Cooking guide
So while I was levelling my cooking, I was looking for answer to some of my questions and … well I finished by finding all I needed but not regrouped in a simple, clear and complete guide. Therefore, I decided to write on.
** Note: this is the first version of this guide; if you have elements to include or if I made errors, please tell me (politely plz) so I can improve the guide with your help; 2.0 style baby! Thx
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Table of Content:
1 - Starting with cooking
1.1 - Learning the base skill;
1.2 - What you need to craft food;
1.3 - Levelling past 20;
2 - Exhaustive lists:
2.1 - Recipe;
2.2 - Recipe sellers;
2.3 - Crafting station;
2.4 - Food salesmen (selling the flour, apple, and such)
2.5 - Getting the activate rune
3 - FAQ
Content
1 - Starting with cooking
So you want to learn cooking, where you are at the right place to start. In this guide, we will try to cover every aspects of cooking from the basic learning to the location of the hardest to get recipes!
Why would you like to cook I ear people say? Well for one thing, it’s part of the game mechanic so why not exploit everything this game has to offer to the fullest?! But mainly, you would want to learn cooking because of what it allows you to craft, sell, trade, give and use (just look at the bonuses offered!). Note that compared to House Maid food, the food you craft has no expiration date and can be sold or traded.
1.1 - Learning the base skill;
To learn the basic skill of cooking, you must talk to a NPC in Varanas Lower City East zone, her name is Marlyn Cooker and she is located at 47.8 | 26.2. Once you talked with her, you can start to craft and level your skill.
1.2 - What you need to craft food;
First, you need a recipe. Every two levels, you have access to new recipes.
Then, you need the raw material. There are two types of raw material you will need in order to cook in Runes of Magic. First are the raw materials you gather (herb and wood). You can either buy these resources at the AH or gather them yourself (note that to gather resources, you must have a minimal level of gathering skill, therefore if you want to gather the resources you need for crafting, you will have to do it from the beginning or to level eventually these skills). Secondly, you will need additional resources to craft food, but these cooking specific resources, MUST be purchased from a NPC (usually located right next to the crafting station and/or the NPC that sells recipe).
Once you have the recipe and the raw material, all you have to do is go next to a crafting station, press “ K ” and then choose “ Cooking ”. There, you will see in the left part of the dialog box that will open what you can craft and in what quantity. You can choose at the bottom of this window the number of item you want to be crafted and click “ craft ”. While you will be crafting, you will see the number the item you must craft to level to the next level. Remember, you must
always level two levels at a time (since a new recipe is only available every two levels).
What’s with rune? From a certain level, every type of production (crafting) requires a specific rune. In the case of cooking, from the level 11 every good you produce requires 1 activate rune.
1.3 - Levelling past 20;
When you reach level 20, you will realize that when you craft, you no longer receive experience toward the levelling. That is because to level past 20, you must realize a quest. This quest will be available from the same NPC you learned cooking from, which incidentally is also the one who’s been selling you all recipes from level 1 to 40. The quests name is “Bring me Fish Egg Sandwiches” and infos on that quest can be found here:
http://www.es.runesdatabase.com/quest/42…-egg-sandwiches
Why is that so? Why do I have to make a quest to level passed a certain point? Well, simply put, every profession has four ranks: apprentice (20), craftsman (40), adept (60) and master (80). You can learn as many professions as you wish on the apprentice rank, can become a craftsman in six trades, be adept in three and ultimately master one profession. Therefore, they ask you for a quest to make sure you actually want to level passed that specific level and that you are not simply using your skill.
You will have to do the same to level passed 40. The quest will be available for the NPC named XXX located XXX.
Since patch 4.0.1 (July 2011), we can now level passed 60. To do that, simply talk to the NPC named Sam Paresh located in Varanas Lower City West (29.8 / 46.3). When you talk to him, he will give you a package including, among other things, a pot.
2 - Exhaustive lists:
2.1 - Recipe;
Level 1 :
Roasted Fish x3
Recipe: Roasted Fish - Increases physical attack by 120.0 for 900 seconds
Level 1 :
Roasted Salty Fish x2
Recipe: Roasted Salty Fish - Increases physical attack by 1% + 120.0 points for 600 seconds
Level 2 :
Sour Cheeseball x3
Recipe: Sour Cheeseball - Increases physical defense by 360.0 for 600 seconds
Level 2 :
Fruits and Cheese x2
Recipe: Fruits and Cheese - Increases physical defense by 1% + 360 for 600 seconds.
Level 4 :
Roasted Meat x3
Recipe: Roasted Meat - Increases magical attack by 20 for 600 seconds
Level 4 :
Garlic Roasted Meat x2
Recipe: Garlic Roasted Meat - Increases magical attack by 1% + 120 for 900 seconds
Level 6 :
Herbal Fruit x3
Recipe: Herbal Fruit - Increases magical defense by 360 for 600 seconds
Level 6 :
Aromatic Fruit x2
Recipe: Aromatic Fruit - Increases magical defense by 1% + 360 for 900 seconds
Level 8 :
Salted Fish x3
Recipe: Salted Fish - Increases physical damage by 240 for 900 seconds
Level 8 :
Salted Fish with Sauce x2
Recipe: Salted Fish with Sauce - Increases weapon damage by 3% + 48 for 900 seconds
Level 10 :
Sweet Deep-fried Doughnuts x3
Recipe: Sweet Deep-fried Doughnuts - Blocks 100 points of physical damage for 60 seconds
Level 10 :
Crisp Doughnuts x2
Recipe: Crisp Doughnuts - Invulnerable to all physical damage for 3 seconds
Level 12 :
Smoked Bacon x3
Recipe: Smoked Bacon - Increases magical attack power by 240.0 for 900 seconds
Level 12 :
Smoked Bacon with Herbs x2
Recipe: Smoked Bacon with Herbs - Increases Magical damage by (current Magical Damage + 48.0) x 3.0% + 48.0 for 900.0 seconds
Level 14 :
Bread and Jam x3
Recipe: Bread and Jam - Blocks 160 points of magical damage for 60 seconds
Level 14 :
Sweet Fruit Bread x2
Recipe: Sweet Fruit Bread - Invulnerable to all magical damage for 3 seconds
Level 16 :
Honey Roasted Chicken x3
Recipe: Honey Roasted Chicken - Increases physical attack by 480 for 900 seconds
Level 16 :
Crisp Honey Roasted Chicken x2
Recipe: Crisp Honey Roasted Chicken - Increases physical attack by 6% + 480 for 900 seconds
Level 18 :
Garlic Bread x3
Recipe: Garlic Bread - Increases healing effect by 5% for 60 seconds
Level 18 :
Garlic Bread with Herbs x2
Recipe: Garlic Bread with Herbs - Increases healing effect by 5% for 120 seconds
Level 20 :
Fish Egg Sandwich x3
Recipe: Fish Egg Sandwich - Increases magical attack power by 480 for 900 seconds
Level 20 :
Caviar Sandwich x2
Recipe: Caviar Sandwich - Increases Critical Physical Hit Rate by 48 points and Critical Physical Damage by 10.0% for 60 seconds.
Level 22 :
Meat and Bread x3
Recipe: Meat and Bread - Increases physical defense by 1560.0 for 600.0 seconds.
Level 22 :
Excellent Meat and Bread x2
Recipe: Excellent Meat and Bread - Increases physical defense by 6.0% + 1560.0 points for 600.0 seconds.
Level 24 :
Creamy Seafood Pie x3
Recipe: Creamy Seafood Pie - Increases physical attack power by 840.0 points for 900.0 seconds.
Level 24 :
Deluxe Seafood x2
Recipe: Deluxe Seafood - Increases magical power by 11% + 840.0 points for 900 seconds.
Level 26 :
Mushroom Pie x2
Recipe: Mushroom Pie - Increases magical defense by 1560.0 for 600.0 seconds.
Level 26 :
Delicious Mushroom Pie x2
Recipe: Delicious Mushroom Pie - Increases magical defense by 6.0% + 1650.0 points for 600.0 seconds.
Level 28 :
Meatsauce Burrito x3
Recipe: Meatsauce Burrito - Increases magical power by 840.0 for 900.0 seconds.
Level 28 :
Spicy Meatsauce Burrito x2
Recipe: Spicy Meatsauce Burrito - Increases physical attack power by 11.0% + 840.0 points for 900.0 seconds.
Level 30 :
Crystal Sugar x3
Recipe: Crystal Sugar - Blocks 300.0 points of physical damage for 60.0 seconds.
Level 30 :
Rainbow Crystal Candy x2
Recipe: Rainbow Crystal Candy - Immune to physical damage for 4.0 seconds.
Level 32 :
Swamp Mix x3
Recipe: Swamp Mix - Increases critical physical hit rate by 72.0 points for 900.0 seconds.
Level 32 :
Delicious Swamp Mix x2
Recipe: Delicious Swamp Mix - Increases Magical Damage for 8.0% + 128.0 points for 900.0 seconds.
Level 34 :
Exotic Fruit Pie x3
Recipe: Exotic Fruit Pie - All mana costs reduced by 25.0% for 60.0 seconds
Level 34 :
Magic Fruit Pie x2
Recipe: Magic Fruit Pie - All mana costs reduced by 25.0% for 120.0 seconds.
Level 36 :
Seaworm Salad x3
Recipe: Seaworm Salad - Increases critical magical hit rate by 72.0 points for 900.0 seconds.
Level 36 :
Unimaginable Salad x2
Recipe: Unimaginable Salad - Increases Physical Attack Power by 15% + 1200 points for 900 seconds.
Level 38 :
Green Soft Cake x3
Recipe: Green Soft Cake - Blocks 360.0 points of magical damage for 60.0 seconds.
Level 38 :
Forestsong Soft Cake x2
Recipe: Forestsong Soft Cake - Invulnerable to all magical damage for 4.0 seconds.
Level 40 :
General's Three-color Sausage x3
Recipe: General's Three-color Sausage - Increases physical attack power by 1200.0 for 900.0 seconds.
Level 40 :
Moti Blended Sausage x2
Recipe: Moti Blended Sausage - Increases the critical magical hit rate by 5.0% and critical magical damage by 10.0% for 60.0 seconds.
Level 42 :
Tea-scented Waffle x3
Recipe: Tea-scented Waffle - Increases physical defense by 2760.0 for 600.0 seconds.
Level 42 :
Exquisite Tea-scented Waffle x2
Recipe: Exquisite Tea-scented Waffle - Increases physical defense by 11.0% + 2760.0 points for 600.0 seconds.
Level 44 :
Cheese Fishcake x3
Recipe: Cheese Fishcake - Increases magical power by 1200.0 for 900.0 seconds.
Level 44 :
Imperial Seafood Pie x2
Recipe: Imperial Seafood Pie - Increases magical power by 15.0% + 1200.0 points for 900.0 seconds.
Level 46 :
Cocoa Shortbread with Herbs x3
Recipe: Cocoa Shortbread with Herbs - Increases magical defense by 2760.0 for 600.0 seconds.
Level 46 :
Exquisite Cocoa Shortbread x2
Recipe: Exquisite Cocoa Shortbread - Increases magical defense by 11.0% + 2760.0 points for 600.0 seconds.
Level 48 :
Dragon's Banquet x3
Recipe: Dragon's Banquet - Increases physical attack power by 1500.0 for 900.0 seconds.
Level 48 :
Doom's Banquet x2
Recipe: Doom's Banquet - Increases physical damage by 12.0% + 192.0 for 900.0 seconds.
Level 50 :
Wizard's Rations x3
Recipe: Wizard's Rations - Blocks 420 points of physical damage for 60 seconds.
Level 50 :
Laor Forest Tart Recipe: Laor Forest Tart - Immune to physical damage for 6 seconds.
Level 52 :
Ritual Eucharist Recipe: Ritual Eucharist - Increases magical attack power by 1500 points for 900 seconds.
Level 52 :
Dinner of the Gods Recipe: Dinner of the Gods - Increases critical magical damage by 12% for 900 seconds.
Level 54 :
Dreamland Fruit Recipe: Dreamland Fruit - Blocks 480 points of magical damage for 60 seconds.
Level 54 :
Serenstum Recipe: Serenstum - Immune to magical damage for 6.0 seconds.
** As often discussed on this forum,
there are no recipes for levels 56 and 58 so you have to level (for the moment) from the 54 recipe. For more infos on this issue, check the specific thread in the cooking section among which:
1)
http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=53360
2)
http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=47398
Level 60 :
Vegetable Sandwich Recipe: Vegetable Sandwich - Increases magical damage by (current magical damage + 240) x 12% + 240 for 900 seconds.
Level 60 :
Loaf of Magic Hard Bread Recipe: Loaf of Magic Hard Bread - Increases magical attack power by (current magical attack power + 2000) x 15% + 2000 for 900 seconds.
Level 60 :
Lightly Burnt Ribs Recipe: Lightly Burnt Ribs - Increases physical damage by (current physical damage + 240) x 12% + 240 for 900 seconds.
Level 60 :
Lightly Burnt Fish Recipe: Lightly Burnt Fish - Increases physical attack power by (current physical attack power + 2000) x 15% + 2000 for 900 seconds.
Level 60 :
Chocolate Cake Recipe: Chocolate Cake - Increases physical defense by (current physical defense + 4000) x 11% + 4000 for 900 seconds.
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Bitter Dark Chocolate[/FONT][FONT="]
Recipe: Bitter Dark Chocolate[/FONT][FONT="]- Increases magical defense by (current magical defense + 4000) x 11% + 4000 for 900 seconds.
To go further:
[/FONT] The runesdatabase offers a complete list of all recipes known up to level 65.
http://www.runesdatabase.com/recipe/list/19
The Rom Wiki offers a list of the most common craftable food:
http://www.theromwiki.com/Cooking
2.2 - Recipe sellers;
2.3 - Crafting station;
2.4 - Cooking Supplies Merchant (selling the flour, apple, and such).
Howling Mountains, zone, name (X | Y)
Varanas, Lower City East, name (X | Y)
Aslan Valley, zone, name (X | Y)
Ystra Highlands, zone, name (X | Y)
Sascilia steppes, zone, name (X | Y)
Dragonfang Ridge, zone, name (X | Y)
Obsidian Stronghold, zone, name (X | Y)
Ravenfell, zone, name (X | Y)
Weeping Coast, zone, name (X | Y)
Savage Lands, zone, name (X | Y)
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Thunder Hoof Hill, Dalanis, name (X | Y)
South Janos Forest, zone, name (X | Y)
North Janos Forest, zone, name (X | Y)
Kingdom of Limon, zone, name (X | Y)
2.5 - Getting the activate rune
3 - FAQ
1)
Q: What is the difference between the House Maid food and crafted food?
A: While House Maid food is just a click away, it has several drawback compared to crafted food. First, House Maid food must be consumed fast (it expires while crafted food doesn't). Then, you don't choose what your House Maid cooks for you (it's determined by her level) while you have total control over what you actually craft (you can therefor craft food way under you level to give to a friend who tries to level ATM for example). Crafted food will also last longer (buffs tend to last longer) and can be traded, given or sold to anyone. At the same time, there are different quality of food crafted for every level. To get the basic bonus (+ X magical attack for example), the material needed is easily obtained. To get the same type of boost as you get from house maid food (ex: + X magical attack x 11% + X magical attack) you will need to get materials that are more difficult to obtain and/or more expensive to buy.
2) Q:
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