Cooking 101

Introduction to Cooking
Cooking is used to make cooked foods. These foods will provide great healing, but there is a disadvantage. While dining, the player will be seated and cannot attack or be attacked. This is a crucial skill and basically free except the cost of leveling up.

Learning Cooking
Players will learn cooking automatically during the tutorial quests at Level 3.

Recommended Skills
It is recommended that the following skills be learned starting from a low level.

Planting
By learning the skill Planting, the player will be able to supply his or herself with staple ingredients.

Fishing
By learning the skill Fishing, the player will be able to supply his or herself with fish products.

Regiment
This skill supports Cooking by increasing the chance of successfully preparing foods.

Using Cooking Skills
To use the Cooking skill, the player should open the skill. Then, he or she must select the recipe they wish to cook and click the "Produce" button. The player should make sure they have the required vigor and ingredients.

Recipes
From the beginning, players can cook steamed bread. To cook different foods, the player must learn other recipes. Players may buy these recipes from merchants or get them when killing monsters. Right click it in the inventory to learn it.

Leveling up Cooking
When the player's Cooking proficiency reaches the required limit, they can level up the skill. Go to a Cooking Master, either Swift Du(117,157) in Da Li, Chef Li(134,152) in Luo Yang, or Sagacious(189, 173) in Su Zhou. Choose "Level up Cooking skill", then click "Learn". Leveling up the skills will require both gold and experience.

Proficiency
When learning a new life skill, it has a proficiency of 0. The proficiency will increase when doing more exercises. When it gets to the limit of the current level, practice will not add proficiency. When the player levels up, the maximum proficiency will increase again.

Cooking Materials and Products
Materials used in Cooking are processed meats, fish, grain, corn, rice, etc. Cooking produces edible foods which heal the player.

Regimen - Life Skill
Regimen assists the cooking life skill by reducing Vigor consumption when practicing cooking.

The higher the level of the Regimen skill the less Vigor is needed when cooking.

Regimen will also increase the chance of getting extra bonuses when cooking.

This skill can be learned by talking to Regimen Master Rose Wei in the city of Luo Yang. Rose Wei is at location [132,154] on your Luo Yang map