Skill increase occurs per item cooked - regardless of its weight or for how long it cooked. Warming up canned food, however, does increase cooking skill. This excludes melting and boiling water, or warming up food that has already been cooked. Players can increase their cooking skill by cooking any food or drink item. Food cooked in a cooking pot will take 20% longer to burn compared to food cooked directly by the fire or in a recycled can. Recycled cans and cooking pots will degrade if food is burnt. Burnt food items are unusable and will disappear when picked up. A fire that briefly goes out pauses the cooking process if the fire is quickly relit, cooking will resume without an additional penalty.įood left on an active fire after it is finished cooking will burn after a set amount of time.
If meat is removed from the fire or stove before cooking is complete, the food is still considered raw, and it will require the full cooking time if cooking is resumed at a later point.
Obtained by cooking raw black bear meat harvested from a black bear carcass Obtained by cooking raw wolf meat harvested from a wolf carcass Obtained by cooking raw venison harvested from a deer carcass
Obtained by cooking raw rabbit meat harvested from a Rabbit carcass Players can obtain raw meat from harvesting rabbits, wolves, deer, bears, and moose.