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Cooking Guide

Player-written reference — verify important details in-game.

Table of contents

  1. Getting started
  2. Recent cooking changes (patch notes)
  3. How cooking marks work
  4. Wizarding Faire
  5. Commands and stations
  6. Cookware and kitchens
  7. Recipe details
  8. Ingredients by area
  9. Ingredient index (A–Z)
  10. Lootables
  11. Food trucks
  12. Racial food preferences
  13. Sporecloud routes
  14. Picnic ingredients
  15. Pouch of plenitude loot

Getting started

  1. quest undertake cooking tutorial (or equivalent) on any character — quest #3391 (Cooking Tutorial - The Mark).
  2. USE the index card you receive to pick a starter recipe (commonly steak and potatoes or scorpion soup).
  3. Gather ingredients, travel to a cooking station (where is cooking-griddle / where is cooking-cauldron).
  4. cook <recipe> while holding the index card until the quest phases complete.
  5. Give meals to other players; they must eat them. After quest phases, keep cooking for unique eaters until you proc You have gained the Mark of …!
  6. After the mark: you no longer need the card for that recipe; USE your old card to roll a new random recipe.

Main training kitchen: The Clandestine Kitchen [Maldra Keep] — griddle and cauldron for tutorial recipes.

Where to cook

Band Kitchen Tools
Tutorial The Clandestine Kitchen [Maldra Keep] griddle, cauldron
≤240 Tellerium public kitchens see Cookware and kitchens
Archon (241+) Hlegmal's Back Bar [Sigil Underground] #385840 oven
Alliance member alliance gohall → your stronghold varies — see Alliance stronghold kitchenware

Alliance halls: Most alliances have purchased Alliance Stronghold Cooking Supply placement orders (griddle, oven, mixing bowl, cauldron, icebox, etc.) somewhere in the stronghold. alliance gohall and ask in alliancetalk where the tools are — often handier than public Tellerium rooms.

Index cards: an index card containing a recipeDingereal the Sage, 8,000 QP (max 2 per character). Recipe book also sold there.

Room # column: fixed shops/rooms use GMCP # (mapper goto). Empty # means no single room — see Notes (wandering NPC, mob drop, buckskin, ground spawn, etc.).


Recent cooking changes (patch notes)

Player-facing food and mark updates (newest first).

  • Mar 2026 — Gul'grits difficult boss quests vs food markseparate counters (quests guide).
  • Nov 2025 — Gul'grits quests: (fresh) meals not required.
  • Mar 2025 — Prepared meal stat bonus coefficient reduced.
  • Sep 2024 — Cooking mark credit when feeding other players: 1 month cooldown.
  • Sep 2024 — Food NPCs explain random mark failures.
  • Apr 2024 — Mark procs require an active food buff (not just food in inventory).
  • Apr 2024 — Quarterly cooking mark credit reset more reliable.
  • May 2024Half-elves appreciate legumes and ovo-lacto foods for mark NPCs.

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