NOTE: This is a basic guide to get you started in cooking.

Hot food cooking simply means food that is combined and prepared to make a recipe. In other words, not raw ingredients, but cooked ingredients.

The items you'll need.

• Furnace (oven, forge or campfire)
• Cooking container (pottery bowl, frying pan, roasting pan, etc.)
• Ingredients
• Fuel for the furnace; any wood
• Utensils for preparing food (knife, spoon, etc.)

NOTE: You cannot use your carving knife to cut up food ingredients. You need to make a “knife”.

Add ingredients to a cooking container inside a furnace. Right click on your cooking container to see if the ingredients inside make a recipe.

Wurm Unlimited has an extensive list of recipes. Also see the Hot Food Cooking icon on the quickbar (the same button bar that has climb on it) for a list of recipes.

Meal

• Furnace (oven, forge or campfire)
  • Cooking Container
    • 1 vegetable item
    • 1 meat item

Adding ingredients makes larger meals. Preparation of ingredients in a recipe (chopping, roasting, etc.; also adding salt) increases the duration of a meal's affinity timer. QL (quality level) is determined by your skill as well as the QL of the ingredients used.

One of the best survival foods is kielbasa. It lasts a long time, gives decent nutrition, and the ingredients are easy to come by. You don't have to know the recipe, just make one and you'll learn the recipe.

Kielbasa

• Furnace (oven, forge, campfire)
  • No cooking container, put kielbasa directly in furnace
    • Bladder and knife to make a sausage skin, put the below ingredients inside
      • 1 meat chopped twice with knife to make minced meat
      • 1 garlic chopped once with knife
      • 1 fat

You can forage for garlic and plant it to start accumulating garlic. You can also find garlic growing at abandoned settlements around the map. Kill creatures to acquire meat. Only certain creatures drop fat and bladders.

Once you've made some sausage skins with your bladders you'll have some smaller bladder pieces left over. Do not throw these away. You can put the bladder pieces in a container to recombine them.