Culinarian is a crafting discipline available to all classes from the Craft menu. Culinarians cook food for you (long, gentle buffs, pitched below the Alchemist's potion of the same band) and Pet Food — specialised meals that grow your pet's four core stats and determine its evolution path. Unlike a simple power meter, the Culinarian system works like a companion nurturing game: what you feed shapes what your pet becomes.

The Four Pet Stats

Every pet has four stats that grow from feeding. Pet Level (0–100) is derived automatically: level = floor(total stat points ÷ 5).

Pet Evolution

At level milestones your pet evolves into a new form based on its dominant stat. The form name changes how the pet is described in combat and in your pet panel.

A stat is considered dominant when it exceeds 35% of your pet's total stat points. If no stat clears that threshold the pet takes the Balanced form instead.

Culinarian Skill

Like all crafting disciplines, Culinarian has a skill from 0 to 100. Every successful cook increases your skill. Higher skill unlocks more powerful recipes.

Cooking a Meal

1. Open the Craft menu and select the Culinarian tab.
2. Recipes you meet the skill requirement for are shown in full; locked recipes appear greyed out with the required skill level.
3. Ensure you have the required gathered resources in your resource inventory.
4. Click Cook on the desired recipe. The ingredients are consumed and the pet food is added to your item inventory.

Feeding Your Pet

1. Open the Craft menu and select the Culinarian tab to cook food.
2. Open your Pet panel and click a food item to feed it. Stat gains are permanent and cumulative.
3. At level 100 the pet has reached its pinnacle and regular feeding stops — only the Tier VI Elixir of Rebirth (skill 100) can still be served, resetting the pet to be raised anew down a different path.

Meals for Adventurers

Every meal is a 30-minute buff to one stat, deliberately weaker than the Alchemist’s potion of the same skill band — a stew at skill 0 is +4% for 30 minutes against a Minor Draught’s +8% for five. Meals and potions stack: they are separate lanes and their values add. Within the food lane a stronger meal replaces a weaker one and a weaker meal is refused unspent; eating the same meal again simply restarts its timer. Eat from your bag or from the Quick Consumables panel.

Pet Food Recipes

Each food biases different stats. Higher tiers give more total stat points per feeding and level the pet faster. Tier 5 recipes require boss materials from dungeons.