Cooking

Overview

Cooking turns raw meat, fish, and other ingredients gathered from creatures and fishing into prepared food.

Getting Started

Chef Argna trains the skill at the Shaded Bloom Inn, and Cooking Trainer Violyn also teaches it in Night Harbor. You’ll want a Cleaver for butchering, a Fish Scaler for cleaning catches, and a Mortar and Pestle for finer preparations — all available from cooks in Night Harbor or the Alchemy Supplies vendor.

Materials & Tiers

Cooking splits into two halves: simple 1:1 conversions (skin a Raw Jackal Meat into Cooked Jackal Meat) that barely move your skill, and multi-ingredient prepared dishes that add seasonings and sides for bigger, more reliable skill-ups.

Leveling Tips

Don’t linger on the raw-to-cooked conversions once you have options — they’re mostly there to use up hunting drops. Move into prepared dishes as soon as their trivial makes sense; the seasoning costs (Black Pepper, Crystallized Salt, Garlic) are cheap relative to the skill-up they give.

Pairs With

Fishing — supplies raw fish for fillets and prepared seafood dishes.
Alchemy — the Mortar and Pestle is shared equipment between the two skills.

Recipes by Tier

Simple 1:1 conversions (raw meat or fish into its cooked form) are grouped separately from multi-ingredient prepared dishes, which are further split by trivial skill level.

Raw Meats & Fillets 18 recipes

Trivial	Type	Item	Components Needed
1	Dish	Cooked Ashira Meat Source: Ashira	Raw Ashira Meat
1	Dish	Cooked Basilisk Meat Source: Basilisk	Raw Basilisk Meat
1	Dish	Cooked Crocodile Meat Source: Crocodiles	Raw Crocodile Meat
1	Dish	Raw Basa Fillet Source: Fishing	Raw Basa + Cleaver
1	Dish	Grouper Fillet Source: Fishing	Raw Grouper + Cleaver
1	Dish	Cooked Whitefish Fillet Source: Fishing	Raw Whitefish + Cleaver
1	Dish	Raw Tide Minnow Fillet Source: Fishing	Raw Tide Minnow + Cleaver
1	Dish	Cooked Bat Meat Source: Bats	Raw Bat Meat
1	Dish	Cooked Beetle Meat Source: Beetles	Raw Beetle Meat
1	Dish	Cooked Jackal Meat Source: Jackals	Raw Jackal Meat
1	Dish	Cooked Rat Meat Source: Rats	Raw Rat Meat
1	Dish	Cooked Scarab Meat Source: Scarabs	Raw Scarab Meat
1	Dish	Fish Bones Source: Fishing	Cleaver + any Raw Fish
1	Dish	Fish Stock x4 Source: Crocodile Hatchling	Fish Bones x8 Water Flask x2
?	Dish	Crab Cakes Source: Fishing	Raw Bay Crab x2 Lemon x1 Parsley x1
?	Dish	Tomato Onion Relish Source: Veggies	Tomato x2 Onion x1 White Vinegar x1
?	Dish	Basilisk Skewers Source: Basilisks	Raw Basilisk Fillet Bell Pepper x1 Onion x1 Crystallized Salt x1
?	Dish	Creamy Grouper Stew Source: Fishing	Grouper Fillet x2 Garlic x1 Mushroom x1 Stock x1 Carrot x1

Prepared Dishes (Basic) Trivial 10–20 · 7 recipes

Trivial	Type	Item	Components Needed
10	Dish	Cooked Snake Meat Source: Snakes	Raw Snake Meat
10	Dish	Crocodile Steak Source: Croodiles	Raw Crocodile Meat x1 Butter x1 Basil x1
15	Dish	Pan Fried Whitefish Source: Fishing	Cooked Whitefish Fillet x1 Butter x1
15	Dish	Roasted Rat with Onion Source: Rats	Raw Rat Meat x1 Onion x1 Black Pepper
20	Dish	Boiled Scarab Legs Source: Dunes Scarab	Scarab Leg x2
20	Dish	Cabbage Stew Source: Veggies	Cabbage x1 Onion x1 Stock
20	Dish	Peppered Wolf Meat Source: Wolves	Raw Wolf Meat x1 Black Pepper x2

Prepared Dishes (Advanced) Trivial 25–60 · 8 recipes

Trivial	Type	Item	Components Needed
25	Dish	Bat Jerky Source: Bats	Raw Bat Meat x1 Black Pepper x2 Crystallized Salt x1
30	Dish	Cured Jackal Meat Source: Jackals	Raw Jackal Meat x1 Crystallized Salt x2
40	Dish	Spiced Snake Cutlet Source: Snakes	Raw Snake Meat x1 Garlic x1 Basil x1 Paprika
45	Dish	Garlic Rat Haunch Source: Rats	Raw Rat Fillet x1 Garlic x1 Butter x1
45	Dish	Lemon Basa Fillet Source: Basa	Raw Basa Fillet x1 Lemon x1 Crystallized Salt x1
50	Dish	Spicy Scarab Stew Source: Scarabs	Raw Scarab Meat x1 Onion x1 Stock x1 Black Pepper x1 Carrot x1
60	Dish	Cheesy Mushshroom Soup Source: Veggies	Mushshroom x2 Cheese x1 Stock x1 Black Pepper x1
60	Dish	Slow-Roasted Bear Shoulder Source: Bears	Raw Bear Meat x1 Butter x1 Crystallized Salt x1 Garlic x1