Cooking

Introduced in Build 1.260, Cooking is the final feature to be released. Cooking allows players to construct a meal by adding different amounts of 6-8 ingredients to provide an EXP gain bonus.

Video Guide for Cooking by Endorm Solor

Roro 2338’s Cooking in NGU Idle

Text Guide for Cooking

  1. For each ingredient, while other ingredients are at 0, watch the value of the meal efficiency while changing the value of the ingredient from 0 to 20. Write down any local peaks (there’s typically 1-3 values).
    • For example, if 14 cloves of garlic gives 11% meal efficiency, 15 cloves gives 13% efficiency, and 16 cloves gives 12% efficiency, 15 is a peak for garlic
  2. Compare across ingredients, you should find pairs of ingredients with the same peaks
    • With less than 8 ingredients, some ingredients may not have a pair. For these singular ingredients, just find the maximum efficiency you can obtain and keep it there.
  3. For every pair of ingredients A and B, set A to one of its peak amounts. Then cycle B from 0 to 20, looking for the highest meal efficiency value. Repeat for all peaks, until you find the highest value across all peaks. Set both ingredients to obtain the highest value.

Notes

  • Each gear equipped with Cooking special will contribute 3% to the Total Cooking Bonus
    • Gear does not consider level or boosts, Lvl 1 GRB gear is the same as maxed + green
    • The Bloody Cleaver must be in the primary (top) weapon slot to provide a bonus
    • Due to a bug, GRB legs count twice
  • For players that want to avoid having to click excessively, after clicking on the - or + button of an ingredient, hitting Space Bar will continue decrementing/incrementing the amount of an ingredient. Alternatively, some players utilize an auto-clicker.
  • It is always possible to get 100%, regardless of the number of ingredients you have
  • If a meal is ready to eat but not eaten, the timer banks 24.5 hours towards the next meal
    • Cooking unlocks with a full bank, so you can eat two meals immediately
  • Cooking has a bug that allows for players to trigger the ending without completing THE END. To replicate the bug: Click the + in for the top right ingredient, press the right arrow on your keyboard once, then press enter.

History

For years, Cooking had just been a meme stat, initially added to the GRB set as a way to nerf the specials. People would joke in the Discord about the existence of a Cooking mini-game, eventually leading to pokie’s Cooking Mini-Game Guide.