cookmaxxing

[Birdosrus]

what is the best way to level up cooking?

[Frozztastic]

My guess would just be to cook things.

Not sure if different items give different XP, but you should be able to test it pretty easily.

[Birdosrus]

Originally posted by Frozztastic:

My guess would just be to cook things.

Not sure if different items give different XP, but you should be able to test it pretty easily.

Crafting a food item gives one experience.
Placing an item on a cooking station gives 0.4 experience.
Picking an item from a cooking station gives 0.6 experience (Coal included).

The questions are knowing these ^ would bread be the most effective method? or the other thought would crafting a bunch of fire resist pots be better? do fermenters count as a cooking station? both are getting the max of 2 xp. OR is it better to spam low cost 1xp food such as fried egg, onion soup, or cooking meat on a station

[Frozztastic]

If it's 1xp per grill/grab or 1xp per cook, I'd say a small field of cooking spits would give a possibility for earning it much quicker.

You would just need to be able to place a few dozen items at once.

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Now that I think of it, that would take a huge amount of inventory, even if you're just using Boar meat.

Depending on your Barley setup, maybe making Dough/Bread would work. I know I can get a pretty decent amount in a short time.

You have me exceptionally curious, and I may have to run some tests myself here.

[Suzaku]

If they haven't patched it yet, you can try to cook on a cooking station with no fire under it. Nothing happens, but you still get the exp for trying.

[Frozztastic]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

If they haven't patched it yet, you can try to cook on a cooking station with no fire under it. Nothing happens, but you still get the exp for trying.

Well yeah, but that's basically Mozzarella.

[Birdosrus]

Originally posted by Frozztastic:

If it's 1xp per grill/grab or 1xp per cook, I'd say a small field of cooking spits would give a possibility for earning it much quicker.

You would just need to be able to place a few dozen items at once.

...

Now that I think of it, that would take a huge amount of inventory, even if you're just using Boar meat.

Depending on your Barley setup, maybe making Dough/Bread would work. I know I can get a pretty decent amount in a short time.

You have me exceptionally curious, and I may have to run some tests myself here.

With the boar method we would *ideally* setup an autobreeder with 2 star boars for this the boar evolve time would be the time taker. the same process would be done with the fried egg path too minus the evolve time *edit the onion process too would be the same wait grow time for the seeds and onions

With the barley setup we need lots of windmills and the dough and bread give % chance of excess which means more xp the wait time for this would be the windmills and grow time

With the fermenting method it would take alot less resources but as of now im not sure fermenters count towards xp gain, assuming they do they would be the least costly for 2 xp gain but the wait time is fermenting which would also require alot of fermenters

as it stands i made 40 bread dough gained 3 extra at level 8 1/2 and cooking the bread gave me 53 bread and level 10 so ya this is going to require LOTS of storage but good news is well never be hungry again LMAO

[Frozztastic]

Originally posted by Birdosrus:

Originally posted by Frozztastic:

If it's 1xp per grill/grab or 1xp per cook, I'd say a small field of cooking spits would give a possibility for earning it much quicker.

You would just need to be able to place a few dozen items at once.

...

Now that I think of it, that would take a huge amount of inventory, even if you're just using Boar meat.

Depending on your Barley setup, maybe making Dough/Bread would work. I know I can get a pretty decent amount in a short time.

You have me exceptionally curious, and I may have to run some tests myself here.

With the boar method we would *ideally* setup an autobreeder with 2 star boars for this the boar evolve time would be the time taker. the same process would be done with the fried egg path too minus the evolve time

With the barley setup we need lots of windmills and the dough and bread give % chance of excess which means more xp the wait time for this would be the windmills and grow time

With the fermenting method it would take alot less resources but as of now im not sure fermenters count towards xp gain, assuming they do they would be the least costly for 2 xp gain but the wait time is fermenting which would also require alot of fermenters

as it stands i made 40 bread dough gained 3 extra at level 8 1/2 and cooking the bread gave me 53 bread and level 10 so ya this is going to require LOTS of storage but good news is well never be hungry again LMAO

Didn't even think of eggs, then you really just need a good supply of seeds and you'd be set.

I wonder how productive my Chickens have been...

[SertanDoom]

Huge field of some kind of crop and crank the world modifier to times 3 so you get lots of stuff to cook.

[Tom]

Deer stew and fish wraps are probably good options since they require you to cook an ingredient on a fire spit first, so you're double dipping on exp from the ingredients. Bonus to deer stew is hunting can also farm a ranged combat skill like crossbows or magic.

[adritheonly]

Originally posted by Birdosrus:

Crafting a food item gives one experience.
Placing an item on a cooking station gives 0.4 experience.
Picking an item from a cooking station gives 0.6 experience (Coal included).

The questions are knowing these ^ would bread be the most effective method? or the other thought would crafting a bunch of fire resist pots be better? do fermenters count as a cooking station? both are getting the max of 2 xp. OR is it better to spam low cost 1xp food such as fried egg, onion soup, or cooking meat on a station

I pretty much did that by turning all the fish I had stockpiled since the meadows into raw fish and then cooked fish.
EDIT: and then fishwraps.

[adritheonly]

Originally posted by Tom:

Deer stew and fish wraps are probably good options since they require you to cook an ingredient on a fire spit first, so you're double dipping on exp from the ingredients. Bonus to deer stew is hunting can also farm a ranged combat skill like crossbows or magic.

Agreed. Also sneaking after deer with a bow. So basically, making deerstew increases bow, sneaking, cooking skills before you get iron for the foodprep table to make fishwraps.

[Zombits]

You can place up to 4 cooking station on every small campfire .... If you're really dedicated, place a lot of those and cook everything, lol

[Mineralwasser]

You still could place the stuff into the cooking station with a fire under it and deconstruct it. Build it up again, put the stuff into the cooking station and deconstruct it again. That way would save some resources. Is it efficient? I dont know.

[brianloveslisa]

I mean to be fair, the "best" way to level it is, to just use the dev command. As for the best "non "cheat way" that is up for debate until the people crunch numbers.

[Draconis]

I did not actively level up cooking at all and it got to about 30is now that I am near end of mistlands (i.e. Carapace Armor, my weapons, all 4 staves, mage robes are complete and upgraded). And the additional food procs often enough I think.

But if I want to actively level up cooking, I'd go with cooked eggs. I set up a chicken-breeding tower, so it rains eggs actually (or.... eggtually?). Maybe I should put two more hen up in the "production floor", so the eggs come quicker, if it comes to that.