Cooking inElinis the fast track method for boosting how quickly your character grows in power.

Here’s how to farm in Elin!

Here we’ll show how to master Elin’s cooking mechanics.

A player in Elin mans an assortment of cooking stations next to a garden of cherry trees.

This is notable with spellcasting companions.

How Nutrition Works

Nutrition is the stat on food that impacts how full it makes you.

It alsoserves as a multiplier to the potential and experiencegranted by the meal.

A high level farm in Elin growing rainbow fruit and grain.

A food with higher nutrition makes better use of the modifiers on it.

You want to use these in larger meals to make full use of their benefits.

High end meals can take a character from near starving to bloated.

A player in Elin compares multiple strains of rice and wheat

If you have a reduced nutrition cap, its easier to waste food by going over your limit.

Try toeat large meals only when you are very hungry or even starving.

How Hidden Food Traits Work

Some food traits are hidden without the gourmet feat.

The light eater feat in Elin reduces the amount of food the player can eat.

Others are listed but aren’t explained in context.

Finally, some traits are entirely hidden until you interact with and discover them.

Human Flesh

Humanoids

These foods cause you to become a cannibal.

The player in Elin cooks eggs in a hot spring to grant resistance to ether disease.

This can happen by accident if you let your livestock roam freely.

Tainted

Undead Creatures

Undead fleshrots any meal it is cooked into.

You’ll typically only encounter this food trait when you deliberately mix a potion into the food.

The player in Elin stands next to several crafting stations for preserved foods, such as aging racks, drying bricks and a ration maker.

It also prevents you from accessing the little garden shop that gives useful genes and ether syringes.

Crops you harvest are liable to spoil before the next harvest is ready.

The several-day walk to most nearby locations means anything left behind will be rotten when you return.

A player in Elin crafts Cheese out of rice cakes for high-level cooking

The resulting food is a quick and easy way ofkeeping strength-focused charactersfed in the early game.

Bonito Flakes

Sawmill

Reduced Nutrition

Seasoning

Any fish can be placed on a sawmill to get bonito flakes.

These inherit all the attributes of the fish but strips most of the nutrition.

A player in Elin has crafted a high level bread that boosts almost all attributes.

They workgreat as a condiment in complex foods.

Kibble

Millstone

Mixing meat with oak bark gives you kibble.

Itonly uses the nutrition and attributes of the meatbut prevents spoilage.

A player in Elin invests large sums of money into Kettle’s Alchemy Store

Soy Sauce

Sauce

Combining any fish with seaweed lets youturn the fish into a condiment.

The size of the fish doesn’t impact the amount of sauce.

It can also be used if you’re struggling to findstackable meat for batch crafting.

A player in Elin finds a Statue of the Luck Goddess while exploring the Void Dungeon

These methods can be combined to fuel more complex recipes.

Bonito Flake wine is one of the best early-game moneymakers.

It can be sold directly through the shipping chest or pawned to tourists at a markup.

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Many ingredients can be found in stores and loot but will havelower attributes than if you crafted them yourself.

The mortar crafting station for making rice cakes be bought from Loytel.

Needingfour strains of ricefor an ingredient with low nutrition means this is taxing on the fertility of the land.

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The best meat comes from high-level livestock.

This means a particularly determined carnivore couldbutcher the dragon Corgon.

Most creatures that return from being butchered are human andwould give a cannibal penalty.

Whales, sharks, sunfish and moonfish are all good candidates.

Rare eggs come from livestock, but therarest creatures don’t produce eggs under normal circumstances.

You have two options for getting that silver bell egg whichgives 26 levels of perception experience.

On top of gathering everything yourself, someingredient gathering can be automated or delegated.

For direct attribute experience, its harder to find a single recipe that fits all needs.

How To Bless Food

Blessed food has astronger effect without increasing the nutrition of the meal.

The easiest way to get blessed water isthe holy well outside the church in Noyel.

Using an empty potion bottle on the well will give you blessed water, but it refills very slowly.

It produces only a few doses per year.

The other way of getting blessed water is from Loytel’s Store.

Kettle is able to produce duplicates of any item you craft, including blessed foods.

The number of items he can template andthe number of duplicates he sells are determined by his shop level.

to get to keep fed purely via duplicated food, you’ll need to be a multi-millionaire.

Here’s how to make wishes and what to wish for in Elin!