# Cooking

**Cooking** is a Life Skill that allows players to craft consumable items such as **buff dishes** and **candies**. These items provide temporary stat boosts.

## 🥄 How to Start Cooking

1. Go to **Alker Harbor**.
2. Speak with **NPC Chef** to purchase **Cooking Utensils** and a **Fire Kit**.
3. **Equip the utensils**:\
    - Place the **Pan** in your **shield slot**\
    - Place the **Scoop** in your **weapon slot**
4. **Double-click the Fire Kit** in your inventory to place a cooking fire on the ground.
5. Click on the **spawned fire**, then press **K** to open the **Skill Window** and select the **Cooking tab**.
6. Choose the dish you want to cook, enter the **quantity**, and press **Cook** to begin.
7. The finished dishes will appear in your **inventory** once cooking is complete.

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🔥 You must stay near the fire during cooking. Make sure you have enough materials and inventory space.
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## 🧂 Cooking Ingredients

To cook dishes or candies, you’ll need specific materials, most of which are gathered through other life skills:

* **From** [**Farming**](https://odin-luna-online.gitbook.io/odin-luna-online-docs/life-skill/farming)\
   - **Cooking Ingredient Basket** – used for making **buff dishes**\
   - **Sugar Pouch** – used for making **candies**\
  \&#xNAN;*Both items are obtained by harvesting crops from **Seed 3 & 4**.*
* **From** [**Fishing**](https://odin-luna-online.gitbook.io/odin-luna-online-docs/life-skill/fishing)\
   - **Certain fish** are used as ingredients in various cooking recipes

## 📈 Cooking Level Progression

As you cook and progress in the **Cooking Life Skill**, you’ll unlock new recipes and higher-tier dishes, including advanced candies.

* Open the **Cooking tab** from the **Skill Window (K)** to check the current level and upgrade requirements.
* Each level requires completing specific tasks.
* After meeting all requirements, visit the **NPC Chef** in **Alker Harbor**.
* Purchase and use the appropriate **Cook Book** based on your current tier.
* Upgrading your cooking level will **unlock new recipes.**

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="148"></th><th width="282"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Cooking Tier</strong></td><td><strong>Candy Name</strong></td><td><strong>Effect</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Low</strong></td><td>Warrior Form Candy</td><td>+10% Physical Attack</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Low</strong></td><td>Blessed Guard Candy</td><td>+10% Physical Defense</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Low</strong></td><td>Wizardly Candy</td><td>+10% Magical Attack</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Low</strong></td><td>Mind Barrier Candy</td><td>+10% Magical Defense</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Low</strong></td><td>Manastorm Candy</td><td>+10% Max MP</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Low</strong></td><td>Bless Heart Candy</td><td>+15 HP Recovery </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Low</strong></td><td>Bless Mind Candy</td><td>+15 MP Recovery </td></tr><tr><td>Mid</td><td>Familiar Candy</td><td>+10% EXP Gain</td></tr><tr><td>Mid</td><td>Bless Vital Candy</td><td>+10% Max HP</td></tr><tr><td>Mid</td><td>Mana Reduction Candy</td><td>-10% MP Consumption</td></tr><tr><td>High</td><td>Fatal Touch Candy</td><td>+10% Critical Damage</td></tr><tr><td>High</td><td>Detect Hole Candy</td><td>+100 Critical Rate</td></tr><tr><td>High</td><td>High Quality Magic Candy</td><td>+4% Magic Critical Chance</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Top</strong></td><td>Acuteness Candy</td><td>+10% Attack Speed</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Top</strong></td><td>Shrewd Spell Candy</td><td>+15% Cast Speed</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Top</strong></td><td>High Quality Mini Candy</td><td>+10% Movement Speed</td></tr></tbody></table>

All candy effects last **30 minutes**.\
**Note:** Buffs **will not disappear** if the character dies.