How to Maximize Your Cooking Yield

From warfare to gathering to crafting, New World has no shortage of activities where food consumables are available to buff your endeavors. The only downside is that, as implied in the category of “consumable”, these foods are of limited duration and one-time use. So what’s the best way to get more? Most will just resort to buying off of the trading post. But for the min-maxers among us who want to be New World’s next master chef and make their own, I’m here to show you the way.

Sources of Yield

Cooking Level

You gain 0.1% yield bonus for every Cooking Level.

• Level 50 = +5% yield
• Level 100 = +10% yield
• Level 150 = +15% yield
• Level 200 = +20% yield

Cooking Trophies

Your cooking trophies are limited to one per house you own, up to 3 maximum houses.

[item_house_housingitem_buff_cooking_bonus_t1]: +1000 ROLCooking — 10% extra items chance when Cooking

[item_house_housingitem_buff_cooking_bonus_t2]: +2000 ROLCooking — 20% extra items chance when Cooking

[item_house_housingitem_buff_cooking_bonus_t3]: +3000 ROLCooking — 30% extra items chance when Cooking

With three majors active, you’ll earn yourself an additional 90% yield in cooking.

Cooking Equipment

Chef’s Armor Set: +400 ROLCooking — 4% extra items chance when Cooking

Each piece of this five-piece set contributes an additional 4% yield while equipped, up to a maximum of 20% extra yield for the full set.

The individual pieces for the set can be found in the following locations:

[item_clothinghead_cheft5]: Elite Chests, located inside the Lazarus Instrumentality expedition

[item_clothingchest_cheft5]: [creature_damned_priest_named_07sm06a_elite], located in the Upper Harrow portion of Myrkguard

[item_clothinghands_cheft5]: Elite Chest/Mobs located in Ambusti Inferior POI in Shattered Mountain

[item_clothinglegs_cheft5]: [creature_dryad_prowler_named_07sm09], located in Spryla Tower in Shattered Mountain

[item_clothingfeet_cheft5]: Elite Chests/Mobs located in Ambusti Inferior POI in Shattered Mountain

Earring with [perk_perkid_earring_cook]: +400 ROLCooking — 4% extra items chance when Cooking

The [perk_perkid_earring_cook] is achievable on crafted earrings, and gear score has no influence on how effective it is. Provides an additional 4% yield, just like each piece of the Chef’s Armor set. If you intend to craft your own earring, you can use an [item_chefcharmt3], which is obtainable from crates, caches, coffers, and urns located in First Light, Brightwood, Restless Shore, and The Depths expedition.

Cooking Lifestyle Buff

[status-effect_chefspassionlsb]: +250 ROLCooking — 2.5% extra items chance when Cooking

This buff is acquired by owning a house within a territory which has the cooking lifestyle buff active. This buff costs the territory-owning company [coin_2500], and is active for 3 days after enough town board missions are completed.

It’s worth noting that the raw gold cost and opportunity costs associated with the cooking lifestyle buff make it just about useless. I recommend not taking any interest in this unless AGS applies a massive buff to it.