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11Overview22Cooking in Windrose is the food-buff loop that feeds most combat, exploration, and faction grinding. Prepared dishes grant temporary stat buffs and Max HP, stack in pairs, and scale in duration and magnitude with rarity. The central station is the Cooking Firea portable placeable that unlocks higher-tier recipes as upgrade attachments are built within its range.44Cooking Fire and Upgrades66The Cooking Fire is crafted at the Workbench from 3 Wood + 3 Stone. It is placeable anywhere in the open world, which is the main reason most players carry one into dungeons and cook before boss encounters. Upgrades must be placed within the Cooking Fire's range to count.88ImageUpgradeMaterialsUnlocksCutting Table10 Wood, 2 Copper IngotRare-tier recipes (for example Hearty Egg Broth and Spicy Breaded Kebab)Cookware Shelf10 Hardwood, 2 IronwareEpic-tier recipes (including CoffeeGazpachoSeafood PlatterTacoSwamp Pie)Supplies RackHardwood, Coffee Beans, Salt, Nuts, Lobster MushroomsLate-game stocking convenience; exact material totals not published uniformly across sources.1010Rarity Tiers1111RarityBuff MagnitudeDurationStation RequirementCommonRaw ingredients7 minutes (Max HP only)None; eaten rawUncommon+5 to a single stat, or Max HP only15 minutesCooking Fire baseRare+10 to a single stat30 minutesCooking Fire + Cutting TableEpic+20 to a single stat30 minutesCooking Fire + Cutting Table + Cookware Shelf1313Dishes that only grant Max HP (no secondary stat) exist in both the Uncommon tier (PastechiDodo Broth) and the raw-ingredient Common tier. The Legendary tier exists in database dumps but has not been consistently documented across sources at launch; treat Legendary claims as unconfirmed.1414Buff Stacking Rules1616Food slots: exactly two food buffs can be active at once. Eating a third overwrites the oldest.Identical foods: two of the same dish occupy both slots but only grant one instance of the effect.Elixirs: community consensus is that elixirs stack alongside food buffs in a separate slot pool, not against them. This is confirmed by current community data.Drinks: items like Gunroom Grog and Rum Bottle are classed as consumables but no source clearly separates them into a third buff slot category; treat them as community-variable until clarified.1818Stat Tiers by Cooking Target2020StatUncommon (+5, 15 min)Rare (+10, 30 min)Epic (+20, 30 min)StrengthSpicy Skewered CrabSpicy Breaded KebabSeasoned Crocodile MeatMeaty Croc KebabAgilityCoconut SoupHearty Egg BrothGazpachoVitalityBacon and Eggs(no confirmed Rare)Seafood PlatterEndurance(Uncommon tier varies)(Rare tier varies)CoffeeMastery(Uncommon tier varies)(Rare tier varies)TacoPresence(Uncommon tier varies)(Rare tier varies)Swamp Pie2222Crew Bonuses2323Black Axel is the hireable Cook at the People of Tortuga main camp, recruitable for 500 Piastre. His bonus is a 30 percent chance to craft an additional meal every time you cook at his station. This is a proc bonus, not a deterministic +30 percent output, and it applies across tiers. Players running a food-heavy boss-prep loop almost always hire Black Axel first.2525Common Workflow2727Build a Cooking Fire (3 Wood + 3 Stone at Workbench).Gather Uncommon-tier ingredients in the Coastal Jungle: MeatDodo EggsCrab MeatCayenne Pepper.Add a Cutting Table for Rare-tier recipes once Copper Ingots are being produced.Progress to Foothills for TomatoLimeCorn (ground to Cornmeal at a Millstone)Coffee Beansand Cane Sugar.Add a Cookware Shelf for Epic-tier recipes.Enter the Cursed Swamps for CocoplumLeekBeansCrocodile Tailand Mysterious Spice.Hire Black Axel, relocate the Cooking Fire stack near his station, and cook pre-boss buffs on demand.2929See Also3131Cooking FireCooking RecipesFood and PotionsConsumablesAlchemyElixirsBlack AxelWorkbench3333Epic Dishes at a Glance3535Epic cooking gates behind Cursed Swamps ingredients, but once you have the biome online, six dishes cover every major build stat. Each dish grants +20 to its stat for 30 minutes, paired with a Max HP increase.3737Seafood Platter → +20 Vitality (universal survivability pick; adds roughly 260 Max HP)Gazpacho → +20 Agility (Saber, Greatsword, and Blunderbuss builds)Taco → +20 Mastery (critical-chance builds)Meaty Croc Kebab → +20 Strength (Club and Halberd builds)Swamp Pie → +20 Precision (Rapier, Pistol, and Musket builds)Coffee → +20 Endurance (stamina-heavy playstyles)3939Rarity to Duration Ladder4141Cooked buffs scale with rarity across both duration and magnitude. The rough ladder players see in practice:4343Uncommon dishes grant +5 to the scaling stat for 15 minutes.Rare dishes grant +10 to the scaling stat for 30 minutes.Epic dishes grant +20 to the scaling stat for 30 minutes.4646Because the game allows two simultaneous food buffs, late-game players typically pair one Vitality dish with one weapon-scaling dish before every boss attempt.4848Additional Named Recipes5050Beyond the Epic-tier headliners, Windrose ships a broader catalog of Uncommon and Rare dishes that fill the gaps in specific stat lanes. The table below covers recipes not otherwise listed in the Stat Tiers section, grouped by what they reward.5252Mastery Dishes5454Pastechi is an Uncommon 15-minute dish that grants +5 Mastery and uses 1 Meat plus 1 Cornmeal. Tamale adds +5 Mastery at the same Uncommon tier using 1 Crocodile Tail and 1 Leek. Burrito is the Rare upgrade at +10 Mastery for 30 minutes, costing 2 Cornmeal, 2 Meat, and 2 Salt. Taco sits at the Epic tier (+20 Mastery, 30 minutes) with 6 Cornmeal, 5 Beans, 5 Tomato, and 2 Mysterious Spice.5656Precision Dishes5858Cocoplum Pie is the standard Uncommon +5 Precision dish and uses 1 Nuts, 1 Cocoplum, and 1 Cornmeal. Tangy Nut Roll adds +5 Precision from 2 Cornmeal and 1 Nuts, without needing swamp materials. Banana Muffin steps up to Rare (+10 Precision, 30 minutes) using 1 Banana, 2 Cane Sugar, 3 Cornmeal, and 1 Dodo Egg, which makes it the highest-stat Precision meal available without swamp ingredients.6060Agility Dishes6262Bean Soup grants +5 Agility at Uncommon tier from 1 Beans, 1 Cayenne Pepper, and 1 Meat. Chowder is the Rare upgrade at +10 Agility for 30 minutes, using 3 Fish Fillet, 3 Sweet Potato, and 2 Salt. The Chowder ingredient list is reachable the moment the Foothills open, so it tends to replace Coconut Soup as the standard Agility buff for mid-game boss prep.6464Vitality Dishes6666Meat Salad is the common Uncommon +5 Vitality dish: 1 Meat plus 1 Tomato, both farmable from the starter biome and the Foothills. Fish and Tostones scales up to Rare (+10 Vitality, 30 minutes) from 3 Fish Fillet, 2 Nuts, and 3 Banana.6868Strength and Endurance Filler7070Meat in Tangy Mushroom Sauce is a Rare +10 Strength dish for 30 minutes, using 2 Meat, 2 Lobster Mushroom, and 4 Lime. For EnduranceSweet Lime Juice is a quick Uncommon +5 buff from 1 Lime and 1 Cane Sugar, while Sunmilk Tonic is the Rare +10 Endurance upgrade using 2 Coconut, 2 Aloe Leaf, and 2 Nuts. Both are useful for long exploration routes where Coffee is overkill.7272Other Noteworthy Dishes7474Crocodile in Swamp Sauce is a Rare +5 Vitality swamp dish using 3 Crocodile Tail and 1 Mysterious Spice, and Spicy Swamp Juice is a Rare +10 Endurance drink using 4 Lime, 5 Cayenne Pepper, and 4 Cocoplum. Both are made from ingredients gated behind the Cursed Swamps, so they double as a reason to keep Cocoplum and Mysterious Spice in surplus once the biome opens.
