1. Thanks to Mackenzie here (and a few others) for pointing out I read the wrong label on the Boiled Spinach and you don't actually make money here... bad example, but there are plenty that do make you money! Just, not Spinach... 2. Random632 on Reddit pointed out that I didn't fully upgrade my Shipping Box in this video, so I could have actually doubled the Sale Value... oops, my bad. But that does mean 720 million is actually the most you can get. 3. Also, forgot to mention that, if you didn't know, the random items in stores reset if you reload your game, so if you really want to cook something, but Blossom doesn't have the item restocked, you can save and reset. 4. Always make sure your RP cost of a dish isn't above your maximum, or you'll fail!!
I can't believe I forgot to mention this. I saw this on a Japanese wiki a few months ago and it surprised the crap out of me, but when you give an NPC a food item from the "loved" category the negative buffs are inverted to positive and the effect is increased by a factor of 2.0 This means you can lace something like Curry Udon with 4 disastrous dishes and give it to Vishnal to literally triple his base stats. I did the Vishnal Challenge a while back, gave him amazing gear with a White Stone, equipped a Sun Pendant and gave him that dish, then just stood back and let him wreck everything. Not every NPC has a loved item with so many free slots, but the ones that do can be very broken.
After I saw your comment, I gave Vishnal and Dylas fav foods laced with fail dishes. These duo instantly became monsters in Sharanze Maze level 1000. It only took 2-3 hits to kill normal boss monsters.
With this method Amber is the most broken NPC in the game. Even at her base level with top tier equipment (white stone, Sun Pendant equipped, Water Pot build) and food I can get her M.ATK to 83k. If her Water Pot has a bit of range enhancement she can nuke the entire screen. It’s hilarious.
I've always loved using Blossom's shop to buy ingredients, cook them to increase my cooking, sell them in my shop to earn money and increase my barter skill in a huge profit cycle. There are just so many ways to play this game, and they're all really fun. Side note: pharmacy output level is determined by total item level divided by the original number of ingredients in the recipe, which is really broken. You can make most things level 10 without really trying that hard since, unlike cooking, it doesn't divide them by how many total ingredients you choose to put in, only the amount it's supposed to have. I've definitely cheekily used that to get level 10 items early on for tier bonus to break the game. I like to mass-produce and store boiled pumpkin with object x and roundoff, so that I can eat one in the morning to benefit from my talisman without having to be sealed before I have resistance to that. I also recently found out you can put two antidotes and two para-gones in something and proceed to tame hornets early on without them crippling you with statuses. Cooking is so neat. Thanks for the video!
Oh, didn't know how that was calculated - so that should mean just chucking in one Lv10 item into any one item recipe should automatically create a Lv 10 result? Super easy; thanks for letting me know!
Thank you very much for the video! Turnip seed is the most overpowered thing in this game I swear, costs 10G, can help make good early-mid game weapon, can double the profits of selling cooked food and increase buffs of said food for personal use lol. I believe high level cooked food makes even more profit if one opts out to sell it in the shop instead of shipping. Looking forward to the builds video, happy holidays!
Yeah, selling stuff in the shop gives you so much more profit!! I've never bothered to investigate that quite so much (it'd be really hard to figure that out without going into testing...) but yeah if you just want to make a whole lot for one thing, the shop is the way to go!
Thanks for these tutorials and guides bro! Been watching since the first video and reviewing especially the weapons and crafting stuff. Still a bit confused but Very comprehensive and easy to understand if I just push my brain cells enough lol. Hoping for the staves of staffs guide cuz i wanna build one for my dolce!
your RF4S videos are SOO well done!!! the presentation, the way you speak so eloquently, lots of great knowledge!!! thank you and keep up the great job 🤗
When I first started playing, I didn't know what the bread was for and I kept cooking with it and failed. I had to look it up how to learn cooking. Obviously I have experimented with ingredients, not paid attention to my RP and died. :'D
I actually discovered the 'buy-cook-profit' trick two days ago; I'd add that it's also an /excellent/ way to raise your cooking and pharmacy skills (there's a few pharmacy recipes that are break-even or better - currently skilling off of Mystery Potion) - I've gone from level 30 cooking to level 85, making money the whole time (enough to easily cover the costs of a couple bathhouse trips, or of eating some of my produce for RP regen). My favorite recipe is one you haven't listed: Corn on the Cob is good skill, decent profit, and has the advantage of being a single-ingredient recipe, making it super easy to mass-buy the ingredients for. It's taken me all the way up to Pineapple Juice, which I'll prolly switch to as soon as I get the recipe (the profit on pineapple juice isn't great, but I have a ton of them in my fridge...). Thanks again for all the great vids!
Thanks for this video, I'm selling a lot in my shop at much higher prices than the shipping box gives eg a sell 10k pizza I can sell for 14k+ it takes some time but tourists and soldiers are frequent due to advertising. My bartering skill is only 24 but increasing quickly. I'm gonna stock up on turnip seeds lol. Thank you
Thank yu for the guides! Very easy to understand and very insightful 😁 even after playing RF4 on 3ds and Switch I didn't know half this stuff picking it up on pc last week. 500+ hours and I'd never add extra stuff to recipes 🤣🤣 my poor weapons in the past.. Anyway if yu ever make a video just showing how yu make optimal gear for Rune Prana I'd love to watch. I'm stuck on floor 7 atm.. Stupid elemental fairies 🤣🤣
If it's just that one specific room, your best bet is probabably to try and get Faint Res from... probably the Moon Eye Shadow Long Sword if you can make it. If not that, even the Dancing Dicer should do (and it's early enough you may be able ot make it without Long Sword skill) - these weapons have a chance to inflict Faint, and those enemies are susceptible to Faint!
Learned a lot watching this. Cooking arbitrage! I've seen ppl make references to "turnip seeds" before but had no idea what they meant. Also I need to pay attention to stat boosting foods!
Do the Chemistry values on Tokenx's Profit spreedsheet seem to be off? For one they don't seem to realize getting level 10 in Chemistry is easier than in Cooking, but the sell values scale differently anyway.
To be honest I didn't actually check those out in detail, so I'm not entirely 100% sure how much profit you'll make - though in any case, it should be far less profitable than cooking anyways. Regardless, thinking on it more between that, and a few other things, there may be enough to make a short Chemistry video...
For pure money, you can just add high level ingredients/turnip seeds, which you can level up with Greenifier or Sickles. Once you sell one once, you can buy more for 10G each from Blossom/Doug. Otherwise, yeah, just cook, bascially.
@@dreamingsuntide1 Thankyou so much for your reply!! 'Once you sell one once, you can buy more for 10G each from Blossom/Doug' what do you mean by this? Starting from Level 1 Crops, do we leave them be until the crop level up to level 2 only then we use our sickle ? I have Iron sickle, but so far i can only get level 2 seeds! I use the magnifying glass but its hard to understand how it works >< Would you mind sharing good location to mine for Silver ores? I just defeated Dolly boss. Are we able to look for Gold ores as well? Any recommended village candidates for party? I have been going with Forte and Arthur but for some reason Arthur has been declining my invite :( and cant seem to figure it out why thankyou once again for the guide!!
Fantastic video as always, thank you suntide! Hope your holidays are going very well and that you're enjoying them. Happy to wait for the next video until after the new year. =] Imbuing dishes with status heals and stat gains using extra ingredients is amazing knowledge, thank you so much! Though, hang on.. I'm not sure I understand this part. Buying a level 10 spinach for 300G doesn't make a profit. The buy price for a boiled spinach is 1,020G yes, but the sell price (from shipping) is only 285G, which is a net loss of 15G. You do earn a bit of cooking exp from it though! Many dishes you do gain a profit from cooking after buying raw, but I don't believe spinach is one of them. Also, how does one create a Disastrous Dish?
dishes at higher level sell for alot more. You can add high-level ingredients (anything as long it's high level) to increase the overall level of the dish, people tend to add lv10 turnip seed (which is 10g each) to increase the level but it's extra annoying cuz seeds take up inventory/fridge space, it's just way better to grow every crop/flower seed to level 10 yourself (take like 1 season at most, excluding ones that take extra long to grow ie winter crops) with sickle/greenifier+/formulas Imo, buying straight from the store is only worth for gold veggies (cuz they take a bit longer to grow), for bellow that it's better to grow the ingredient yourself esp for crops that regrow like strawberry, eggplant, tomato, pineapple ... disastrous dish is just critical fail of cooking (mass cook onigiri with anything aside from rice would prob the fastest way to get those)
@@tranvu3578 Yeah, I try to stick to things I can cook directly into level 10 for the triple sale price tag - at least for now. I'm sure once I'm passed being super super early Act 2 levelling up the more complex recipes will prove to be much more beneficial. I was aware of how it works and the turnip seed trick and all that though haha
@@Mackenzie89 well since you're growing turnip seed to level 10 already might as well grow other seeds to level 10 too. imo, the turnip seed trick is mainly used to push relax tea/rare fish dishes level, cuz by the time you get turnip seed to level 10 you can prob grow most non-winter crops to pretty high levels as well which make the turnip seed trick less effective. Also complex dishes means you have fewer or no extra slot for turnip seed. I forgot to talk about your original question but yeah only some "1 ingredient" dishes (aside from gold veggie) are worth buying lv10 crop directly from the store (eggplant/pineapple/pumpkin/corn...) and spinach is def not one of them. The idea is correct but he just happen to choose a bad example.
Yeah early game it's probably best to cook whatever's highest skill level that you can reliably make, which usually tends to be whatever needs just one item!
Think there are threeish ways you can make pineapple juice: 1. Get cooking bread+ from beating Sharance maze and hope you roll pineapple juice 2. Get the recipe from somewhere in game. Think in Rune Prana there's a chest that teaches you it? 3. Drink some high level Relax Tea to boost your RP. That might give you enough RP to make pineapple juice without the recipe.
@@dreamingsuntide1 I haven’t made it to sharance maze or Rune prana yet. But I’ve tried the 3rd one a lot and it’s somewhat close. I’ve even wore the Knit Scarf hoping that’d help a bit as well and no luck sadly. But thanks for the reply! Love the vids
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1. Thanks to Mackenzie here (and a few others) for pointing out I read the wrong label on the Boiled Spinach and you don't actually make money here... bad example, but there are plenty that do make you money! Just, not Spinach...
2. Random632 on Reddit pointed out that I didn't fully upgrade my Shipping Box in this video, so I could have actually doubled the Sale Value... oops, my bad. But that does mean 720 million is actually the most you can get.
3. Also, forgot to mention that, if you didn't know, the random items in stores reset if you reload your game, so if you really want to cook something, but Blossom doesn't have the item restocked, you can save and reset.
4. Always make sure your RP cost of a dish isn't above your maximum, or you'll fail!!
I can't believe I forgot to mention this. I saw this on a Japanese wiki a few months ago and it surprised the crap out of me, but when you give an NPC a food item from the "loved" category the negative buffs are inverted to positive and the effect is increased by a factor of 2.0 This means you can lace something like Curry Udon with 4 disastrous dishes and give it to Vishnal to literally triple his base stats. I did the Vishnal Challenge a while back, gave him amazing gear with a White Stone, equipped a Sun Pendant and gave him that dish, then just stood back and let him wreck everything. Not every NPC has a loved item with so many free slots, but the ones that do can be very broken.
Wow, I didn't know that, that's actually amazing!
After I saw your comment, I gave Vishnal and Dylas fav foods laced with fail dishes. These duo instantly became monsters in Sharanze Maze level 1000. It only took 2-3 hits to kill normal boss monsters.
With this method Amber is the most broken NPC in the game. Even at her base level with top tier equipment (white stone, Sun Pendant equipped, Water Pot build) and food I can get her M.ATK to 83k. If her Water Pot has a bit of range enhancement she can nuke the entire screen. It’s hilarious.
@@rainbow-chan6468wow this is very interesting thank you for sharing. I'll definetly will try this out sounds like a lots of fun lol
I've always loved using Blossom's shop to buy ingredients, cook them to increase my cooking, sell them in my shop to earn money and increase my barter skill in a huge profit cycle. There are just so many ways to play this game, and they're all really fun.
Side note: pharmacy output level is determined by total item level divided by the original number of ingredients in the recipe, which is really broken. You can make most things level 10 without really trying that hard since, unlike cooking, it doesn't divide them by how many total ingredients you choose to put in, only the amount it's supposed to have. I've definitely cheekily used that to get level 10 items early on for tier bonus to break the game.
I like to mass-produce and store boiled pumpkin with object x and roundoff, so that I can eat one in the morning to benefit from my talisman without having to be sealed before I have resistance to that. I also recently found out you can put two antidotes and two para-gones in something and proceed to tame hornets early on without them crippling you with statuses.
Cooking is so neat. Thanks for the video!
Oh, didn't know how that was calculated - so that should mean just chucking in one Lv10 item into any one item recipe should automatically create a Lv 10 result? Super easy; thanks for letting me know!
If only Jones stops raking half my early income shoild i pass out in the wilderness.
Thank you very much for the video!
Turnip seed is the most overpowered thing in this game I swear, costs 10G, can help make good early-mid game weapon, can double the profits of selling cooked food and increase buffs of said food for personal use lol. I believe high level cooked food makes even more profit if one opts out to sell it in the shop instead of shipping.
Looking forward to the builds video, happy holidays!
Yeah, selling stuff in the shop gives you so much more profit!! I've never bothered to investigate that quite so much (it'd be really hard to figure that out without going into testing...) but yeah if you just want to make a whole lot for one thing, the shop is the way to go!
Thanks for these tutorials and guides bro! Been watching since the first video and reviewing especially the weapons and crafting stuff. Still a bit confused but Very comprehensive and easy to understand if I just push my brain cells enough lol. Hoping for the staves of staffs guide cuz i wanna build one for my dolce!
your RF4S videos are SOO well done!!! the presentation, the way you speak so eloquently, lots of great knowledge!!! thank you and keep up the great job 🤗
I love the video. The format is amazing, super easy to understand and very informative! Thanks for the effort.
When I first started playing, I didn't know what the bread was for and I kept cooking with it and failed. I had to look it up how to learn cooking. Obviously I have experimented with ingredients, not paid attention to my RP and died. :'D
I actually discovered the 'buy-cook-profit' trick two days ago; I'd add that it's also an /excellent/ way to raise your cooking and pharmacy skills (there's a few pharmacy recipes that are break-even or better - currently skilling off of Mystery Potion) - I've gone from level 30 cooking to level 85, making money the whole time (enough to easily cover the costs of a couple bathhouse trips, or of eating some of my produce for RP regen).
My favorite recipe is one you haven't listed: Corn on the Cob is good skill, decent profit, and has the advantage of being a single-ingredient recipe, making it super easy to mass-buy the ingredients for. It's taken me all the way up to Pineapple Juice, which I'll prolly switch to as soon as I get the recipe (the profit on pineapple juice isn't great, but I have a ton of them in my fridge...).
Thanks again for all the great vids!
All of your guides help me a lot! Tysm 😊
That was informative. Ty
Thanks for this video, I'm selling a lot in my shop at much higher prices than the shipping box gives eg a sell 10k pizza I can sell for 14k+ it takes some time but tourists and soldiers are frequent due to advertising. My bartering skill is only 24 but increasing quickly.
I'm gonna stock up on turnip seeds lol. Thank you
Thank yu for the guides!
Very easy to understand and very insightful 😁 even after playing RF4 on 3ds and Switch I didn't know half this stuff picking it up on pc last week.
500+ hours and I'd never add extra stuff to recipes 🤣🤣 my poor weapons in the past..
Anyway if yu ever make a video just showing how yu make optimal gear for Rune Prana I'd love to watch. I'm stuck on floor 7 atm.. Stupid elemental fairies 🤣🤣
If it's just that one specific room, your best bet is probabably to try and get Faint Res from... probably the Moon Eye Shadow Long Sword if you can make it. If not that, even the Dancing Dicer should do (and it's early enough you may be able ot make it without Long Sword skill) - these weapons have a chance to inflict Faint, and those enemies are susceptible to Faint!
@@dreamingsuntide1 mwuhaha Ty! I beat them and got Venti back 🤣🤣 now onto trying to get that Ship Every Item achievement!
@@xAnimaniac Congrats!!
Thanks prof 👍👍
Learned a lot watching this. Cooking arbitrage! I've seen ppl make references to "turnip seeds" before but had no idea what they meant. Also I need to pay attention to stat boosting foods!
Why is this man so cute
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Is there any benefit to using another cooked dish as an ingredient?
Do the Chemistry values on Tokenx's Profit spreedsheet seem to be off? For one they don't seem to realize getting level 10 in Chemistry is easier than in Cooking, but the sell values scale differently anyway.
To be honest I didn't actually check those out in detail, so I'm not entirely 100% sure how much profit you'll make - though in any case, it should be far less profitable than cooking anyways. Regardless, thinking on it more between that, and a few other things, there may be enough to make a short Chemistry video...
Note: don't outside when.. You put on inside your room. No space outside.
whats the easiest way to level up the seed level/dish? i just started out and confused how to earn money in early game :(
For pure money, you can just add high level ingredients/turnip seeds, which you can level up with Greenifier or Sickles. Once you sell one once, you can buy more for 10G each from Blossom/Doug. Otherwise, yeah, just cook, bascially.
@@dreamingsuntide1 Thankyou so much for your reply!!
'Once you sell one once, you can buy more for 10G each from Blossom/Doug' what do you mean by this?
Starting from Level 1 Crops, do we leave them be until the crop level up to level 2 only then we use our sickle ? I have Iron sickle, but so far i can only get level 2 seeds! I use the magnifying glass but its hard to understand how it works ><
Would you mind sharing good location to mine for Silver ores? I just defeated Dolly boss.
Are we able to look for Gold ores as well?
Any recommended village candidates for party? I have been going with Forte and Arthur but for some reason Arthur has been declining my invite :( and cant seem to figure it out why
thankyou once again for the guide!!
Fantastic video as always, thank you suntide! Hope your holidays are going very well and that you're enjoying them. Happy to wait for the next video until after the new year. =]
Imbuing dishes with status heals and stat gains using extra ingredients is amazing knowledge, thank you so much!
Though, hang on.. I'm not sure I understand this part. Buying a level 10 spinach for 300G doesn't make a profit. The buy price for a boiled spinach is 1,020G yes, but the sell price (from shipping) is only 285G, which is a net loss of 15G. You do earn a bit of cooking exp from it though! Many dishes you do gain a profit from cooking after buying raw, but I don't believe spinach is one of them.
Also, how does one create a Disastrous Dish?
Pretty sure Disastrous Dish is the Scrap Metal+ of cooking, just keep failing Failed Dishes until you get it.
dishes at higher level sell for alot more. You can add high-level ingredients (anything as long it's high level) to increase the overall level of the dish, people tend to add lv10 turnip seed (which is 10g each) to increase the level but it's extra annoying cuz seeds take up inventory/fridge space, it's just way better to grow every crop/flower seed to level 10 yourself (take like 1 season at most, excluding ones that take extra long to grow ie winter crops) with sickle/greenifier+/formulas
Imo, buying straight from the store is only worth for gold veggies (cuz they take a bit longer to grow), for bellow that it's better to grow the ingredient yourself esp for crops that regrow like strawberry, eggplant, tomato, pineapple ...
disastrous dish is just critical fail of cooking (mass cook onigiri with anything aside from rice would prob the fastest way to get those)
@@theicycharmander3324 I wonder if there's an Object X+ /jk
@@tranvu3578 Yeah, I try to stick to things I can cook directly into level 10 for the triple sale price tag - at least for now. I'm sure once I'm passed being super super early Act 2 levelling up the more complex recipes will prove to be much more beneficial. I was aware of how it works and the turnip seed trick and all that though haha
@@Mackenzie89 well since you're growing turnip seed to level 10 already might as well grow other seeds to level 10 too. imo, the turnip seed trick is mainly used to push relax tea/rare fish dishes level, cuz by the time you get turnip seed to level 10 you can prob grow most non-winter crops to pretty high levels as well which make the turnip seed trick less effective.
Also complex dishes means you have fewer or no extra slot for turnip seed.
I forgot to talk about your original question but yeah only some "1 ingredient" dishes (aside from gold veggie) are worth buying lv10 crop directly from the store (eggplant/pineapple/pumpkin/corn...) and spinach is def not one of them. The idea is correct but he just happen to choose a bad example.
Where's the min max guide for cooking and crafting? Lol
I need a guide for crafting cooking forging from 0-50 show me that, not with one of you high level already built characters.
whats the best thing to start cooking to get your cooking skill up at the beginning of the game?
nevermind i just saw you get pickles at lvl 10 so ill try to get there first lol
Yeah early game it's probably best to cook whatever's highest skill level that you can reliably make, which usually tends to be whatever needs just one item!
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My question is how can I make pineapple juice??? I’m at level 87 and I still cannot make it without it failing.😂
Think there are threeish ways you can make pineapple juice:
1. Get cooking bread+ from beating Sharance maze and hope you roll pineapple juice
2. Get the recipe from somewhere in game. Think in Rune Prana there's a chest that teaches you it?
3. Drink some high level Relax Tea to boost your RP. That might give you enough RP to make pineapple juice without the recipe.
@@dreamingsuntide1 I haven’t made it to sharance maze or Rune prana yet. But I’ve tried the 3rd one a lot and it’s somewhat close. I’ve even wore the Knit Scarf hoping that’d help a bit as well and no luck sadly. But thanks for the reply! Love the vids
@@D.breezy23 Maybe just another level or two and you can do it!!
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You got the spinach wrong, you can sell it for 285 not a 1000!! So you're not making any profit!