🔓 Unlocking the Cooking Hobby
Requirements
⭐ Why Choose Cooking First?
- • Best early-game profit — dishes sell for more than raw ingredients
- • Synergizes with Fishing & Gardening — uses ingredients you already collect
- • Passive income — dishes cook while you do other activities
💡 Missed DG5? Don't worry! You can also get Hobby Expansion Tickets at DG Level 8 and DG Level 11.
🔥 Getting Your First Stove
Free Stove from Massimo!
When you unlock the Cooking hobby, Massimo will gift you:
Placing Your Stove
- 1. Go to your home/farmhouse
- 2. Enter Build Mode (furniture icon)
- 3. Find the Stove in your inventory
- 4. Place it in your kitchen area
🏠 Expanding Your Kitchen
There's no limit to how many stoves you can have! More stoves = cook more dishes simultaneously.
Crafting Additional Stoves
Use the Stove Blueprint Massimo gave you to craft as many stoves as you need at your Crafting Table!
🏆 Recommended Kitchen Setup
💡 Pro Tip: Place stoves close together so you can quickly switch between them. Some players create a "stove wall" for maximum efficiency!
📜 Recipe Unlocks by Level
As you level up Cooking, Massimo unlocks more recipes for purchase:
| Level | Sample Recipes Unlocked |
|---|---|
| Lv.1 | Basic recipes (Toast, Scrambled Eggs, Mixed Jam) |
| Lv.2 | ☕ Coffee, 🥯 Smoked Fish Bagel |
| Lv.3 | 🍝 Seafood Risotto, 🥘 Rustic Ratatouille, 🍝 Black Truffle Cream Pasta |
| Lv.4 | More main dishes, desserts start appearing |
| Lv.5 | Advanced soups and stews |
| Lv.6-8 | Premium dishes with higher profits |
| Lv.9-10 | 🍽️ Gourmet meals — highest profit recipes! |
Other Ways to Get Recipes
- • Massimo's Gossip Quests — Complete for special recipes (e.g., Mushroom Pie)
- • Doris — Sells unique recipes like Original Roll Cake (costs Wish Stars)
- • Recipe Variants — Using different ingredients can unlock new variations
📈 Leveling Up Cooking
How Cooking XP Works
- 1 Cook dishes to fill your proficiency meter
- 2 When meter is full, you need Hobby Upgrade Tickets
- 3 Use tickets to level up and unlock new recipes
🎫 Getting Hobby Upgrade Tickets
- → Collection Point Rewards — Collect items for bonus tickets
- → DG Level Rewards — Earned at certain Developer levels
- → Events & Quests — Special rewards from activities
🚀 Fast Leveling Tips
- • Cook recipe variants — Different ingredients give bonus XP
- • Use multiple stoves — More dishes = more XP per session
- • Cook while AFK — Let dishes cook while doing other activities
- • Prioritize new recipes — First-time cooking gives extra XP
💡 Kitchen Tips & Tricks
✅ Do
- • Build 4-6 stoves for efficient batch cooking
- • Place stoves close together for easy switching
- • Stock up on ingredients from Garden and Fishing
- • Cook high-profit dishes once unlocked
- • Complete Massimo's quests for exclusive recipes
- • Try recipe variants for more XP and unlocks
❌ Don't
- • Sell raw ingredients — cook them for more profit!
- • Ignore cooking timers — collect finished dishes promptly
- • Skip low-level recipes — you need XP from everything
- • Forget about Doris — she sells unique recipes