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Black Axel - Version 17 vs Version 18
May 22, 2026, 08:50 AM
Fixed garbled assignment wording, added cooking station and recipe context, clarified worker comparison and perk math, and added wikilinks
Jun 4, 2026, 07:00 PM
Removed duplicate in-body wikilinks
11Black Axel is a recruitable worker in Windrose. He is the Cook, one of the four hireable workers, and once assigned he is tied to the Cooking Fire, where he provides a 30% chance to produce an extra portion of food on each cook. Unlike Rosalinda Mercer and Jasper Crowe, Black Axel is not hired inside Tortuga itself. He is found at the People of Tortuga main base on the nearby island.44Recruitment66PropertyValueRoleCook (hireable worker)FactionPeople of TortugaLocationPeople of Tortuga main baseCost500 PiastresProfessionCookAssigned StationCooking Fire88Confirmed Perk99PerkEffectA Talented Chef30% chance to craft an extra portion of food1111The perk rolls per cook, so it does not consume extra ingredients when it triggers. Over a long session this works out to roughly one bonus portion for every three or so dishes prepared, which is why bulk cooking shows the value far more clearly than single plates.1212What He Enables at the Cooking Fire1414Black Axel does not unlock new dishes by himself. The Cooking Fire is the base station where the player turns raw ingredients into Food, and the available dishes come from the player's known Cooking Recipes. Assigning Black Axel to that station applies his extra-portion roll to every recipe cooked there, from simple travel rations to higher-tier stat meals. For a broader look at where the Cooking Fire sits among the other base stations, see Cooking Stations.1616How to Use Black Axel1818Hire Black Axel at the People of Tortuga main base.Return to camp and interact with the Cooking Fire.Open the worker assignment tab and set Black Axel as the active cook.Cook normally. The bonus applies automatically once he is assigned.2020Why the Perk Matters2222Black Axel is most valuable during long batch-cooking sessions. The more dishes the player prepares in one sitting, the more noticeable the duplicate-meal chance becomes. That matters most for higher-value food runs before bosses, faction deliveries, or long sailing stretches where replacing ingredients is more expensive than the 500-Piastre hire cost.2424Location Notes2626Black Axel is tied to Tortuga's faction economy, but he is not standing in Tortuga town. Reaching him requires the player to visit the People of Tortuga base on the nearby island and speak to him there. This is the same base where the People of Tortuga Buyer and other faction contacts are located, so players often pick him up while running early People of Tortuga errands.2828See Also3030People of TortugaCooking FireWorkersCooking Recipes3232Batch-Cooking Behavior3434Black Axel's perk matters most when cooking is done in bulk rather than one plate at a time. His bonus applies to repeated food crafts during the same session, which is why the extra-portion chance becomes most noticeable when preparing a stack of meals before sailing or before a larger fight sequence.3636Short one-off food crafts rarely show the full value of the perk.Long cooking runs turn saved ingredients into a steady surplus.The bonus is strongest on meals that use scarcer or more annoying ingredients to replace.3838When Black Axel Becomes Worth Buying4040Black Axel usually becomes worth the 500-Piastre cost once the player has stopped treating cooked food as optional filler. If food is only used occasionally, his perk sits idle. If the base already has a routine of making travel food, stat meals, and refill batches before longer routes, he becomes a reliable efficiency hire. Many players prioritise the other workers first and pick up the Cook once a steady cooking habit has formed, since the saved ingredients only start to add up once meals are being prepared in volume.
