Black Desert Online Power Leveling CP

Introduction

Black Desert Online is a massive multiplayer experience with a surprising amount of depth to all of its interacting mechanics. It can seem from overwhelming to outright overbearing to new players as these struggle to make sense of a detail-oriented experience. 

There are naturally tons of guides promoting different ways on which to Min-Max your account as a starting player, ranging from general progression to the specifics of quickly raising a specific skill or discipline rapidly and with the least amount of resources playable. 

This guide is brought forward to any players looking to Power Level their CP (Contribution Points) passively through cooking. The main principle behind this method is the efficient production of dishes with profitable byproducts of their own and their quick commercialization. So let’s begin.

Getting 1-second Cooking

For starters, you are going to need the Kanape Knight cooking outfit. It grants a two-second reduction to your cooking time as well as an extra 15% EXP when delving into any culinary endeavor. 

A cooking outfit will naturally also be a must, and the inclusion of some Teff bread in your preparations is mandatory as well, seeing it grants you a decrease in the cooking time of 0.3 seconds. You can alternatively get a couple of Teff Sandwiches if you’re feeling somewhat generous, which will shorten it by an additional 0.2 seconds, adding up to a useful 0.5 seconds. 

Keeping up with an effort to further maximize the rewards obtained from cooking, you will also ideally require some Site Tea, the same that will increase your Life EXP gain by 8%. As a final note, while not strictly mandatory, reaching a right and well Cooking level is hugely encouraged as part of your Life Skills.

Crafting Advanced Cooking Utensils

As additional manners of shortening your cooking time to facilitate the spamming, you can and should also craft Advanced Cooking Utensils, which will shorten each cycle of the spamming chain by an additional second. I personally do this in Glish.

To craft them you will need to get your hands on a Tier Four Tool Workshop, same which can be crafted with the following materials:

• Twenty polished stones.
• Five usable scantlings.
• Twenty melted iron shards.
• Fourteen black stone powder.

Getting Rough Stones

One of the best places to grind for rough stone is Pilgrim’s Haven, located just right of Sand Grain Bazaar. This should come in handy given you will most likely need to amass more than only a few in between this Power Leveling and other activities.

As the time required to extract these raw stones can usually be spent in a much better way, you can take a nap while your energy is spent on the mining nodes. This becomes particularly striking when taking into account a single Advanced Cooking Utensil typically needs half an hour of stone grinding, if not longer depending on certain factors. 

Power Leveling Recipes

With all of those above carefully taken care of, we can finally begin with the actual Power Leveling process. This will consist of the constant spamming of two particular recipes, Honey Wine and Essence of Liquor. 

Among other benefits, Honey Wine is a very suitable target for spamming, given all of the byproducts dishes it links to. The first thing you will want to secure the right quantity of is Cooking Honey, a required ingredient for this particular type of wine. It can be found in Alejandro Farm, just left of Heidel, and you will need a hydro-worker to get it.

The essence of Liquor, on the other hand, is a perfect target for spamming given it is an essential ingredient for Honey Wine, which serves as its linked byproduct. You can spam the two of them in succession relatively easy and quickly level up your CP as a result. Its main selling point, however, remains the same.

Its required ingredients are naught but a single strawberry, leavening agent, and wheat flour; all three extremely common and easy to acquire ingredients. Strawberries can be cheaply purchased from any typical vendor, innkeepers will be the ones to sell you leaving agents, and wheat flour can be obtained by processing raw wheat via the Processing Tab. As for the specifics:

Where To Purchase Fruit in BDO

A fruit vendor, Milano Belucci, from whom you can purchase the strawberries required to craft Essence of Liquor, can be found in Calpheon. Just below Merchant Lane 2 – 1, Room 2. In case you’re somewhat stricken by their cost, 750 silver apiece, don’t worry. 

These are cost-effective if you are seriously looking to Power Level your CP and are critical in the relationship between pre-required ingredients and CP dishes, which comes to about 250 to 300 CP dishes for every thousand pre-required Essence of Liquor. 

All of which will be then turned into related nodes and end up getting you about 20 CP that will definitely translate into an additional and substantial passive income.

Imperial Delivery

As for the specifics of the money, this is expected to bring directly to your pockets, one of the reasons behind the selection of Honey Wine as a spamming target is its renewability when sold as Imperial Crates. When talking to any Imperial Crafting Delivery personnel, all of whom can commonly be found at any major city. You might want first to take a close look at the Daily Delivery Quantity. 

This number dictates the maximum amount of crates you can sell in a single day, and until a reset point, it also translates to about half of your CP; it would display fifty available crates if you had a hundred CP as an example. 

Once having engaged in a conversation with any of these delivery people you will then have to specifically search for the Honey Wine Imperial crate and take a look at the available number of shipments, this dictates the maximum possible amount of crates this person will buy from you in a single day so it a rather significant set of digits. 

Reset Time Imperial Delivery

The reset time is thankfully only three hours in between cycles and not an actual real-life day. You will receive a notification every time it comes to pass as well. So you can relax and avoid actively be checking the crafting personnel every so often. This is particularly important as the chance is only 50% of it triggering every three hours in your specific city and location, giving way to longer waiting times. As a result, every so often should you stick to your current location. 

Crafting Imperial Crates

Having said all this, as soon as you have gotten your hands on a good stash of Honey Wine. You will want to immediately turn them into Imperial Crates suitable for shipment by pressing L and accessing your Production Tab once again. In there, select Imperial Cuisine and proceed to the Honey Wine to craft the required crates. Same of which can often go for as much as 190,000 silver apiece, so it is rather lucrative, to say the least. 

When talking to the Imperial Crafting Delivery person for the definitive sell, it is also a good idea to wear a set of trading clothes to pull in a bit more additional revenue. 

What To do with Shiny Golden Seal Of Imperial Cuisine

Looking even farther ahead, every time you sell an Imperial Crate to the designated personnel, you will be getting a Shiny Golden Seal of Imperial Cuisine. 

These are pretty much useless in low quantities by the stack up fast. Should you accumulate 250 of them, they can be exchanged for an Ancient Kamel Statue. 

House furniture, which grants a plus nine AP boost and can typically be handsomely sold to people who take part in sieges frequently for up to 4.5 million additional silver. You can also exchange 400 of them for the Black Essence Covelenus, a rare gem that is sure to help you out later with your gear. 

Additional Recipes For Profit

As ways of acquiring additional revenue in this manner in case you have the extra ingredients to spare and are only looking to generate some silver on the side, Milk Tea Crates are very lucrative in case you have the milk needed for it. 

If you have followed the guide, you should definitely have some of it. It is listed among the byproduct dishes of the previously discussed recipes, namely Honey Wine and Essence of Liquor. 

Some other great alternatives are the Sute Tea, Fine Scent, Meat Stew, Boiled Egg, and Fried Fish crates. On the other spectrum of things you should be avoiding the Meat and Ham Sandwiches, Seafood Pasta and Dark Pudding ones as these lack significant remunerability and are often considered a waste of ingredients monetarily speaking; they’re not cost-effective. 

It is also worth noting that most of these crates require a Master Level in Cooking, so be sure to take that into account when setting up the busywork necessary for this specific type for business. 

Taking a closer look at the byproduct dishes that are guaranteed to help you craft your desired Imperial Crates faster, you might want to look for Strongly Seasoned Dishes. These can be exchanged for milk in sets of three, milk which you will need in large quantities to craft the Sute Tea and Milk Tea crates. 

Some Additional Spammable Recipes For CP

Dressing

Dressing because it takes the least ingredients possible, just salt, olive oil, and mineral water. All of which can cheaply be purchased from NPCs. 

Eggs, which can be acquired from chicken meat nodes; found in the Bart Alley and Finto farms. You will need valiant workers to harvest them — boiled Bird Eggs. In case you have an extra dozen, or so of eggs, it can prove itself useful to spam them. 

Vinegar

Vinegar, which can be crafted with a singular vinegar, sugar, leaving agent, and either corn or wheat or barley; any grain works really, and that makes it quite versatile in practice. 

Exotic Herbal Wine

Exotic Herbal Wine, as it requires the Essence of Liquor. 

All kinds of doughs as these are all derived from just wheat and mineral water; the same wheat you should have a ton of by now given all the processing done in recipes above. 

Beer, as it is made from nothing but potatoes, it can very quickly become a very spammable and monetarily fruitful endeavor. Its best use is, however, found as a resource for taking care of your exhausted workers.

There are undoubtedly hundreds of other recipes out there, but none will prove as useful as the ones here mentioned. It is essential to continue branching out from Honey Wine and especially Essence of Liquor for the byproducts and eventual recipe chaining that lead to more significant profits, remember not to spam any other recipes apart from these two and the ones just mentioned. This is important to not only make the endeavor cost-effective but save lots of time as well; time is money in the game just as it is anywhere else.

It is essential to take into account not only the cooking times but other factors as well, such as ingredient price and availability, ingredient weight, and the possible recipes available with each set of Cooking Utensils and at different Cooking Mastery Levels. The understanding of these underlying factors and the ramifications they produce when interacting is the key to becoming genuinely useful when Power Leveling and or making profits.

This guide might have touched only on the Cooking Aspects and lightly at that, but the understanding of these factors for any other Life Skill or mechanic inside the game is sure to make you a better player. So never stop experimenting and looking for ways to save as much as possible. This is ultimately the defining trait as your game-time is bound to be limited at all times, whereas in-game money will always remain infinite.