Cooking got an important change on 15th April 2020. The previous cooking byproucts were replaced with a new item called Witch’s Delicacy.

 

Witch’s Delicacy Highlights

  • players report a drop rate of about 2.3%
    • get about 2 Witch’s Delicacy for every 100 crafts
  • exchange for Milk, Beer, or Contribution Points + Cooking Exp
    • note that 30 Cooking Exp = 30,000 Cooking Exp

 

BDO Witch's Delicacy

Witch’s Delicacy Exchange Rate

 

Witch’s Delicacy x10 icon  Beer x500
icon  Milk x120
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Contribution EXP 900
+ Cooking EXP 30,000

Witch’s Delicacy Exchange NPC

Liana is located in every major city, most of the time close to the <General Goods> vendor.

I was unable to use NPC finder to see all Liana’s locations until I spoke with her and gained her Knowledge.

Liana Locations:

  • Velia & Heidel
  • Calpheon City
  • Altinova & Valencia City
  • Grána
  • O’draxxia
  • Duvencrune
  • Eilton

Liana <Valentine’s Apprentice>
Location: every major city

Liana Location in Velia

Velia

Liana Location in Heidel

Heidel

Liana Location in Calpheon

Calpheon

Liana Location in Grana

Grana

Liana Location in Duvencrune

Duvencrune

Liana Location in Odraxxia

Odraxxia

Liana Location in Altinova

Altinova

Liana Location in Valencia

Valencia

Liana Location in Eilton

Eilton

Witch’s Delicacy NPC #2

Witch’s Delicacy can also be exchanged to Nadia Rowen.

 

Nadia is a cooking vendor located in Olvia. Olvia is the remote town located NW of Western Guard Camp and W of Velia.

Nadia’s Location

BDO Witch's Delicacy Exchange Location Map
BDO Witch's Delicacy Exchange Location Map

Profitability of Witch’s Delicacy

Milk vs Beer

  • Beer Value: 850,000 Silver
  • Milk Value: 2,400,000 Silver

Milk is the more difficult to obtain item and is frequently sold out on the Marketplace. Milk is considered a bottleneck item.

It is required for popular cooking dishes like Milk Tea, Oatmeal, Soft Bread, Sute Tea, and White Sauce. These dishes are often required in high tier cooking recipes. (Cron Meal)

At the moment it is at maximum developer price of 20k each.

Beer is easier to make and obtain and has a volatile price. ATM it is at 1.7k each. (This is NOT the max developer price.)

For these reasons, choosing milk is better than beer.

Price EachIn Stock
milk2260028195

Price and availability updated every 30 minutes.

Byproduct for Contribution Exp

How many byproducts do I need to reach * level of Contribution?

 

You can reach high levels of Contribution by semi-AFK Cooking. If you hate questing, but love cooking, the Contribution Exp is an easy win.

For players that enjoy questing or are near the CP soft cap anyway, milk may be more rewarding.

 

Thank you to bdolytics calculator for this data!

Contribution Examples

0 to 100 Contribution Points:

Crafts for Goal: 9,004

Required byproducts: 213

 

0 to 200 Contribution Points:

Crafts for Goal: 35,911

Required byproducts: 848

 

0 to 300 Contribution Points:

Crafts for Goal: 123,729

Required byproducts: 2,920

Byproduct for Cooking Exp

How many byproducts do I need to reach * level of Cooking?

 

From Beginner 1…

 

  • Professional 1: 40 Turnins (400 Byproducts)
  • Artisan 1: 175 Turnins (1750 Byproducts)
  • Master 1: 1230 Turnins (12,300 Byproducts)
  • Guru 1: 24519 Turnins (245,190 Byproducts)

Thank you to Zakatack🐄™#6480 for this data!

 Sources & Additional Info

 

With the old system, each cook had an added value of 120 Silver, 0.1 Beer, 2 Cooking Exp, 0.06 Milk, AND 2 CP.

Current reports suggest the new byproduct has a 2% drop rate which means you’ll need to choose one:

  • 2.5 Beer per cook

  • 0.24 Milk per cook

  • 1.8 CP and 0.6 cooking exp per cook

  • 200 silver per cook (from vendoring the byproducts @10K each)

Beer and Milk rates were buffed, CP is about the same, cooking exp was nerfed significantly, but most importantly you can only choose one out of the four.

If you only care about CP then the rate will be about the same, but you won’t be getting an extra ~940 silver of added value to each cook that you used to get with old byproducts.

 

Patch Notes Copy

  • The Byproducts you can obtain through Cooking or Alchemy have been updated.

Cooking and Alchemy Byproducts have been updated.

Cooking and Alchemy Byproducts are one of the first contents of Black Desert which reflect the game’s philosophy that any content can lead to a character’s growth. However, because of their huge variety, they used to occupy a lot of space in the message of items produced, and also affected your Inventory as well as its weight. Hence we have been considering narrowing down the variety of the byproducts while enhancing their concept as we tried to figure out the ways of improving the convenience of the game for our players. Now we are ready to show you the result of our efforts.

You will now obtain only one kind of byproduct with Cooking or Alchemy, instead of many. You can still exchange this new byproduct for an item that you wish as before. Also, with this change, you can now obtain all items at once, which will allow you to focus on what you want. We tried to keep the exchange ratio given that this “obtaining all at once” would be possible, but the level at which, for instance, Contribution could be exchanged for byproducts was already set very high, so we have unfortunately decreased this ratio. However, we will try to investigate the ways in which our players could enjoy Cooking and Alchemy contents more meaningfully, and continue with the updates.

  • You can randomly obtain “Witch’s Delicacy” through Cooking.
  • You can randomly obtain “Mysterious Catalyst” through Alchemy.

 

*You can exchange the Witch’s Delicacy with Nadia Rowen of Olvia.
Witch’s Delicacy x10 Beer x500
Witch’s Delicacy x10 Milk x120
Witch’s Delicacy x10

Contribution EXP 900 +

Cooking EXP x30