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11 Consumables in Soulbound: Online split cleanly in two. Chemistry brews the combat line: vials, flasks, stims and elixirs that restore health outright or buff a stat for a fixed window. Cooking makes food, which grants longer and gentler buffs and is the practical way to keep your stamina bar topped up while you are out gathering.
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33 Both are artisanal life skills with their own experience pools, and both have the same trap. Crafting at a public station in town produces the item but pays no skill experience. Only a station you own, in your own apartment, feeds the skill. That single rule is the most common reason a cooking or chemistry level stalls while the character's bags fill up.
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55 Two Skills, Two Stations
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77 SkillStationOutputWhere the Experience Comes FromChemistryChemistry LabVials, flasks, stims, elixirs, refined Yoku itemsBrewing at your own lab, plus chemistry contracts from the Pioneers GuildCookingKitchenFood and drink that grant timed buffsCooking at your own kitchen
88 Recipes are gated twice over. The station has to be upgraded far enough to hold the recipe at all, and the recipe itself carries a skill-level requirement on top. A high station with a low skill behind it will show you recipes you cannot yet use.
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1010 The Chemistry Ladder
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1212 Chemistry Lab LevelWhat Unlocks1The six vials: Cooldown, Critical Chance, Damage, Dodge, Health and Speed2The six matching flasks, plus Encoded Yoku, Yoku Scale, Yoku Spore and Yokulite3The stim line (Berserker, Cooldown, Critical Chance, Damage, Dodge, Glory, Health, Hyper-Concentration, Ironclad, Speed), the Phantom's, Sage's, Titan's and Warlord's Elixirs, and Dark Yoku Shard, Quantised Yoku Data, Yoku Bloom and Yoku Fillet4Abyssal, Cryo, Data Surge and Venom Stims, the Hive Lord's and Pillager's Elixirs, Encrypted Yoku Data, Sakura Bloom and Voidstone Shard5Animancer's, Eclipse, Frost and Phase Elixirs, Chrome, Drill, Void and Warp Stims, Astralite Shard, Celestial Yoku Fillet, Quantum Yoku Data and Starbloom Extract
1313 The vial, flask and stim tiers are the same six effects at rising strength, so the early lab is mostly about depth rather than variety. Elixirs are the exception: each one is its own effect rather than a bigger version of an earlier potion. The chemistry line also refines materials, not just potions, which is why a gearforging recipe can end up waiting on a chemist.
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1515 Yoku Fillet and Viridium Yoku Fillet
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1717 This pair has broken more recipes than anything else in the crafting chain, so it is worth being precise. The plain Yoku Fillet is the tier 4 item. The Viridium Yoku Fillet is a separate tier 5 item, it comes from the Chemistry Lab, and it is the one Gearforge recipes ask for. Holding the wrong one looks identical in a recipe list and simply refuses to work.
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1919 The Viridium version went missing from the game for a stretch and was restored, along with correct recognition by Gearforge recipes, in the patch of 13 August 2026. The following patch, on 20 August 2026, corrected the tier 5 and tier 6 stim and elixir recipes, which had been listing the wrong crafting materials outright. If you have an older recipe list written down, check it against what the station shows you now.
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2121 What the Kitchen Makes
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2323 Kitchen LevelDishes1Bag of Flour, Bread, Cheese Omelette, Fish Stick, Fried Egg, Granny's Gumbo, Porridge, Potato Soup, Salad, Sugar2Aubergine Bake, Beer, Fish Burger, Fish Taco, French Fries, Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Onigiri, Pizza, Ratatouille, Tuna Salad3Beef Burger, Cheese Cake, Chocolate Gelato, Cookie Dough Gelato, Cream Chowder, Cup of Coffee, Cup of Tea, Fish Cakes, Fish Soup, Jam Toast, Mapo Tofu, Raspberry Cake, Raspberry Gelato, Raspberry Smoothie, Sashimi, Strawberry Smoothie, Sushi, Watermelon Gelato, Watermelon Smoothie4Abyss Sushi, Beelzebass Sashimi, Dragon Fruit Bowl, Dragon Fruit Gelato, Fangfish Ceviche, Honey Glazed Eel, Honeycomb Gelato, Vanilla Bean Gelato, Vanilla Honey Cake5Cacao Gelato, Cacao Mousse, Eclipse Tuna Steak, Mechafish Sushi, Starfruit Gelato, Starfruit Tart, Void Truffle Gelato, Void Truffle Risotto, Warpfish Sashimi
2424 Ingredients come from all four of the other gathering skills plus a handful of vendor staples. Water, milk and flour-grade basics are bought in town, fish come out of the water, produce comes off a farm plot, and the top two kitchen levels lean almost entirely on tier 5 and tier 6 fish and exotic produce. See Materials and Resources for where each of those lines starts.
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2626 What Food Does
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2828 Every dish grants a timed buff rather than an instant effect, and the buffs sort into rough roles: a health-and-crit line, a cooldown-reduction line, a heavy-hit and raw-damage line, a dodge-and-defence line, and a movement-speed line. Community documentation records two buff families, Satisfied and Headrush. The Headrush line is the fast one, and it pays for its speed with a real penalty to damage or maximum health, so it is a travel tool rather than a combat buff.
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3030 Exact per-dish numbers are not reproduced here. They have moved with balance passes, and two different community records of the same dish already disagree, so the honest answer is to read the tooltip in front of you.
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3232 There is also a food-sickness debuff that limits how often you can eat. Since the patch of 20 August 2026, abandoning a dungeon run no longer clears it, so bailing out of a bad run is no longer a way to reset your buffs.
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3434 Stamina, Health and Food
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3636 The live build tracks two resources on your character, and neither of them is mana in the traditional sense.
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3838 Health is the combat bar. It is restored by health food, by a health potion on a hotkey, by a healing oasis found mid-run in some dungeons, by simply leaving a run, and slowly on its own once you are out of combat.
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4040 Stamina is the gathering bar. Every gathering action costs three stamina, and a hack or a cast that fails does not consume any. It refills passively over time, and it keeps refilling while you are logged out, which means logging off with an empty bar is a perfectly good strategy. It refills faster if you help it along: community documentation names Salad, Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Onigiri from Farok in Virelda as stamina food, and sitting inside The Tired Soul, the bar in Arcadia, gradually tops the bar up while you are parked there.
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4242 Yoku was once a third bar, spent to open dungeon chests. It is gone, chests are free, and the Yoku items still in the game are ordinary materials with an inherited name.
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4444 Consumables You Do Not Craft
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4646 Not everything with a use button comes off a station.
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4848 Dungeon chests drop potions and food by rung. Health Stims, for instance, turn up in Fractured-rung chests across several regions.Guild Cache chests, opened after handing in Pioneer tasks, roll one item from each of several categories, consumables included. The tier of the cache sets the grade.Live event loot crates pay out consumables alongside their cosmetics. See Live Events and Commissions.Vendors sell staples and prepared food. The seed vendor in Virelda checks your farming level before selling you the higher-tier seeds, a requirement realigned in the 20 August 2026 patch.
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5050 Notes
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5252 Recipe rosters and station levels describe the live Early Access build as of 26 August 2026. Buff values, durations and drop rates are being tuned and are deliberately left out. For the skills behind all of this, see Life Skills; for the stations, Crafting Stations; for what a buff actually modifies, Stats and Attributes and Combat.
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5454 The September 2026 Consumable Rebalance
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5656 On 9 September 2026 the studio reviewed and rebalanced every one of the 40 craftable Chemistry Lab consumables in one pass. The stated reason is worth noting on its own: several of them granted stats the game no longer uses, which means they had been doing nothing at all. Anyone who had been crafting to a guide written before that date was, in some cases, brewing placebo.
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5858 ConsumableChangeTitan's ElixirHealth reduced from 125 to 50.Warlord's ElixirNow provides raw damage instead of power. It had been useful only for some abilities; it now scales all damage by 10 percent.Frost ElixirCold damage raised from 15 to 20.Eclipse ElixirFire and cold reduced from 15 each to 10 each.Phase ElixirVoid and lightning reduced from 15 each to 10 each.Animancer's ElixirUnchanged at 20 fire.Tier 6 stimsUnchanged at 15.
5959 The pattern behind the elixir numbers is that every Tier 6 elixir now totals 20 damage power, however it splits that across damage types. A single-element elixir puts all 20 into one type; a dual-element one splits it 10 and 10. That makes the choice between them a question of what your build and the enemy resist, not of which one is simply bigger. Elixirs and stims still run separate cooldowns, so the two can still be stacked together.
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6161 Consumables Are Locked While One Is Working
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6363 A change on 3 September 2026 closed the exploit that had let health potions be spammed for near-unlimited healing inside a run. A consumable is now locked while a use is in progress or a blocking buff is active, and attempting one too early returns a please-wait prompt rather than applying it. The lock applies everywhere in the game, not only in dungeons.
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6565 The practical consequence is that a stack of potions is no longer a substitute for a build. The studio said so directly, warning that dungeons would feel tougher for anyone who had been relying on potion spam. Timing a heal now matters, and the elixir and stim pairing above is worth more than it was, because a pre-fight buff you can keep running beats a mid-fight top-up you cannot repeat. A related fix in the same patch stopped potion stacks being pushed beyond their pack limit through bank interactions, which had been producing broken bank states.