Cooking is one of the two production loops aboard the walking vessel, and it is tied directly to the hunger system that governs health recovery in the field. Recipes are found while exploring or bought from merchants, Kagura researches them, and the finished dish is eaten before departure for a stat increase that sticks.
Hunger
Emma and Koo grow hungry as they explore and fight. The hunger gauge sits beside their health bars and uses a wheat icon, and as long as it is not too low both of them recover health passively. Let it drop and that passive recovery stops, which turns a long expedition into a slow attrition problem.
Rations are issued automatically before disembarking, and the amount scales with Kagura's rapport rank.
The Battle Pack can be opened in the field or at a campsite to eat and refill the gauge.
Malefact Meat and Fish are cooked automatically at a campsite, with no recipe needed.
How Cooking Works
Anything more involved than a campfire meal goes through Kagura. Each new recipe has to be researched by her before it can be prepared, and raising rapport with her speeds that research up. Once a recipe is available and the ingredients are in stock, Emma picks the dish and it is eaten when she rests until departure.
Every dish raises stats for both Emma and Koo, and eating a dish for the first time adds a bonus on top of its normal effect. That makes variety worth more than repetition: working through the whole recipe list yields more permanent gains than cooking the same meal every night.
Recipes
Dish | Ingredients | Effect |
|---|---|---|
Fried Egg | Egg | Increases HP and Attack |
Grilled Meat | Malefact Meat | Increases HP and Attack |
Grilled Fish | Fish | Increases HP and Attack |
Omelette | Egg, Tomato, Potato | Increases HP |
Meat Omelette | Egg, Malefact Meat | Increases Attack |
Brown Rice | Rice | Increases HP and Defense |
White Rice | Rice, Water | Increases HP |
Fish Onigiri | Rice, Fish | Increases Attack and Defense |
Pickle Onigiri | Rice, Carrot | Increases HP and Defense |
Grilled Onigiri | Rice, Soya Beans | Increases HP, Defense, and Critical Rate |
Mince Onigiri | Rice, Malefact Meat | Increases HP, Attack, and Skill Power |
Egg Onigiri | Rice, Egg | Increases HP, Attack, and Defense |
Salt Onigiri | Rice | Increases HP and Defense |
Tofu | Soya Beans | Increases Defense |
Soya Beans | Soya Beans | Increases Defense |
Bread | Wheat | Increases HP and Skill Power |
Strawberry Sandwich | Wheat, Strawberry | Increases Defense and Critical Rate |
Biwafruit Sandwich | Wheat, Biwafruit | Increases Skill Power and Critical Rate |
Meat Sandwich | Wheat, Malefact Meat | Increases HP, Attack, and Skill Power |
Veg Sandwich | Wheat, Tomato, Lettuce | Increases HP and Skill Power |
Apple Pie | Wheat, Apple | Increases Skill Power and Critical Rate |
Supreme Curry | Rice, Malefact Meat, Carrot, Potato | Increases HP, Defense, and Skill Power |
Supreme Onigiri | Rice | Increases HP, Defense, and Skill Power |
Supreme Curry and Supreme Onigiri are the two recipes that cannot be found or bought. They come from Kagura's rapport track at ranks 8 and 10, and both are required for the Gourmand achievement.
Ingredients
Ingredient | Where It Comes From |
|---|---|
Rice | Grown from a rice seedling, and the base of every onigiri |
Wheat | Grown from a seedling, and the base of bread, sandwiches, and pie |
Soya Beans | Grown from a seedling |
Potato | Grown from a seedling |
Tomato | Grown from a seedling |
Lettuce | Grown from a seedling |
Carrot | Grown from a seedling |
Strawberry | Grown from a seedling |
Biwafruit | Grown from a seedling |
Apple | Grown from a seedling |
Egg | Collected from chickens raised in the Incubator |
Malefact Meat | Taken from defeated Malefacts |
Fish | Caught in the field |
Water | Gathered in the field |
Grow Research
Kagura also runs research on the crops themselves. Each guide comes in a basic and an advanced form, and reading one raises the yield from that seedling by one or two units per harvest. The poultry guide works the same way for eggs and additionally raises the chance of a golden egg. Between crop research and cooking research, Kagura is the reason a long campaign ends with more food than it started with rather than less.
Related Pages
Cultivation covers growing the ingredients, Rapport explains how to speed Kagura's research, and Bauera describes the ship the kitchen sits on.