The Four Stations

Cooking happens at furniture you own and place yourself. The classic kitchen is four stations, each doing a different job, and most dishes pass through more than one of them — with the two brewing machines standing beside them as their own craft.

Buy them from the Cooking section of the server shop, or ask Kate — she keeps them in stock.

Station	What it does	Cost
Prep Station	Assembled meals: sandwiches, bowls, sushi, doughs	25,000
Chopping Station	Dicing and juicing raw produce	15,000
Kitchen Stove	Timed cooking: stews, fries, curries, meats	50,000
Kitchen Oven	Timed baking: breads, cakes, pastries, jellies	85,000
Drink Machine	Freeform brewing — no recipes at all; see Brewing	40,000
Alchemy Station	Potions over the same system; see Alchemy	60,000

The four cooking stations below follow recipes. The two brewing machines are a different world — they have no recipes and their own pages.

Prep Station

The kitchen island. Right-click it and it asks what you're making:

• Small Meal — a 3×3 board
• Large Meal — a 4×4 board

Both live in the same piece of furniture, so you only ever need one.

Prep recipes are shapeless: put the right ingredients anywhere on the board and the dish assembles. What you're discovering is what goes in, not where it sits.

It's still exact, though — the board has to hold the recipe's ingredients and nothing else. A stray item in a corner stops the match rather than silently getting eaten.

Let the book fill the board

Open the recipe book at a prep station, pick a recipe, and press Move Ingredients. It pulls everything straight out of your inventory onto the board in one click.

Chopping Station

The kitchen counter. One ingredient in, a processed one out — diced vegetables, juices, pastes.

Chopping is the one station with a minigame. A marker sweeps across a track and you click while it's inside the green window. Land it and the cut counts; land four and the job's done.

You always have a choice:

How	Yield	Experience
Time the cuts	Full	Full
Quick chop	Much less	Much less

The quick chop exists because timing forty cucumbers is tiring. Use it when you're processing bulk and take the timed cut when the ingredient is worth it.

A knife in your inventory raises the yield by half again — see Knives & Tools.

Kitchen Stove and Kitchen Oven

The two timed stations. Load the ingredients, start it, and wait. A floating readout above the station shows a progress bar and, depending on your Cooking level, a countdown.

Food burns

When a dish finishes it does not wait for you indefinitely. Leave it too long and it burns — you get a ruined item, or nothing at all. Stay nearby and collect it.

A higher Cooking level buys you a longer grace period, on top of a clearer timer.

Surplus is fine. A stack of flour bakes one loaf and keeps the rest, the way a furnace smelts one ore at a time — you don't have to count out exact amounts. What the station won't accept is an ingredient the recipe has no use for.

The stove handles savoury cooking: stews, soups, fried and grilled meats, curries, drinks. The oven handles everything baked: breads, cakes, pastries, ice creams and jellies. The oven is the larger investment and it holds the bulk of the high-rarity menu.

Owning a station

Stations are yours. You buy the furniture, place it wherever you like, and break it to pick it back up.

• Private by default. Only you can cook at a station you placed.
• You can open it up. Toggle a station public and anyone may use it — handy for a guild kitchen or a town square.
• Some stations are public already. Staff-placed stations around the world belong to nobody and are open to everyone. If you're not ready to buy, look for one of those.
• One cook at a time. A station in use is a station in use. Walk up to a busy oven and you'll be told to wait your turn.

That last rule matters more than it sounds, because it also applies to bots: a cooking bot has to queue for the station like anybody else, and it loses to a player.

Commands

Command	What it does
/recipes	Open your recipe book (aliases /recipe, /cookbook)