Cooking Experience

[zakabi]

Can someone explain how experience for cooking works? I can't seem to level cooking very much... Do higher focus foods give more exp to cook or the ones that take more ingredients? Do you get more exp cooking with others? Does stared results give more or does star end product not matter in terms of exp given? So confused :(

[MadDawg2552]

I just did an experiment. I tested the Lucky Braised Fish vs Grilled Fish on the campfire. It took me 4 minutes and 51 seconds to cook the Lucky Braised Fish, so that was my time for the Grilled Fish as well. I used these two recipes because they both used fish, the Braised Fish gives the most XP out of any recipe, and I had a lot of fish saved up (star quality).

Lucky Braised Fish: 540 XP <--- did not end up being star quality
Grilled Fish: Over 1000 XP (my focus bar completely emptied and I still had 20 seconds left on the clock).

For the Grilled Fish, I had 4 campfires going. By the time I had finished prepping the 4th campfire, the first one was done cooking. I started with 300 fish, and I still have 218 left.

Even if I could get the time on the Braised Fish down and had a 100% success rate for star quality, grilling fish on the campfire would still be the faster XP gain. You have to factor in the amount of time it takes to get the ingredients, too, and the Braised Fish has so many ingredients...

However, I would recommend doing the Congee on the campfire because it only uses rice, and you can farm rice by the thousands, and you are 100% guaranteed a star quality dish with star quality rice (for the bonus XP).

P.S. You also don't have to use /unstuck when using the campfire.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

That's an awful lot of fish to use. I don't have enough room to keep hundreds on hand and I'm worried about accidentally using stuff up since it's not clear what the priority is if you don't select it manually

I could still make congee but I would need like 8 campfires

[MadDawg2552]

That's why I was saying to just spam whatever you have the most of. Being able to just cook non-stop for an hour would give you a lot more XP than having to stop and get ingredients.

From my testing, though, spamming campfire recipes on multiple campfires is the fastest way to get XP. All campfire recipes take 15 seconds to cook and give 20 XP. Campfires are also cheap to make and they don't take up a crafting slot.

[Shady Imp]

It would be easier if we couldmake some of the ingredients or preparations beforehand. I mean for some recipes you need to bake bread but you cant prepare it or just bake it to eat alone. If they would single out some of the stuff that comes with some of the recipes we would not need cooking parties. Yes i know the idea is to have activities together bbut it would be nice to have the option.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Sagals:

It would be easier if we couldmake some of the ingredients or preparations beforehand. I mean for some recipes you need to bake bread but you cant prepare it or just bake it to eat alone. If they would single out some of the stuff that comes with some of the recipes we would not need cooking parties. Yes i know the idea is to have activities together bbut it would be nice to have the option.

Its still bothers me that we don't have any sort of mill or process to turn Wheat into Flour, or Sweetroot into Sugar. And for some recipes, you literally just skip the flour and roll wheat directly into dough??