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gap: 1px; background: var(--border2); border: 1px solid var(--border2); border-radius: 3px; overflow: hidden; } .src-card { background: var(--card); padding: 13px 16px; transition: background .12s; } .src-card:hover { background: rgba(255,255,255,0.02); } .src-name { font-weight: 600; color: #e8ddd0; font-size: 14.5px; } .src-loc { color: var(--muted); font-size: 13px; margin-top: 3px; line-height: 1.5; } .src-use { color: #90b0c8; font-size: 12.5px; margin-top: 4px; font-style: italic; } @media (max-width: 640px) { .toc ol { columns: 1; } .tier-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); } .source-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; } .page { padding: 20px 14px 48px; } table { font-size: 13px; } thead th, tbody td { padding: 8px 10px; } } Contents How to Cook Dish Tiers Ingredient Substitution Learning Recipes All Recipes The Grand Feast Ingredient Sources 🍲 How to Cook Cooking requires three things: ingredients , a recipe , and access to a cooking station . Unlike Blacksmithing or Alchemy, cooking stations are scattered freely across towns and camps — look for iron pots hung over bonfires, iron skillets on stone slabs, and woks near market stalls. Always cook before heading into boss territory — food buffs stack with elixirs and the difference is substantial. Station What It Makes Where to Find Iron Pot Soups, stews, porridges — water-based dishes that restore HP and Stamina over time Found in every major settlement. The Greymane Camp kitchen has one by default. Skillet Fried dishes, grilled meats, pan-fried vegetables — oil-based recipes that grant attack and defense buffs Hernand City market area, Pailune inn courtyard, Calphade trading post Wok Marinated dishes, skewers, sautéed items — mixed recipes balancing offense and HP Hernand east district, Greymane Camp after kitchen upgrade Any Station Simple drinks and teas — most single-stat buffs can be made at any station — Field cooking: You cannot cook in the open field — you always need a station. However, once you build the Greymane Camp Kitchen (via the Restore the Camp main quest), you have a personal station accessible at any time during camp rest. ★ Dish Tiers Every recipe in Crimson Desert has four quality tiers depending on how many ingredients you use. A Hearty version of a recipe uses the most ingredients but delivers dramatically stronger effects. For boss fights, always aim for Hearty . Basic versions are only worth crafting when ingredient stocks run low. Hearty Maximum ingredients — highest yield per craft +150% effectiveness Satisfying Balanced — good return for mid-game stocks +100% effectiveness Filling Reduced ingredients — smaller buff, longer duration tradeoff +50% effectiveness Basic Minimum ingredients — only when stockpiles are critical Normal effectiveness Tier is determined by ingredient count, not quality. You cannot directly choose a tier — add more of the required ingredients (up to the Hearty threshold listed in your recipe book) to reach the higher tier automatically. ⇄ Ingredient Substitution Every ingredient in Pywel belongs to one of six categories . Within a category, any ingredient can stand in for another — but higher-quality variants produce stronger dishes . Tender Meat gives better HP restoration than Lean Meat even in the same recipe. Always use your best available ingredient when cooking for boss encounters. 🥩 Meat Lean Meat, Tender Meat, Fine Meat, Bird Meat — also Beast Meat from large enemies 🥬 Vegetable Any gathered plant that isn't a herb — Cabbage, Turnip, Onion, Leek 🍎 Fruit Pear, Apple, Grape, Melon — Pears are the most commonly gathered 🌾 Grain Wheat, Barley, Rice, Corn — bought from merchants or harvested 🍄 Mushroom Pine Mushroom, Oakwood Mushroom, Red Cap — mostly forest zones 🌿 Medicinal Herb Rosemary, Lavender, Cotton — doubles as Alchemy reagent, gather constantly Fine Meat is not substitutable downward in Fine Cuisine recipes — those recipes specifically call for Fine Meat and will not accept Lean or Tender Meat as replacements. Fine Meat drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters. 📜 Learning Recipes Method How It Works Notes Recipe Scroll Pick up a rolled scroll from the world → read it from inventory. Recipe is permanently added to your book. Scrolls look like small rolled papers on your minimap. Found on desks, shelves, and in chests. Improvise × 3 Select "Improvise" at any cooking station → combine the right ingredients → cook. On success: Recipe Discovered → Recipe Insight → Recipe Acquired after three successes. Mismatched ingredients produce a Mysterious Dish — useless but not harmful. Experiment freely. Vendor Purchase Some innkeepers and market vendors sell recipe scrolls directly. Check every merchant inventory — they restock after rest. Pailune Back Alley vendor has the best selection. Hernand City inn has two scrolls available from Chapter 1. 🍽 All Recipes All Quick Bites Soups &amp; Stews Grilled &amp; Fried Fine Cuisine Teas &amp; Drinks Dish Type Station Effect Ingredients Boiled Meat Improvise or recipe scroll — Hernand inn Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +80 (8 min) Meat ×1 · Bird Meat ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Marinated Meat Improvise — common first discovery Quick Bite Wok HP +70 · Move Speed +5% (10 min) Meat ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Vegetable Salad Improvise or purchased — Pailune vendor Quick Bite Any Move Speed +8% · Stamina Regen (10 min) Vegetable ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Salt ×2 Simple Meat Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +50 Meat ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Fruit Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot Stamina +60 Fruit ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Marinated Fish Improvise — coastal Hernand areas Quick Bite Wok Defense +4 · Stamina +60 (8 min) Fish Fillet ×2 · Small Fish ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Salt ×3 Meat and Vegetable Porridge Recipe scroll — Hernand City inn desk Soup Iron Pot HP +150 · Stamina +50 (15 min) Meat ×2 · Vegetable ×3 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Meat Stew Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp kitchen shelf Soup Iron Pot HP +200 (20 min) Meat ×4 · Vegetable ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Water ×3 Meatball Soup Recipe scroll — Calphade tavern bookshelf Soup Iron Pot HP +250 · Attack +5 (20 min) Grain ×3 · Meat and Fish Skewers ×3 · Boiled Meat ×2 · Fruit ×2 Fish Porridge Improvise — fishing villages Soup Iron Pot Stamina +120 (12 min) Grain ×2 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Egg Soup Improvise easily — eggs are abundant Soup Iron Pot HP +100 (10 min) Egg ×5 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×2 · Water ×3 Fish Soup Improvise — Iron Pot near Hernand docks Soup Iron Pot Stamina +130 · Cold Res Lv.2 (12 min) Medium Fish ×2 · Fruit ×1 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Seafood Soup Improvise — coastal Delesyia Soup Iron Pot Stamina +100 (10 min) Seafood ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Water ×3 Seafood &amp; Bird Stew Improvise — available from Chapter 3 Soup Iron Pot HP +180 · Stamina +80 (18 min) Seafood ×2 · Bird Meat ×3 · Grain ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Water ×5 Seafood Porridge Improvise — simple coastal recipe Soup Iron Pot Stamina +70 (8 min) Grain ×3 · Seafood ×1 Grilled Meat Steak Recipe scroll — Hernand City butcher's shop Grilled Skillet Attack +6 (15 min) Meat ×3 · Fruit ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Meat and Fish Skewers Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp wok area Grilled Wok HP +90 · Stamina +40 (12 min) Meat ×1 · Small Fish ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Grain ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Pan-Fried Vegetables Recipe scroll — Pailune market Grilled Skillet Stamina +90 · Defense +3 (10 min) Vegetable ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Seafood Fry Improvise — coastal Delesyia skillet Grilled Skillet Stamina +110 · Defense +4 (12 min) Seafood ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fish Fry Improvise — fishing docks Grilled Skillet Defense +5 · Stamina +80 (10 min) Fish Fillet ×4 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×1 · Cooking Oil ×3 Grilled Bread Improvise — bakeries in Hernand Grilled Skillet Stamina +100 (10 min) Grain ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Pan-Fried Fine Meat Recipe scroll — Beighen noble quarter Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +8 (15 min) Fine Meat ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×4 Fine Meat Mixed Fry Recipe scroll — Calphade high-class inn Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +10 · Defense +5 (20 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×3 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fine Seafood Stew Recipe scroll — Delesyia harbor captain's lodge Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +270 · Defense +10 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Seafood ×1 · Vegetable ×3 · Egg ×3 · Water ×4 Creamy Meat Soup Recipe scroll — Beighen castle kitchen Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +300 · Defense +8 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Milk ×3 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Fruit Tea Required to unlock Scholastone Research chain Tea Any Stamina +128 · Cold Res Lv.2 (30 min) Fruit ×1 · Sugar ×1 · Grain ×1 · Egg ×1 Meatball Soup requires cooked dishes as ingredients — craft Meat and Fish Skewers and Boiled Meat first, then use them as components. Keep a stock of both on hand if you plan to mass-produce Meatball Soup before raid encounters. 👑 The Grand Feast The Grand Feast is the highest-tier compound recipe in the game — it requires fully cooked dishes as its ingredients , not raw ingredients. This is a multi-step preparation that takes significant stockpile planning but delivers all-stat bonuses far beyond any single dish. Plan for a boss encounter by preparing this 1–2 in-game days in advance. Ingredient (pre-cooked) Amount How to Get Meat and Vegetable Porridge ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×2, Vegetable ×3, Grain ×2, Water ×3 Marinated Meat ×3 Wok — Meat ×1, Fruit ×1, Vegetable ×1, Salt ×1 Meat Stew ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×4, Vegetable ×2, Fruit ×2, Water ×3 Fruit Tea ×2 Any station — Fruit ×1, Sugar ×1, Grain ×1, Egg ×1 Grilled Meat Steak ×1 Skillet — Meat ×3, Fruit ×2, Vegetable ×2, Cooking Oil ×3 Meatball Soup ×1 Iron Pot — requires Skewers + Boiled Meat (see recipe above) Pan-Fried Vegetables ×2 Skillet — Vegetable ×1, Fish Fillet ×2, Egg ×3, Cooking Oil ×3 Pear ×5 Gathered — common fruit across Hernand and Pailune woodlands Grand Feast effect: All stats +15% for 30 minutes. Stacks with elixirs — use both for the hardest bosses in the game. The feast is consumed instantly on use; prepare at least two before any multi-phase encounter. 🧺 Ingredient Sources The most time-consuming part of cooking is stockpiling Cooking Oil, Fine Meat, and Seafood. Everything else accumulates naturally. Always buy out Cooking Oil from every merchant you visit — it doesn't respawn fast enough to satisfy a serious cooking habit. Fine Meat Drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters across Pailune and Calphade. Cannot be substituted in Fine Cuisine recipes. → Pan-Fried Fine Meat, Fine Meat Mixed Fry, Fine Seafood Stew, Creamy Meat Soup Fish Fillet Fishing at any body of water — rivers, lakes, coast. Process medium or large fish at camp using the Field Processing option. → Fish Fry, Fish Porridge, Meat and Fish Skewers, Pan-Fried Vegetables Cooking Oil Purchased from merchants (most towns stock it). Also produced by pressing seeds at camp — Sunflower and Sesame seeds work best. → Required for all Skillet and Wok recipes Seafood Coastal Delesyia and Pailune shorelines. Gathered from shellfish nodes on the beach, also from fishing saltwater zones. → Seafood Fry, Seafood Soup, Seafood &amp; Bird Stew, Fine Seafood Stew Milk Farm animals in Hernand countryside settlements. Also sold by Provisioner NPCs. Keep 10+ stocked — only used in Creamy Meat Soup but it's the best HP recipe. → Creamy Meat Soup Egg Bird nests throughout Hernand and Pailune woodlands. Also sold by merchants. Extremely common — rarely a bottleneck. → Egg Soup, Vegetable Salad, Pan-Fried Vegetables, fine cuisine recipes Sugar Merchant-only — available from general stores in Hernand City and Pailune. Not gathered in the wild. → Fruit Tea (Scholastone Research unlock) Salt Purchased from any Provisioner NPC. Also found near coastal salt flats in Delesyia. Buy in bulk — used heavily in preservation recipes. → Marinated recipes, Boiled Meat, Fish Porridge, Egg Soup Fruit (Pear) Pears are the most common fruit — gathered from trees throughout Hernand and Pailune. Also in crates near town markets. → Grand Feast (×5 Pear specifically required), Marinated Meat, Fruit Tea Bird Meat Hunted from birds in Hernand woodlands. Crouch-approach from downwind or they flee. Higher yield at dawn and dusk hours. → Boiled Meat, Seafood &amp; Bird Stew Grain (Wheat/Barley) Harvested from farm fields across Hernand. Also purchased from grain merchants — stockpile during early chapters, demand increases later. → Most porridge and compound recipes Water Any well, stream, river, or purchased Empty Bottles filled at water sources. Bottles are unlimited from Provisioner NPCs. → Required in almost every Iron Pot recipe const btns = document.querySelectorAll('.filter-btn'); const rows = document.querySelectorAll('#recipe-table tbody tr'); btns.forEach(btn => { btn.addEventListener('click', () => { btns.forEach(b => b.classList.remove('active')); btn.classList.add('active'); const f = btn.dataset.filter; rows.forEach(row => { row.classList.toggle('hidden', f !== 'all' && row.dataset.cat !== f); }); }); });
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Unlike Blacksmithing or Alchemy, cooking stations are scattered freely across towns and camps — look for iron pots hung over bonfires, iron skillets on stone slabs, and woks near market stalls. Always cook before heading into boss territory — food buffs stack with elixirs and the difference is substantial. Station What It Makes Where to Find Iron Pot Soups, stews, porridges — water-based dishes that restore HP and Stamina over time Found in every major settlement. The Greymane Camp kitchen has one by default. Skillet Fried dishes, grilled meats, pan-fried vegetables — oil-based recipes that grant attack and defense buffs Hernand City market area, Pailune inn courtyard, Calphade trading post Wok Marinated dishes, skewers, sautéed items — mixed recipes balancing offense and HP Hernand east district, Greymane Camp after kitchen upgrade Any Station Simple drinks and teas — most single-stat buffs can be made at any station — Field cooking: You cannot cook in the open field — you always need a station. However, once you build the Greymane Camp Kitchen (via the Restore the Camp main quest), you have a personal station accessible at any time during camp rest. ★ Dish Tiers Every recipe in Crimson Desert has four quality tiers depending on how many ingredients you use. A Hearty version of a recipe uses the most ingredients but delivers dramatically stronger effects. For boss fights, always aim for Hearty . Basic versions are only worth crafting when ingredient stocks run low. Hearty Maximum ingredients — highest yield per craft +150% effectiveness Satisfying Balanced — good return for mid-game stocks +100% effectiveness Filling Reduced ingredients — smaller buff, longer duration tradeoff +50% effectiveness Basic Minimum ingredients — only when stockpiles are critical Normal effectiveness Tier is determined by ingredient count, not quality. You cannot directly choose a tier — add more of the required ingredients (up to the Hearty threshold listed in your recipe book) to reach the higher tier automatically. ⇄ Ingredient Substitution Every ingredient in Pywel belongs to one of six categories . Within a category, any ingredient can stand in for another — but higher-quality variants produce stronger dishes . Tender Meat gives better HP restoration than Lean Meat even in the same recipe. Always use your best available ingredient when cooking for boss encounters. 🥩 Meat Lean Meat, Tender Meat, Fine Meat, Bird Meat — also Beast Meat from large enemies 🥬 Vegetable Any gathered plant that isn't a herb — Cabbage, Turnip, Onion, Leek 🍎 Fruit Pear, Apple, Grape, Melon — Pears are the most commonly gathered 🌾 Grain Wheat, Barley, Rice, Corn — bought from merchants or harvested 🍄 Mushroom Pine Mushroom, Oakwood Mushroom, Red Cap — mostly forest zones 🌿 Medicinal Herb Rosemary, Lavender, Cotton — doubles as Alchemy reagent, gather constantly Fine Meat is not substitutable downward in Fine Cuisine recipes — those recipes specifically call for Fine Meat and will not accept Lean or Tender Meat as replacements. Fine Meat drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters. 📜 Learning Recipes Method How It Works Notes Recipe Scroll Pick up a rolled scroll from the world → read it from inventory. Recipe is permanently added to your book. Scrolls look like small rolled papers on your minimap. Found on desks, shelves, and in chests. Improvise × 3 Select "Improvise" at any cooking station → combine the right ingredients → cook. On success: Recipe Discovered → Recipe Insight → Recipe Acquired after three successes. Mismatched ingredients produce a Mysterious Dish — useless but not harmful. Experiment freely. Vendor Purchase Some innkeepers and market vendors sell recipe scrolls directly. Check every merchant inventory — they restock after rest. Pailune Back Alley vendor has the best selection. Hernand City inn has two scrolls available from Chapter 1. 🍽 All Recipes All Quick Bites Soups &amp; Stews Grilled &amp; Fried Fine Cuisine Teas &amp; Drinks Dish Type Station Effect Ingredients Boiled Meat Improvise or recipe scroll — Hernand inn Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +80 (8 min) Meat ×1 · Bird Meat ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Marinated Meat Improvise — common first discovery Quick Bite Wok HP +70 · Move Speed +5% (10 min) Meat ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Vegetable Salad Improvise or purchased — Pailune vendor Quick Bite Any Move Speed +8% · Stamina Regen (10 min) Vegetable ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Salt ×2 Simple Meat Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +50 Meat ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Fruit Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot Stamina +60 Fruit ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Marinated Fish Improvise — coastal Hernand areas Quick Bite Wok Defense +4 · Stamina +60 (8 min) Fish Fillet ×2 · Small Fish ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Salt ×3 Meat and Vegetable Porridge Recipe scroll — Hernand City inn desk Soup Iron Pot HP +150 · Stamina +50 (15 min) Meat ×2 · Vegetable ×3 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Meat Stew Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp kitchen shelf Soup Iron Pot HP +200 (20 min) Meat ×4 · Vegetable ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Water ×3 Meatball Soup Recipe scroll — Calphade tavern bookshelf Soup Iron Pot HP +250 · Attack +5 (20 min) Grain ×3 · Meat and Fish Skewers ×3 · Boiled Meat ×2 · Fruit ×2 Fish Porridge Improvise — fishing villages Soup Iron Pot Stamina +120 (12 min) Grain ×2 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Egg Soup Improvise easily — eggs are abundant Soup Iron Pot HP +100 (10 min) Egg ×5 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×2 · Water ×3 Fish Soup Improvise — Iron Pot near Hernand docks Soup Iron Pot Stamina +130 · Cold Res Lv.2 (12 min) Medium Fish ×2 · Fruit ×1 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Seafood Soup Improvise — coastal Delesyia Soup Iron Pot Stamina +100 (10 min) Seafood ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Water ×3 Seafood &amp; Bird Stew Improvise — available from Chapter 3 Soup Iron Pot HP +180 · Stamina +80 (18 min) Seafood ×2 · Bird Meat ×3 · Grain ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Water ×5 Seafood Porridge Improvise — simple coastal recipe Soup Iron Pot Stamina +70 (8 min) Grain ×3 · Seafood ×1 Grilled Meat Steak Recipe scroll — Hernand City butcher's shop Grilled Skillet Attack +6 (15 min) Meat ×3 · Fruit ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Meat and Fish Skewers Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp wok area Grilled Wok HP +90 · Stamina +40 (12 min) Meat ×1 · Small Fish ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Grain ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Pan-Fried Vegetables Recipe scroll — Pailune market Grilled Skillet Stamina +90 · Defense +3 (10 min) Vegetable ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Seafood Fry Improvise — coastal Delesyia skillet Grilled Skillet Stamina +110 · Defense +4 (12 min) Seafood ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fish Fry Improvise — fishing docks Grilled Skillet Defense +5 · Stamina +80 (10 min) Fish Fillet ×4 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×1 · Cooking Oil ×3 Grilled Bread Improvise — bakeries in Hernand Grilled Skillet Stamina +100 (10 min) Grain ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Pan-Fried Fine Meat Recipe scroll — Beighen noble quarter Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +8 (15 min) Fine Meat ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×4 Fine Meat Mixed Fry Recipe scroll — Calphade high-class inn Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +10 · Defense +5 (20 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×3 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fine Seafood Stew Recipe scroll — Delesyia harbor captain's lodge Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +270 · Defense +10 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Seafood ×1 · Vegetable ×3 · Egg ×3 · Water ×4 Creamy Meat Soup Recipe scroll — Beighen castle kitchen Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +300 · Defense +8 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Milk ×3 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Fruit Tea Required to unlock Scholastone Research chain Tea Any Stamina +128 · Cold Res Lv.2 (30 min) Fruit ×1 · Sugar ×1 · Grain ×1 · Egg ×1 Meatball Soup requires cooked dishes as ingredients — craft Meat and Fish Skewers and Boiled Meat first, then use them as components. Keep a stock of both on hand if you plan to mass-produce Meatball Soup before raid encounters. 👑 The Grand Feast The Grand Feast is the highest-tier compound recipe in the game — it requires fully cooked dishes as its ingredients , not raw ingredients. This is a multi-step preparation that takes significant stockpile planning but delivers all-stat bonuses far beyond any single dish. Plan for a boss encounter by preparing this 1–2 in-game days in advance. Ingredient (pre-cooked) Amount How to Get Meat and Vegetable Porridge ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×2, Vegetable ×3, Grain ×2, Water ×3 Marinated Meat ×3 Wok — Meat ×1, Fruit ×1, Vegetable ×1, Salt ×1 Meat Stew ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×4, Vegetable ×2, Fruit ×2, Water ×3 Fruit Tea ×2 Any station — Fruit ×1, Sugar ×1, Grain ×1, Egg ×1 Grilled Meat Steak ×1 Skillet — Meat ×3, Fruit ×2, Vegetable ×2, Cooking Oil ×3 Meatball Soup ×1 Iron Pot — requires Skewers + Boiled Meat (see recipe above) Pan-Fried Vegetables ×2 Skillet — Vegetable ×1, Fish Fillet ×2, Egg ×3, Cooking Oil ×3 Pear ×5 Gathered — common fruit across Hernand and Pailune woodlands Grand Feast effect: All stats +15% for 30 minutes. Stacks with elixirs — use both for the hardest bosses in the game. The feast is consumed instantly on use; prepare at least two before any multi-phase encounter. 🧺 Ingredient Sources The most time-consuming part of cooking is stockpiling Cooking Oil, Fine Meat, and Seafood. Everything else accumulates naturally. Always buy out Cooking Oil from every merchant you visit — it doesn't respawn fast enough to satisfy a serious cooking habit. Fine Meat Drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters across Pailune and Calphade. Cannot be substituted in Fine Cuisine recipes. → Pan-Fried Fine Meat, Fine Meat Mixed Fry, Fine Seafood Stew, Creamy Meat Soup Fish Fillet Fishing at any body of water — rivers, lakes, coast. Process medium or large fish at camp using the Field Processing option. → Fish Fry, Fish Porridge, Meat and Fish Skewers, Pan-Fried Vegetables Cooking Oil Purchased from merchants (most towns stock it). Also produced by pressing seeds at camp — Sunflower and Sesame seeds work best. → Required for all Skillet and Wok recipes Seafood Coastal Delesyia and Pailune shorelines. Gathered from shellfish nodes on the beach, also from fishing saltwater zones. → Seafood Fry, Seafood Soup, Seafood &amp; Bird Stew, Fine Seafood Stew Milk Farm animals in Hernand countryside settlements. Also sold by Provisioner NPCs. Keep 10+ stocked — only used in Creamy Meat Soup but it's the best HP recipe. → Creamy Meat Soup Egg Bird nests throughout Hernand and Pailune woodlands. Also sold by merchants. Extremely common — rarely a bottleneck. → Egg Soup, Vegetable Salad, Pan-Fried Vegetables, fine cuisine recipes Sugar Merchant-only — available from general stores in Hernand City and Pailune. Not gathered in the wild. → Fruit Tea (Scholastone Research unlock) Salt Purchased from any Provisioner NPC. Also found near coastal salt flats in Delesyia. Buy in bulk — used heavily in preservation recipes. → Marinated recipes, Boiled Meat, Fish Porridge, Egg Soup Fruit (Pear) Pears are the most common fruit — gathered from trees throughout Hernand and Pailune. Also in crates near town markets. → Grand Feast (×5 Pear specifically required), Marinated Meat, Fruit Tea Bird Meat Hunted from birds in Hernand woodlands. Crouch-approach from downwind or they flee. Higher yield at dawn and dusk hours. → Boiled Meat, Seafood &amp; Bird Stew Grain (Wheat/Barley) Harvested from farm fields across Hernand. Also purchased from grain merchants — stockpile during early chapters, demand increases later. → Most porridge and compound recipes Water Any well, stream, river, or purchased Empty Bottles filled at water sources. Bottles are unlimited from Provisioner NPCs. → Required in almost every Iron Pot recipe const btns = document.querySelectorAll('.filter-btn'); const rows = document.querySelectorAll('#recipe-table tbody tr'); btns.forEach(btn => { btn.addEventListener('click', () => { btns.forEach(b => b.classList.remove('active')); btn.classList.add('active'); const f = btn.dataset.filter; rows.forEach(row => { row.classList.toggle('hidden', f !== 'all' && row.dataset.cat !== f); }); }); });

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color: #6898d0; border: 1px solid #2a4070; } .badge-grill { background: var(--tag-grill); color: #c87c28; border: 1px solid #6a3e10; } .badge-fine { background: var(--tag-fine); color: #d06050; border: 1px solid #702018; } .badge-tea { background: var(--tag-tea); color: #50a898; border: 1px solid #285850; } .badge-feast { background: var(--tag-feast); color: #c070e0; border: 1px solid #602880; } /* ── FILTER BAR ── */ .filter-bar { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; margin-bottom: 20px; } .filter-btn { font-family: 'Cinzel', serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 5px 16px; border-radius: 20px; border: 1px solid var(--border); background: var(--card); color: var(--muted); cursor: pointer; transition: all .15s; } .filter-btn:hover, .filter-btn.active { border-color: var(--amber-dim); color: var(--amber); background: rgba(200,124,40,0.09); } tr.hidden { display: none; } /* ── INGREDIENT SOURCE GRID ── */ .source-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr)); gap: 1px; background: var(--border2); border: 1px solid var(--border2); border-radius: 3px; overflow: hidden; } .src-card { background: var(--card); padding: 13px 16px; transition: background .12s; } .src-card:hover { background: rgba(255,255,255,0.02); } .src-name { font-weight: 600; color: #e8ddd0; font-size: 14.5px; } .src-loc { color: var(--muted); font-size: 13px; margin-top: 3px; line-height: 1.5; } .src-use { color: #90b0c8; font-size: 12.5px; margin-top: 4px; font-style: italic; } @media (max-width: 640px) { .toc ol { columns: 1; } .tier-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); } .source-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; } .page { padding: 20px 14px 48px; } table { font-size: 13px; } thead th, tbody td { padding: 8px 10px; } } Contents How to Cook Dish Tiers Ingredient Substitution Learning Recipes All Recipes The Grand Feast Ingredient Sources 🍲 How to Cook Cooking requires three things: ingredients , a recipe , and access to a cooking station . Unlike Blacksmithing or Alchemy, cooking stations are scattered freely across towns and camps — look for iron pots hung over bonfires, iron skillets on stone slabs, and woks near market stalls. Always cook before heading into boss territory — food buffs stack with elixirs and the difference is substantial. Station What It Makes Where to Find Iron Pot Soups, stews, porridges — water-based dishes that restore HP and Stamina over time Found in every major settlement. The Greymane Camp kitchen has one by default. Skillet Fried dishes, grilled meats, pan-fried vegetables — oil-based recipes that grant attack and defense buffs Hernand City market area, Pailune inn courtyard, Calphade trading post Wok Marinated dishes, skewers, sautéed items — mixed recipes balancing offense and HP Hernand east district, Greymane Camp after kitchen upgrade Any Station Simple drinks and teas — most single-stat buffs can be made at any station — Field cooking: You cannot cook in the open field — you always need a station. However, once you build the Greymane Camp Kitchen (via the Restore the Camp main quest), you have a personal station accessible at any time during camp rest. ★ Dish Tiers Every recipe in Crimson Desert has four quality tiers depending on how many ingredients you use. A Hearty version of a recipe uses the most ingredients but delivers dramatically stronger effects. For boss fights, always aim for Hearty . Basic versions are only worth crafting when ingredient stocks run low. Hearty Maximum ingredients — highest yield per craft +150% effectiveness Satisfying Balanced — good return for mid-game stocks +100% effectiveness Filling Reduced ingredients — smaller buff, longer duration tradeoff +50% effectiveness Basic Minimum ingredients — only when stockpiles are critical Normal effectiveness Tier is determined by ingredient count, not quality. You cannot directly choose a tier — add more of the required ingredients (up to the Hearty threshold listed in your recipe book) to reach the higher tier automatically. ⇄ Ingredient Substitution Every ingredient in Pywel belongs to one of six categories . Within a category, any ingredient can stand in for another — but higher-quality variants produce stronger dishes . Tender Meat gives better HP restoration than Lean Meat even in the same recipe. Always use your best available ingredient when cooking for boss encounters. 🥩 Meat Lean Meat, Tender Meat, Fine Meat, Bird Meat — also Beast Meat from large enemies 🥬 Vegetable Any gathered plant that isn't a herb — Cabbage, Turnip, Onion, Leek 🍎 Fruit Pear, Apple, Grape, Melon — Pears are the most commonly gathered 🌾 Grain Wheat, Barley, Rice, Corn — bought from merchants or harvested 🍄 Mushroom Pine Mushroom, Oakwood Mushroom, Red Cap — mostly forest zones 🌿 Medicinal Herb Rosemary, Lavender, Cotton — doubles as Alchemy reagent, gather constantly Fine Meat is not substitutable downward in Fine Cuisine recipes — those recipes specifically call for Fine Meat and will not accept Lean or Tender Meat as replacements. Fine Meat drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters. 📜 Learning Recipes Method How It Works Notes Recipe Scroll Pick up a rolled scroll from the world → read it from inventory. Recipe is permanently added to your book. Scrolls look like small rolled papers on your minimap. Found on desks, shelves, and in chests. Improvise × 3 Select "Improvise" at any cooking station → combine the right ingredients → cook. On success: Recipe Discovered → Recipe Insight → Recipe Acquired after three successes. Mismatched ingredients produce a Mysterious Dish — useless but not harmful. Experiment freely. Vendor Purchase Some innkeepers and market vendors sell recipe scrolls directly. Check every merchant inventory — they restock after rest. Pailune Back Alley vendor has the best selection. Hernand City inn has two scrolls available from Chapter 1. 🍽 All Recipes All Quick Bites Soups & Stews Grilled & Fried Fine Cuisine Teas & Drinks Dish Type Station Effect Ingredients Boiled Meat Improvise or recipe scroll — Hernand inn Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +80 (8 min) Meat ×1 · Bird Meat ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Marinated Meat Improvise — common first discovery Quick Bite Wok HP +70 · Move Speed +5% (10 min) Meat ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Vegetable Salad Improvise or purchased — Pailune vendor Quick Bite Any Move Speed +8% · Stamina Regen (10 min) Vegetable ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Salt ×2 Simple Meat Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +50 Meat ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Fruit Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot Stamina +60 Fruit ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Marinated Fish Improvise — coastal Hernand areas Quick Bite Wok Defense +4 · Stamina +60 (8 min) Fish Fillet ×2 · Small Fish ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Salt ×3 Meat and Vegetable Porridge Recipe scroll — Hernand City inn desk Soup Iron Pot HP +150 · Stamina +50 (15 min) Meat ×2 · Vegetable ×3 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Meat Stew Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp kitchen shelf Soup Iron Pot HP +200 (20 min) Meat ×4 · Vegetable ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Water ×3 Meatball Soup Recipe scroll — Calphade tavern bookshelf Soup Iron Pot HP +250 · Attack +5 (20 min) Grain ×3 · Meat and Fish Skewers ×3 · Boiled Meat ×2 · Fruit ×2 Fish Porridge Improvise — fishing villages Soup Iron Pot Stamina +120 (12 min) Grain ×2 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Egg Soup Improvise easily — eggs are abundant Soup Iron Pot HP +100 (10 min) Egg ×5 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×2 · Water ×3 Fish Soup Improvise — Iron Pot near Hernand docks Soup Iron Pot Stamina +130 · Cold Res Lv.2 (12 min) Medium Fish ×2 · Fruit ×1 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Seafood Soup Improvise — coastal Delesyia Soup Iron Pot Stamina +100 (10 min) Seafood ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Water ×3 Seafood & Bird Stew Improvise — available from Chapter 3 Soup Iron Pot HP +180 · Stamina +80 (18 min) Seafood ×2 · Bird Meat ×3 · Grain ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Water ×5 Seafood Porridge Improvise — simple coastal recipe Soup Iron Pot Stamina +70 (8 min) Grain ×3 · Seafood ×1 Grilled Meat Steak Recipe scroll — Hernand City butcher's shop Grilled Skillet Attack +6 (15 min) Meat ×3 · Fruit ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Meat and Fish Skewers Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp wok area Grilled Wok HP +90 · Stamina +40 (12 min) Meat ×1 · Small Fish ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Grain ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Pan-Fried Vegetables Recipe scroll — Pailune market Grilled Skillet Stamina +90 · Defense +3 (10 min) Vegetable ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Seafood Fry Improvise — coastal Delesyia skillet Grilled Skillet Stamina +110 · Defense +4 (12 min) Seafood ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fish Fry Improvise — fishing docks Grilled Skillet Defense +5 · Stamina +80 (10 min) Fish Fillet ×4 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×1 · Cooking Oil ×3 Grilled Bread Improvise — bakeries in Hernand Grilled Skillet Stamina +100 (10 min) Grain ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Pan-Fried Fine Meat Recipe scroll — Beighen noble quarter Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +8 (15 min) Fine Meat ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×4 Fine Meat Mixed Fry Recipe scroll — Calphade high-class inn Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +10 · Defense +5 (20 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×3 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fine Seafood Stew Recipe scroll — Delesyia harbor captain's lodge Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +270 · Defense +10 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Seafood ×1 · Vegetable ×3 · Egg ×3 · Water ×4 Creamy Meat Soup Recipe scroll — Beighen castle kitchen Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +300 · Defense +8 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Milk ×3 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Fruit Tea Required to unlock Scholastone Research chain Tea Any Stamina +128 · Cold Res Lv.2 (30 min) Fruit ×1 · Sugar ×1 · Grain ×1 · Egg ×1 Meatball Soup requires cooked dishes as ingredients — craft Meat and Fish Skewers and Boiled Meat first, then use them as components. Keep a stock of both on hand if you plan to mass-produce Meatball Soup before raid encounters. 👑 The Grand Feast The Grand Feast is the highest-tier compound recipe in the game — it requires fully cooked dishes as its ingredients , not raw ingredients. This is a multi-step preparation that takes significant stockpile planning but delivers all-stat bonuses far beyond any single dish. Plan for a boss encounter by preparing this 1–2 in-game days in advance. Ingredient (pre-cooked) Amount How to Get Meat and Vegetable Porridge ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×2, Vegetable ×3, Grain ×2, Water ×3 Marinated Meat ×3 Wok — Meat ×1, Fruit ×1, Vegetable ×1, Salt ×1 Meat Stew ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×4, Vegetable ×2, Fruit ×2, Water ×3 Fruit Tea ×2 Any station — Fruit ×1, Sugar ×1, Grain ×1, Egg ×1 Grilled Meat Steak ×1 Skillet — Meat ×3, Fruit ×2, Vegetable ×2, Cooking Oil ×3 Meatball Soup ×1 Iron Pot — requires Skewers + Boiled Meat (see recipe above) Pan-Fried Vegetables ×2 Skillet — Vegetable ×1, Fish Fillet ×2, Egg ×3, Cooking Oil ×3 Pear ×5 Gathered — common fruit across Hernand and Pailune woodlands Grand Feast effect: All stats +15% for 30 minutes. Stacks with elixirs — use both for the hardest bosses in the game. The feast is consumed instantly on use; prepare at least two before any multi-phase encounter. 🧺 Ingredient Sources The most time-consuming part of cooking is stockpiling Cooking Oil, Fine Meat, and Seafood. Everything else accumulates naturally. Always buy out Cooking Oil from every merchant you visit — it doesn't respawn fast enough to satisfy a serious cooking habit. Fine Meat Drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters across Pailune and Calphade. Cannot be substituted in Fine Cuisine recipes. → Pan-Fried Fine Meat, Fine Meat Mixed Fry, Fine Seafood Stew, Creamy Meat Soup Fish Fillet Fishing at any body of water — rivers, lakes, coast. Process medium or large fish at camp using the Field Processing option. → Fish Fry, Fish Porridge, Meat and Fish Skewers, Pan-Fried Vegetables Cooking Oil Purchased from merchants (most towns stock it). Also produced by pressing seeds at camp — Sunflower and Sesame seeds work best. → Required for all Skillet and Wok recipes Seafood Coastal Delesyia and Pailune shorelines. Gathered from shellfish nodes on the beach, also from fishing saltwater zones. → Seafood Fry, Seafood Soup, Seafood & Bird Stew, Fine Seafood Stew Milk Farm animals in Hernand countryside settlements. Also sold by Provisioner NPCs. Keep 10+ stocked — only used in Creamy Meat Soup but it's the best HP recipe. → Creamy Meat Soup Egg Bird nests throughout Hernand and Pailune woodlands. Also sold by merchants. Extremely common — rarely a bottleneck. → Egg Soup, Vegetable Salad, Pan-Fried Vegetables, fine cuisine recipes Sugar Merchant-only — available from general stores in Hernand City and Pailune. Not gathered in the wild. → Fruit Tea (Scholastone Research unlock) Salt Purchased from any Provisioner NPC. Also found near coastal salt flats in Delesyia. Buy in bulk — used heavily in preservation recipes. → Marinated recipes, Boiled Meat, Fish Porridge, Egg Soup Fruit (Pear) Pears are the most common fruit — gathered from trees throughout Hernand and Pailune. Also in crates near town markets. → Grand Feast (×5 Pear specifically required), Marinated Meat, Fruit Tea Bird Meat Hunted from birds in Hernand woodlands. Crouch-approach from downwind or they flee. Higher yield at dawn and dusk hours. → Boiled Meat, Seafood & Bird Stew Grain (Wheat/Barley) Harvested from farm fields across Hernand. Also purchased from grain merchants — stockpile during early chapters, demand increases later. → Most porridge and compound recipes Water Any well, stream, river, or purchased Empty Bottles filled at water sources. Bottles are unlimited from Provisioner NPCs. → Required in almost every Iron Pot recipe const btns = document.querySelectorAll('.filter-btn'); const rows = document.querySelectorAll('#recipe-table tbody tr'); btns.forEach(btn => { btn.addEventListener('click', () => { btns.forEach(b => b.classList.remove('active')); btn.classList.add('active'); const f = btn.dataset.filter; rows.forEach(row => { row.classList.toggle('hidden', f !== 'all' && row.dataset.cat !== f); }); }); });

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Unlike Blacksmithing or Alchemy, cooking stations are scattered freely across towns and camps — look for iron pots hung over bonfires, iron skillets on stone slabs, and woks near market stalls. Always cook before heading into boss territory — food buffs stack with elixirs and the difference is substantial. Station What It Makes Where to Find Iron Pot Soups, stews, porridges — water-based dishes that restore HP and Stamina over time Found in every major settlement. The Greymane Camp kitchen has one by default. Skillet Fried dishes, grilled meats, pan-fried vegetables — oil-based recipes that grant attack and defense buffs Hernand City market area, Pailune inn courtyard, Calphade trading post Wok Marinated dishes, skewers, sautéed items — mixed recipes balancing offense and HP Hernand east district, Greymane Camp after kitchen upgrade Any Station Simple drinks and teas — most single-stat buffs can be made at any station — Field cooking: You cannot cook in the open field — you always need a station. However, once you build the Greymane Camp Kitchen (via the Restore the Camp main quest), you have a personal station accessible at any time during camp rest. ★ Dish Tiers Every recipe in Crimson Desert has four quality tiers depending on how many ingredients you use. A Hearty version of a recipe uses the most ingredients but delivers dramatically stronger effects. For boss fights, always aim for Hearty . Basic versions are only worth crafting when ingredient stocks run low. Hearty Maximum ingredients — highest yield per craft +150% effectiveness Satisfying Balanced — good return for mid-game stocks +100% effectiveness Filling Reduced ingredients — smaller buff, longer duration tradeoff +50% effectiveness Basic Minimum ingredients — only when stockpiles are critical Normal effectiveness Tier is determined by ingredient count, not quality. You cannot directly choose a tier — add more of the required ingredients (up to the Hearty threshold listed in your recipe book) to reach the higher tier automatically. ⇄ Ingredient Substitution Every ingredient in Pywel belongs to one of six categories . Within a category, any ingredient can stand in for another — but higher-quality variants produce stronger dishes . Tender Meat gives better HP restoration than Lean Meat even in the same recipe. Always use your best available ingredient when cooking for boss encounters. 🥩 Meat Lean Meat, Tender Meat, Fine Meat, Bird Meat — also Beast Meat from large enemies 🥬 Vegetable Any gathered plant that isn't a herb — Cabbage, Turnip, Onion, Leek 🍎 Fruit Pear, Apple, Grape, Melon — Pears are the most commonly gathered 🌾 Grain Wheat, Barley, Rice, Corn — bought from merchants or harvested 🍄 Mushroom Pine Mushroom, Oakwood Mushroom, Red Cap — mostly forest zones 🌿 Medicinal Herb Rosemary, Lavender, Cotton — doubles as Alchemy reagent, gather constantly Fine Meat is not substitutable downward in Fine Cuisine recipes — those recipes specifically call for Fine Meat and will not accept Lean or Tender Meat as replacements. Fine Meat drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters. 📜 Learning Recipes Method How It Works Notes Recipe Scroll Pick up a rolled scroll from the world → read it from inventory. Recipe is permanently added to your book. Scrolls look like small rolled papers on your minimap. Found on desks, shelves, and in chests. Improvise × 3 Select "Improvise" at any cooking station → combine the right ingredients → cook. On success: Recipe Discovered → Recipe Insight → Recipe Acquired after three successes. Mismatched ingredients produce a Mysterious Dish — useless but not harmful. Experiment freely. Vendor Purchase Some innkeepers and market vendors sell recipe scrolls directly. Check every merchant inventory — they restock after rest. Pailune Back Alley vendor has the best selection. Hernand City inn has two scrolls available from Chapter 1. 🍽 All Recipes All Quick Bites Soups & Stews Grilled & Fried Fine Cuisine Teas & Drinks Dish Type Station Effect Ingredients Boiled Meat Improvise or recipe scroll — Hernand inn Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +80 (8 min) Meat ×1 · Bird Meat ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Marinated Meat Improvise — common first discovery Quick Bite Wok HP +70 · Move Speed +5% (10 min) Meat ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 Vegetable Salad Improvise or purchased — Pailune vendor Quick Bite Any Move Speed +8% · Stamina Regen (10 min) Vegetable ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Salt ×2 Simple Meat Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot HP +50 Meat ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Fruit Porridge Improvise — starter recipe Quick Bite Iron Pot Stamina +60 Fruit ×1 · Grain ×1 · Water ×1 Marinated Fish Improvise — coastal Hernand areas Quick Bite Wok Defense +4 · Stamina +60 (8 min) Fish Fillet ×2 · Small Fish ×1 · Fruit ×1 · Salt ×3 Meat and Vegetable Porridge Recipe scroll — Hernand City inn desk Soup Iron Pot HP +150 · Stamina +50 (15 min) Meat ×2 · Vegetable ×3 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Meat Stew Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp kitchen shelf Soup Iron Pot HP +200 (20 min) Meat ×4 · Vegetable ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Water ×3 Meatball Soup Recipe scroll — Calphade tavern bookshelf Soup Iron Pot HP +250 · Attack +5 (20 min) Grain ×3 · Meat and Fish Skewers ×3 · Boiled Meat ×2 · Fruit ×2 Fish Porridge Improvise — fishing villages Soup Iron Pot Stamina +120 (12 min) Grain ×2 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Egg Soup Improvise easily — eggs are abundant Soup Iron Pot HP +100 (10 min) Egg ×5 · Vegetable ×1 · Salt ×2 · Water ×3 Fish Soup Improvise — Iron Pot near Hernand docks Soup Iron Pot Stamina +130 · Cold Res Lv.2 (12 min) Medium Fish ×2 · Fruit ×1 · Grain ×2 · Water ×3 Seafood Soup Improvise — coastal Delesyia Soup Iron Pot Stamina +100 (10 min) Seafood ×2 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×1 · Water ×3 Seafood & Bird Stew Improvise — available from Chapter 3 Soup Iron Pot HP +180 · Stamina +80 (18 min) Seafood ×2 · Bird Meat ×3 · Grain ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Water ×5 Seafood Porridge Improvise — simple coastal recipe Soup Iron Pot Stamina +70 (8 min) Grain ×3 · Seafood ×1 Grilled Meat Steak Recipe scroll — Hernand City butcher's shop Grilled Skillet Attack +6 (15 min) Meat ×3 · Fruit ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Meat and Fish Skewers Recipe scroll — Greymane Camp wok area Grilled Wok HP +90 · Stamina +40 (12 min) Meat ×1 · Small Fish ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Grain ×1 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Pan-Fried Vegetables Recipe scroll — Pailune market Grilled Skillet Stamina +90 · Defense +3 (10 min) Vegetable ×1 · Fish Fillet ×2 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Seafood Fry Improvise — coastal Delesyia skillet Grilled Skillet Stamina +110 · Defense +4 (12 min) Seafood ×2 · Vegetable ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fish Fry Improvise — fishing docks Grilled Skillet Defense +5 · Stamina +80 (10 min) Fish Fillet ×4 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×1 · Cooking Oil ×3 Grilled Bread Improvise — bakeries in Hernand Grilled Skillet Stamina +100 (10 min) Grain ×4 · Fruit ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×3 Pan-Fried Fine Meat Recipe scroll — Beighen noble quarter Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +8 (15 min) Fine Meat ×2 · Egg ×2 · Cooking Oil ×4 Fine Meat Mixed Fry Recipe scroll — Calphade high-class inn Fine Cuisine Skillet Attack +10 · Defense +5 (20 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Fruit ×3 · Egg ×3 · Cooking Oil ×3 Fine Seafood Stew Recipe scroll — Delesyia harbor captain's lodge Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +270 · Defense +10 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Seafood ×1 · Vegetable ×3 · Egg ×3 · Water ×4 Creamy Meat Soup Recipe scroll — Beighen castle kitchen Fine Cuisine Iron Pot HP +300 · Defense +8 (25 min) Fine Meat ×3 · Vegetable ×3 · Milk ×3 · Salt ×1 · Water ×3 Fruit Tea Required to unlock Scholastone Research chain Tea Any Stamina +128 · Cold Res Lv.2 (30 min) Fruit ×1 · Sugar ×1 · Grain ×1 · Egg ×1 Meatball Soup requires cooked dishes as ingredients — craft Meat and Fish Skewers and Boiled Meat first, then use them as components. Keep a stock of both on hand if you plan to mass-produce Meatball Soup before raid encounters. 👑 The Grand Feast The Grand Feast is the highest-tier compound recipe in the game — it requires fully cooked dishes as its ingredients , not raw ingredients. This is a multi-step preparation that takes significant stockpile planning but delivers all-stat bonuses far beyond any single dish. Plan for a boss encounter by preparing this 1–2 in-game days in advance. Ingredient (pre-cooked) Amount How to Get Meat and Vegetable Porridge ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×2, Vegetable ×3, Grain ×2, Water ×3 Marinated Meat ×3 Wok — Meat ×1, Fruit ×1, Vegetable ×1, Salt ×1 Meat Stew ×3 Iron Pot — Meat ×4, Vegetable ×2, Fruit ×2, Water ×3 Fruit Tea ×2 Any station — Fruit ×1, Sugar ×1, Grain ×1, Egg ×1 Grilled Meat Steak ×1 Skillet — Meat ×3, Fruit ×2, Vegetable ×2, Cooking Oil ×3 Meatball Soup ×1 Iron Pot — requires Skewers + Boiled Meat (see recipe above) Pan-Fried Vegetables ×2 Skillet — Vegetable ×1, Fish Fillet ×2, Egg ×3, Cooking Oil ×3 Pear ×5 Gathered — common fruit across Hernand and Pailune woodlands Grand Feast effect: All stats +15% for 30 minutes. Stacks with elixirs — use both for the hardest bosses in the game. The feast is consumed instantly on use; prepare at least two before any multi-phase encounter. 🧺 Ingredient Sources The most time-consuming part of cooking is stockpiling Cooking Oil, Fine Meat, and Seafood. Everything else accumulates naturally. Always buy out Cooking Oil from every merchant you visit — it doesn't respawn fast enough to satisfy a serious cooking habit. Fine Meat Drops from named sub-bosses and elite field monsters across Pailune and Calphade. Cannot be substituted in Fine Cuisine recipes. → Pan-Fried Fine Meat, Fine Meat Mixed Fry, Fine Seafood Stew, Creamy Meat Soup Fish Fillet Fishing at any body of water — rivers, lakes, coast. Process medium or large fish at camp using the Field Processing option. → Fish Fry, Fish Porridge, Meat and Fish Skewers, Pan-Fried Vegetables Cooking Oil Purchased from merchants (most towns stock it). Also produced by pressing seeds at camp — Sunflower and Sesame seeds work best. → Required for all Skillet and Wok recipes Seafood Coastal Delesyia and Pailune shorelines. Gathered from shellfish nodes on the beach, also from fishing saltwater zones. → Seafood Fry, Seafood Soup, Seafood & Bird Stew, Fine Seafood Stew Milk Farm animals in Hernand countryside settlements. Also sold by Provisioner NPCs. Keep 10+ stocked — only used in Creamy Meat Soup but it's the best HP recipe. → Creamy Meat Soup Egg Bird nests throughout Hernand and Pailune woodlands. Also sold by merchants. Extremely common — rarely a bottleneck. → Egg Soup, Vegetable Salad, Pan-Fried Vegetables, fine cuisine recipes Sugar Merchant-only — available from general stores in Hernand City and Pailune. Not gathered in the wild. → Fruit Tea (Scholastone Research unlock) Salt Purchased from any Provisioner NPC. Also found near coastal salt flats in Delesyia. Buy in bulk — used heavily in preservation recipes. → Marinated recipes, Boiled Meat, Fish Porridge, Egg Soup Fruit (Pear) Pears are the most common fruit — gathered from trees throughout Hernand and Pailune. Also in crates near town markets. → Grand Feast (×5 Pear specifically required), Marinated Meat, Fruit Tea Bird Meat Hunted from birds in Hernand woodlands. Crouch-approach from downwind or they flee. 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