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As a Newbie [[newbie]] you will get free [[food ]] for the first 24 hours [[hour]]s of playtime (if you play 3 hours every real life day, you will have access to free food for 8 real life days) at the bistro of the starting villages[[village]]s.

You will need to forage and botanize to make your [[stew]], [[soup]], or [[casserole]]s. To do this, right-click a [[tile types|grass tile]], and select ''[[Nature ]] > [[Forage]]'' or ''[[Botanize]]''.

NOTE: A [[player ]] can do both, forage and botanize, once on the same tile every 24 hours. Any attempts past then will find nothing, so it's a good idea to find a less populated area to forage in.

== [[Pottery Bowlbowl]] ==To make your Pottery Bowl pottery bowl for cooking, you will need to first find [[clay]]. When you find a deposit Double Click double-click ([[activate]]) your [[Shovelshovel]], than Right right-click the [[Terrain:Clay|Clay Tileclay tile]] , and Select select "[[Dig]]". You will get [[Clay]], now Double clay. Now double-click your left or right [[hand than ]] then right -click and select "[[Create ]] > [[Containers ]] > Clay Bowlbowl". You will now either [[fail]], get an Unfinished Clay Bowl [[unfinished]] clay bowl, or get a Clay Bowl(finished) clay bowl. If the bowl is unfinished you will need to perform actions [[action]]s on it to finish it.

Put the (not unfinishedfinished) Clay Bowl clay bowl in a Fire the campfire (or another [[fire container]]) to finish the bowl, ; it should change colour color and be called [[Pottery Bowlpottery bowl]] once it has heated up and cured. == Combining ingredients to cook ==After finding ingredients and making a pottery bowl, before you heat up the clay bowl, put the foraged and botanized items in the bowl and put it in a campfire (please note that the food will only cook in a ''pottery'' bowl, so you may have to wait for a clay bowl to turn into a pottery bowl). If you already have a finished pottery bowl just put your food in the bowl and put it in the campfire. Note that you can add more than just one foraged or botanized item in a bowl for a larger prepared food dish. We'll cover the recipe for [[meal]] on this page as it's currently the most useful recipe.

To create a [[campfire]], first find a [[Terrain:Tree|tree]], double -click your [[hatchet and ]], right -click the tree than , then select Chop Down, keep selecting Chop Down to "[[cut down]]". Keep chopping down the same tree until the tree vanishes. Now there should be a [[log ]] or a [[felled tree ]] on the floor[[ground]]. For the felled tree , right -click than and select Chop Down to create [[logchop up]]s, to create logs. Now double -click either your hatchet or [[Carving Knifecarving knife]] than Right , right-click the log , and select "Create > Miscellaneus [[Miscellaneos]] > [[Kindling]]". Now that you have a [[Kindling]] Double kindling, double-click your [[Steel steel and Flintflint]] and , right -click the Kindling kindling, and Select: select "Create > [[Campfire]] == Combining all three things to cook ==First off you should Forage and Botanize, now create your Clay Bowl and BEFORE you heat up the Clay Bowl put the Foraged and Botanized items in the Bowl then put it in a Campfire (Please note that the food will only cook in a pottery bowl, so you may have to wait for a clay bowl to turn into a pottery bowl). If you already have a finished pottery bowl just put your food in the bowl and put it in the campfire. Note that you can add more than just one Foraged or Botanized Item in a bowl for a Larger Casserole. We'll cover the recipe for [[Meal]] on this page as it's currently the most useful recipe".

To create a meal you will need a [[Vegetables|Vegetablevegetable]] and a piece of [[Meatmeat]] or [[Fishfish]]. Heat them up to [[searing hot ]] and put them in a [[Frying Panfrying pan]], and you will have a meal. Various low-[[nutrition ]] foods like [[bread]], [[berries ]], or [[cheese ]] can be added to the frying pan to make your meal larger. QL of the meal Meal [[quality]] will , in most cases , equal your skill in [[hot food cooking]] (HFC) skill, unless you try to cook a meal with too high difficulty.

==My Why won't my hot food cooking will not (HFC) skill go up, why?==You are probably cooking too high or low difficulty food. At HFC 1, at Cooking Level 1 cook a couple of 3-5 Difficulty Foods, difficulty foods (like stews). Keep the difficulty up to 10 more than your current HFC. To check the difficulty Right Click then , right-click the container the food is in, and select "[[Examine the bowl it ]]" (which will also tell you what the food will turn out asand the container's temperature). Try cooking lots of stews at once to gain cooking skill faster.

Gaining cook skill is a mystery, although [[Rolf ]] has posted on the [[forums ]] the way it should work, what . What works for one player doesn't always work for another. Use trial -and -error to find what works best for you.

Using 1 [[cooked meat]] and 1 veggie works well until about skill HFC 30. Once you get to 30, skill gain seems to slow down and you will prolly probably only get skill for every 5-10 meals. You can also use [[corn]] as a component, which is especially nice since you can grow your own and will not have to go out search for ingredients.