It would be awesome if we had a chef system for cooking, similar to expeditions/charters.
Here’s the idea (I'll use pies as an example):
- You can hire a chef for 1 gold per hour. While the chef is active in your kitchen, all cooking actions are getting done automatically (including “collect all” when meals are ready). If the timer runs out during a cook, the chef leaves, and you’ll need to perform rest actions manually.
- All meal ingredients must be in your inventory. The chef only performs the actions (they don’t gather materials)
- You still gain XP from the chef’s actions, just like manual cooking. This could be great for reaching Cooking 99.
- The chef’s timer continues regardless of whether meals are ready or not. If your ovens are empty, remain time is still consumed.
- The Faster Cooking perk does not affect the chef (Pies still take 12 hours to cook, so you would need 12 gold for a full batch)
- The number of ovens doesn’t matter. the chef works across all ovens. So 12 gold covers pies in one oven or 10 ovens.
XP Estimate Example :
With 9 ovens, one pie set, and perfect efficiency (without Faster Cooking perk), you can earn around 5.64M XP on average (Range between ~3.81M and ~7.46M XP)
So you would need approximately 212 gold for every 100M XP, or about 2,120 gold to go from level 93 to 99.
Comments
Please make it a bit cheaper than expeditions :)
Submitted on Jul 12th 2025 by Mardak