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Cooking: A Stat Guide
Below you will find the stat profile for 1) all the common bases 2) relatively common fish and mushrooms and 3) about 80% of the herbs. A stat profile simply indicates the positives and negatives for an ingredient. This does NOT indicate how 'powerful' an ingredient is.*
This data is the result of analysis on approximately 3000 cooking tests at FoA. The vast majority of the stat profiles for the ingredients below were directly verified by me (there are only 5 exceptions, in the case of a few particularly rare herbs for which I only have second-hand cooking test information from Good Grub Hub.)
If an item is not listed, that means it has not yet been sufficiently tested to prove it's stat profile with certainty (likely as a result of relative rarity).
How to Use This Chart
Let's say you want to make a +Speed meal. First, sort the herb list for +Speed, and review which of those herbs you have. Once you select an herb you would like to use as the additive, you'll need to find a base to match it up to to make a pair. The closer a base is to the additive, the longer the duration of that pair. To find close bases, refer to the cooking grid at The Good Grub Hub.
A word of warning: if you are putting multiple pairs together, you need to ensure that the additive for one pair will 'attach' to the correct base. Additives will always 'attach' to whichever base is closest, regardless of what you intended. As a result, you don't want to mix pairs together when the pairs themselves are overlapping on the grid.
How Will An Ingredient Impact My Recipe?
As noted above, the below information is only a stat profile. The actual impact on stats in a cooked pairing is affected by a few things.
- The potency of an additive matters: the higher the potency, the higher the max possible stat boost will be from that ingredient. (As a very general matter, rare herbs have higher potency than common ones.)
- The distance to the base matters: as ingredients get further away, their stat impact seems to have a tendency to diminish. AS a general matter, you don't want to use pairs that have a ton of distance anyway, though, as it makes it very difficult to add additional pairs to the meal that way.
- Some other, as yet uncalculated, issue: there are countless instances where a decent potency herb that's fairly close to it's paired base simply does not 'react'. In these situations, the pair might have only the stats from the base appear in the cooked version. Theories abound, but no definitive experiments or data have yet appeared.
Because even a high potency, close pairing may not spit out the high value stat boost that you expect, it is strongly recommended that you test individual pairs in small quantities before mixing all the pieces together in a full meal.
Also, remember: when adding multiple +speed pairs together for a higher level cooking meal, those amounts do not get added together with standard addition. In other words, adding two +5speed pairs together would likely result in a +7speed meal, since 5^2 + 5^2 = 7^2. Adding FOUR +5speed pairs together would likely result in a +10speed meal, as 5^2 + 5^2 + 5^2 + 5^2 = 10^2.
Common Bases
| Ingredient | STR | DEX | END | SPD | CON | FOC | PER |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cabbage | -- | .++ | -- | ||||
| carrots | .++ | -- | -- | ||||
| garlic | .++ | .++ | -- | -- | |||
| leeks | .++ | -- | .++ | ||||
| onion | -- | .++ | -- | ||||
| grilled cabbage | -- | .++ | .++ | ||||
| grilled carrots | -- | .++ | -- | ||||
| grilled garlic | -- | -- | .++ | ||||
| grilled onions | -- | .++ | -- | ||||
| cabbage juice | -- | -- | .++ | ||||
| carrot juice | -- | .++ | .++ | -- | |||
| camel meat | -- | -- | .++ | ||||
| camel milk | -- | .++ | |||||
| mutton | .++ | .++ | -- | -- | |||
| grilled fish | -- | -- | .++ | ||||
| honey | .++ | -- | .++ | -- | |||
| royal jelly | .++ | -- | -- | ||||
| oyster | .++ | .++ | .++ | ||||
| coconut | -- | .++ | -- | .++ | |||
| oil | .++ | -- | |||||
| fish oil | .++ | -- | -- | ||||
| Dates | .++ | -- | |||||
| salt | -- | .++ | -- | ||||
| Barley (raw) | -- | .++ | .++ | -- | |||
| Barley Light | .++ | -- | -- | ||||
| Barley Medium | -- | -- | .++ | .++ | |||
| Barley Dark | -- | -- | .++ | ||||
| Barley Burnt | -- | -- | .++ | ||||
| Malt (raw) | -- | .++ | -- | .++ | |||
| Malt Light | -- | -- | |||||
| Malt Medium | .++ | -- | -- | ||||
| Malt Dark | -- | -- | .++ | ||||
| Malt Burnt | -- | .++ |
