Cooking
Cooking is the food-preparation crafting skill. The prose is community-derived (paraphrased from the uorenaissance.com skill list plus ServUO behavior) pending field verification; the stats table is source-verified against ServUO.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Cooking prepares raw fish, meat, and dough into edible food and finer dishes at an oven, stove, or campfire, keeping you and your pets fed and supporting other crafts (baking bread, making pies). Higher skill reduces burnt results and unlocks better dishes.
How to use it
Section titled “How to use it”Gather ingredients (fish from fishing, meat and hides from kills, dough from flour and water), then cook at a heat source. Use the cooking process to combine raw ingredients and bake the result. See crafting and food & drink catalog.
How to train it
Section titled “How to train it”- Low skill — bake bread and cook simple meats; cheap, repeatable.
- Mid/high skill — work up to the more complex dishes; success rate climbs and burns drop.
Recipe thresholds live in Scripts/Services/Craft/DefCooking.cs. See
skill gain.
Mechanics & numbers
Section titled “Mechanics & numbers”| Primary stat | Intelligence |
| Secondary stat | Dexterity |
| Title | Chef |
| Mastery skill | No |
| Gain notes | skill-ups can raise Dex +2, Int +3 (per-use stat gain weights) |
Cooking is a pure crafting skill — no active target. Note: poison-detection on consumables is handled by Taste Identification, not Cooking.
Related skills & synergies
Section titled “Related skills & synergies”- Fishing — primary food supply for a cook.
- Alchemy / Inscription — companion consumable crafts.
- Taste Identification — spots poison in the food you make or buy.
See also
Section titled “See also”Banner icon courtesy of uorenaissance.com.