Cooking is ane of the most AFK & assisting lifeskills in Black Desert Online, and so whether you're looking to advance your Cooking Mastery – or brand a overnice amount of extra silver while you're not grinding for gear – this BDO cooking guide aims to provide you with all the information, buffs & gear you lot will need to brand the almost out of your cooking sessions!
Cooking is divided in 7 Ranks / 130 Levels, like the rest of BDO lifeskills:
Beginner Cooking 1-ten (Level 1-x)
Apprentice Cooking 1-ten (Level 11-20)
Skilled Cooking i-ten (Level 21-thirty)
Professional Cooking 1-10 (Level 31-40)
Artisan Cooking 1-10 (Level 41-l)
Master Cooking 1-thirty (Level 51-80)
Guru Cooking ane-fifty (Level 81-130)
If you are a total beginner in Cooking and BDO lifeskills, I suggest you carefuly read through the whole guide. Veterans can skip the first ii parts (overview & how to melt), and jump directly to the juice! 🧃
Tabular array of Contents
ane Cooking Overview – Is It Worth It?
ii How to Cook with Your Ain Materials
2.ane How to Craft Beer
2.1.1 Getting Your Residence
2.1.two Crafting Your Cooking Utensils
2.1.three Getting the Materials for Beer
3 Cooking Mastery
4 Cooking Gear
4.one Cooking Utensils
four.2 Cooking Apparel for Faster Leveling
4.three Cooking Clothes for Faster Production
iv.4 Manos Accessories for More Cooking XP
5 Cooking Buffs
five.one Food Buffs for Cooking
5.2 Elixir Buffs for Cooking
five.three P2W Buffs for Cooking
v.4 Pet Buffs for Cooking (Heavily P2W)
vi Max Cooking XP / Mastery / Cooking Fourth dimension Setup
7 How to Raise Your Contribution Points with Cooking ASAP
7.one Lowering Cooking Time to 1 2d
seven.two The Cheapest Cooking Recipe You Can Make for CP
Cooking Overview – Is It Worth It?
Cooking is extremely similar with Abracadabra. Both lifeskills office exactly the same manner (with their own gear, buffs and recipes of class).
Choosing in which one to invest, comes down to how much time you are looking to put in optimizing your coin-making. Cooking is "piece of cake", and Abracadabra is "hard", as far every bit recipe complexion and material gathering / grinding are concerned.
If you lot're non a lifeskill guy but still want to tap on the Cooking / Alchemy money, and so definitely go with Cooking. On the other hand, if yous're a lifeskill guy similar me (you are going to do both anyway), then definitely get with Alchemy, as all the complexion it entails, rewards you with much more coin.
A great thing with both lifeskills, is that yous can set your cooking schedule co-ordinate to your own IRL schedule.
You can apply cooking devices (known every bit utensils) that take a long fourth dimension for each arts and crafts, only also have a lot of durability, therefore letting you AFK for even 6 hours. If y'all'd rather do something else AFK (like angling, training, or non having the game open – why yous play BDO once more?), you tin take advantage of the fast utensils, that will permit you practise a 1000 crafts in a few minutes.
Compared to virtually lifeskills, making money by Cooking is quite straightforward, every bit y'all tin can pack a lot of meals into boxes, which you can sell to Imperial Delivery NPCs for a dainty sum of money, or also craft meals that are in high-need from players and sell them on the Central Market – you volition have to expect for the most profitable option based on the recipe.
Keep in listen that both Cooking & Alchemy volition provide you with many dissimilar byproducts with each arts and crafts, which you tin can trade for lifeskill XP, silver, materials, and most importantly Contribution Bespeak XP!
How to Melt with Your Own Materials
If y'all aim to be a proper melt (therefore make proper money), it'southward crucial to invest in your Worker Empire, and fifty-fifty your Farming Skill, and then that you can source all your materials yourself, and non rely on the Central Market for your recipe choices.
Keep in mind this is non always wise though, ultimately y'all volition have to do your own recipe & material inquiry, and figure out what's more profitable for your situation – which materials to cultivate, and which ones to buy direct off the market.
While exploring Cooking Recipes, you will realize that all of their base of operations materials, can exist either gathered by workers from Nodes y'all have invested in, cultivated in your farm or be produced past Cooking itself.
Therefore it'southward paramount to invest in your production chain to suit your Cooking goals, and researching the recipes yourself is unavoidable.
I'k going to show you how to arts and crafts Beer step-past-footstep all the same, in order to introduce you in Cooking's earth, and stock some Stamina replenishment for your Workers. 🍻
How to Arts and crafts Beer
In order to commencement crafting your ain food, you will need a few things:
A Residence
A Cooking Utensil
The Materials
Let's break each 1 down:
Getting Your Residence
This is an easy step, even though a bit disruptive it's the first time you're doing information technology.
It's wise to invest some time and decide which Metropolis you lot'd similar to make your "cooking" city. The more than you cook, the more you will realize how important your node & workers setup is, so y'all are going to need to transport all your materials to your cooking city.
If you are a starter, and so Velia or Heidel are arguably the all-time choices. They are both surrounded past a multitude of productions nodes, and they are always rich with population – then you won't ever feel alone. 😁
My personal option is Grána though. Not only there are some beautiful villas up for rent, merely it's besides a user-friendly location once you overcome the pain of transferring all your cooking / abracadabra materials over there. It's also a wise choice if y'all are planning to invest in your Trading skill in the future, as it's located on the western side of the map.
So in one case you lot accept decided the Urban center you want to carry your cooking activities, simply open the map and click on it, then you are going to exist presented with all the houses that are bachelor for rent:
Choose a Residence that seems convenient, and you lot are ready to get!
Crafting Your Cooking Utensils
You lot can always buy a elementary Cooking Utensil past the Central Market or the Cooking Vendor:
Alternatively, you can also arts and crafts your own! I practise suggest you do so, because you lot volition get more familiar with many more of BDO's mechanics, besides equally future income streams.
The single best place to practice that, is the Glish 3 Tool Workshop, since it's the only Level 4 Tool Workshop in the game! Glish 2 also offers the unique Ceramic Workshop, which tin can be used to create & sell some niche vase furniture. Glish four also offers a wealth of strong high-level workshops, and so definitely invest in Glish three in order to make your own Cooking & Alchemy Utensils – but besides gathering & fishing tools.
If y'all prefer to achieve the fastest cooking time, and so craft Avant-garde Cooking Utensil. Otherwise if y'all are looking to AFK a longer time while cooking, definitely choose Calpheon Traditional Cooking Utensil. Their recipes are quite unproblematic, and you can larn more well-nigh their cloth requirements by clicking their links.
You will need to have all the materials in your Glish storage, and one bachelor worker in Glish, in order to starting time the crafting process.
Getting the Materials for Beer
Beer is truly ane of the simplest recipes you lot can make, and it never stops being helpful since information technology's the most popular food your workers will consume, in order to proceed working.
So starting out, information technology's a wise idea to stock at least fifty,000 Beer, so that you lot can forget about it for some time.
To craft Beer you need:
5 Cereals – this is an Item Group, meaning that a few unlike items can be used for whatsoever recipe that's request for Cereals. These are Barley, Corn, Potato, Sweet Potato & Wheat. I definitely propose you option up a few Potato Product Nodes around Velia, there's Loggia Farm, Bartali Subcontract & Finto Farm. The ii last options likewise offer Eggs & Chicken Meat, which is a must-have for cooks! Wheat nodes are also piece of cake to pick up early on, and if y'all tin spare the Contribution Points, I suggest you do so.
6 Mineral Water – this is a very simple material, which you can only buy from the Cooking Vendor, for a very small-scale price.
1 Sugar – like to Mineral Water, you can only get Sugar by buying it from the Cooking Vendor for a small sum.
two Leavening Agent – and once again, the Cooking Vendor!
So at present you run into why making Beer is so simple, 3 out of 4 materials are directly bought from the Cooking Vendor, and you only need to worry about producing the Cereals with your workers.
Yous e'er demand to calculate how many materials yous will need, based on the number of crafts you lot aim to do. For case if yous desire to craft Beer 1,000 times (each time will offer more than ane Beer, and e'er raising with your Cooking Level & Mastery), you will demand five,000 Cereals, six,000 Mineral Water, 1,000 Sugar and 2,000 Leavening Agents.
Y'all volition also soon realize that the more y'all want to arts and crafts at once, the more the full weight y'all can bear will bear on that ability.
And so that's information technology, you lot can now arts and crafts Beer on your ain, and take care of your Workers' stamina!
Brand certain to cheque out our guide for crafting Skillful Feed as well, and so that y'all can go along your pets fed as well!
Cooking Mastery
Lifeskill masteries were introduced in a huge patch in September 2019, and added a lot more depth and strategy to each lifeskill – Cooking is no exception of course!
You can bank check your Cooking Mastery anytime, by pressing P, and then choosing the Life Skill tab.
There are a lot of things affected by your Cooking Mastery:
Your take a chance to use Mass Cooking (up to 100%).
Your take a chance to craft the maximum number of dishes (upwardly to 61.1%).
Your gamble to receive the college-grade version of your crafted dish (upwards to xix.3%) (also as your chance to get the maximum number of them – up to 61.1%).
Your Majestic Commitment Profit (upwardly to 144.9%)!
Equally it's apparent, all of the above benefits tin make a huge difference into your profits from Cooking, and so definitely start investing in Cooking Mastery gear equally shortly as you lot surpass Primary ane in Cooking.
Cooking Mastery per Cooking Level
Beginner Cooking
Beginner 1
0
Apprentice 1
55
Skilled i
105
Professional 1
155
Artisan 1
205
Beginner two
10
Apprentice 2
sixty
Skilled ii
110
Professional 2
160
Artisan 2
210
Beginner 3
xv
Apprentice 3
65
Skilled iii
115
Professional 3
165
Artisan 3
215
Beginner iv
20
Apprentice 4
70
Skilled 4
120
Professional 4
170
Artisan 4
220
Beginner five
25
Apprentice v
75
Skilled 5
125
Professional 5
175
Artisan v
225
Beginner six
30
Apprentice six
80
Skilled 6
130
Professional person vi
180
Artisan 6
230
Beginner vii
35
Amateur 7
85
Skilled 7
135
Professional seven
185
Artisan 7
235
Beginner 8
40
Apprentice 8
90
Skilled 8
140
Professional 8
190
Artisan 8
240
Beginner nine
45
Apprentice ix
95
Skilled ix
145
Professional person 9
195
Artisan nine
245
Beginner 10
50
Apprentice 10
100
Skilled 10
150
Professional 10
200
Artisan 10
250
Master Cooking
Master ane
255
Master 7
285
Primary 13
315
Master xix
345
Primary 25
375
Primary 2
260
Master 8
290
Master 14
320
Principal 20
350
Master 26
380
Primary three
265
Master nine
295
Principal 15
325
Primary 21
355
Chief 27
385
Master iv
270
Principal 10
300
Master sixteen
330
Master 22
360
Master 28
390
Master 5
275
Main 11
305
Primary 17
335
Chief 23
365
Principal 29
395
Chief 6
280
Main 12
310
Main 18
340
Master 24
370
Master 30
400
Guru Cooking
Guru i
405
Guru eleven
455
Guru 21
510
Guru 31
610
Guru 41
710
Guru 2
410
Guru 12
460
Guru 22
520
Guru 32
620
Guru 42
720
Guru iii
415
Guru 13
465
Guru 23
530
Guru 33
630
Guru 43
730
Guru 4
420
Guru 14
470
Guru 24
540
Guru 34
640
Guru 44
740
Guru 5
425
Guru xv
475
Guru 25
550
Guru 35
650
Guru 45
750
Guru half-dozen
430
Guru 16
480
Guru 26
560
Guru 36
660
Guru 46
760
Guru 7
435
Guru 17
485
Guru 27
570
Guru 37
670
Guru 47
770
Guru 8
440
Guru 18
490
Guru 28
580
Guru 38
680
Guru 48
780
Guru 9
445
Guru xix
495
Guru 29
590
Guru 39
690
Guru 49
790
Guru ten
450
Guru 20
500
Guru 30
600
Guru 40
700
Guru 50
800
Cooking Gear
In social club to cook efficiently, y'all need to know all the available Cooking gear, and get your hands at the best versions you can.
Cooking Utensils
This is where you cook everything, then if yous are looking to brand a long-term investment – which you should – and so crafting your own Cooking Utensils is essential. Follow my advice in the second section of the guide in order for the best advice on crafting your own.
These are all the available Cooking Utensils:
Particular
Cooking Time
Durability
Source
Advanced Cooking Utensil
-1 sec.
900
Crafting
Intermediate Cooking Utensil
–
500
Crafting
Cooking Utensil
–
100
Crafting
Balenos Traditional Cooking Utensil
+v sec.
500
Crafting
Serendia Traditional Cooking Utensil
+6 sec.
ane,250
Crafting
Calpheon Traditional Cooking Utensil
+7 sec.
two,000
Crafting
Cooking Clothes for Faster Leveling
Getting to Master level in Cooking – let solitary Guru – is not an piece of cake, and definitely not a fast accomplishment.
Y'all will need tons of crafts to get there, and the best assist you can become is using the dedicated Cooking Apparel, which offer you more Cooking XP, also as shorter cooking times!
The all-time selection when starting out, is Argent Embroidered Cook'southward Dress:
Item
Movement Speed
Cooking XP
Cooking Time
Silver Embroidered Cook'southward Dress
+1
–
-1 sec.
Silver Embroidered Cook'southward Clothes +1
+one
+10%
-2 sec.
Silver Embroidered Melt's Dress +2
+2
+15%
-iii sec.
Silvery Embroidered Cook's Dress +3
+two
+20%
-iv sec.
Silver Embroidered Cook's Wearing apparel +4
+3
+25%
-5 sec.
Silver Embroidered Cook'southward Clothes +v
+4
+40%
-vii sec.
Cooking Clothes for Faster Production
The higher yous abound your Cooking Level, the more than you will also abound your Cooking Mastery, which in plow will make you lot turn to Cooking Mastery dress instead of XP, since they will exist more assisting.
There are many options there, and all of them are quite expensive. So I definitely advise to be aware of them and their departure, just wait until at least Primary 1 Cooking before you invest in any of them:
Level
Loggia Cook'southward Clothes
Roroju Cook'due south Wearing apparel
Manos Cook's Dress
Cooking Mastery
0
+iii
+4
+5
+1
+6
+8
+10
+2
+nine
+12
+xv
+three
+12
+sixteen
+20
+4
+15
+20
+25
+5
+xviii
+24
+xxx
+half-dozen
+21
+28
+35
+7
+24
+32
+40
+8
+27
+36
+45
+nine
+30
+forty
+50
+x
+33
+44
+55
+eleven
+39
+l
+60
+12
+45
+58
+70
+13
+51
+66
+80
+14
+57
+74
+90
+xv
+63
+lxxx
+100
PRI
+70
+95
+120
DUO
+90
+125
+160
TRI
+130
+180
+220
TET
+200
+250
+300
PEN
+280
+330
+400
Manos Accessories for More Cooking XP
Cooking Buffs
Cooking gear is not the but way you can get more out of cooking, since in that location are many buffs that volition greatly help you.
Food Buffs for Cooking
The best food yous can use to boost your Cooking, is Seafood Cron Meal (ten% Life XP & -0.6 sec. Cooking Time for 120 minutes). Information technology is quite expensive to make or buy, only I practice suggest you work towards making your own – that activity lonely will help you discover a lot about Cooking, likewise every bit your node management.
Alternatively, y'all can stack a lifeskill XP buff with a lower cooking time vitrify, only you showtime have to expect xxx minutes earlier y'all can consume the second food item.
For this cheaper option you will use:
Sute Tea – +8% Life XP for 90 minutes
Teff Sandwich – -0.five sec. Cooking Time for xc minutes
On tiptop of these, brand sure to consume some Savory Steak, which will provide you with +10 Cooking Mastery.
Elixir Buffs for Cooking
The best elixir you lot tin utilise for Cooking XP, is Verdure Draught by far (twenty% Life XP, -1 sec. Cooking Time & 200LT for 15 minutes)! Just information technology is extremely expensive, and different Seafood Cron Meal, totally non worth investing in it.
A great alternative – which is still expensive – is Elixir of Flowing Time (fifteen% Life XP for viii minutes).
I highly propose making these yourself if you lot want to invest in your Alchemy skill too (remember, information technology'southward a much improve money maker than Cooking in the long run – don't skip the word "long" hither).
P2W Buffs for Cooking
Equally you would expect, there are many ways you can Pay to Level your Cooking faster in BDO.
The best investment you tin can make on that aspect, is the Canape outfit. Not only it increases your Cooking XP by 15%, but it also provides you lot with two whole seconds of less Cooking Time! If yous're going the p2w-route, this is definitely the best item value / money yous can go. It costs two,900 pearls, and is bound to the grade yous open it with.
The 2d best investment if you are an active player, is of grade the Value Pack. Information technology offers too many benefits to non use it, along with 10% Life XP, 200LT and extra storage / inventory slots you lot are going to need. It costs 1,500 pearls, and lasts for 30 days. I suggest to never buy Value Packs full price, as they are e'er a role of some improve bargain, and it's too i of the easiest pearl items you tin can get on the Central Marketplace.
Another expensive way to buff your lifeskill XP, but I really not advise it if y'all don't do a lot of gainsay grinding as well. You can get the P2W tent, known as the Naphart Campsite, which volition let you lot remotely buy Villa Curl buffs (well y'all tin get it from the villa itself too, merely that'southward far from convenient).
Last but not least, the most P2W – and naturally the most effective – pearl item, is the Sealed Book of Life. It offers fifty% Life XP, costs i,250 pearls, and lasts for xv days. Then whatever your circumstances, it will cut your Cooking Leveling time in half.
Pet Buffs for Cooking (Heavily P2W)
Pets are an extremely Pay-to-win way to highly raise your Cooking XP – as long as the RNG gods, and your wallet will let you.
So, every Pet has a Talent, which is always the same depending on the pet type. For instance Cats, have a Life XP talent:
Tier one – 1% Life XP
Tier 2 – 2% Life XP
Tier iii – 3% Life XP
Tier 4 – four% Life XP
That means that there'due south investing in Life XP pets, will really let you lot do good in all of your lifeskills, therefore it'south the best investment you tin make – if lifeskilling is your primary concern.
Then, the real RNG kicks in. Pet Skills! Your pet can have ane skill at Tiers ane & two, 2 skills at Tier 3, and three skills at Tier 4.
The skills it volition learn are totally random, and changing them means breeding your pet, which costs more than money and RNG.
Anyway, just for the sake of it yous're after the Cooking XP Skill, which will offer you 5% Cooking XP.
And then if nosotros assume you have the "perfect pet setup for Cooking", and accept spent around 1,000$, y'all will end up with:
5 Pets X iv% Life XP = 20% Life XP
five Pets X 5% Cooking XP = 25% Cooking XP
45% Additional Cooking XP extra.
Then if you desire to cut your Cooking Leveling fourth dimension in half, prepare to pay a ridiculous corporeality of coin.
Max Cooking XP / Mastery / Cooking Time Setup
These are just some calculations on the max values you can attain for actress Life XP, Cooking Mastery, and Cooking Time.
Please keep in mind that obtaining the gear listed beneath costs around 130,000,000,000 Silver – yeah that's 130 billion! So consult information technology for reference, and don't get your hopes up! 😂
PEN: Manos Necklace – +12% Life XP, +150 Lifeskill Mastery
2 ten PEN: Manos Earring – +24% Life XP, +250 Lifeskill Mastery
two x PEN: Manos Ring – +24% Life XP, +250 Lifeskill Mastery
PEN: Manos Belt – +150 Lifeskill Mastery
Buffs
Seafood Cron Meal – +10% Life XP, -0.6 sec. Cooking Time
Savory Steak – +10 Lifeskill Mastery
Verdure Draught – +twenty% Life XP, -1 sec. Cooking Time
P2W Buffs
Canape Clothes – +15% Life XP, -2 sec. Cooking Time
Value Pack – +10% Life XP
[Villa] Turning Gates – +10% Life XP
Sealed Book of Life – +50% Life XP
5 ten Tier 4 Life XP Pets with Cooking Skill – +45% Life XP
Totals
+220% Life XP, +two,010 Cooking Mastery, -3.half dozen sec. Cooking Time
If you are looking for the highest Cooking XP vitrify / everyman Cooking Fourth dimension, but swap PEN: Manos Cook's Wearing apparel with +5 Silvery Embroidered Cook's Apparel, so the new totals are:
+260% Life XP, +1,610 Cooking Mastery, -10.6 sec. Cooking Time
How to Heighten Your Contribution Points with Cooking ASAP
There are many players that simply want to "max out" their CP with Cooking, and don't care for anything else related to the lifeskill itself or making money with Cooking.
This is understandable, and if you lot want to run across Cooking just as a CP generator, let's practice some math, and see what's the fastest & cheapest way to practise just that.
Getting there fast, means you are going to need a one second Cooking Time, in order to be the most efficient.
Lowering Cooking Time to 1 Second
The default Cooking Time (without any positive or negative modifiers) is 10 seconds, therefore you volition need to subtract that by Xx seconds to achieve 1 second (it tin't get lower).
You will demand:
Of course getting a +4 Silverish Emrboidered Cook's Wearing apparel is far from cheap, and will toll you lot almost i billion!
A seemingly cheaper solution, is to go the +3 Cook's Wearing apparel, and and so utilise a Verdure Draugs every 15 minutes, which can provide yous that additional 1 second off cooking fourth dimension.
Proceed in heed that these Draughts are quite expensive though, so information technology'due south really non worth it. If y'all take no use for the +4 Melt's Clothes afterwards your CP grind, you tin just sell them back!
The Cheapest Cooking Recipe Yous Tin can Brand for CP
So in one case nailing that 1 second Cooking Time, let'due south meet what's the cheapest thing you tin cook for CP, and also an alternative which will also let you end up with some items you tin can actually sell dorsum to someone, and also make some money in the process!
At present virtually plebs out there craft Vinegar or Essence of Liquor in order to farm CP. Don't be well-nigh plebs!
I hateful sure, the materials are piece of cake to acquire, and both recipes are existence used in many higher recipes. Only do you really want to terminate up with 2,000,000 Vinegar in your Storage?
If you lot don't care, simply hoard Cereals & Fruits nodes, and yous're adept to go. Cull Essence of Liquor if you also desire to level your Processing on the mode, or stick to Vinegar if getting the fastest CP is all that matters to you.
If you do want to make some expert money while leveling your Cooking and CP levels, then I highly suggest you study the Cooking Boxes needed for Imperial Delivery. In that location'south a different one for each Cooking Rank (Apprentice, Skilled etc.), and each one can exist fabricated by a wealth of different recipes.
That means that you have many options for how you lot desire to setup your nodes, and which items you lot can craft for each Cooking Rank, in order to maximize your profit while leveling.
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