This Beer and Beginner Cooking Guide was originally written by Birdie, and was edited by me. It’s now kept current on GrumpyG. Thanks Birdie! ! I will update this Beer and Cooking Guide with any new BDO patches/changes. (Birdie currently enjoys cooking beer and feeding her hungry workers in Black Desert Online.)
Birdie’s Beer & Cooking Guide
Cooking in Black Desert Online is my favorite AFK Life Skill. It’s rewarding for a number of reasons. The biggest advantage Cooking brings, is that it rewards Contribution Points. It’s also a very easy Life Skill for beginners to BDO. Cooking ingredients are easily obtainable and it can even be profitable if done correctly. If you have a worker empire, you’ll soon find Cooking Beer to be a regular activity, unless you want to spend silver on buying Beer at the Marketplace.
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One of the first things you learn when you start investing in nodes and assigning workers, is that they get hungry (and thirsty). For BDO newbies, cooking beer is a smart choice. This worker food recovers 2 worker Stamina (aka Action Points). If you are a beginner cook, this is one of easiest worker Stamina foods you can craft. Beer is a good Stamina food to level cooking, because grains are easy to obtain and the cost per Stamina is one of the cheapest of all worker foods.BDO Beer Recipe (1 Batch of Beer) Acquired By (you may substitute 2 high-quality grains or 1 special grain or 1 high-quality + 2 white grade grains) Nodes Farming Gathering Vendor Vendor Vendor
NOTE: As of the July 18, 2018 patch, beginner cooks can make Grilled Bird Meat, which is also a good and inexpensive Stamina food for workers. Most players, who are interested in cooking, already send workers to the two Chicken Meat nodes outside of Velia, because they provide a valuable rare food of Eggs.Grilled Bird Meat Recipe: Chicken Meat x2, Deep Frying Oil x6, Cooking Wine x2, Salt x1 Chicken Meat Node List: Bartali and Finto Farms (Velia)
Grilled Bird Meat is a good worker stamina food to make. There are few uses for Chicken Meat and this is one of them. Grilled Bird Meat might not be as convenient to use because it recovers 3 Stamina instead of Beer’s 2 Stamina. For example, when you go to recover your worker stamina, a worker who only needs 2 Stamina will not automatically eat this food via the feed all workers button unless you manually force him to. Forcing him to eat it by right clicking the food icon next to his icon would forfeit the 1 extra Stamina since he only needed 2 Stamina. But Grilled Bird Meat is an awesome food to use, especially when all your workers are running on empty from a long over night work session. The critical version recovers 4 Stamina.BDO Grilled Bird Meat Recipe (1 Batch of Grilled Bird Meat) Acquired By Nodes Vendor Vendor Vendor
Step By Step Beer Making Plan
1. Gather & Stockpile grains (or Chicken Meat if making Grilled Bird Meat) 2. Purchase Residence in town 3. Purchase Cooking Utensil and Ingredients 4. Install Cooking Utensil in Residence 5. Get Cooking lots of Beer!
BDO Beer Nodes: How to Get Grain for Cooking Beer
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Grain is a must have item, for not only beer, but also many other cooking recipes. Any grain will work for making beer. BDO considers the following crops as grain: corn, wheat, and Grain NodesGrain nodes in Veila cost a minimum of 3+ Contribution Points: 2 points for the main farm node, and 1 point for each grain subnode. Each node needs 1 worker to work it and each worker requires 1 lodging. Your first worker in Veila doesn’t require lodging (he will work free, but you must feed him). So, to begin passively collecting grain on one node, you will need a minimum of 3 Contribution Points. To collect grain on 2+ grain nodes you will need to purchase lodging. You can have a total of eight workers depositing goods from 8 subnodes into your Veila storage. Please be sure there is enough space at your storage manager to hold the crops that the workers will be colllecting. You need 1 space for each type of crop.Side Note: Velia offers a maximum of 8 workers, that cost a total of 6 Contribution Points in worker lodging. But, it is possible to assign workers from other cities to nodes around Veila if those nodes are connected to the other city. If you are just beginning your Node Empire though, you will not have enough Contribution Points to do that. Worker Lodging for Veila Workers:Lodging Location Lodging Building & Room Number Number of Lodgers Contribution Cost Purchase Requirement Chain Total Collected Contribution Cost Veila Veila 1, Room 1 1 1 none 1 Veila 1, Room 2 2 1 Veila 1, Room 1 2 Veila 1, Room 3 2 1 Veila 1, Room 2 3 Toscani Farm Balenos 6-1, Toscani Farm 2 3 none 3 
Knowledge & Energy Guide for how to acquire more energy. A random Giant, Human, or Goblin worker will be offered by the Work Supervisor. Naive (gray) workers are the lowest quality and should be avoided. Without too much energy spent, you should be able to acquire a Skilled Worker (blue). If you want to save your energy, you can see what workers are being offered for sale by other players by clicking the Worker Exchange button (otherwise known as the Slave Market).
If you need help learning how to connect nodes and hire workers, please see our detailed Worker Guide and Node Guide.
Gathering Grain by Hand Grain can be actively gathered by hand near farms. Gathering takes 20 seconds for beginners who have no access to Guild buffs or gathering speed items. (2 seconds is the lowest gathering time with +5 Gathering, a shining tool, and a Serendia Special.) Each time you gather, 1 energy is used. Energy regenerates at 1 every 3 minutes while logged into the game. To increase your energy pool, work on completing Knowledge categories.
Gathering by hand, without a hoe equipped, will mostly yield weeds. Don’t vendor the weeds! They are used in Alchemy. Buy a hoe at the <Material Vendor> Zaaira in Veila, or at the Marketplace if you have enough silver. To find Zaaira, click the NPC icon in the upper right of your screen and click on the material icon. That will draw a path straight to her. Press T button to autopath. She sells Old Hoe for 55 silver, but it only has 10 durability. You will only be able to gather 10 times with it before it breaks and needs to be discarded. She also sells Improved Hoe for 50,000 silver with 30 durability. Improved Hoe shaves 10 seconds off your gathering time, but is costly.
Grain Nodes and Gathering Areas near Veila: Grain Node Main Contribution Point Cost Subnodes Subnode Contribution Cost Hand Gathering Fields Nearby Loggia Farm 2 Potato 1 Corn Potato Toscani Farm 2 Corn 1 Corn Corn 1 Bartali Farm 2 Potato 1 Potato Corn Corn also at Marino Farm nearby Finto Farm 2 Potato 1 Potato
The image below shows the location of all the Velia grain/cereal nodes you can purchase to make beer. ( I obtained the map’s background from somethinglovely.net Thanks Fam! )
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Obtaining Grain with FarmingFarming also yields grain. You need seeds and a fence to start farming. Seeds can be acquired through gathering vegetation, the Marketplace, and seed vendors. A Withered Seed, sold by vendors, is the lowest quality seed, which will not yield very good results. But the good news is that you can breed them and sometimes obtain better seeds, which produce better crops. The next tier after Withered Wheat is the normal white grade Wheat Seed, which after about 5 hours from planting, will yield an average of 70 wheat. Camelia Loggia at the Loggia Farm in Veila sells Withered Wheat Seeds for 220 silver each.
The image below shows the location Camelia Loggia, who you can purchase Withered Wheat Seed from. It also shows the location of a Small Fence vendor, Martina Finto. ( I obtained the map’s background from somethinglovely.net Thanks Fam! )
Fences are rented from NPCs with Contribution Points. When you return the fence, your Contribution Points are refunded. Each fence type has a limited number of spaces for seeds. A small fence has 4 grid spaces. Grain seeds only take up 1 space each, so you can plant 4 grain seeds in 1 small fence.Fence Rental NPC Locations & CP Costs: Fence Number of Spaces Contribution Cost Vendors That Rent Fences Vendor Location Nearest City Small Fence 4 3 Martina Finto <Node Manager> Finto Farm Veila Enzo <Node Manager> Dias Farmr Calpheon Plain Fence 7 6 Finlin <Material Vendor> Tarif Tarif Paola Toscani <Farm Vendor> Toscani Farm Veila Norma Leight <Node Manager> Northern Wheat Plantation Calpheon Mercianne Moretti <Node Manager> Moretti Plantation Heidel Mayeri <Furniture Dealer> Trent Trent Goolie Gianin <Node Manager> Gianin Farm Keplan Strong Fence 10 10 Flaviano <Material Vendor> Heidel City Heidel Geranoa <Material Vendor> Calpheon City Calpheon Lashir <Material Vendor> Altinova City Altinova Shabby Fence 1 0 Quest reward from Jemkas Wyrmsbane: Because I Like You (Requires Gathering: Beginner 7 or quest chain) Northern Guard Camp, north of Heidel Heidel Click on the Farming Icon in the upper left of your screen to assign a worker to your fence for automated weed and pest control. Weeds and pests will slow down the growth rate of your crops if not taken care of. Weeding yourself, however will increase your farming skill. With normal quality seeds (white), you can expect to gather normal quality grain, and rarely high quality crops. You can gather your crop when it’s done growing after 100%. If you decide to breed your crop, keep in mind that seeds do not stack, so have plenty of space in your inventory. Five normal quality grains = 2 high quality grains = 1 special quality grain.How Many Ingredients Should I Buy to Make Beer? Buy and gather enough ingredients for several batches of beer. For example, if you purchased the cheapest and most economical basic Cooking Utensil for 1,000 silver, you will make 100 batches of beer because this utensil has 100 durability. Therefore, you would need enough ingredients for 100 batches of beer. For 100 beer recipes, purchase: 600 Mineral Water, 200 Leavening Agent, and 100 Sugar. You will also need to gather 500 grains.
Cooking Beer Produces Extra Goodies (Witch’s Delicacy byproduct)While cooking beer, you will proc an extra dish, called Witch’s Delicacy. It is turned into the cooking vendor in Oliva for milk, beer, or CP/Cooking Experience. To easily find the NPC, right click the dish and select NPC Location. Autopath (T button) and done.
Witch’s Delicacy aka “the milk byproduct” has a 2% chance to be acquired each cook. That means every 500 recipes cooked, you can get 120 milk.
Read our guide on Witch’s Delicacy.
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