Cooking
Cooking is a World 4 skill that allows you to create various Meals that give various permanent buffs. These meals are cooked passively and then upgraded with additional quantities of the same meal. They can also be used to purchase Nanochips or unlock Breeding Upgrades.
Getting Cooking Levels
This skill is getting this section defined because it is the first of it's kind in this game. This is the first time where you AFK matters. In order for a character to gain Cooking EXP they have to AFK within the Kitchen area with the cooking tables of the World 4 Town. In addition to EXP this is also how the player obtains File:Cooking Ladles.png Cooking Ladles which are used to speed up cooking time by 1 hour each. Note: They aren't like AFK Candies so they do not give AFK rewards, just time reduction for any ongoing meals or recipes.
By the nature of this skill your main stats will be AFK Percent and SKill EXP % as Skill Efficiency does not affect Cooking. There are some items such as 
Cooking Clogs and File:Chef Rings.png Chef Rings that can give you bonus Cooking Efficiency or gains.
Cooking Tables
The main bulk of all action done for the Cooking skill is at the Kitchen Tables. You initially start with one table, but can unlock nine more using Coins. Each table can independently be selected to unlock new recipes or cook already found ones.
Unlocking Recipes
To unlock a Recipe you first have some spices to combine up to four of them to get various possible dishes (displayed at the bottom of the menu). Any dish you have will still be included in the possible results, which will lessen the chances of you getting a new one which can be influenced by that table's Luck value. The possible recipes per combination are determined by some math on the spice number. Spices are numbered starting at 0, but this isn't visible to the player. The following is a table of suggestions for each that give a combination as early and with 'good enough' possible chances. These aren't the only combinations because of the aforementioned math, but they serve as a basic guide.
Credits to Rockangelz on the Discord Server for this list. A calculator has also been made by Pilihp64 to try it out for yourself here.
Table Upgrades
Each table can have their Speed, Fire, and Luck upgraded using specific Spices. Speed affects how long it takes to cook a Meal, Fire is how long it takes to get each 'fire level' when researching a new recipe, and Luck influences the chance that you will get a new recipe with a given combination of Spices.
| Unlock Order | Unlock Cost | Speed Upgrade | Fire Upgrade | Luck Upgrade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free | Grasslands Spices | Jungle Spices | Encroaching Forest Spices |
| 2 |  8  20 |
Encroaching Forest Spices | Tree Interior Spices | Stinky Sewers Spices |
| 3 | 75 |
Stinky Sewers Spices | Desert Oasis Spices | Beach Docks Spices |
| 4 |  4 |
Beach Docks Spices | Coarse Mountains Spices | Twilight Desert Spices |
| 5 | 80 |
Twilight Desert Spices | The Crypt Spices | Frosty Peaks Spices |
| 6 |  5 |
Frosty Peaks Spices | Tundra Outback Spices | Crystal Caverns Spices |
| 7 |  2 13 |
Crystal Caverns Spices | Pristalle Lake Spices | Nebulon Mantle Spices |
| 8 | 60 |
Nebulon Mantle Spices | Starfield Skies Spices | Shores of Eternity Spices |
| 9 |  20 |
Shores of Eternity Spices | ? Spices | ?? Spices |
| 10 |  10 |
?? Spices | ??? Spices | ???? Spices |
Meals
The "Breadless Butter" of the Cooking skill are the Meals. Table for details.
| Name | Effec | Flavor Text |
|---|---|---|
| Turkey a la Thank | 2% Total Damage | Do I smell gratitude? Oh, no that's colonialization... |
| Egg | 5% Meal Cooking Speed | It's just an egg. |
| Salad | 3% Cash from Monsters | Yea uhm, could I get a burger, but hold the meat and buns? |
| Pie | 5% New Recipe Cooking Speed | Cartoon characters with a fear of levitation HATE the smell of this! |
| Frenk Fries | 5% New Pet Breeding Odds | You're breeding pets in outer space, don't be shocked that there's no France! |
| Spaghetti | 4% Breeding EXP | Mama mia mahhh spaghettiiiiiiii! |
| Corn | 2% Skill Efficiency | To think the government is subsidizing this... its bonus is terrible!!! |
| Garlic Bread | 4% VIP Library Membership | The letter H ain't lookin' so good after eating a few of these... |
| Garlicless Bread | 2% Lab EXP | Many revolutions in the world originate from an increase in the price of bread |
| Pizza | 9% New Pet Breeding Odds | Mama mia mahhh piiiiiiiizzza!!! Wait I already did that joke, replace this one |
| Apple | 5 Base DEF | Aw jeez Richard, I sure am hungry for apples! |
| Pancakes | 2Px Line Width in Lab Mainframe | Ohhh, they're called 'pan'cakes because they're like cakes made in a pan haha |
| Corndog | 12% Meal Cooking Speed | Ohhh, they're called 'corn'dogs because... wait, why are they called corndogs? |
| Cabbage | 5% All Cooking Spd per 10 upgrade Lvs | This is a MONUMENTALLY IMPORTANT vegetable, as well as upgrade. |
| Potato Pea Pastry | 1% Lower Egg Incubator Time | Yuhhhh it's that Triple P threat! Look out for them P's bro! |
| Dango | 2% Lower Kitchen Upgrade Costs | Look, I'm not sure what these are either, just go with it. |
| Sourish Fish | 4% VIP Library Membership | Shhh stop saying they're sweet, you're gonna get me in trouble! |
| Octoplop | 2% Total Damage | They really did just plop an octopus on a plate and call it a day. |
| Croissant | 1% Pet Fighting Damage | Carl loves these! |
| Canopy | 10% New Recipe Cooking Speed | ...oh, you said 'Can of Pea's. You know, that does make a lot more sense. |
| Cannoli | 1% Points earned in Tower Defence | Ain't got no joke for this one, it's existence is enough of a joke. |
| Cheese | 5% Cooking EXP | Sourced organically, straight from the moon! |
| Sawdust | 5% Lab EXP | Id rather starve than eat that' - Angie, 2021 |
| Eggplant | 5% Pet Breedability Speed in Fenceyard | Idk what you Zoomers are up to with those eggplant emojis, but I don't like it... |
| Cheesy Bread | 1% Total Accuracy | Another bread meal? Wow so unoriginal, I'm glad I already left a 1 star rating. |
| Wild Boar | 2Px Line Width in Lab Mainframe | It's not really wild anymore is it, it looks kinda dead and roasted. |
| Donut | 15% New Pet Breeding Odds | Mmmmm... doooooooonut... |
| Riceball | 3% Skill Efficiency | Dude it's just a ball of rice, like what do you want me to say about it? |
| Cauliflower | 1% Basic Atk Speed | The white part is called Curd. Welp, time to recategorize this as an educational game! |
| Durian Fruit | 6% Lower Kitchen Upgrade costs | This must have been in the room when Kurt said it smelled like 'teen spirit'... |
| Orange | 3% VIP Library Membership | The true arch-nemesis of rappers and poets alike. |
| Bunt Cake | 7% Cash from Monsters | Bunt cake more like Punt cake because I'm kicking this trash straight to the garbage. |
| Chocolate Truffle | 25% New Pet Breeding Odds | I mean it's got a bite taken out of it, pretty gross. |
| Leek | 2% skilling prowess | Leek! More importantly, prowess lowers the efficiency needed when AFK bar is orange. |
| Fortune Cookie | 4% Faster Library checkout Speed | It reads: 'Salvation lies not within enjoying video games, but from gitting gud at them' |
| Pretzel | 7% Lab EXP | I love pretzels, people really be sleepin' on the versatility they bring to the table! |
| Sea Urchin | 1% Critters from traps | At least one person reading this has eating one of these. Oh, it's you? Good for you. |
| Mashed Potato | 6% Cooking EXP | This nutritious meal reminds me of the Mashed Potato monster from IdleOn, the video game! |
| Mutton | 1% Crit Chance | Yeap I tell you hwat Bobby, this is a real man's meal right here! |
| Wedding Cake | 2% Pet Fighting Damage | Imagine getting married lol so cringe haha am I right??!?! High-five, fellow kids! |
| Eel | 1% Line Width in Lab Mainframe | The younger sibling of the Loch Ness Monster. He's real, but no one really cares. |
| Whipped Cocoa | 4% Skill Efficiency | Why is this being served on a plate? Was the cup not good enough for you?? |
| Onion | 3% Total Damage | No, I'm not crying, this onion is just stimulating the lachrymal glands in my eyes. |
| Soda | 20% Meal Cooking Speed | Yea those red marks are grill marks, our chef doesn't know what he's doing. |
| Sushi Roll | 7% VIP Library Membership | For something called a 'sushi roll', it isn't moving around very much. |
| Buncha Banana | 4 Max LVs for TP Pete Star Talent | Straight from the island of Karjama! Or something like that, starts with a K at least. |
| Pumpkin | 2% EXP from World 1 Mobs | According to the author of the Iliad, its value should peak right around January... |
| Cotton Candy | 2% EXP from World 1 Mobs | The most exquisite of fairground cuisine! |
| Massive Fig | 3% Total Damage | This thing has gotta weigh at least 30! |
Meal Upgrading
Meals are upgraded at the wiggling Menu sign next to the display table. They are upgraded using a number of themselves. The values are detailed in the table below.
| Level | Cost | Level | Cost | Level | Cost | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 11 | 66,944 | 21 | 11.7 B | ||
| 2 | 28 | 12 | 192 K | 22 | 46.8 B | ||
| 3 | 55 | 13 | 570.9 K | 23 | 192.4 B | ||
| 4 | 116 | 14 | 1.8 M | 24 | 813.6 B | ||
| 5 | 257 | 15 | 5.6 M | 25 | 3.5 T | ||
| 6 | 593 | 16 | 18.5 M | 26 | 15.8 T | ||
| 7 | 1,419 | 17 | 63 M | 27 | 72.6 T | ||
| 8 | 3,522 | 18 | 222.1 M | 28 | 342.1 T | ||
| 9 | 9,065 | 19 | 808 M | 29 | 1.7 Qa | ||
| 10 | 24,192 | 20 | 3 B | 30 | 8.2 Qa |
