Buff Food
Ordinary food fills your belly. Buff food does something else entirely: eating one gives you an hour of steady mana and stamina regeneration on top of your natural rate. It is the Cooking skill's real payoff, and the reason a chef is worth having in a guild.
One dish at a time
Eating a buff food replaces whatever buff you already had — there is no stacking, and a worse dish will overwrite a better one. Finish the hour before you eat again.
How the buff works
Every dish runs for one hour and ticks on a fixed interval. Each tick restores 1 mana and 1 stamina, but only up to your maximum — the buff tops you up, it does not push past your cap.
What the tier buys is tick speed, so a feast is three times the regeneration of a poor meal over the same hour:
| Tier | Ticks every | Mana & stamina per minute | Over the full hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | 6 seconds | +10 | 600 |
| Medium | 4 seconds | +15 | 900 |
| High | 3 seconds | +20 | 1,200 |
| Chef | 2 seconds | +30 | 1,800 |
The dish must be in your backpack to eat, and an icon shows the remaining time.
The dishes
All twelve come in the same three flavours — fish, meat and vegetable — which are identical in effect. Cook whichever your ingredients favour.
Poor — meals
| Dish | Cooking | Ingredients | |
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Fish meal | 50 – 75 | 4 raw fish steaks, 1 spices, 1 plate |
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Meat meal | 50 – 75 | 1 raw ribs, 1 spices, 1 plate |
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Vegetable meal | 50 – 75 | 3 carrots, 2 lettuce, 1 spices, 1 plate |
Medium — stews
| Dish | Cooking | Ingredients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Fish stew | 70 – 100 | 6 raw fish steaks, 1 spices, 1 plate |
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Meat stew | 70 – 100 | 3 raw ribs, 1 spices, 1 plate |
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Vegetable stew | 70 – 100 | 4 carrots, 1 turnip, 1 spices, 1 plate |
High — plates
| Dish | Cooking | Ingredients | |
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Fish plate | 80 – 115 | 8 raw fish steaks, 1 spices, 1 plate, 1 small tablet |
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Meat plate | 80 – 115 | 5 raw ribs, 1 spices, 1 plate, 1 small tablet |
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Vegetable plate | 80 – 115 | 2 potatoes, 2 turnips, 1 spices, 1 plate, 1 small tablet |
Chef — feasts
The top tier needs Grandmaster Cooking, a learned recipe, and spices, a plate and a large tablet — plus a headline ingredient that is itself a trophy:
| Dish | Cooking | Ingredients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Fish feast | 100 – 120 | 1 big fish, 1 spices, 1 plate, 1 large tablet |
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Meat feast | 100 – 120 | 7 raw ribs, 1 spices, 1 plate, 1 large tablet |
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Vegetable feast | 100 – 120 | 2 potatoes, 1 mushroom, 1 spices, 1 plate, 1 large tablet |
A big fish only comes from deep-water fishing at 80+ skill, and potatoes are picked from farmer fields — so the best food on the shard is a collaboration between a chef, a fisher and a farmer.
Related
- Cooking — the skill that makes all of it, with the full craft list
- Collectable Ingredients — potatoes, turnips and mushrooms
- Fishing — where big fish come from
- Recipes — the recipe scrolls the feasts need