Cook
Class in 99 Nights in the Forest · Cost 40 Diamonds
About
The Cook is a Class in 99 Nights in the Forest
Quick Facts
- Cost
- 40 Diamonds
- Starter Tools
- 1 Seasoning
- Level 1 Perk
- + Seasoned food restores more hunger
- Level 2 Perk
- + The Crockpot cooks 20% faster
- Level 3 Perk
- + 25% chance to make a Hearty Stew
Perks by Level
+ Seasoned food restores more hunger
+ The Crockpot cooks 20% faster
+ 25% chance to make a Hearty Stew
Tips & Strategy(6)
- ●The Cook is a mostly team-based class and works best in a team, it is not recommended to play this class solo.
- ●The abilities of this class are sometimes team-based abilities and most of them won't affect solo gameplay.
- ○The seasoned food can be used in both solo and team, this uses less food to restore hunger.
- ○20% faster Crock Pot cooking speed makes the cooking time last from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. While the effectiveness of Crock Pot is bottlenecked by the amount of ingredients available rather than its cooking speed, this is still a nice QOL to have.
- ○25% chance to make a Hearty Stew while decent, is not that useful, considering the fact that it only heals for 15 health (except for hard mode, where the easy healing is quite useful.)
- ●For the leveling up requirements, making an auto cooking setup would still count toward the requirement as long as the Chef were the one placing the ingredients. Cooking raw foods in the fireplace before putting them in the Crock Pot would also help expediting the cooked food requirement.
Cook — In-Depth Analysis
The Cook costs 40 Diamonds and is the budget kitchen class in 99 Nights in the Forest, a lighter cousin to the Chef that leans on the existing Crockpot rather than its own station. It spawns with 1 Seasoning, and its Level 1 perk makes seasoned food restore more hunger, stretching every ingredient further whether you play solo or in a group.
Higher levels are squad-oriented quality of life. Level 2 makes the Crockpot cook 20% faster, trimming a cook cycle from roughly 10 seconds to 8. In practice the Crockpot is bottlenecked by ingredient supply more than speed, so treat this as a convenience rather than a game-changer. Level 3 adds a 25% chance to produce a Hearty Stew; it only heals a modest amount, but that easy healing becomes genuinely valuable on Hard mode where sustain is scarce.
Pick the Cook if you want cooking utility without the Chef's 150-Diamond investment, ideally as the food anchor of a team. The seasoned-hunger perk is the one ability that helps even solo. For leveling, auto-cooking setups still count toward your cooked-food requirement as long as you are the one loading ingredients, and pre-cooking raw food first speeds things up.