Cooking is an essential skill to have in a world where you hunt monsters 24/7. Creating the best food with an active bonus will help you immensely in the game world. In comparison, Throne & Liberty does offer an extensive crafting system at the same time it’s not slouching when it comes to its Cooking mechanics. If you just got hooked into the cooking system in the game, here is a comprehensive cooking leveling guide to help you up your cooking skills so that you will be able to pull off gourmet-level dishes in no time.
Quick Cooking Level-up Guide In Throne & Liberty
For faster cooking leveling early on, we will choose a dish that requires fewer ingredients. For later levels, we will then start looking at fish and meat-led dishes.
To raise our cooking skills as fast as possible, we will need to nail down the proper dishes for our grinding. While the game does offer a variety of dishes, some of these are easier to cook compared to others. When you are at Level 1, you will have access to only a few dishes to work with, but you need to have the ingredients in your inventory to even try to create the dish. The target we are setting for the early grind is the quantity of the item, not the quality.
Early on, the success rate chances for cooking an item will be low. As you level up, you will receive an increase in success rate % as well, so that at higher levels the chances of wasting away rare ingredients because of an unsuccessful cooking attempt are lesser. You will also unlock more recipes as you level up, which in turn gives you higher XP every time you cook from these new unlocked recipes.
Vegetable Stir-Fry (Low Effort)
First, you need to set your eye on Vegetable Stir-Fry (1 * Herbs, 1 * Salt, and 1 * Vegetable Oil). By far the best option to level up your cooking skills. It increases max health and health regen for a duration of 15-30 mins.
Kastler Salad (Early Favorites)
The Kastler Salad recipe unlocks at level 3. You can make this from 1 * Herbs, 1 * Salt, and 1 * Vegetable Oil. This is a super useful recipe as it grants a 50% higher XP gain for 15 minutes, and this persists even after death.
Healthy Milk (Expensive)
The Healthy Milk recipe unlocks at level 8 and can be made from 5 *Fresh Milk, and 1 * Savory Rotein. Both of the ingredients here will be expensive, as you can only get them from the Sundries Merchant. This gives a Mana recovery of 500/sec for 18 seconds and has a 100% success rate.
After you have crafted several of these and leveled up cooking to a certain point, you will need to get out of the greenery and dabble in the meat and fish industry.
Farming for Later Cooking Levels
You can’t escape fishing mini-game, if you want to level up your cooking skill. For the later stages, you will need to set your eye on the best items on the menu. We have put up the ingredients, benefits, and XP gained from each of these for you to take a call on which recipe you want to focus on while grinding to level up cooking.
| Item | Recipe | Benefits | XP gain | Unlocks At Cooking Level |
| Grilled Crown Fish | Saffron x1 Salt x1 Bass x1 | +7 Bonus Damage 50+ Skill Damage Boost lasts for 15 minutes | 1,158 | 13 |
| Fish Steak | Basil x3 Garlic x5 Bass x1 | +60 All Hit Chance +40 Skill Damage Boost Lasts for 15 minutes | 209 | 8 |
| Fish Pottage | Celery x1 Garlic x5 Milk x1 Pink Cod x5 | +60 All Endurance +60 All Heavy Attack Evasion Lasts for 15 minutes | 147 | 7 |
| Wild Game Steak | Meat x1 Salt x1 Tomato x1 | +60 All Hit Chance +60 All Heavy Attack Chance Lasts for 15 minutes | 22 | 4 |
| Forest Goulash | Basil x1 Honey x1 Terror Bird Egg x1 Forest Wold Meat x1 | +50 All Evasion +75 All CC Resistances Lasts for 15 minutes | 636 | 11 |
In the end, only fishing will help you get to the highest level of cooking. Initially, when you are at cooking level 1, it is better to stick to vegetables, but later on, you will have to invest time and effort in fishing. The early dishes we farm will output around 20 XP per dish cooked, but when you are cooking with fish, you will get around 1200 XP per dish.
Should you Try Fishing for an Early Cooking Level?
No, while you can try fishing for an early cooking level we recommend sticking to Kastler Salad & Vegetable Stir-Fry early on.
Fishing is the most time-consuming method to raise your level bar. Not just that, initially fishing will be difficult as compared to at medium or higher levels.
Best Locations For Cooking Ingredients In Throne & Liberty
You will find cooking ingredients all over the world but some of them will be difficult to find than others.
To farm properly, we will need to create the same dish many times to unlock another dish that requires fewer ingredients. Always focus on the dish with less requirement, so we can craft a lot of them to get the level up.
You will need to store up as many vegetables, and herbs as possibly can, so we use them all at once to level up our cooking skills. If you are having difficulties finding Herbs and other important vegetables check the table below to pinpoint the location to get the items right away.
To cook anything basic, you will need herbs, oil, and a lot of salt. This section of the guide will give you a quick overlook on the best spot to find the raw ingredients for cooking in the game world.
Best Location for Herbs, Mushroom, and Star Tree in Throne & Liberty
Note: Make sure to hit these areas, when there is not an event happening in the area. You will have no chance of picking anything from the ground if dozens of players are roaming in the area. Always do the ingredient picking in a non-even area.
| Level Requirement | Area | ingredients Available |
| Levels 14 to 15 | Urstella Fields | Herbs & Star Tree |
| Levels 16 to 18 | Carmine Forest | Mushrooms & Fruit Star Tree |
| Levels 18 to 21 | Nesting Grounds | Herbs |
| Level Over 23 | Forest of the Great Tree | Wind Flower |
| Level Over 51 | Monolith Wastelands | Mushroom & Fruit Star Tree |
| Levels Over 51 | Purelight Hill | Herbs & Fruit Star Tree |
Best Ways to Gather Salt in Throne & Liberty
While most of the ingredients for cooking will be easier to acquire, the roadblock here will show up when you try to find Salt in the game. To level up our cooking, we will need a lot of salt and they are not easy to come by in Throne & Liberty. Here are some of the best ways to acquire salt in the game.
- To find salt you will need areas Nesting Grounds, Carmine Forest, and Urstella Fields.
- Eliminate any monster you find near the ocean.
- Sending your Amitoi on expeditions is the best method to get Salt.
- From the Battle pass (You will need to spend Gems)
Note: The level cap to the cooking is set to 20. You will not go past the Level 20 cap in Cooking. To reach Level 20 in Cooking, you will need around 500,000 XP.
Tips On Gathering Resources
The first rule of gathering resources in Throne & Liberty is finders keepers. If you take it first, it’s all yours, so make sure to move fast in the wild, or other players will snatch the ingredient out of your hand.
- Nodes are procedurally generated, so they will always respawn in different locations.
- Resource nodes are for one-time use.
- Some herbs, mushrooms, and flowers might have the chance to appear on your minimap when you get closer to them.
- Always visit Sundries Merchant to get daily food ingredients.
- When you are crafting certain food, pay attention to Cooking Mastery.
- For faster grind, always choose dishes with low ingredient requirements.
- It is better to save up as many ingredients as possible before you decide to cook.