New World offers you seven different types of crafting-based trade skills, and one of them is Cooking. This guide focuses on providing you detailed information about the cooking profession along with its benefits, the skills it relies on, and lastly the best ways to power through Cooking Levels in New World.
New World Cooking Leveling
There are different types of trade skills in New World. These skills are non-combat skills that fall in the crafting category like Jewelcrafting. Crafting is a profession that focuses on making weapons and other items. Below we’ve detailed everything you need to know about the cooking profession in New World.
Cooking
As a crafting skill, cooking is a really fun profession. It’s available for everyone learn and it can be done in kitchens in different types of settlements that have their own Tier Level. You can increase your Tier Level by completing different types of Town Projects.
To find a kitchen in Aeternum, open up your map and find the fork and frying pan icons on it. These icons are for the kitchens.
Cooking is mainly concerned with providing you food and beverages which furthermore grants you special effects like health/mana restoration, buffs, and other crafting bonuses. However, what most players don’t know is that cooking additionally provides you with dyes that you can use for coloring pieces of your armor.
In order to create a greater variety of food/drinks, a higher level of Cooking is required which grants you more powerful effects along with a bigger production of material in exchange for the same number of resources.
Materials and Other Relying Skills
Just like any other crafting profession in New Word, cooking also relies on a few skills and trading in order to gain resources and other materials.
The skills you’ll be needing for cooking are given below:
- Harvesting
- Fishing
Benefits of Leveling Up Cooking
Apart from providing you with health/mana restoration and other bonuses, there are plenty of more benefits for leveling up Cooking in New World.
One of the major benefits is the efficiency of your crafted items. The higher the level of cooking, the better will be the resulting food and dyes. These higher-level foods will give you much better passives and bonuses.
Leveling up Cooking may take a while but it’s worth the effort. To level up your cooking skill, all you need to do is cook and eventually reach the maximum level; which is level 200.
Leveling up your Cooking skill to 200 may seem like a simple task, but doing it in the most efficient and quickest way possible is tough to figure out on your own.
So to help you out with that, below we’ll show you how you can Power Level your Cooking skill in New World.
How to Power Level Cooking
To Power Level your Cooking skill, you need to find the food items that take the least amount of resources but give the greatest return on XP.
Once you find such a resource, you can keep cooking it until you can’t level up with it quickly anymore. Then, you need to find another one of these items and do the exact same with it.
You have to then rinse and repeat this process until you reach the max Cooking level of 200. Finding such food items in New World can be a very difficult and tedious task.
Luckily for you, below we’ll show you exactly what food items you need to craft every step of the way to reach level 200. This will also include what resources they’ll consume and what level they’ll take you to.
Note: You’re not allowed to use the same raw foods while making the same meal.
Level 1 to 5
For the first 5 levels, you need to craft 12x Travel Rations. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 12x Red Meat
- 12x Berry
Level 5 to 20
For the next 15 levels, you need to craft 66x Energizing Travel Rations. Alternatively, you can also continue to craft Travel Rations in the same amount as Energizing Travel Rations. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 66x Red Meat
- 66x Berry
Level 20 to 30
For the next 10 levels, you need to craft 69x more Travel Rations or Energizing Travel Ration. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 69x Red Meat
- 69x Berry
Level 30 to 40
For the next 10 levels, you need to craft 19x Wild Berry Trifles. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 19x Berry
- 19x Nut
- 19x Honey
- 19x Mint
Level 40 to 50
For the next 10 levels, you need to craft 23x more Wild Berry Trifles. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 23x Berry
- 23x Nut
- 23x Honey
- 23x Mint
Level 50 to 60
For the next 10 levels, you need to craft 24x Light Meals. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 24x Berry
- 24x Red Meat
- 24x Honey
Level 60 to 80
For the next 20 levels, you need to craft 95x Energizing Light Meals. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 95x Berry
- 95x Red Meat
- 95x Honey
Level 80 to 90
For the next 10 levels, you need to craft 134x Wild Berry Trifles. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 134x Berry
- 134x Nut
- 134x Honey
- 134x Mint
Level 90 to 125
For the next 35 levels, you need to craft 548x Energizing Light Meals. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 538x Berry
- 538x Red Meat
- 538x Honey
Level 125 to 150
For the next 25 levels, you need to craft 260x Energizing Satisfying Meal. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 260x Broccoli
- 260x Red Meat
- 260x Berry
- 260x Honey
Level 150 to 170
For the next 20 levels, you need to craft 146x Energizing Hearty Meals. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 146x Rice
- 146x Red Meat
- 146x Berry
- 146x Honey
- 146x Mint
Level 170 to 200
For the next 30 levels, you need to craft 363x Hearty Meals. To do that, you’ll need the following raw materials:
- 363x Rice
- 363x Red Meat
- 363x Berry
- 363x Honey
- 363x Mint
