Cooking

Overview

Cooking and food play a meaningful role in the daily life systems of Neverness to Everness. At the Eibon Antique Shop, Adler serves as the resident cook, preparing meals for the shop's staff as part of the everyday rhythm of home base life. Beyond Eibon, the city of Hethereau offers multiple food-related activities as part of its broader daily life and business management systems. Players can work at coffee shops, run their own cafe, and engage with food through the city's economic progression. All of these activities fall under the City Tycoon framework and reward Fons, the city's primary currency.

Adler and Eibon's Kitchen

Adler is an A-Class Incantation character who serves as the butler at Eibon Antique Shop. While he is a formidable combatant wielding a cane sword and summoned Sunyas, his domestic role at the shop centers on preparing meals for the team. He is described as a calming, reliable presence who handles the cooking with the same precision he brings to combat. His distinctive habit of never opening his eyes adds an air of mystery to even the most routine kitchen tasks.

The meals Adler prepares are part of the everyday rhythm of life at Eibon, reinforcing the game's emphasis on grounding its supernatural setting in relatable daily routines. The Eibon Antique Shop serves as the player's home base, and returning to find Adler cooking creates a sense of belonging between missions and anomaly investigations. Players can interact with Adler during meal preparation to trigger dialogue scenes and build affinity with him.

Coffee Shop Work

Among the many daily life activities available in Hethereau, players can work shifts at coffee shops. This activity was confirmed during the Co-Ex Test alongside other urban occupations like taxi driving and fishing. Working at a coffee shop is one of several ways to earn Fons outside of combat and anomaly commissions. The activity involves serving customers, managing drink orders, and completing them within time limits. Coffee shop work is accessible as a Hethereau Hobby through the City Tycoon menu.

Cafe Management

The business management system in Neverness to Everness allows players to build up commercial ventures in Hethereau. Official descriptions mention the ability to "grind your way from running a hole-in-the-wall cafe to owning a penthouse overlooking the skyline," positioning cafe management as one of the early-game business opportunities that can grow over time.

Cafe management is part of the broader economic progression system, where players invest in and expand businesses to generate passive income. Starting small with a modest cafe and scaling up mirrors the overall urban life simulation that sets Neverness to Everness apart from other open-world action RPGs. The cafe business connects to the City Tycoon leveling system, where advancing your City Tycoon rank unlocks new features, properties, and business types. Purchases for your cafe (ingredients, furniture, and upgrades) use Fons, the in-game city currency.

Food Vendors and Restaurants

Hethereau is a dense urban environment filled with restaurants, food stalls, and specialty shops. Players can visit these establishments to purchase prepared meals and snacks. Notable food-related locations include the Little Sparrow Maid Cafe, which also hosts Mahjong games, and various street vendors scattered across districts like Hankaku Street and Tamamochi Street. The game even features playful touches like an octopus-run takoyaki stand, reflecting Hethereau's blend of the ordinary and the supernatural.

Food-Related Activities

Food-related activities sit alongside many other daily life systems available across Hethereau. These activities are grouped under the Hethereau Hobbies umbrella and share the City Stamina resource:

City Stamina and Food Activities

City Stamina is a weekly resource that governs rewards from all Hethereau Hobbies, including food-related activities. City Stamina resets once per week. While you can still engage in coffee shop work, cafe management, and other activities after your City Stamina is depleted, the Fons rewards stop until the next weekly reset. This means early-week sessions are more productive from a currency standpoint. City Stamina is separate from Character Pixels, the stamina resource used for character progression content like equipment enhancement material farming.

Potential Food Buffs

While Adler's cooking and the cafe systems are confirmed, specific details about food buff mechanics (temporary stat boosts from consuming meals) have not been fully detailed ahead of launch. Many action RPGs in the genre feature food buff systems where consuming specific dishes grants combat bonuses, healing over time, or exploration benefits such as increased movement speed. Whether Neverness to Everness implements a similar system will become clearer once the game launches.

Given the depth of the daily life systems and the presence of cooking as a narrative and mechanical element, some form of food-based benefit system would fit naturally alongside the game's other progression mechanics like Awakening upgrades and Disks and Drive Blocks enhancements.

Note: This article will be updated with detailed cooking mechanics, recipes, and buff information once the game launches on April 29, 2026.