How do I raise constitution?

[Dr. Thunderbeard]

I'm having an easy time gaining strength and dex, but my constitution is sitting at 1. Internet says eating should help with this, but I tried eating a lot of food and it did nothing. What am I missing?

[titanopteryx]

Eating blue quality food gives 5 con xp each. Eating purple quality food gives 10 xp each.

[dq_177]

Yeah eat high quality food items from your inventory, its such a dragging grind compared to other stats which basically increase as you play or at least have free methods of increasing them in chunks.

In the case of constitution you need to spend high-quality items for minuscule amounts of XP.

[Dr. Thunderbeard]

Thanks, that's good to know! Any tips on where to get cooking recipes? I can't find any...

[darkshintos]

Its easier to buy cooked food from Inns, Taverns, and street vendors than it is to cook your own food.

Most recipes require ingredients that you can't get a lot of at once, or you can only get a certain amount daily (Pure/Well Water). The main exception would be the 2 meat recipes from the start of the game if you helped one of the girls and then gave them either Snake Meat or Boar Meat.
You can get a few recipes from chests in abandoned houses, from trading with Hua Siniang, the Chef in Shifa temple if you join, and you'll get some recipes from quests in the other non-central regions.

[Dr. Thunderbeard]

Originally posted by darkshintos:

Its easier to buy cooked food from Inns, Taverns, and street vendors than it is to cook your own food.

Most recipes require ingredients that you can't get a lot of at once, or you can only get a certain amount daily (Pure/Well Water). The main exception would be the 2 meat recipes from the start of the game if you helped one of the girls and then gave them either Snake Meat or Boar Meat.
You can get a few recipes from chests in abandoned houses, from trading with Hua Siniang, the Chef in Shifa temple if you join, and you'll get some recipes from quests in the other non-central regions.

I helped one of the girls and gave her snake meat, and I definitely didn't get a recipe. Hmmmm.

[Zephyr]

Basically constitution training boils to playing the casino and emptying the tables of all their money just so you have your pockets full of money and can start touring the world riding your animal of choice buying every single piece of food you can find to stuff your face with. And while you're at it, you just also buy every single nameless item for appraisal training, pray at every single shrine on your way buying as much quality incense as you go to train intelligence too.

If you have teamates who are innkeepers(there are two, one at the start of the game), you have a portable food store you can use to further stuff your face.

"If you find the Buddha on the road, eat him."

[FunkyWeirdo]

Originally posted by Dr. Thunderbeard:

I helped one of the girls and gave her snake meat, and I definitely didn't get a recipe. Hmmmm.

You'll get snake meat recipe from Hua Qingqing, and boar meat recipe from Luo Qianxue (CIB). So you can only get one from each run, unless you have inherited the recipes from your previous runs.

Originally posted by darkshintos:

The main exception would be the 2 meat recipes from the start of the game if you helped one of the girls and then gave them either Snake Meat or Boar Meat.

Two other exceptions are the wolf meat recipe from the snow mountain in South West region, and the salamander meat recipe (purple tier) from the desert region.