Here’s the second post in our series about the upcoming Safehouse feature! Today’s focus? The brand-new character creator and the kitchen! Get ready to explore a variety of customization options for your character! Plus, discover the concept of buff food – special dishes that grant exciting benefits – and learn how the kitchen can help you prepare them. Stay tuned for more details as we bring the Safehouse to the game!
The Character Creator
Our new character creator brings a lot of exciting new options, allowing you to customize your character’s appearance like never before. But before we dive into the details, let’s take a general look at what the character creator has to offer.
While designing your character, you can view them under different lighting scenarios, have their eyes and face follow the direction of your cursor, and rotate or zoom in for a closer look. With these features, our character creator gives you extensive control to craft a unique avatar that truly reflects your vision.
Now we’re getting to the exciting part – the possibilities to customize your character’s appearance to truly make it your own!
Here’s what you can adjust:
- Head Shape
- Hair Style
- Eyelashes (for female body type)
- Beard Style (for male body type)
- Eyebrows
- Accessories
- Tattoos
- Coloring
-> Skin Color
-> Hair Color
-> Tattoo Color
Recipes and the Kitchen
The kitchen is where you can unleash your culinary creativity, using over 120 recipes and more than 100 ingredients to prepare dishes that offer 24 unique buffs, each available in 3 tiers, giving you plenty of options to enhance your gameplay.
But before we dive into the details, let’s start from the beginning.
What is a Recipe?
A recipe is a consumable item that allows you to cook new dishes in the kitchen. To find recipes, you’ll need to defeat zombies. Elite zombies have a higher chance of dropping recipes, while normal zombies have a much lower drop rate. Additional ways to acquire recipes may be introduced in the future.
Once you’ve found a recipe, you can open your inventory, right-click on the item, and “use” it to read and learn it. After learning a recipe, it becomes available for use in the kitchen – provided you have the necessary ingredients.
Recipes are family-bound, meaning that once a recipe is learned by any character, all characters in your family will be able to cook it.
Recipes come in different qualities, ranging from common to superior. However, each recipe is fixed to a specific quality. For instance, the recipe for “Coffee” is always common, while the recipe for “Champion’s Delicacy” can only be found in superior quality.
How do I get the Ingredients for a Recipe?
To cook a dish from a recipe, you’ll need specific ingredients. These ingredients are listed in the kitchen when you select the recipe to cook.
You can find them all over the world of Persist Online by:
- Defeating zombies
- Looting areas like kitchens or wardrobes
- Harvesting
- Fishing
The Kitchen
Once you’ve gathered all the necessary ingredients, head to your Safehouse and select the kitchen. Before you can start cooking, you’ll need to build the kitchen. You can then upgrade it to reduce the time required to cook a dish or expand it to cook higher-quality recipes or multiple dishes simultaneously.
Why should I cook?
Dishes provide time-limited buffs that last for 2 hours. Those buffs are paused when you enter the Safehouse or log out. All 24 buffs are available in 3 tiers, with Tier 1 being the lowest and Tier 3 the highest. The higher the quality of the recipe – and therefore the dish – the higher the tiers of the buffs.
For example, the “Fish Tacos with Lemon Salsa” consumable provides the following buffs:
- Damage – Tier 2
- Evasion Rating – Tier 1
This means you’ll deal 6% more damage and your evasion rating will be increased by 15%.
All buffs and their tiers run simultaneously. For example, if you already have the Damage Tier 1 buff active and then eat the “Fish Tacos with Lemon Salsa”, the Tier 1 buff remains active, and the Tier 2 buff is added as a separate, additional buff.
Additional Information
- Elite zombies can also drop already cooked dishes
- You can take most of the dishes you already created and recook them using additional ingredients to create higher-quality dishes
For example:
Outlook
In our upcoming posts, we’ll introduce you to all the rooms used for Crafting and Improving Items, as well as the Dispatch Center.
Thank you for your support and patience! We aim to provide you with a clearer understanding of what to expect from Persist Online. If you have any feedback or questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Steam or Discord.
⁓ Your Community Management Team