Cooking in Chrono Odyssey

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Cooking allows players to turn gathered ingredients into Food, Drinks, and Feasts that provide temporary buffs to combat performance, resource regeneration, and survivability. Unlike gear crafting professions, Cooking focuses entirely on consumables that enhance your character during PvE, PvP, and long farming sessions.

You can cook at Cooking Stations located in major towns and settlements. The cooking interface shows required ingredients, gold cost, and the effects of each dish before crafting. You can also cook directly from storage, which helps manage large amounts of ingredients efficiently.

For a full overview of how professions work, see our Life Skills guide. For more information about how consumables interact with gear and progression, see our Gearing and Upgrading guide.

Cooking recipes are divided into three main categories: Food, Drinks, and Feasts. Each provides different types of buffs, ranging from health regeneration and resource recovery, to offensive and defensive bonuses.

• Food: Typically provides sustained buffs such as health regeneration or core stat increases.
• Drinks: Often focus on resource recovery such as mana or stamina, along with utility effects.
• Feasts: Higher-tier consumables that provide stronger or broader buffs, often used before difficult content.

Each recipe shows its tier, level requirement, duration, and cooldown. Higher-tier recipes generally provide stronger effects and better scaling for endgame content.

Cooking ingredients are gathered throughout the world and come from multiple sources. Maintaining a steady supply of materials is key to keeping your consumable buffs active.

• Plants and fungi: Gathered using a Sickle (herbs, grains, mushrooms).
• Meat: Obtained from animals and processed into usable cuts.
• Fish: Gathered through fishing and processed into cooking materials.
• Processed materials: Oils, syrups, and other reagents created at the Processing Bench.

Cooking materials can be stored and used directly from storage, allowing you to build and maintain a large supply without cluttering your inventory.

Cooking is one of the more straightforward professions to level. The most efficient approach is maintaining a consistent loop: gather ingredients, process them in bulk, then batch cook the cheapest available recipes for your current tier.

Focus on recipes that use common ingredients to avoid bottlenecks. Save rare materials for higher-tier dishes where the return on investment is significantly better.

1. Gather ingredients while questing (plants, meat, fish).
2. Process materials in bulk at the Processing Bench.
3. Batch cook recipes using the quantity slider.
4. Rotate recipes if you run into material shortages.

Cooking during downtime (in town or between activities) is one of the easiest ways to steadily level the profession without interrupting gameplay flow.

Food buffs are most valuable when matched to the content you are doing. Different types of consumables are better suited for different situations.

• Use offensive buffs for raids and boss encounters.
• Use defensive or resistance buffs for PvP or difficult fights.
• Use regeneration or stamina-focused buffs for long farming routes.

Most food buffs have a set duration and a short use cooldown. Exact stacking behavior and interactions may vary depending on the current version of the game.

Cooking can generate consistent gold because consumables are always in demand. Players regularly purchase food buffs for raids, PvP, and farming efficiency.

Focus on crafting items that solve common player needs, such as offensive buffs for bossing or sustain buffs for grinding. Before crafting in bulk, check the Trading Post to ensure demand and avoid wasting materials.

• Prioritize high-demand consumables over niche recipes.
• Batch craft to reduce time and effort.
• Avoid overusing rare materials unless profit margins justify it.

• Gather ingredients consistently while exploring.
• Process materials in bulk to maintain supply.
• Batch cook the cheapest recipes for leveling.
• Save rare ingredients for higher-tier consumables.
• Match food buffs to the content you are doing.
• Store materials so you can cook directly from storage.

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This Guide has been written by Crix, a long time tester for Ashes of Creation, with over 1,000 hours playing the game, and a majority of the time being spent on Mages. He is in the guild Enveus and hosts multiple PvP Tournaments. You can find his Ashes of Creation guides on YouTube and his stream on Twitch.