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Cooking

Cooking turns raw ingredients into food with a skillet — the only cooking tool on Sagas. What sets it apart from other crafts is that most recipes also need a nearby station: a heat source, an oven, or a flour mill. On Sagas the skill is far more than flavor — the custom buff food dishes give real combat bonuses, and their best recipes need a cook at 100+. General crafting rules are in the Crafting Overview.

The skillet ↑ top

A skillet holds 100 uses, or 150 if it was crafted exceptionally. Food has no quality or magic to roll, so a skillet tinkered from colored metal (see Tinkering) helps the way a cook actually needs: flat success chance on every dish —

Skillet Success chance
Iron skillet Iron —
Shadow Iron skillet Shadow Iron +2%
Copper skillet Copper +4%
Bronze skillet Bronze +6%
Verite skillet Verite +8%
Valorite skillet Valorite +10%

The bonus needs a real attempt behind it — a recipe you have no chance at without the tool stays at zero. On the hard buff-food dishes, those ten percentage points are the difference between wasted ingredients and a dependable kitchen.

Stations ↑ top

Station Needed for Counts as
Heat source Barbecue meats and all buff food Campfires, fireplaces, fire pits, forges, braziers, ovens
Oven All baking (bread, pies, pizza, cakes) Stone and sandstone ovens
Flour mill Milling wheat into flour Flour mills

Every oven is also a heat source, so a house with a stone oven covers both. Carpenters craft stone oven and flour mill deeds for houses; out in the world, a simple campfire handles all barbecue and buff-food cooking.

The baking chain ↑ top

Baked goods are built in steps, each its own recipe (all trainable from skill 0):

  1. Sack of Flour — 2 wheat sheaves at a mill
  2. Dough — flour + water
  3. Sweet Dough — dough + jar of honey; Cake Mix — flour + sweet dough; Cookie Mix — honey + sweet dough
  4. Unbaked pies, pizzas, and quiche — dough + a filling (eggs, ribs, sausage, cheese, fruit)
  5. Bake in an oven: bread, cookies, cake, muffins, quiche, meat/fruit/apple/peach/pumpkin pies, sausage and cheese pizza

Barbecue is simpler: raw bird, chicken, lamb, ribs, fish steaks, and eggs cook over any heat source — and a whole stack cooks in one action.

There is no exceptional food — cooked items are always normal quality, and a failed cook sometimes wastes the ingredients.

Buff food (Sagas custom) ↑ top

The reason to be a serious cook: four tiers of plated dishes that grant an hour of mana and stamina regeneration when eaten. Every recipe needs a heat source and consumes a plate and spices on top of the food itself; the top tiers also need carpenter-made tablets (see Ingredients for sourcing the components).

The full effect numbers have their own page

Buff Food covers what each tier is actually worth — tick rates, regeneration per minute, the no-stacking rule, and all twelve dishes with their exact ingredients.

Tier Skill Example dishes Extra components
Poor 50–75 Poor Fish, Poor Steak, Poor Cooked Vegetables plate + spices
Medium 70–100 Fish / Meat / Vegetable Stew plate + spices
High 80–115 High Fish / Meat / Vegetable Plate + Craftable Tablet
Chef Feast 100–120 Chef Fish / Meat / Vegetable Feast + Craftable Large Tablet, recipe required

Each tier comes in a fish, meat, and vegetable version, so any hunter, farmer, or fisherman can feed the pipeline. The Chef Feast recipes must be learned from recipe scrolls found as loot, and both tablet types are made by carpenters (the large one needs a 100+ carpenter).

Raising the skill ↑ top

Cooking reaches 120 with Crafting skill scrolls — needed to cook the Chef Feasts (100–120) and High Plates (80–115) reliably.

Training is cheap because almost every basic recipe works across the whole skill range:

Skill Cook
0–50 Cook fish steaks or ribs over a campfire (stacks cook in one go), or bake bread
50–70 Poor buff dishes (fish is cheapest if you fish your own)
70–80 Medium stews
80–100 High plates, or keep cooking cheap stews and bread
100–120 Chef Feasts once you have the recipes; High plates otherwise

Fishing pairs naturally with Cooking — raw fish steaks feed you from 0 all the way to the Chef Fish Feast (which wants a Big Fish). See Fishing.

What you can craft ↑ top

Baking

Item Skill Resources Recipe
bread loaf bread loaf 0 – 120 1 × Dough None
pan of cookies pan of cookies 0 – 120 1 × Cookie Mix None
cake cake 0 – 120 1 × Cake Mix None
muffins muffins 0 – 120 1 × Sweet Dough None
baked quiche baked quiche 0 – 120 1 × Uncooked Quiches None
baked meat pie baked meat pie 0 – 120 1 × Uncooked Meat Pies None
sausage pizza sausage pizza 0 – 120 1 × Uncooked Sausage Pizzas None
cheese pizza cheese pizza 0 – 120 1 × Uncooked Cheese Pizzas None
baked fruit pie baked fruit pie 0 – 120 1 × Uncooked Fruit Pies None
baked peach cobbler baked peach cobbler 0 – 120 1 × Uncooked Peach Cobblers None
baked apple pie baked apple pie 0 – 100 1 × Uncooked Apple Pies None
baked pumpkin pie baked pumpkin pie 0 – 120 1 × Unbaked Pumpkin Pies None

Barbecue

Item Skill Resources Recipe
cooked bird cooked bird 0 – 120 1 × Raw Birds None
chicken leg chicken leg 0 – 120 1 × Raw Chicken Legs None
fish steak fish steak 0 – 110 1 × Raw Fish Steaks None
fried eggs fried eggs 0 – 120 1 × Eggs None
leg of lamb leg of lamb 0 – 120 1 × Raw Legs of Lamb None
cut of ribs cut of ribs 0 – 120 1 × Raw Ribs None

Buff Food

Item Skill Resources Recipe
fish dish fish dish 50 – 75 4 × raw fish steak, 1 × spices, 1 × plate None
steak steak 50 – 75 1 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate None
cooked vegetables cooked vegetables 50 – 75 3 × Carrot, 2 × Lettuce, 1 × spices, 1 × plate None
fish stew fish stew 70 – 100 6 × raw fish steak, 1 × spices, 1 × plate None
meat stew meat stew 70 – 100 3 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate None
veggie stew veggie stew 70 – 100 4 × Carrot, 1 × Turnip, 1 × spices, 1 × plate None
fish plate fish plate 80 – 115 8 × raw fish steak, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × small tablet None
meat plate meat plate 80 – 115 5 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × small tablet None
veggie plate veggie plate 80 – 115 2 × Potato, 2 × Turnip, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × small tablet None
fish feast fish feast 100 – 120 1 × a big fish, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × large tablet fish feast
meat feast meat feast 100 – 120 7 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × large tablet meat feast
veggie feast veggie feast 100 – 120 2 × Potato, 1 × Mushroom, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × large tablet veggie feast

Ingredients

Item Skill Resources Recipe
sack of flour sack of flour 0 – 100 2 × Wheat None
dough dough 0 – 100 1 × Flour, 1 × Water None
sweet dough sweet dough 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Honey None
cake mix cake mix 0 – 100 1 × Flour, 1 × Sweet Dough None
cookie mix cookie mix 0 – 100 1 × Honey, 1 × Sweet Dough None

Preparations

Item Skill Resources Recipe
unbaked quiche unbaked quiche 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Eggs None
unbaked meat pie unbaked meat pie 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Raw Meat None
uncooked sausage pizza uncooked sausage pizza 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Sausage None
uncooked cheese pizza uncooked cheese pizza 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Cheese None
unbaked fruit pie unbaked fruit pie 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Pears None
unbaked peach cobbler unbaked peach cobbler 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Peaches None
unbaked pumpkin pie unbaked pumpkin pie 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Apples None
Darkglow Darkglow 0 – 100 1 × Dough, 1 × Pumpkin None
savage kin paint savage kin paint 105 – 80 1 × Flour, 1 × Tribal Berries None