Cooking

Cooking is the skill of turning raw ingredients into meals that keep people alive, healthy, and in good spirits. A skilled cook can make the difference between surviving and thriving, providing nourishment, variety, and morale to a community.
You will need a set of Cooking Tools and ingredients to begin. As you improve your skill, you will be able to prepare more complex recipes, increase the nutritional value of your meals, and make better use of scarce resources.
Starting at 25% Skill, you gain more detailed information when examining ingredients and prepared dishes. Hovering over an item will reveal more about its nutritional value, effects, and potential uses.
Skill Perks
(25%) Perk:10% food value bonus
(50%) Perk:30% food value bonus, hot food buff lasts 15% longer
(75%) Perk:50% food value bonus, hot food buff lasts 50% longer
(100%) Gastronomics: You've gained mastery over the limited ingredients this new world has to offer, and have learned ways to manipulate flavor profiles to recreate dishes reminiscent of the old world.
Gastronomy
At 50% skill, you unlock *<font color="#DAA520"Gastronomy, the advanced art of creating custom cuisines. Gastronomy lets you combine ingredients into your own unique dishes.
- 50% Skill: Combine up to 2 ingredients.
- 75% Skill: Combine up to 4 ingredients.
- 100% Skill: Combine up to 5 ingredients.
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