Cooking Skill

Adds a dedicated Cooking profession by separating culinary progression from Agriculture.

If and when the dev creates an actual skill for Cooking, this mod will either adapt or become redundant, and I'll just archive it.

I'm no artist, I'm just a logic-code tinkerer. Therefore I have re-used already in-game icons for the recipes and buffs. If you would like to collaborate and create some awesome pixel art assets so the buffs and recipes become unique, that would be awesome! Let me know if interested.

Installation

Extract to: Soulash 2/data/mods/

What does Cooking add?

Cooking introduces a full 1–50 Cooking profession, separating prepared food and drink from Agriculture. As you improve, you unlock new meals, baking, preserves, drinks, advanced dishes, useful food buffs, and profession-specific passives.

The mod adds 50 new recipes alongside existing Soulash 2 cooking recipes moved into the new Cooking progression.

What trainers to talk to for Skill points for Cooking

Cooking trainers can commonly be found among Bakers, Millers, Foragers, Hunters, Fishers, and Innkeepers. Some Brewers and Winemakers can also teach Cooking.

A few progression highlights

• Level 2 — Scrambled Eggs

An early basic meal using Chicken Eggs and Cow Milk.

• Level 5 — Porridge

A simple filling meal made from milk, strawberries, and wheat.

• Level 10 — Cauldron & Oven

Unlocks the core cooking stations needed for more advanced recipes.

• Level 18 — Wheat Beer & Dwarven Beer

Prepared beverages become part of the Cooking profession.

• Level 25 — Brewer's Hand

15% chance to produce +1 additional crafted beverage.

• Level 28 — Gingerbread

Grants +2 Thorns for 600 turns.

• Level 30 — Jam

Grants +3 Regeneration for 600 turns.

• Level 32 — Baked Fish

Grants +1 Endurance and +1 Willpower for 600 turns.

• Level 34 — Shepherd's Pie

Grants +2 flat damage for 600 turns.

• Level 35 — Extra Food

25% chance to produce +1 additional crafted food.

• Level 39 — Dark Spiced Pie

Grants +2 Intelligence for 600 turns.

• Level 41 — Hunter's Stew

Heals 5–10 HP immediately and grants +1 Sight for 600 turns.

• Level 43 — Lumberjack's Pot

Grants +10% damage for 600 turns.

• Level 45 — Trusted Cook

Grants a +10% selling bonus to prepared foods and beverages.

• Level 46 — Cutlet of Clarity

Grants +3 Intelligence and +3 Willpower for 600 turns.

• Level 50 — Goulash

A mastery-level meal granting +3 Strength, +3 Dexterity, and +3 Endurance for 600 turns.

More than just these recipes

Cooking also adds breads, soups, pies, cakes, jams and preserves, mushroom dishes, roasts, stews, monster-meat recipes, fruit dishes, and late-game meals such as Ground Jelly Custard and Elven Ear Fricassee.

The intent is to make Cooking feel like a complete profession rather than a small branch of Agriculture.