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Following the trend of modernJRPGs,Dragon Ball Z: Kakarotoffers a cooking mechanic where eating a well-cooked meal will replenish your health as well as give you a few extra temporary buffs, like extra experience points or higher attack power. You can cook fish you’ve caught at campfires, but the real benefits come from Full-Course Meals.
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You’ll have to put in a lot more work for these dishes, but if you’re able to gain every recipe and know your way around the ingredients, you can get Chi-Chi to make you every single one.
Where To Cook
Camps will not give you the chance to make Full-Course meals, and neither will the cooking shops you may find in a few towns —Where you’ll need to go is Goku’s house and talk to Chi-Chi. If you’re playing theHistory of TrunksDLC, then you will instead have to go to theSecret Underground Lab where Capsule Corp used to be and talk to Future Bulma. Neither Chi-Chi nor Future Bulma will have the ingredients on hand; however, it’s up to you to gather everything they’ll need.
Gathering Ingredients
There are a few categories when it comes to ingredients:
You’ll notice one of these ingredients is very much not like the others, but that will make sense once it’s explained.Meat is gathered by killing wildlife in the open world or by fighting dinosaurs.
Fish will mostly be gained by fishing, but some smaller breeds of fish can only be found by swimming in large bodies of water, which will work the same way as flying does but with an added mechanic where you have toleave the water before your character runs out of oxygen.
Fruit And Herbs
Fruit is found in trees, simply run or fly near a tree that has a glowing orb to collect it and find out which fruit you’ve gained. Herbs work the same way but are instead found on the ground. Yellow orbs are common, while red orbs are rarer varieties.
If you are having trouble finding specific ingredients, you can check the overworld map and see a detailed list of every ingredient and material found in the area.
Groceries are ingredients such as eggs and milk, andthey can be purchased from Grocers. Just simply use your Dragon Radar to find one in a settlement and buy whichever groceries you currently need.
Cupcakes are technically a completed meal, but they cannot be made by Future Bulma or Chi-Chi, so they’ve been listed here as an ingredient.You’ll find cupcakes by destroying ships that belong to the Frieza Force.
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Making The Meals
Now that you’re ready to cook, speak with Chi-Chi and ask to make a Full-Course Meal. From your list of found recipes, find the one you would like to make and see which meals you need. Full-Course Meals aren’t actually made from your ingredients,you have to use those ingredients to make the Dishes that make up Full-Course Meals.Pick the 3-Course Meal that suits your current needs, thenback out of this menu and select Make A Dish.
Find all the needed Dishes you need to make and start cooking, as long as you have enough of the right ingredients. You’ll put the completed Dish in your inventory, where you could eat it anytime you’d like, or for the purposes of making a Full-Course Meal, you will simply just wait until you’re ready to cook that.
Once you have all the needed Dishes, ask Chi-Chi to make you a Full-Course Meal. This will be eaten immediately, so only cook this Meal if you are ready for the bonuses or are simply after the trophy/achievement called Only The Finest for cooking at least 5 unique Full-Course Meals.You cannot earn this achievement or trophy by repeating the same meal, so you will need to start collecting Recipes.
Collecting Recipes
Your first Full-Course Meal will likely come from story progression, as well as your first Recipe. However, there is a wide list of Recipes with wildly different Dishes associated with them. Your first few will simply be unlocked as you go along, and there are even some Recipes handed to you for buying certain Season Pass content. As for the rest of the recipes, you’ll have to look a bit harder.
One way to earn these recipes is by completing side story content. Some side characters, such as the Kooky Cook, will hand you a Recipe at the end of a side story, so you will likely earn a lot of Recipes naturally by flying over to any blue icon you see on your map while playing. You won’t earn every Recipe from completing these quests, though.
While in an area full of people, take note of whenever you read a speech bubble that mentions the word Recipe.Find this person and talk to them, after a string of dialogue, you will be given a Recipe.
