Cooking | New World Wiki | Complete Guide, Leveling, Materials

Cooking is a Crafting Trade Skill in New World. Cooking allows for the preparation of Food that the player can consume to grant special effects such as health and mana restoration, buffs, as well as bonuses to other Crafting skills. Cooks can also create Dyes that can be used to color parts of Armor. Trade Skills are a variety of non-combat skills that the player can invest in and master. Trade Skills belonging to the Crafting category focus on creating a large variety of items ranging from Weapons and Consumables to ammunition and furniture. 

 

New World Cooking Information

Cooking is the Crafting skill focused on creating Food and Dyes by using resources and materials obtained from skills in the Gathering lines. A higher level in Cooking will allow players to create a wider range of food with more powerful effects, as well as a bigger variety of dyes. Additionally, higher levels in Cooking will allow players to craft food and dyes more efficiently, producing more items for the same amount of resources.

Cooking is performed at a Kitchen which can often be found in Settlements. Kitchens have a Tier level which can be increased by taking on Town Projects. Note that each craftable item has a tier level requirement in order to craft. This tier level corresponds to the Kitchen's tier level. If your settlement's Kitchen level does not meet the requirement, you will need to either raise it or find another settlement with a Kitchen of a higher tier. Cooking food and preparing dyes requires the player to be of the appropriate Cooking level as well. Leveling up in Cooking is a straightforward process. Players simply need to continuously craft items to raise their level in the skill. Collecting resources, however, is more involved and can prove more difficult.

 

Cooking Related skills

Cooking is a skill that relies heavily on the following skills for resources and materials and as such, they are strongly recommended companion skills:

• Harvesting
• Fishing

Note that materials for any Crafting skill can be obtained from other players as well by trading, so players can still be successful in Cooking even if they invest in other skills, but this requires playing the game's economy system.

 

New World Cooking Guide

 

The Cooking crafting process begins by interacting with a Kitchen, a crafting station found in Settlements. Within the crafting UI, you can see all your learned recipes on the left panel for all Crafting skills associated with the crafting station. Selecting a recipe displays the item and its required materials in the middle panel while displaying a preview of the potential result on the right.

 

Recipe Panel

Displayed in the left panel are all available crafting recipes. Items displayed in White indicate that you meet all the requirements to craft the item. Items displayed in Red indicate that you do not meet one or more of the crafting requirements (Resources, Skill Level, etc.). The small icon to the right of each item displays the crafting skill used and the numerical value represents the minimum level required in the skill in order to craft the item.

 

Materials Panel

The materials panel in the middle displays the required materials in order to craft the item. Most crafted items require one type of Primary material and at least one or more types of Secondary materials. 

 

Primary Materials

Primary Materials are comprised of the main refined material used in a given crafting recipe. Any items within the required Tier and of the appropriate type can be used as a Primary Material.  A primary material's tier will always correspond to the crafted item's tier. Lower tier primary materials cannot be used to craft items of a higher tier.

Secondary Materials

Unlike Primary Materials, Secondary Materials used in a crafting recipe can be of any tier within the same category. For example, the Cooking recipe for Energizing Travel Ration calls for 1 count of Raw Foods as one of the secondary materials. The crafter can use a wide variety of ingredients to fullfill the requirement including the common Pork, Venison and Game Meat or they can opt to use rarer ingredients such as Venison Tenderloin, Oyster, Large Swordfish, and many others. In the case of Secondary Materials in Cooking, using a material of a higher Tier such as Oyster in the case above will raise the chance of crafting additional items. Using rare materials in combination with a higher level in the Cooking skill can improve your crafting yield greatly while using the same amount of materials.

Note that certain items will have set material requirements that cannot be altered.

When crafting items, it is important to note that the crafting station will draw from your pool of resources in both your Inventory as well as any Storage Sheds you possess within the Settlement so it is not necessary to clog up your inventory with crafting materials if you have a storage shed in the current settlement. Note that Storage Sheds are not shared between Settlements. Items you have in storage in Windsward cannot be used for crafting in First Light, for example. However, you can transfer items between storage sheds from the storage menu.

 

Special Resources and Azoth

 

Special Resources and Azoth cannot be used in the Cooking trade skill.

 

Results Panel

 

Using Dyes

 

Gear Score & Item Yield

As a Crafting skill focused purely on Consumables, leveling up in Cooking has no effect on Gear Score whatsoever, but it will improve your chances of creating additional items per craft. This bonus can yield 1 or more additional items per craft. This bonus chance applies to all Consumables crafted via Cooking including Food, Food Components and Dyes.

The chance improves in increments of 0.10% per level, maxing out at 20.00% at level 200. However, note that many crafted items have a Base Extra Items Chance with a negative rate, especially higher-tier items. For example, the Tier IV Berry Brew has a base chance of -5% and crafting it with a Cooking skill level of 150 (15% Extra Items Chance) will provide a 10% chance of yielding additional items per craft. 

The chance of creating additional items can also be improved by using higher-tier or rarer materials where possible during the crafting process. There are also equipment you can wear which provide a boost to crafting yield.

 

New World Cooking Leveling Tips

Leveling up Cooking in New World allows for crafting of better, more potent Food as well as improving your crafting efficiency and increasing your yield.

Leveling in Cooking will require a Kitchen of at least Tier II. If you are sticking to the Travel Ration all the way, you will not need anything above this. Otherwise, make sure you have access to a Kitchen of the appropriate Tier. Alternatively, since all the crafted items are in the Recovery Foods category, they can also be crafted at your Camp. This is especially useful since you can simply camp near a body of water and do all your gathering and cooking in the same spot the entire time. Be aware, however, that you will need to be at certain levels and complete certain quests in order to upgrade your Camp if you are looking to craft any of the higher-tier Recovery Foods. The requirements to upgrade your Camp are as follows:

• Tier II - Requires Level 15 and completion of the Friends in Fashion Quest (Monarch's Bluffs)
• Tier III - Requires Level 25 and completion of the Animal Instincts Quest (Cutlass Keys)
• Tier IV - Requires Level 40 and completion of the Lupine Observations Quest (Restless Shore)
• Tier V - Requires Level 55 and completion of the Fading Lights Quest (Edengrove)

When cooking items, take note of of the ingredient requirements. Many recipes, including the ones used for this leveling guide specifically, use one Primary Material and one or more Secondary Materials. The primaries will often have a specific Tier requirement while for secondaries, any material within the category can be used. Most recipes will use Raw Foods with certain specifics. For example, the Light Meal calls for 1 x Tier III Raw Foods, 1 x Raw Foods and 1 x Raw Foods. In this case, any Tier III Raw Food such as Cabbage, Onion, Squid Meat or Venison can be used. For the two secondary materials, anything within the Raw Foods category can be used, even the lowest tier materials such as Egg, Honey or Poultry. In fact, if simply leveling the Cooking skill, it is recommended to use your lowest tier materials as they are generally the most abundant and easiest to gather, unless there is a specific tier requirement.

Note: You cannot use the exact same ingredient/material to fulfill more than one requirement in a given recipe. This means you cannot use Squid Meat as both the primary and secondary materials in the above example, even if it corresponds to all three. Refer to the Raw Foods page for a list of eligible materials.

One of the introductory quests will task you with crafting a Light Ration which should get you to Level 1 in Cooking which is the minimum requirement to craft Travel Ration used in the leveling guide.

Fishing Route

If going the fishing route, you can craft Travel Rations all the way to 200. 

Travel Ration (22,522 Total)

• 22,522 x Firm Fish Filet or any Tier 2 Raw Foods
• 22,522 x Fish Filet or any Raw Foods

You will be crafting a total of 22,522 Travel Rations. While this number may seem daunting, the actual amount of fish you will be catching for ingredients is a lot lower. This is due to the fact that you can salvage fish to get a number of materials. In this instance, you will be looking to catch Common Fish such as Bass, Perch and Pike, as well as Uncommon Fish such as Catfish, Cod and Halibut. These are easily found in open waters around the starting areas such as Windsward. Salvaging Common Fish can yield anywhere from 1 - 4 Fish Filet and 1 - 3 Firm Fish Filet depending on size, while salvaging Uncommon Fish can yield 1 - 4 Firm Fish Filet, as well as Tender Fish Filet which can be used as a Tier III Raw Food ingredient.

Alternatively, you can take the 4-tier approach and cook food corresponding to the current leveling tier. This entails cooking Tier II Travel Rations from 1 to 50, Tier III Light Meals from 50 to 100, Tier IV Satisfying Meals from 100 to 150, and finally Tier V Hearty Meals from 150 to 200. This would mean chasing after Fishing Hotspots in order to catch higher tier fish but it also means more XP per craft and a stockpile of higher tier Recovery Foods which you can either use yourself or sell on the Trading Post. Hotspots are special areas in fishable water that have a large gathering of fish. There are Broad, Rare and Secret Hotspots and you can discover and track more and more of these as your Fishing level increases. When cooking Tier III foods and above, these should be your priority spots as they yield more of the higher tier fish, which in turn can be salvaged into higher tier Fish Filet and other materials. The following are the material requirements for each leveling bracket:

 

• Delicate Fish Filet can be salvaged from Electric Eels (Freshwater; Brightwood, Everfall, First Light), Speartooth Sharks (Freshwater; Cutlass Keys), Stingray (Saltwater; Cutlass Keys, Monarch's Bluffs) and Swordfish (Saltwater; Cutlass Keys, Everfall).
• Fish Roe can be salvaged from Sturgeon (Freshwater; Brightwood, First Light, Monarch's Bluffs) and Paddlefish (Freshwater; Cutlass Keys, Monarch's Bluffs).

Remember that each primary ingredient (the first in each list) for each recipe above can be substituted for any other raw ingredient within their tier, while the remaining ingredients in each list can be substituted for any other raw ingredient. This allows for a plethora of options when trying to fulfill recipe requirements. For the Tier III Tender Fish Filet ingredient, a great substitute is Squid Meat. Squid Meat can be salvaged from Squid which you will come across quite often while fishing.

The following table lists some of the easier to obtain materials for each tier and where they can be found:

 

 

Making Money from Cooking

Info to be added soon

 

Cooking Recipes

Below you can find a list of Cooking Recipes grouped by type you can follow to craft different Foods, Baits, and Dyes.

Please visit our Recipes page for more information.

 

*Note: Certain recipes call for (non-tier) "Raw Foods" as an ingredient. Because this subcategory comprises of a list too large to include in the tables, please see the Raw Foods page for a details on suitable ingredients..

 

 

Cooking Notes and Tips

• Notes and Tips go here

 

 

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