Cooking can save your life in the Living Lands, especially when enemies start to apply more status effects in combat. This guide will explain how cooking works and what it should be used for in Avowed.
Cooking is completely optional but it becomes more and more useful as the game progresses. There are a few recipes and dishes that shouldn’t be ignored.
How to Cook in Avowed
Cooking can only be done inside your camp. Fortunately, you can teleport to your camp from any location in the game except dungeons and scripted situations where fast travel is forbidden. Simply open the map and select any of the party camps you’ve found.
When in camp, go to the cauldron hanging above the lone campfire to find the cooking option. From this menu, you can choose which dishes and drinks to make with the ingredients you have on hand.
Best Beginner Recipes
The best recipes for beginners are the ones that heal status effects or temporarily increase attribute points. For example, recipes that can cure poison are useful throughout the entire journey.
The table below lists a few of the best recipes available early in the game along with their ingredients.
| Recipe | Ingredients | Effect |
| Grog |
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Cures Poison, Bleed, and elemental accumulations, and restores health based on the amount cured. +70% Poison, Bleed, and elemental damage resistance. |
| Fine Aedyran Mead |
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+2 Perception, +10% maximum Essence |
| Murkbrew |
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+2 Intellect, +10% maximum Essence |
| Wild Mushroom Stew |
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+2 Resolve, +5% maximum stamina |
| Mariner’s Porridge |
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70 health regeneration, 70 Essence regeneration |
In our experience, Intellect, Resolve, and Perception are often used in dialogue checks with notable consequences – like skipping a boss or avoiding a fight. Recipes that temporarily raise those attributes by two points are usually more useful than those that raise Dexterity, Constitution, or Might.
How to Get New Recipes
The game automatically gives you plenty of recipes to try, and you can even see the ones that you don’t have enough ingredients to make. To add new recipes to the list, you need to spend skill points to unlock Rank 2 and Rank 3 of the Survivalist ability in the Ranger skill tree.
Rank 2 provides recipes for strong healing foods and Rank 3 adds recipes for foods with powerful effects. There are even recipes in Rank 3 that increase all attributes at once! You should go for both of these abilities if you feel that your current cooking options aren’t enough.