Hey there, adventurer~!

Hope you’re having a fun and clever little life in Erinn!

April 14 is Black Day,

which is apparently the day people who didn’t get gifts on Valentine’s Day or White Day eat jajangmyeon

But hey, what’s wrong with being solo?!

You can absolutely have a great time on your own and still make it a super satisfying day!

So today, let’s make something delicious together in Erinn and spend the day well💪

Out of all the life skills out there, cooking is easily my favorite~

Before heading into a dungeon, we gather around the campfire and share a meal,

we snack together while playing instruments and chatting too,

and even before a full-on gathering session, everyone can huddle up and eat together!

There’s something so fun about hearing other adventurers around you say your food is the best,

while you fill up the bellies of the hungry👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

Out of all these dishes, there are a few I end up making all the time,

so I picked out a handful to introduce in this post!

Some foods are dishes you make to eat yourself,

and some are meals you cook for NPCs in each town who are looking for something special

So check carefully and make the dishes you need!

Let’s get everyone nice and full!

When it comes to food you share before running dungeons with other adventurers,

you probably already know the best picks are the ones in the ‘Sharing’ tab

And out of those, the most recently added dishes, ‘Gold & Silver Spicy Fish Stew’ and ‘Trout en Papillote,’

are pretty much the hottest recipes around right now!

(If your cooking level is still too low to try those,

then go with Sea Bass Spicy Fish Stew and Mackerel and Salmon Steak instead~)

When you’re taking on high-end combat content like Abyss Hell difficulty,

it’s perfect to eat something like Trout en Papillote first, since it fills your ultimate gauge all the way up,

and then follow it with something like Gold & Silver Spicy Fish Stew, which boosts your attack and defense👍

As for special Grand Feast dishes,

the materials they need are relatively hard to gather, so they’re not really something you can make often

It’s best to think of them literally as event dishes for everyone to enjoy a special cutscene together

Of course, if you’re in a situation where you can make plenty, then sure—make a bunch and eat them whenever you need!

Before we really get into cooking, we need to prep the ingredients first!

If we use Gold & Silver Spicy Fish Stew as an example, you’ll need two kinds of fish and two store-bought ingredients

You can get fish through fishing,

and each recipe calls for different fish…

plus each fishing spot has its own required fishing level

So make sure you keep fishing regularly

Once you’ve caught all the fish you need,

all that’s left are the shop ingredients, ‘radish’ and ‘red pepper powder’

If you’ve done even a little cooking already, you probably know this,

but for most cooking ingredients, each shop only lets you buy up to 30 per week

On top of that, only specific merchants sell them,

so you need to check where each ingredient is actually available.

You can buy radish from Jennifer in Bangor and Gordon in Emain Macha

Grab 30 from each NPC for a total of 60

The more often you eat a dish, the faster it disappears, so it’s better to make as much as you can,

and we definitely don’t want to end up unable to cook because we ran out of ingredients, right?

If you’re low on Gold, then it’s time to put those silver coins to work and hit the hunting grounds hard

That’s one of the fun parts of life in Erinn—everything you do connects back together

Some cooking ingredients can be gathered directly too, just like fish

If Gold is tight, grab your tools, run out to the fields, and harvest those ingredients yourself!

If you’re planning to leave gathering running for quite a while, I recommend buying and using a membership

If buying one is tough, try saving the free membership passes they sometimes hand out and use those later~

You can level your life skills faster, and the amount of materials you get also doubles, so it’s really nice😉

And here are a few more life-skill tips,

if you’re moving around from place to place while gathering, equip a Swordsman weapon

and your movement speed will go up by 10%, so you’ll be able to gather a bit faster

And if you’ve got the Mythic Rune called ‘White Crow,’ try using that too

because this rune also increases your movement speed by 10%.

That puts you at a total 20% movement speed boost, which feels crazy fast!

Also, ‘Corn Tea,’ ‘Green Tea,’ and ‘Black Tea’ increase life skill EXP gain,

so drinking one before gathering helps juuuust a little more

If you can manage it, it’s great to eat a Cotton Candy Grand Feast first and gather with the max life-skill buff active

But like I mentioned earlier, the downside is that the ingredients are hard to get

Phew!

If you worked hard to gather and buy all your materials and got everything together,

then now you can finally start cooking🎉

Food made in the Sharing tab like this should be eaten before running dungeons,

so make sure to share it with your fellow adventurers and grab those buffs!

Let’s deliver food to NPCs

Is everyone keeping up with barter every week?

Some NPCs will trade really nice items for tasty food

Let me show you the ones I make sure to exchange every single week without fail!

Osla in Emain Macha will trade 1 Meteoric Iron Ingot for 2 plates of Curry Rice

You can trade a total of two times, so if you bring 4 plates of Curry Rice, you can get 2 Meteoric Iron Ingots!

As of the date this post was written,

Meteoric Iron Ingots take the longest to make out of all metal processed goods, so definitely make this trade🔥

Next up is a barter with Del, the general store owner in Emain Macha!

You can get 1 Fine Lumber+ for 2 bowls of Pumpkin Soup~

Just like with Osla, you can trade up to two times,

so with 4 bowls of Pumpkin Soup, you can get 2 Fine Lumber+

Fine Lumber+ is also the longest-processing item among wood products

It’s one of those materials you use all the time, so make sure to trade for it

If you’ve got plenty of cooking ingredients,

I also recommend trying trades for Fine Leather+ and Deco Crafting Parts too~

Aidan in Bangor

will give you 10 Silver Alloy Ingots for 1 bowl of Sea Bass Spicy Fish Stew!

Silver Alloy Ingots are another item with a processing time of 5 whole hours,

and you can get 10 of them for just 1 bowl of Sea Bass Spicy Fish Stew…

There’s absolutely no way we can just pass that up🔥🔥🔥

Seamus of Gairech Hill

will trade 5 Excellent Bandages for 1 Shawarma

You can trade a total of three times,

so if you bring 3 Shawarmas, you can get 15 Excellent Bandages!

If you’re an adventurer who puts in work in battle too, then keeping bandages stocked is basically a must, right~

And with that~ our solo-can-still-be-fun! and helpful-for-everyone-too!

time of becoming Erinn’s top chef comes to an end!

Gather hard, cook happily, and share with everyone😋

I’m cheering you on so you can become a famous chef all across Erinn~

Then I’ll see you again next time,

bye~🖐🖐🖐