Cooking thread. 0-61

[SonikU4ia]

***Clincher***

Ok, so I finally managed to save some gil (about40k) and decided to work my cooking skill up again from 44.

Spent about 2 nights roughtly (only played maybe 6 hours each night) and got my skill up to 52 from 44.

I started out with 12 stacks of fire crystals and had 3 stacks left over when I finally hit 50. Apple pies took me all the way to 50 too, hehe. I crafted on Light Day, Fire Day, and Water Day and the moon was at 18%. I was able to get my skill from 44 to 48 within those few days, starting out. I went to Windurst and got Cooking Imagery and worked apple pies to 48 using Lizard Eggs. Gains were solid and steady, I was very satisfied. 0.2 gains were not too hard to come by either.

The next night, I worked the same three days again: Light, Fire, and Water. (Fire for no particular reason except that I wanted to work on it. It didn't really help or hurt my gains that I could notice.) I worked Apple Pie using Bird Eggs (which by the way, you can buy bird eggs at the AirShip stores in each of the three major cities for about 50gil/egg.) My gains again were good, but slightly a little slower than the night previously. I used cooking imagery all the way.

It wasn't hard at all, nor was it much of any headache. I enjoyed it.

After I was done, I decided that I wanted to work cooking to 52, so I took my remaining fire crystals and bought batagreens from the cooking guild in Windurst to make Batagreen Sautee. (I could not find another place that sold batagreens, not even the AH x_X.) I worked them on Lightning and Light day. The gains were pretty slow at first, I was only able to get from 50 to 50.8 with three stacks of crystals. I also lost money since I had to resell the batagreen sautee to the vendors. I didn't think it would sell quickly on the AH at all. I lost roughly about 2k per stack, so 6k.

I proceeded to not stop there and just use some of my remaining money to work cooking to 52. So I bought 5 more stacks of fire crystals and used them all up til about 3 crystals left and got cooking to 52. The gains seemed to be slow, much slower than making apple pies. But I didn't mind. I was just glad I got cooking to 52. I still lost money however, again 2k per stack. My days working may have had something to do with the skill increases. I do know that the moon was at 32% ish when I was working at the time.

At any rate, I did some reading up on the foods you can make after 52, and I'm not hopefull about the future of crafting beyond this point. Everything basically takes fire crystals and looks expensive to make and work. It looks to me like the rate will go slower and depend more heavily on how much gil I have on hand. I'm going to continue to read around for tips on working cooking past 52, but for the moment, it looks pretty grim. X_X

[Royze]

thank you for this great guide...

i would like to contribute something for this topic...

im at lvl 21 right now and i wanted to make the insect balls but i couldnt...too much failures and id make 3 out of 12 trys...

so i would say from 20-21 or 22 if it works...make this one its really much cheaper and u can synth it ur self...

fire + selbina butter *u can make this by now i assume* + pototo = baked pototo

raises up ur skill like hell..

im thinking about hitting at least 35 this week..the best thing i got my friend a full fishing gear so he fish all the time and i cook all the time.. he gets to fish and pass the moat carps to me..i get to grill the fish and cook him the bait...

works :spin:

[Siras]

Oggodett
Bastok Markets (I - 9)

Sells:
Horo Flour
Millioncorn
Roasted Corn
Yagudo Feather
Sunflower Seeds


http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=1349#

[AzzHauler]

Does anyone know if there is a Bastokan NPC for the Aragoneu region that has the Horo Flour for the sardine balls? Windurst just lost the region and the NPC closed shop on me ><. Or does anything drop the flour there?

[Evil Knight]

This guide is truly the most awsome thing to ever be put on this forum. I want to start cooking right here and now but sadly i can only play on weekends and its ONLY MONDAY!! oh well thanks for the guide

[kazthegun]

awesome info, thanks ('∇')

[SonikU4ia]

Very, very helpful guide. Newbie cooks definitely want to use this as a start up for getting gains and what to shop for. Good job!

I would like to confirm the pet biscuits phenomena.

Pet Delta Biscuits "make money." I have profitted quite well from these since I started cooking about 2 months ago. I am currently only 44, however, I have spent my time using my gil on other crafts and will be getting back to cooking very soon.

Pet Delta Biscuits sell for 97-98gil a piece at the vendor's in Sandoria. That is my hometown and I have comleted 40+quests there. Considering the amount of time to gather materials and cook, I can average from 10-12k an hour making Biscuits.

The recipe is as follows:
Earth Crystal=>Land Crab Meat + Bird Egg + Distilled Water + Rye Flour = 6 Pet Delta Biscuits.

On Gilgamesh, the average cost of these items is as follows:

Land crab meat averages 3.5k (this fluctuates up and down.. paid as high as 4k before but hate to go past that cuz then you really don't make money IMO).
Bird Eggs, if you are Rank 5, can be purchased at Airship Port Stores for 50gil per Egg or 600/stack. They also sell in stacks on any AH for an average of 1200gil. (Gilgamesh server)
Earth Crystall are ridiculously easy to farm with a level 1 character, or sell for 300gil on average at all AH's.
Distilled Water sells 11gil per item on average or 132/stack.
Rye Flour sells for 36gil per item on average or 432/stack.

3500+600+300+132+432 = 4964*
(*Note: This is for me on my server w/my amount of fame for Sandoria.)

I sell 72 Delta Biscuits back to vendors @98gil each. This totals 7056. I make a profit of 2,092gil. I usually can crank out 5stacks in an hour on average, thus, I make 10,460!

I only come to this total if I have bought the items with gil, which is why I stated I have the ability to make more money if I farmed a few of my items (like the land crab meat for example) I have made a killing and pure profit from simply farming my items. However, this takes a lot of time. (Land Crab Meat is difficult to farm without a Treasure Hunter sub and the eggs and be a nuiscance also. Crystals aren't so bad.)

This method for me has been one of the ways I have funded my white mage's equipment and spells up til now and continue to do so. (However, I am leveling Thief right now and want to use it to farm NM's later xD.)

Only draw back that I have with this method is that I am limited to what the AH sells and they can run out of Land Crab Meat very quickly. So, sometimes I am reduced to farming, but it takes me a real long time right now (even with TH1).

At any rate, hope this helps someone!

[Tomoh]

This thread has earned a Sticky I made it to Lv34 using it!!

[tomfin10]

Great guide. Got to LV 13 Cooking in 2 days with a small loss of gil. I'm planning on using this guide as far as you make it. ^^

[nickofearth]

Wow, this will come in handy. I should study this and plan an attack on the cooking market.

BTW. You guys might want to make a few lower level items because you might beable to make a profit on them when the PS2 players come on the servers.

[Rusk]

Great guide, this should be stickied. I made 1-39 in 3 days and I was only level 9 when I started :D

I was a bit worried when I started losing a lot of money with the first two recipes, but the later recipes easily made up for any losses and then some.

[Alura]

You can make a bit of gil off Delta biscuits to NPC's they go for 97 a piece. But if you don't flood the market with then you can get 2k a stack at the AH give it at least a day to sell. Land crab meat is soaring close to 4k a stack on Midgard so i've turned to insect balls. Last night during the full moon i couldn't keep them on auction, little suckers were bought so fast. I made 15k in 2 hours selling those on mules in different cities and off bazaar. Prices on mithkabobs aren't great either, i've never even synthed one yet, i might try a few for personal use though.

[Anaki]

the main moeny in cooking and all crafts but mainly cooknig is the rare cooks like a chiefkabob.. an example is theres a taru in sandoria sellnig ehrbal broths for 50 gil he had 2 singing herbal broths also for 50 gil i bought em and sold them to the ah for 1k gil each if you can effectivly make chiefkabobs and the strongest broths you can make alot of cash

[xth]

Is it really not possible to really make a profit and decent steady gil cooking? I hear that pet food delta can be a money maker selling to venders...Is this confirmed?

[Xephoid]

pebble soup

I don't really like soup and juices for lvling. So far, they have all been money losers.

they don't stack. And to lvl, you need to making couple of dozen of those to gain a lvl. And they don't worth enough to take up slots in the AH, so you probably will want to sell them back to the NPC. But that's a sure fire money losing deal.

That's why I try to do syns with things that stack. So you more easily sell them in AHs and either making a little profit or at least minimize loss.

Also, peddle soup isn't exactly cheap. I tried it and abandoned it. Yes, the flint stone is cheap, but the fire crystals cost close to 200 a pop. And when you lvl, your chances of failure are significant. And when you fail, you have a CHANCE of losing 1 or more of your ingredients, but you ALWAYS lose the crystal. That's why I try to lvl using recipes that avoid fire crystals, prefer to stick to water and earth crystals as much as possible. :spin: