New World: Cooking - Crafting New World guide, tips
This page of the New World guide describes the Cooking skill. Here you will learn what kind of food you can make and how to quickly improve your cooking.
Last update: 08 December 2021
Cooking skill in New World allows you to craft food to restore health, mana or provide additional bonuses. In addition, thanks to cooking, you can create Dyes to change the color of the armor. On this page of the guide, you'll learn how to improve cooking quickly.
Crafting station and crafted items
As mentioned above, cooking in New World allows you to craft all kinds of food. With food, you can heal the character, restore mana or get bonuses that enhance other crafting skills. Cooking is performed at Kitchen, but you can also create low-level food in your camp. When leveling cooking, you will need to use skills Fishing and Harvesting - you will get the required materials for crafting thanks to them.
Fast leveling Cooking
The fastest way to level up cooking in New World is creating better meals. To to this, you will need easily accessible raw food - fish, milk, or apples. In addition, depending on the meal, you will also need the raw food of a particular tier. It can be meat from wolves, cows, deer or turkeys.
Level 0 - 50:
To reach cooking level 50, it is necessary to craft 144 Travel Rations.
- 144 x Tier 2 Raw Food (e.g. meat of wolves or cows)
- 144 x Raw Food (e.g. milk).
Level 50 - 100:
Then you have to craft 276 Energizing Light Meals.
- 276 x Tier 3 Raw Food (e.g. deer meat).
- 276 x Raw Food (e.g. milk)
- 276 x Raw Food (e.g. apples)
Level 100 - 150:
The next step is crafting 395 Satisfying Meals.
- 395 x Tier 4 Raw Food (e.g. turkey breast)
- 395 x Raw Food (e.g. milk)
- 395 x Raw Food (e.g. apples)
- 395 x Raw Food (e.g. fish)
Level 150 - 200:
The maximum level of cooking in New World you will reach after crafting 508 Hearty Meals.
- 508 x Tier 5 Raw Food (e.g. tomatoes)
- 508 x Raw Food (e.g. milk)
- 508 x Raw Food (e.g. apples)
- 508 x Raw Food (e.g. fish)
- 508 x Seasonings (e.g. basil)