Crafting

Cooking

Cooking is short, cheap and immediately useful: raw fish restores almost nothing, cooked fish keeps you standing through a fight. It trains off a single right-click rather than a gump, which makes it the least ceremonious craft in the game.

How you train it Right-click raw fish to cook it. Every attempt is a chance at both a meal and a gain.

What you need Nothing but raw fish — though a stove in your house helps.

Fish

The first three tiers are food. From Copperfish up a cooked fish restores nothing at all and grants a short bonus instead — the reason to fish a particular tier rather than whatever bites.

Skill	Raw	Cooked	Effect
No requirement	Fish	Cooked Fish	Restores 10 HP
65.0	Dullfish	Cooked Dullfish	Restores 15 HP
70.0	Shadowfish	Cooked Shadowfish	Restores 20 HP
75.0	Copperfish	Cooked Copperfish	+10% Gather Yield, 1 min
80.0	Bronzefish	Cooked Bronzefish	+10% Craft Success chance, 1 min
85.0	Goldfish	Cooked Goldfish	+10% Gold from kills, 2 min
90.0	Agafish	Cooked Agafish	+10% Virtue XP, 2 min
95.0	Verifish	Cooked Verifish	+5 to all stats, 2 min
99.0	Valorfish	Cooked Valorfish	+10% Skill Gain chance, 2 min
100.0	Blackfish	Cooked Blackfish	+5% Critical Hit chance on attacks and spells, 2 min

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A buff fish left in the Food slot is eaten automatically each time its bonus lapses, so one stack keeps the bonus running continuously. Ordinary food in that slot still works the old way — eaten when your health drops below your threshold.

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Copperfish, Bronzefish, Goldfish, Agafish and Valorfish each grant one of a Potion of Power's bonuses, at the same +10%, and a fish and a potion of the same kind add together — +10% and +10% is +20%. The difference is how long each lasts: a potion runs for hours, a fish for a minute or two. Verifish's +5 to all stats does not add to a Bless or a Strength or Agility potion — only the strongest counts, and the fish quietly takes over when the other ends. Blackfish is the fighter's fish: +5% critical-hit chance on every weapon attack and every damaging spell, rolled on its own, apart from any other crit chance you carry, for +50% damage when it lands.

Dishes

Grandmaster work. Every dish needs 100.0 Cooking and a Cooking Stove locked down in your own house. Each names the exact fish it wants — no substituting a pile of Copperfish for a Feast's Valorfish — so a dish is gated on your Fishing as much as your Cooking. There is no failure roll: these cost far too much to lose to one.

Dish	Fish	Spices	Restores
Fish Patty	2 Cooked Agafish	1	60 health a minute for 15 minutes
Fish Stew	5 Cooked Agafish	3	120 health a minute for 15 minutes
Fish Chowder	3 Cooked Verifish	5	180 mana a minute for 15 minutes
Fish Feast	3 Cooked Valorfish2 Cooked Verifish	10	120 health and 180 mana a minute for 15 minutes

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A dish restores nothing at the moment you eat it — it pays out steadily over the full fifteen minutes. That is deliberate: a heal is worth nothing at full health, while a trickle is worth as much in the twentieth minute of a dungeon as in the first. Unlike your own passive regeneration, a dish keeps paying inside a dungeon and in the middle of a fight.

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Common Spices drop from any monster, anywhere — roughly one every twenty-odd kills. The fish are the real cost of a dish; the spices are the reminder that a cook has to leave the water occasionally.

Rares

Five yard pieces found only by working this skill. Any work at the skill can turn one up — every swing or craft, success or failure, and the hours you put in while logged out as well. Each stands in your yard or your house, carries its own story on its tooltip, and trades like any other item.

Piece	Its story
Fish Smokehouse	A slatted hut no bigger than a wardrobe, hung inside with split fish over a bed of alder chips that has smouldered since the last good season in Skara Brae. The smell reaches three gardens over. The cats come from a good deal further than that.
The Wedding Cake That Wasn't	Tier upon tier of iced sponge, baked for a Britain wedding that was called off on the morning with the cake already on the cart. The baker would not let it go to waste, and through some mix of sugar, spite and very good icing it has not gone stale in thirty years. Nobody has dared to cut it.
Clay Bread Oven	A beehive of fired clay on a stone plinth, still warm to the touch though nobody has lit it in years. The bakers of Occlo say an oven remembers every loaf it ever made. On cold mornings the whole garden smells of fresh bread, and nobody can find out why.
The Great Cheese of Vesper	A wheel of Vesper cheese as tall as a child, aged in the canal cellars for longer than the canals have run clean. In all that time exactly one wedge has been cut from it, for a visiting sultan of Nujel'm, who has written every year since to ask for another. The answer is always no.
Specials Board	A tavern's chalkboard, propped where hungry people walk past. TODAY: FISH. TOMORROW: FISH. Underneath, in a different hand, somebody has chalked 'ask about the fish', and underneath that, in the first hand again, 'it is fish'.

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