Trade-Skills (Cook):
This trade-skill will enable one to competently make many varieties of foods.
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Complimentary Trade-Skills: Farmer, Herbalist, Survivalist.
Minimum Awareness required to be a cook: Smell: 20, Taste: 20 and Touch: 18)
Modification-point cost: 3
Training Cost: 35 Silver.
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The lowest score of your Awareness (Smell, Taste and Touch) will be the % chance to successfully cook a food item.
Example:
If your Sense of Smell is a 19, Taste is 20, and your Touch is 18, you will have a starting 18% chance to succeed at cooking.
For each successfully cooked item you create, the % chance to successfully create another of the same recipe will increase by +1. Keep a list of each food type you cook. However, if you fail at cooking, your score will have a 30% chance of lowering by -1 point. Once you have a minimum of 70% chance, you will no longer have a chance of losing a point.
Maximum success chance: 99%
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Master Cooking:
Once you reach the "Maximum success chance" to cook a specific item, you can then add another ingredient into a recipe in an attempt to "Master Cook" it.
To Master Cook is a way to not only increase the value of the food, but its taste desirability.
If you fail to Master Cook a food item, it will be ruined (it will still be edible, but will not taste like it should).
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You will start out with a 25% chance to Master Cook a food item. For each food item you Master Cook, your % chance to Master Cook will increase by +1 (but will never have a chance of lowering, as is the case with non-mastery cooking).
Once you reach a 99% chance to Master Cook, you will have obtained full 1st Mastery.
You can then start over with a 25% chance to 2nd Master Cook a food.
Once you reach a 99% chance to 2nd Master Cook, you will have obtained full 2nd Mastery.
You can then start over with a 25% chance to 3rd Master Cook a food.
You can continue to increase your Mastery levels as high as you like (there is no limit to Master Cook).
Remember, each time you successfully Master Cook the same food, its value and taste will increase.
Master Cook maximum success chance: 99% will be the best chance to Master Cook a food item within all Mastery levels.