Cooking & Brewing

Cooking in Aetherion is not one campfire and a stack of raw meat. It is the last profession we built for this update, and the biggest: nearly a hundred recipes across three crafts, a new meat grinder, a cocoa tree and a cellar full of drinks. Every dish has a name worthy of the Inn.

This article is part of the Community Update 12 series: Overview · Professions & Crafting · Cooking & Brewing · Gathering · Arms & Armor.

THREE CRAFTS IN ONE

1. Preparation

Good food starts with good ingredients. Prepare the building blocks first: sugar, butter, cheese, broth, bread and bread slices, caramel, cake bases, compote and whipped cream. Meat goes through the new Meat Grinder to become ground beef, pork, fowl, fish or exotic meat.

2. Cooking

Combine your prepared ingredients into finished dishes: kebabs and salads early on, then pies, stews and soups, cakes and cheesecake, and finally hearty meals like the Warrior's Roast, the Guardian's Stew, the Ranger's Platter and the Arcanist's Broth.

3. Brewing & vinification

Brew a wort at the brewing bench and let it mature in the keg. The ladder runs from Peasant Beer, Ale and Kvass through Pale Ale, Stout and Chicha to Wine, Sake and Aged Wine at the top.

A TASTE OF THE LADDER

Some recipes, like the Sandwich, the pies, Hot Chocolate and the Behemoth Rib Roast, are learned from recipe scrolls sold by Mr Tapsniff at the Inn.

MEAT, MILK AND COCOA

• Mobs now drop meat and animal fat, ready for the grinder.
• Eating raw beef, chicken, pork or wild meat will poison you. Raw fish is fine, that's what sushi is for.
• A spit roast campfire for roasting meat.
• Mosshorn milk makes Stinkhorn Cheese, which comes with its own stink cloud. You have been warned.
• A new cocoa tree starts a whole chocolate line: chocolate, candy, cookies, hot chocolate and chocolate cake.

FEASTS

At the top of the ladder, the Hearth Feast (290) and the Aetherion Banquet (300) feed a whole group. Place the feast and everyone can take a serving for a Well Fed buff until only scraps remain.

SEASONAL RECIPES

Some recipes can only be cooked while their season is active:

The Veil of Shadows begins on 14 December. Start levelling now if you want that Yule Log on the table.