Fast Money Cooking Guide

Looking to get super rich quick? Currently you can use Cooking to fund your obsessive Creature Capturing habits with some change to spare!

 DISCLAIMER:  This method is not necessary. While income is tough to come by early in the game, it's not needed for anything outside of buying mass bait/traps. You can still get super rich doing all other crafting methods in the game but, for now, this is certainly a very quick way to get your funds situation sorted out for the long term early.

To get started you'll need a few basic things taken care of first.


 * Visted Foddy in Ashwick and completed his "Making a Meal" quest line.
 * Created enough Broth, Fried Rat Tail or Fried Rat Tail Salad for quests to unlock "Boring Veg" recipe.


 * A large supply of Cabbage from world loot or a decent starting amount of gold, ~5-10k should work but the more the better.
 * Don't call Foddy, "FOODY". He's an important piece of the early puzzle and a raise of price on water/cabbage won't be good for your bottom line.

Ok! Let's get some gold flowing. Luckily, you don't have to go anywhere. This will all start and end in Foddy's Kitchen.


 * Buy Water and Cabbage at a 1:1 ratio from Foddy. Prices can be anywhere from 40-60g total for 1 of each.
 * Attempt to turn it all into Boring Veg by manually playing the game to keep % as high as possible.
 * The higher your Cooking level the more efficient it will get. With that in mind, do small batches to completion, level up and do more at a higher %.


 * Repeat.

Now, I know you're probably thinking..."I'm just cooking Cabbage Soup! What's the big idea!?

Well, here comes the twist. You never actually have to play that mini-game to continue crafting at any crafting station, cooking included, once you've reached a sufficiently high enough efficiency.

And, there's the big reveal! Get Boring Veg to 100% efficiency, load up both of Foddy's Cookers with Water and Cabbage, that you bought from him, and ignore the mini-game. Click "Close" in the Crafting Menu and your Veg will continue to cook while you're off adventuring.

Don't over-do it at this phase. From where you've come from it'll seem like you've made it but you're not quite there!

''' STEPPING UP YOUR GAME: MORE COOKERS! '''


 * Once you've reached the 4th town, Rhunden, you'll get access to another Kitchen. This one is even bigger than Foddy's! 3 more cookers!
 * Now you can start the real money making cycle. 5 cookers all cooking 999 Boring Veg and pumping out ~1.5 million a trip.
 * You're rich now so you can fast travel at will. 2,000g? Chump change.
 * Start in one kitchen (Ashwick or Rhunden), fill up each cooker 100% and fast travel to the other village, fill up those cookers and travel back.


 * Buy LARGE quantities of Water and Cabbage at Foddy's as soon as you can. It's the cheapest and you'll want to fill all cookers with those cheapest materials. No point in not carrying 50k Water/ 50k Cabbage (~16 million in gold) around so you can always restock and grab stacks of Veg on a trip by the Kitchen.

Selling: Always find the best price! Town prosperity, can be seen on Map, will dictate selling prices. For example, if you've completed all the quests in Firlun and it's Prosperity: 100% but Ashwick/Rhunden are not completed yet, it's  much  more profitable to take the short trip to Firlun to sell. Foddy might buy for 175g per Veg but the Weaver in Firlun will buy for 279 per Veg. When selling 9999 Boring Veg, that difference is millions.

Congratulations, you're now rich and have access to easy steady income that can see you through even the worst Creature Catching luck.

Keep in mind that the developer might change this in the future as, at this time, it does make money and other crafting methods obsolete. You can still get just as rich making Armor or Weapons but the time investment is significantly higher. This method, once set-up, is nearly hands off and produces more than you'll ever need.

All Hail Boring Veg!

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