Cooking Leveling Guide for New World Aeternum

Cooking is one of the most useful trade skills to have in New World: Aeternum, as it is directly associated with having unique buffs and consumables that can help you on the battlefield. These crafted consumables can not only restore health and mana, but also provide significant buffs, like temporarily increasing certain attribute points a character has.

In this guide, we'll walk through the best recipes to priortize when leveling cooking, the most effective way to generate gold with cooking, and more.

Cooking is a fairly fun and flexible crafting skill to level; there is a massive spread of different ingredients that can be utilized to craft a wide variety of foods. Looting provision crates or going to any farm and just gathering what is around is a great way to find ingredients for cooking.

Farming a wide variation of ingredients helps keep it feeling fresh and different without becoming too much of a grind. There are many ways to progress through Cooking with ease, and maybe even make some gold in the process. The "best" choice of ingredients will differ from server-to-server and person-to-person.

Below is a list of recommended items to cook at certain level ranges in order to be most cost-effective with your cooking leveling strategy. To learn more about the specific ingredients for each meal, click on the item and you'll be able to see all additional details.

1. Levels 1-50: Energizing Light Rations, Light Rations, Energizing Travel Rations and Travel Rations
2. Levels 50-100: Light Meals and Energizing Light Meals
3. Levels 100-150: Satisfying Meals and Energizing Satisfying Meals
4. Levels 150-250: Hearty Meals and Energizing Hearty Meals

It should be noted, as there are so many cooking ingredients, to make sure to check the drop-down menu before crafting to select or search for the ingredients you desire to use. This can help save lots of time and gold.

Depending on the server you're on, there are certain consumables that hold a large value. One of the easiest (and fastest) ways to make easy gold by Cooking is being making attribute-boosting foods, such as Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables, which increases a player's Constitution by 48 for 40 minutes. These sell FAST on the Trading Post!

Cooking has a unique set of gear that can be equipped to increase the chance to craft additional items by +4% per item, the Chef Gloves, Hat, Pants, Shirt, and Shoes. You can also acquire an earring with a crafting related perk that grants an additional +4%, which are not specific and can come on any earring. You can generally find these as drops or on the Trading Post, however some pieces can be much rarer than others and therefore more costly. As a note, you will also get bonus chance to craft as your Cooking skill increases.

Below is a list of the different pieces of cooking gear needed to maximize the efficiency of your cooking.

Armor	Drop Source
Chef Hat	Package of Specialized Cooking Materials or Skysong Maiden Ping - Ebonscale Reach
Chef Shirt	Package of Specialized Cooking Materials or Viridulon the Rootbound - Reekwater
Chef Gloves	Package of Specialized Cooking Materials or Unhallowed Soul of Myrkgard - Great Cleave
Chef Pants	Package of Specialized Cooking Materials or Fay the Last Protector - Shattered Mountain
Chef Shoes	Package of Specialized Cooking Materials or Pit Lord Daehi - Shattered Mountain

Trophies can be placed in each of your three houses that grant a +1/2/3% (Minor/Basic/Major) increased chance to create additional items while crafting.

In order to craft any Basic or Major trophy it will require a special crafting ingredient for that can be obtained from Supply Stockpiles. These special trophy materials can be found below.

Item	Trophy
Chef's Secret Techniques	Basic
Chef's Secret Cookbook	Major

Each settlement will have different town projects working at any given time, and you can check what bonus perks are active by going to the to territory planning board in any settlement. As a note, you must own a house in the settlement to receive the town project bonus.

Seasonings are found in herbs in different zones throughout Aeternum. Our Harvesting guide has a list of locations where you can find all the ingredients.