pickles, vinewafer sheaf