Cooking Guide

Wuthering Waves features a cooking system that allows players to cook various dishes that can be used for recovering HP or applying buffs that lasts for a while. Thankfully, cooking in the game isn't that tedious and there's even no way that you'll mess up any cooking attempt. In this page, we will quickly discuss how the game's cooking system works and why you should take advantage of it.

Cooking System Overview

You don't really have to go crazy with cooking as it is a permanent feature in the game but it's highly recommended to have some healing and buffing dishes ready at your disposal especially before and during combat. There's also one Daily Activity that requires you to at least cook one dish so you can just do the bare minimum and cook only whenever you have this activity available for some easy points.

Cooking can be done at designated points around the game world. There's also no specific tools or abilities to unlock this feature; it's available for you from the get-go. You can use the kitchen in Panhua's eatery back in the city and other cooking points scattered around the map. They're not marked on the map itself (except for the eatery in the city) but you will see a cooking icon when you're near them so it will be hard to miss. There are cooking points even in hostile areas so use them as necessary during your exploration.

Cooking in the game is very simple and straightforward as well. As long as you know the recipe and you have the required ingredients, you just need to select the dish you want and you'll get the dish itself. If you have selected a Cooking Assistant (see below), you might even get a better version of that dish or extra serving for the same amount of ingredients.

Cooking Assistant

There are certain dishes which you can select specific characters as Cooking Assistants. Upon cooking the dish with the designated Cooking Assistant selected, you might get a special dish or earn higher proficiency points.

Thankfully, you don't need to go through each of your dishes and manually check which characters can be used as a cooking assistant. If you look at the top-right corner of the screen, where the Rover's face is displayed along with the description of the dish, the "switch" icon should be "pulsing", as seen from the screenshot below:

Chef Level

Every dish you cook will award you with Proficiency. Earn enough proficiency points and you'll increase your Chef Level, which unlocks new recipes and awards you with Astrite, Shell Credits, and other items. You can view your Chef Level by clicking the button of the same name in the upper-left corner of the main cooking screen.

Apprentice

A title award to those who pick up the kitchen knife and start the journey as a cook. A symbol of every cook's original wish.

Required Proficiency: 500

Rewards:

Astrite x50

Spicy Pulled Chicken Recipe

Refreshment Tea Recipe

Medium Resonance Potion x3

Shell Credit x10000

Assistant Chef

A title awarded to those chefs who mastered the basic cooking skills. Proof of a strider on the long path of cookery.

Required Proficiency: 1500

Rewards:

Astrite x50

Poached Chicken Recipe

Spicy Meat Slices Recipe

Medium Energy Core x3

Shell Credit x10000

Sous Chef

A title awarded to those chefs who can already work without instructions. Many only make it here.

Required Proficiency: 3000

Rewards:

Astrite x50

Rising Loong Recipe

Shuyun Herbal Tea Recipe

Advance Resonance Potion x5

Shell Credit x20000

Head Chef

A title awarded to master chefs who deserve their place in the hall of fame for both their art and their character.

Required Proficiency: 6000

Rewards:

Astrite x50

Jinzhou Maocai Recipe

Candied Caltrops Recipe

Advanced Energy Core x5

Shell Credit x20000

Top Chef

A rare title awarded to limited chefs only, whose works reflect not only the best of flavors but the feelings of life.