Vana'diel Cookbook v1.0Follow

SWEET! Rate up.

EDIT: Erm... link's broken...

Edited, Sun May 15 18:37:42 2005 by ArkhanTerra

I've deleted the original complaint here about GeoCities bandwidth, and will use this space instead to list corrections.

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1. Shallops Tropicale (see below) - cost should be 3085ea. Credit SuicidalWombat.
2. Stats on Bison Jerky: STR+5, Mnd-1, Att+18% cap 70@368, RngAtt+?, Duration 60 minutes.
3. Carbonara lists both Black Pepper and Kazham Pepper as ingredients. There is no Kazham Pepper in it. Cost should be 2405ea.
4. Likewise Nero di Seppia is one of the few pastas that does *not* contain miseraux parsley. Nix the parsley and drop the price to 4540ea.
5. Pet food eggs messed up. Bird for Alpha, Beta, Gamma; Lizard for Delta, Epsilon, Zeta. Correct prices are Gamma:44ea, Delta:53ea, Epsilon: 361ea.
6. Missing Recipes: Cursed Beverage, Dried Mugwort (what a horrible thing to do to fresh mugwort!!!), Fish & Chips variant with blindfish instead of 2 tiger cods (not costed), Tomato Soup variant using bay leaves instead of 2-leaf mandra bud (cap 48)
7. Oh the pastas... Vongole Rosso needs Wild Onion as well. Price goes to 2655ea.

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Edited, Fri May 20 19:33:05 2005 by Jehebbyo

O.O this guide is just amazing!!! Rate up.

Wow...just simply...wow.

This might very well be the best guide ever made on FFXI.

Wow, nicely done! I certainly appreciate the effort you've put into this! I once planned to create an executable, searchable database using my meagre Java skills, but...

Anyway. I've noticed one error so far. In your area for Shallops Tropicale you have the per-synth costs listed as 1,850 gil. However, your own list indicates Shall Shells run 1,350 each. Considering that you need two of these little buggers, shouldn't the cost be 3200? Or did I overlook something as to your system of listing?

Regardless, thanks for your hard work!

Thanks. That is awesome! Well thought out and set up.

Wow... just wow... That's amazing...

Thank you! Thank you!

/cheer

Wow!!! Best info on cooking yet. I'd rate you up, but you can't get any higher. Thank you for your time and contributions. I'm very happy to have such a consolidated book at my finger tips now.

Thanks again!!!

Excellent post, something new to print off and put in my binder. ^^
Rate up ^^

O.O wowzers. Much <3 to you!

Awesome job, very well written, has all the information you need. Almost 50 pages all typed out. Had to make a new binder just to put all the pages into.

I know this may sound mean, and please don't take it in a bad way, I only mean it as a joke, but YOU have way to much time on your hands ;) Unless you're in one of those boring desk jobs where you sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day doing nothing but staring at a blank screen for half the time. Then I can understand where you're coming from =P

Recipe for Vana'diel cookbook

Key Item: Wingding fonts

Earth Crystal (Binding)

LS mates asking "how much for 3 stacks of rice dumplings?" x2

Crashed laptop forcing repeated logoffs to lookup anything x1

Hours spent nightly trying to make daily guild item x2

Moghouses full of other ingredients from mushroom recipes when there were no mushrooms to be had x2

Business trips with nothing else to do at the airports/on the planes x1

NQ result: /slapping of Kipo-Opo x4
HQ1 result: Are you sure you want to drop "My Computer"?
HQ2 result: Vana'diel cookbook
HQ3 result: Vana'diel cookbook without all the typos

Effects:
Time spent preparing guild items -90 minutes
Time spent looking up food prices and effects for LS -30 minutes
Time spent watching Lost and CSI reruns on Spike +120 minutes

NOW I have too much time on my hands ^^

Definately worth paying $30 for ink cartridges and paper! ^^

WoW, outstanding job on the cook Book. I have just started cooking and have several guides I have printed up. But I must say the detail that was put into this book is phenomenal. I enjoy the breakdowns under the recipes fro items that can be cooked as well.

From the depths of my being thank you for this Book.

Faith.


Edited, Tue May 24 15:28:29 2005 by Faithsry

Thanks all for the feedback, I'm glad others find this useful.

Bowie - thanks for bringing this up. One thing that's a little deficient in this version is the explanations of my notation in the Key. I'll explain using vegetable gruel (this applies to some other recipes as well), with the caveat that I haven't made gruel myself.

Some foods can be cooked in more than one way. The interchangeability of lizard and bird eggs in most low- and mid-level pie recipes is a familiar example. In those cases, I have listed the skill cap for each version. You can tell the versions apart by looking at the 1-3 quote marks after some ingredients. Using gruel as an example:

Skill cap: 26'/28"
Then fire crystals, chamomile, frost turnip, rarab tail and distilled water.

Next san d'orian flour' and beaugreens'

Then tarutaru rice" and batagreens"

The flour' and beaugreens' are used in the Level 26' recipe; the rice" and batagreens" in the L28" recipe. You'd only use one set of ingredients or the other, not both.

I started to use daggers instead of quotes and never settled on anything very clear. This isn't explained in the Key, so thanks for bringing it. Find anything else let me know ^^.

I just wanted to thank all the people who helped with this project. My girlfriend and i both use the cooking skill and your cookbook is an excellent resource.

I'm sure the other crafts are jealous.

OMG that cookbook is freaking awesome O_O THE best thing to have on your computer for cooking! /em goes to tell ls about this. I give it a 11/10 and I'm rating up every one of your posts that I see /worship. ^^;;

What a great idea! I am just starting out in cooking and was looking for a decent guide... and wow! I get this instead!
Just great.. good work!
Big thanks to all who worked on this!

Disturbed - I actually have the recipe/ingredient mapping in a spreadsheet format right now, so that doing price updates isn't so painful. I've considered posting this, but it is incomplete and I'm on hiatus from the game atm.

If it's something you're very interested in, send me a message (I seem to remember there is some way to do this on Alla) and I'll send you a copy of it. It *does* have macros, so open it without macros and examine them if you are suitably paranoid like me.

All I see is a RapidShare ad on all 3 of the links and nothing to point me to the cookbook

Jehebbyo, while I am not on your server, if I can be of any kind of assistance just send me a PM and I will try my best to help you out.

It helps that my summer job is so goddamned boring, 3 hours of real work, 5hours of sittign around and browsing tha intarweb. If it wouldn't be so redundant I'd be writing a cooking guide, but hell, there are half a dozen of em already. Of course I could make the pwettiest one with colors and sparkles and all, ooooh... *_* [/rant]

Damn good guide, this should be stuck on the main ones somewhere.

Dez there is a new cookbook in the forums. it is Version 2 look for that it is updated a lot more than this one!

Ummm... maybe because the post is TWO YEARS OLD????


...just a thought...

Well, it was a real classic. I'm kind of hoping someone here has a copy of the cookbook (or even better, the source spreadsheets) and could stick them on a download site again somewhere. Even when outdated it's still useful, as many of the foods popular then and now are still the same (or derivatives, such as the Curry Bun items).