Hunger

Hunger is the value representing how well fed your character is and affects the speed of regeneration of major attributes. Hunger is depleted by Hard Stamina regeneration. If hunger reaches zero it will start to deplete your Soft HP resulting in a hunger fainting and death.

Food Quality Multiplier

The game server stores the Food Complexity of last 5 meals your character has eaten. The sum of these numbers are used in the calculation of Food multiplier.

The Food multiplier directly affects amount of increase of ALL of your skills. The Food multiplier consists of two parts: Hunger and Complexity summed over the last five meals eaten. Food multiplier formula is as follows:

FoodMult = Last5MealsComplexity × Hunger × 0.0001

Take a look on that table of possible food multiplier values:

Hunger / Last 5 meals Complexity	50	200	350	500
0	0	0	0	0
25	0.125	0.5	0.875	1.25
50	0.25	1	1.75	2.5
75	0.375	1.5	2.625	3.75
100	0.5	2	3.5	5

In brief, gathering mushrooms and berries, then catching fish and frying it will be more than enough to survive and obtain maximum attributes regeneration speeds. But if you want to significantly increase the progression of your skills, you should eat complex meals from a good cook or become a good cook yourself.

Food Complexity

Food complexity depends on how many ingredients were used in the cooking process of a given meal, the greater the complexity of that meal. Complexity is calculated when eating food.

• Example: If you start with a fish which has 100 quality, then fry it and eat it, you will end up with 20 complexity of your eaten food. But if you begin with the same quality fish and add with quality 100 potatoes, onions, wine and cabbage (five ingredients!!!), the result could be fish stew with 100 quality and 100 complexity once you will eat it. Five ingredients is the maximum you can use per recipe.

Simply put, max complexity is calculated from the number of ingredients in the recipe. 20 complexity per ingredient. Resulting complexity is a fraction of the max based on food quality. Food quality is averaged from the qualities of the ingredients, skill, device, and tool used.

The formula for determining the complexity of cooking food:

Max Complexity = Number of ingredients * 20
Result Complexity = (Quality / 100) * Max Complexity

5-ingredient foods will always have complexity = quality.
For example, if you make a quality 65 "Fried Salmon Patties" (60 max complexity,) your resulting complexity would be:

65 / 100 = 0.65
0.65 * 60 = 39 Complexity

Max complexities are as follows: <database as of 11/23/14>

Ingredients	Name	MaxComplexity
5	Ravioli	100
5	Chicken Pie	100
5	Pizza	100
5	Greatberry Pie	100
5	Cod Chowder	100
5	Venison Stew	100
5	Venison Bratwurst Sausage	100
5	Waterzooi	100
5	Meat Kabobs	100
5	Meat Stew	100
5	Fish Stew	100
5	Cottage Pie	100
4	Herring Salad	80
4	Lamb Stew with Cabbage	80
4	Pork Sausage	80
4	Yorkshire Pudding	80
4	Beef Cabbage Hash	80
4	King's Beef Stew	80
4	Apple Meat Loaf	80
4	Apple Castle Soup	80
4	Vegetable Soup	80
4	Fish Cakes	80
4	Stuffed Rabbit	80
4	Apple Berry Pie	80
3	Rollmops	60
3	Mulled Wine	60
3	Eggnog	60
3	Potato with Mushrooms	60
3	Cookies	60
3	Mutton with Peas	60
3	Confiture	60
3	Codfish with Mushrooms	60
3	Trout in Berrie Sauce	60
3	Fried Salmon Patties	60
3	Normann bread	60
3	Pea Porky Soup	60
3	Cabbage Pies	60
3	Julienne	60
3	Egg Pies	60
3	Pea Soup Puree	60
3	Wild Soup	60
3	Omelet	60
3	Crispy Chicken	60
3	Beast Steak	60
3	Beef Stew	60
2	Wild Meat with Peas	40
2	Codfish with Cabbage	40
2	Baklava	40
2	Compote	40
2	Berries in Honey	40
2	Cake with Giblets	40
2	Pasta	40
2	Onion Soup	40
2	Fried Eggs	40
2	Pecene Veprevo Koleno	40
2	Milky Salmon	40
2	Apple Buns	40
2	Mutton Steak	40
2	Samsa	40
2	Goulash	40
2	Cheese Buns	40
2	Milky Bread	40
1	Bread	20
1	Beef Steak	20
1	Fried Herring	20
1	Fried Trout	20
1	Stew Cabbage	20
1	Pea Porridge	20
1	Boiled Potatoes	20
1	Bacon	20
1	Cheese	20
1	Boiled Chicken	20
1	Fried Beast	20
1	Wine	20
1	Boiled Eggs	20
1	Fried Salmon	20
1	Fried Codfish	20