New World Aeternum Cooking leveling guide and tips

Cooking in New World Aeternum details explored (Image via Amazon Games)
Cooking in New World Aeternum details explored (Image via Amazon Games)

Cooking in New World Aeternum is one of the most basic yet important Trade Skills that you need to use to level up. The developer tweaked some mechanics of this feature, but it remains essentially the same in terms of working and results. However, you might need to revisit some recipes as they might have been changed to accommodate different resources.

New World Aeternum offers a lot of different activities that can be combined with Trade Skills. Some of these secondary skills that can be beneficial while mastering the Cooking skill are Fishing, Skinning, and Harvesting. These will serve as additional skills for your character that can be used to gather resources at a faster rate.

This article will highlight the best way to level up Cooking in New World Aeternum.

Note: Parts of this article are subjective and reflect the writer's opinion.


How to level up Cooking in New World Aeternum

The process of leveling up Cooking in New World Aeternum is quite difficult and can feel repetitive. The route is tedious but yields good results when completed properly while following a set strategy.

Here is a quick guide that you can utilize to level up your Cooking ability in Amazon’s MMORPG with ease:

Gathering resources

The game offers different routes for securing recipe ingredients. For beginners at lower levels, you can try to find Herbs and smaller wild animals near the coasts of Windsward and Monarch’s Bluff. Turkeys, Boars, and Rabbits are good and reliable sources of meat. You can also choose to investigate the nests of Turkeys to get eggs.

Gathering Herbs for Cooking in New World Aeternum (Image via Amazon Games || YouTube/CakeNinjaGaming)
Gathering Herbs for Cooking in New World Aeternum (Image via Amazon Games || YouTube/CakeNinjaGaming)

Exploring the forest grounds can help you gather berries and wild vegetables. Most berries spawn from smaller plants while vegetables are situated closer to the ground. Similarly, you can visit nearby Farms to gather more resources and refine oil by securing Harvest Nuts from Fallen Branches near the mountainsides.

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This is a dependable method of getting as many resources as possible before heading into the cooking phase. You can repeat this method and eventually find more areas to gather different items.


Level up Cooking till Tier 3

You will need to create around 50 Tier 1 recipes to gain experience points and progress to Tier 2. This will unlock new recipes that you can cook and gain more points. Once this is done, you might need to restock the ingredients and make another run for gathering items.

Different recipes can be used while Cooking in New World Aeternum (Image via Amazon Games || YouTube/ Savvvo Games)
Different recipes can be used while Cooking in New World Aeternum (Image via Amazon Games || YouTube/ Savvvo Games)

You can then return to the station and cook approximately 100 more Tier 2 dishes to slowly get to Tier 3. However, you would need to create Compound Materials during this time as well. A quick example of this is making pasta using different base materials or different milk items like cheese.

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Once you get to Tier 3, the experience point gain becomes slower and you would need to get more difficult materials for the recipes. Going on wild errand runs will not be enough for leveling up tiers from this point, although you would need to regularly secure items like sugar, salt, and herbs. At this point, you can either start attacking enemy settlements to get intermediate materials or depend on the secondary Trade Skill Fishing.


Tips for leveling up Cooking in New World Aeternum

Here are a few tips that can help you level up faster and make the most out of Cooking in New World Aeternum:

  • You should make a point to always gather materials that you would need while cooking up different recipes beforehand. This will save a lot of time as you can complete gathering resources first and then begin cooking at once.
  • While gathering, you should check every box in sight and open every possible Provision Crate and Reserve. These offer a lot of ingredients that you can use while making new dishes. Alternatively, you can choose to buy out recipe items from the other players using the trading feature in the game.
  • Activating Proficiency Boost potions can be excellent when scavenging for resources and cooking recipes. This can greatly reduce the time it would take for you to level up.

Most useful recipes in New World Aeternum

Here is a list of the most effective recipes that you can cook in New World Aeternum:

  • Banana Parfait: Constitution is increased by 44 points.
  • Fruit Salad: Intelligence is increased by 44 points.
  • Carrot Cake: Dexterity is increased by 44 points.
  • Roasted Prismatic Fillet: Highest stat of Magnify is increased by 48 points.

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Cooking in New World Aeternum needs its own dedicated grind as the higher levels require players to either adopt additional skills or participate in combat.

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