Create the two kitchen stations introduced by Cooking 102, then cook a flexible soup using a potato, Spice Sprouts and a Mountain Morel. These are specific choices within the recipe’s Any Vegetable, Any Spice and Any Mushroom categories, making the shopping list reproducible.
- Activity
- Cooking level 2: a simple stove-and-prep-station meal
- Edition / reference
- Palia 0.207-era Hearty Vegetable Soup and station recipes, checked 2026-10-17.
- Named choices
- 8
Configuration and exact selections
- Recipe access
- Hearty Vegetable Soup Recipe — Cooking 2, 50 Gold
Obtain through the Cooking Guild; Cooking 102 introduces the setup.
- Crafting station
- Worktable
Use it to construct the Stove and Prep Station from their learned recipes.
- Hot station
- Standard Stove: 12 Stone Brick + 5 Ceramic + 2 Copper Bar
Start and finish the soup here.
- Prep station
- Prep Station: 16 Sapwood Plank + 6 Ceramic + 2 Copper Bar
Place within easy reach of the Stove for the chopping step.
- Vegetable slot
- 1 Potato
A concrete choice for Any Vegetable; reserve it from the garden harvest.
- Spice slot
- 1 Spice Sprouts
Fits Any Spice; obtain before starting the timed cooking sequence.
- Mushroom slot
- 1 Mountain Morel
Fits Any Mushroom; chop it at the Prep Station.
- Kitchen material reserve
- 12 Stone Brick + 11 Ceramic + 4 Copper Bar + 16 Sapwood Plank
Combined cost of the two stations, excluding recipe purchases and earlier processing stations.
How to use this setup
- At Cooking 2, learn the soup, Standard Stove and Prep Station recipes; construct both stations at the Worktable.
- Carry 1 Potato, 1 Spice Sprouts and 1 Mountain Morel; select Hearty Vegetable Soup on the Standard Stove.
- Use the Prep Station to produce Chopped Mushroom from Mountain Morel.
- Return to the Stove, add the prepared ingredients and complete the stirring action before the timer expires.
- Collect the meal and use it to replenish Focus when the bonus is useful, rather than wasting food into an already full bar.
Priorities and progression
- Recipe requires Cooking level 2 and two station types: 1 Standard Stove, 1 Prep Station.
- The item lists 100 base Focus and 150 star-quality Focus; quality and ingredient outcomes must be checked on the cooked item.
- Focus supports bonus skill XP; this plan does not claim a best gold-per-ingredient return.
Make repeat cooking straightforward
The construction materials are a one-time kitchen investment, whereas each subsequent soup needs a new set of food ingredients. Keep these budgets separate. Positioning the Prep Station beside the Stove reduces unnecessary travel during the timer. The actual soup recipe calls for chopping the mushroom; do not substitute an unrelated recipe’s vegetable-preparation sequence.