Cooking

Cooking is back in Wilds and with the ability to cook your meals with ingredients from the field to get multiple buffs who will help you in your hunts.

Ingredients

Rations

Not a lot to say here, rations are gifted by Tom as the Windwards Plains base camp. If you don’t gather them, he stocks them with no apparent storage limit.

You can chose between meat to increase your attack, fish for your defense or vegetables for elemental resistance. You can cook a meal with only ration, this meal effects lasting only 50min.

Before updates, the meal duration was 30min, hence the weird duration in this screen and the followings

Additional Ingredients

Additional Ingredients allows you to add a skill among 5 with a stronger version available for each one of them. They also increase the meal effects duration by 20min, making your meal buff last 70min.

These ingredients are gifted through the story quests and secondary missions. They can also be obtained through event quests and trading with villagers. The trades are globally the same:

3 classic special items (Windward Aloe) for 3 base ingredients (Kunafa Cheese)
1 rare special item (Fine Windward Aloe) for 3 base ingredients (Kunafa Cheese)
1 unique gathering spot special item (Great Windward Aloe) for 2 rare ingredients (Sharp Kunafa Cheese)

Exemple pratique avec les Urnes des Falaises de glace et les Oeufs de Suja

To simplify and since in endgame you’re likely to only use the rarest ingredient, I’ll only cover here the rare ingredients.

The trades are limited and random everyday. You can force them to change by resting at camp, after a quest or by simply waiting a new day at dawn in game.

Sharp Kunafa Cheese

Skill:

Defender Meal (Hi) +: 25% chance of taking only 70% of an attack damage
- Independant from Divine Blessing (the game will roll the 25% from Divine Blessing then the 25% from the meal)

Trades:

[Kilama] 2 for Great Windward Aloe
[Kilama] 1 for Thundering Fulgurite

Delishroom

Skill:

Black Belt Meal (Hi): fix stamina consumption (guard, dodge) -30%
- Can be paired with Constitution with a 50% reduction cap (lvl 2 + meal)

Trades:

[Musharpeye] 2 for Bulky Treasure
[Musharpeye] 1 contre Eternal Scarlet Amber

Turbid Shrimp

Skill:

Tumbler Meal (Hi): increase your evade window by around 6 frames (equivalent to Evade Window 3)
- Can be paired with Evade Window with a lvl5 cap (lvl 2 + meal)

Trades:

[Dogard] 2 for Antimite Mass
[Yabran] 2 for Timed-honed Wylk Gem

Airy Egg

Skill:

Caprice Meal (Hi): +15 attack for 10s every 3min approx (random trigger)

Trades:

[Sekka] 2 for Large Goldenscale Vase
[Sekka] 2 for Wyvernsprout (can be rarely gathered when small monsters bodies turns into carrions after 4-5min)

Specialty Sild Garlic

Skill:

Moxie Meal (Hi): allows to survive one deadly hit with at least 65HP remaining then heals you back to 40HP

Trades:

[Len] 2 for Genesis Opale

Finishing Touches

Finishing Touches allows to chose 1 skill among 6.

If these items can be traded, you can also gather them when some gathering spots become « lucky ». This can happen during the Plenty, giving you then more ressources. Gathering spots seem to become lucky over time spent on the field, I would recommand you to do a few hunts in an area without gathering anything then go gather the lucky spots after half an hour.

Wild Herb

Skill:

Immunizer Meal: halves the duration of elemental blights

Trades:

[Musharpeye] 3 for Queensbloom Pollen (can be gathered on the rafflesies in area 7 of the Scarlet Forest during full moon nights)
[Gawdygog] 5 for 10 Ancient Wyvern Coins

Gathering:

3 randomly when gathering a lucky herb (Herb, Snow Herb, Flowfern)

Eastern Honey

Skill:

Medic Meal: +10% health back from healing items
- Can be paired with Recovery Up with a cap at 30% (lvl 2 + meal)

Trades:

[Gawdygog] 5 for 10 Ancient Wyvern Coins
[Len] 3 for Fossilized Fire Opal

Gathering:

4 guaranteed by using or capturing a Giant Vigorswap
2 randomly by gathering a lucky honey

Monster Chili

Skill:

Sizzling Meal: cancel hot and cold climates effects and +5 defense in the areas where you should have been affected

Échanges:

[Kilama] 3 for Fiery Sandpepper
[Gawdygog] 5 for 10 Ancient Wyvern Coins
[Aida] 6 for Royal Sea Pot (can be found in Gastronome Tuna who can be fished at night with a Tuff Joint Bait in the area 17 Great Lake of the Scarlet Forest, usually around agitated Starduster schools)

Gathering:

3 randomly by gathering a lucky Hot Pepper, a lucky Sandpepper (in the Windward Plains savannah) or a Wyvernsprout (rare mushroom who can be gathered when a small monster turns into a carrion after 4-5min)

Jeweled Mullet Roe

Skill:

Swimmer Meal: +3 attack when you are wet (feet in the water or oil, 20s after a roll in water, 25s after walking in oil, 50s after walking in deep oil, 1min after being hit by the Water Gun gesture, you can get hit in solo by shooting at your Palico who will shoot back, waterblight doesn’t count as being wet).

Trades:

[Musharpeye] 3 for Queensbloom Pollen (can be gathered on the rafflesies in area 7 of the Scarlet Forest during full moon nights)
[Gawdygog] 5 for 10 Ancient Wyvern Coins

Gathering:

3 guaranteed when fishing a Virid Bowfin

Wild Seed Oil

Skill:

Specialist Meal: +30 status damage on your weapon

Échanges:

[Gawdygog] 5 for 10 Ancient Wyvern Coins
[Yabran] 3 for Wylk Gem

Gathering:

3 randomly by gathering a lucky berry/seed (Nullberry, Might Seed, Armor Seed)

Truffle Du Conga

Skill:

Gatherer Meal: 25% chances of getting an additional item when gathering (affects every type of gathering (bones, ores, plants, special items, etc)

Trades:

3 for Chaliceweed (can be found in Gastronome Tuna who can be fished at night with a Tuff Joint Bait in the area 17 Great Lake of the Scarlet Forest, usually around agitated Starduster schools)

Gathering:

2 randomly when a Congalala digs up a truffle
2 randomly by fishing a Gastronome Tuna (can be fished at night with a Tuff Joint Bait in the area 17 Great Lake of the Scarlet Forest, usually around agitated Starduster schools)

Village meals

Occasionally, the inhabitants of the Forbidden Lands can invit you to a banquet. This luxurious meal pushes the meal buff to 90 minutes, gives you better stat buffs and grants a guaranteed skill unique to each village with on top of all this Insurance Meal and their village strongest ingredient skill (for instance Defender Meal (Hi) in Kunafa). These unique skills effects usually affects your rewards.

Village	Skill	Effect
Any	Insurance Meal	Grants one free cart
Kunafa	Lucky Meal	Increases quest rewards (+2)
Azuz	Carver Meal	Increases carves (random, from 1 to 3)
Sild	Capture Pro Meal	Increases capture rewards (+2)
Suja	Exploiter Meal	Increases wound destruction rewards (random, +1)

Random skills

Aside from the guaranteed skills from the Additional Ingredient and the Finishing Touch, each of these elements adds a random skill.

Talent	Effet
Rider Meal	Allows easier riding on monsters
Riser Meal	Extends the invulnerability period when getting up
Iron Carver Meal	Prevents knockbacks from attacks while carving
Escape Artist Meal	Halves stamina depletion when fleeing from large monsters
Balanced Meal	Prevents you from getting knocked on your butt (similar to Flinch Free lvl 2)
Trainer Meal	Increase Palico XP by 50% post quest
Bulldozer Meal	+7 attack for 5s after an attack bounces off a monster Doesn’t work with Mind Eye
Hardy Meal	Cancel field damage (lava, thorngrass)
Piping-Hot Meal	+33% attack when your health is under 10 HP
Break-time Meal	+15 attack for 30s after using the Sit gesture
Fortune Hunter Meal	Increases the zenny quest rewards with a random multiplier (150, 175, 200%)
Fisher Meal	Big fishes are easier to tire and can be dragged faster
Top Cat Meal	Increases the Palico attack and defense

Grand Hub

The Grand Hub introduced in Title Update 1 allows you to trade a specific Coupon to get a Village meal with a 70 minutes duration. Two kinds of coupons exists, one giving you a specific meal and the other being the Pick-a-meal Voucher.

Generic tickets can be received randomly through daily logins rewards, Limited Bounties and some event quests rewards.

The Pick-a-meal ticket can be received through:

daily login
Limited Bounties
randomly with Barrel Bowling
randomly with Arena Quests rewards
during festivals with the festival set bonus

Festivals also includes a specific Festival meal. This meal requires a Festival meal Voucher, these tickets being gifted through the same means but only during the festival. Obviously, daily logins and Limited bounties during these periods tends to give you only Festival meal Vouchers.