Cooking in Where Winds Meet isn’t just about staying alive—it’s a way to truly experience the game’s world. You’ll need to explore and engage with everything around you to find ingredients, learn new recipes, and even encounter new challenges. All of this helps you level up your abilities and become a more formidable fighter.
Cooking lets you make food that recovers health and gives you temporary advantages in battles. Our guide below has everything you need to learn about recipes and becoming a skilled cook.
How To Cook
In Where Winds Meet, learning to cook requires first unlocking recipes, even if you already know what they are. Each recipe has specific requirements you need to meet before you can use it – you’ll find a list of these in the table below. You start the game with one recipe already unlocked, but after that, you’ll need to gather ingredients to make your meals.
You’ll need ingredients like meat and mushrooms, which are generally easy to find nearby. If you’re missing something for a recipe, you can explore the map to find places where you can gather, fish, or hunt for it.
If you prefer to buy ingredients directly instead of searching for them, you can find a merchant through the same system on the cooking screen.
Once you’ve gathered all the necessary ingredients, simply go to a campfire with a spit or pot nearby. This will open a cooking menu where you can prepare dishes. Some recipes offer minor healing, while others create powerful buffs like increased attack strength. You can also use the menu to find help with ingredients if you’re missing anything.
Recovery Dish Recipes
In Where Winds Meet, you can make two kinds of meals. Some meals slowly restore your health, while others give you temporary boosts. Right now, there are 13 different recipes for health-restoring meals.
| Meal | Cooking Level | Ingredients | Effect | Stamina | How To Unlock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veggie Mix | 1 |
2 Herbs 2 Mushrooms | Restores 4,500 HP over 3 seconds. | 2 | Available straight away. |
| Divine Stuffed Fish | 1 |
1 River Fish 2 Herbs 1 Wild Fruits | Restores 4,5000 HP over 3 seconds. | 2 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
| Hotpot | 1 |
2 Herbs 2 Meat Scraps | Restores 4,500 HP over 3 seconds. | 2 | Complete Exploration – Culinary: The Flavor of Sunset Glow. |
| Savory Roast | 20 |
2 Herbs 3 Prime Meat Cut | Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds. | 3 | Complete Exploration – Culinary: The Flavor of Sunset Glow. |
| Egg-Steamed Clams | 20 |
2 Eggs 2 Meat Scraps 1 Mushrooms | Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds. | 3 | Complete Exploration – Culinary: The Flavor of Sunset Glow. |
| Fish-Stuffed Lotus Pods | 20 |
1 River Perch 2 Mushrooms 2 Wild Fruits | Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds. | 3 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
| Sliced Fish Fillet | 20 |
2 Snakehead 3 Herbs | Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds. | 3 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
| Steamed Pork | 41 |
3 Herbs 1 Prime Meat Cut | Restores 22,500 HP over 3 seconds. | 4 | Obtain the Meow Meow Temple Shop – Kaifeng |
| Wine Mushrooms | 41 |
3 Mushrooms 3 Meat Scraps | Restores 22,500 HP over 3 seconds. | 4 | Obtain the Meow Meow Temple Shop – Kaifeng |
| Mushroom-Steamed Fish | 41 |
2 Luokou Croaker 3 Mushrooms | Restores 22,500 HP over 3 seconds. | 4 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
| Steamed Egg Custard | 61 |
3 Wild Fruits 2 Eggs | Restores 39,000 HP over 3 seconds. | 5 | Unlock The Thirteenth Chambers. |
| Mock Clam Fish | 61 |
2 Mandarin Fish 2 Wild Fruits | Restores 39,000 HP over 3 seconds. | 5 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
| Braised Fish Head | 61 |
2 Bighead Carp 3 Herbs | Restores 39,000 HP over 3 seconds. | 5 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
As the table shows, preparing any dish uses some stamina. Keep this in mind when making large batches of food.
Buff Food Recipes
As a big fan of cooking in Where Winds Meet, I’ve noticed there aren’t as many recipes that give you helpful buffs as in some other games, but the ones that do are still really useful! Plus, they’re easy to find – they show up right next to the regular recipes when you’re cooking. Right now, there are six different kinds of buff-giving foods you can learn.
These meals don’t stack, meaning only one buff effect can be active at a time.
| Meal | Cooking Level | Ingredients | Effect | Stamina | How To Unlock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crisp Carp Noodles | 20 |
1 Golden Carp 2 Beauty’s Garment 2 Mushrooms | Increases Max HP by 1,100 for 30 minutes (reusing refreshes the duration). Inactive during Trials and does not increase Martial Mastery. | 8 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
| Rotisserie Venison | 20 |
2 Bai Zhu 1 Deer Meat 2 Eggs | Increases Physical Attack by 10-20 for 30 minutes (reusing refreshes the duration). Inactive during Trials and does not increase Martial Mastery. | 8 | Unlock The Thirteenth Chambers. |
| Crispy Pheasant | 41 |
2 Lethal Frog Meat 2 Mushrooms 1 Vicious Flower | Increases Physical Attack by 20-40 for 30 minutes (reusing refreshes the duration). Inactive during Trials and does not increase Martial Mastery. | 8 | Complete Encounter – Culinary Successor. |
| Venison Soup | 41 |
2 Wild Ginseng 1 Venison 3 Herbs | Increases Max HP by 2,300 for 30 minutes (reusing refreshes the duration). Inactive during Trials and does not increase Martial Mastery. | 8 | Unlock The Thirteenth Chambers |
| Double Shreds | 61 |
2 Great Bustard Meat 1 Wei’s Purple Peony 1 River Fish | Increases Physical Attack by 50-100 for 30 minutes (reusing refreshes the duration). Inactive during Trials and does not increase Martial Mastery. | 8 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
| Pufferfish Soup | 61 |
2 Jade Tower Peony 1 Pufferfish 2 Wild Fruits | Increases Max HP by 5,600 for 30 minutes (reusing refreshes the duration). Inactive during Trials and does not increase Martial Mastery. | 8 | Have a fishing contest. Start fishing by finding Chu Shuiyang by the water in Verdant Wilds. |
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