Cooks turn raw game, eggs, flour and honey into meals that feed the town. The hearth is a heat-keeping game: hold the fire in the band while you add each ingredient on its cue.

Buys flour from the supplier and meat and eggs from hunters and farmers. Brewers lean on cooks for the malt bread that follows the mash.

Station
Hearth
Join fee
200 Groschen
How it plays
Tend the heat
Recipes
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Ranks

RankLevelsWhat it means
Apprentice1 to 3Open to anyone, in every craft, with no guild needed. Learn the bench and the basic recipes.
Journeyman4 to 7Needs guild membership. Quality IV opens up, and work of quality III or better carries your maker's mark.
Master8 to 10Behind a masterpiece exam set by the guild. The finest recipes, and a name the town knows.

Recipes

XP is the base reward; a better result earns more. Higher levels unlock as you rank up.

LevelRecipeNeedsMakesXP
1Hard-boiled eggsThree eggs in a pot of water. Keep it at a rolling boil.
  • 3 × Egg
3 × Hard boiled egg8
1Stewed cabbageSoft, sweet and a little smoky.
  • 1 × Cabbage
1 × Cooked cabbage8
1Roast muttonTurn it over a steady fire until the fat runs clear.
  • 1 × Mutton
1 × Cooked lamb10
2Roast boarBoar wants more heat than mutton and more patience.
  • 1 × Boar meat
1 × Cooked boar meat14
2Roast venisonLean meat: too hot and it is leather.
  • 1 × Deer meat
1 × Cooked venison14
3BreadFlour, an egg and the oven's even heat.
  • 2 × Flour
  • 1 × Egg
2 × Bread18
4Smoked boarSalted and hung in a low, smoky fire. Keeps for weeks.
  • 2 × Boar meat
  • 1 × Salt
2 × Smoked boar meat24
5Kuttenberg breadThe miners' honeyed loaf. Bakers guard the method.
  • 3 × Flour
  • 1 × Egg
  • 1 × Honey
2 × Kuttenberg bread30
6Smoked venisonA hunter's prize, cured to last the winter.
  • 2 × Deer meat
  • 1 × Salt
2 × Smoked venison36
7Smoked cheeseCold smoke and a steady hand. Too warm and it weeps.
  • 2 × Cheese
  • 1 × Salt
2 × Smoked cheese44

At the bench

A lakeshore at sunset with a small campfire among reeds and pines
The hearth. Artwork © Warhorse Studios; the banner above is an ink vectorisation of a related painting.