Taco

Overview

Taco is a epic-tier cooked dish in Windrose. A hearty stacked corn tortilla with beans and tomato. Mastery raises critical hit chance, so Taco is the crit-oriented build's staple.

Buff and Duration

Recipe

Where to Get the Ingredients

• Tomato: see the dedicated article for sourcing notes.

• Beans: see the dedicated article for sourcing notes.

• Cornmeal: see the dedicated article for sourcing notes.

• Mysterious Spice: see the dedicated article for sourcing notes.

Buff Stacking Rule

Windrose allows exactly two active food buffs at once. Eating a third cooked dish overwrites the oldest active buff. Raw food still fills the hunger meter but grants no stat buff. See Food and Potions for the full ruleset.

Best Used For

Pair this dish with armor sets and weapon choices that scale with Mastery. For cross-stat stacking, see Attributes and Stats and the Cooking Recipes overview table.

See Also

• Cooking Recipes

• Food and Potions

• Cookware Shelf

• Cooking Fire

• Attributes and Stats

Ingredient Sourcing Detail

• Cornmeal ground from Corn at a Millstone. Corn is a Foothills crop found at Points of Interest or grown from seeds.

• BeansCursed Swamps flora at the Ruin With a Flowerbed POI; farmable after harvesting Bean Seedlings.

• TomatoFoothills crop; grown from seeds at a Seedbed.

• Mysterious SpiceCursed Swamps chest-loot only.

Role in the Meta

Taco is the Epic Mastery dish. Mastery governs critical hit behavior and is a preferred stat for finisher-heavy builds. It pairs well with Elixir of Precision for marksman-style pistol and musket rotations, or with a Mastery-scaling ExecutionerThe buff is +20 Mastery, Epic tier, lasting 30 minutes.

Station Requirement

Cooking Fire + Cutting Table + Cookware Shelf, plus a Millstone nearby for Cornmeal production. The Millstone itself is a small-station build unlocked once Corn is first picked up in the Foothills.

Comparison With Other Epic Dishes

Each of the six core stats has one Epic cooked dish granting +20 to that stat for 30 minutes. Taco is the Mastery entry, so it sits alongside Gazpacho (Agility), Swamp Pie (Precision), and Seafood Platter (Vitality). Because only two food buffs can be active at once, most players pair Taco with one survival dish and one offense dish rather than stacking two offense buffs.

Practical Tips

• Stock up before a boss run. Taco stacks to 10 and weighs only 0.2 each, so a full stack is light enough to carry on long voyages without crowding your inventory.

• Set up a Cooking Fire, Cutting Table, and Cookware Shelf in one base corner, with a Millstone next to them, so a Taco batch can be cooked in a single trip.

• Farm Tomato and Corn in Foothills seedbeds; the only swamp-gated ingredient is Mysterious Spice, which comes from Cursed Swamps chests, so plan a swamp trip to stock spice for several batches at once.

Game Data

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Cooking Fire

Unlocked By

• Discovered by gathering Mysterious Spice

• Cursed Swamps

• Mysterious Spice