Warly skill tree suggestions

[2jungho0]

Disclaimer:
- This post is simply a fan-made idea. The numbers and balance values are only rough examples to illustrate the concept, not carefully tested figures. Also, I know my naming sense isn’t the best. Thanks for your understanding.

- I am not a native English speaker, and I relied on AI translation to share this with the community. Please understand if some expressions sound unusual.

- Even if my idea itself isn’t adopted, I hope that any future skill tree updates will make Warly more than just a character who cooks food and then gets swapped out. I’d love to see him become someone with lasting appeal worth playing consistently—much like the Winona update achieved.
I kept that in mind while writing this, but I know there are still many shortcomings. If you have feedback or better ideas, please feel free to share them.

Cooking Station Skills

Sterile Crockpot

• When Warly cooks in his Portable crockpot, food always comes out at maximum freshness, and dishes stored inside never spoil.
• Solid, reliable skill. Could also be useful for food displays.

Seasonings Cooking

• Warly can add seasonings directly as ingredients in his cookpot. Seasonings don’t have veggies/sweeteners values.
• Kind of a trash skill, but seasonings don’t expire and you can use salt to make meatballs, so it’s not completely useless.

Experienced Chef I

• Reduces cookpot cooking time.
• Another solid, straightforward skill.

Experienced Chef II

• Warly uses one fewer ingredient in the grinder, and seasoning time is reduced.
• Example: normally 3 peppers → 2 chili flakes, but now 2 peppers → 2 chili flakes. Efficient, but since farming quickly floods you with seasonings, probably skippable in solo play.

Ham Bat Cooking License

• Warly can use salt on a Ham Bat to restore durability.
• He can also season Ham Bats permanently (cannot be removed or overwritten). Other players can use them too.
  • Chili Flakes: target takes dot damages, for a total of 5 damage.
  • Garlic Powder: doesn’t draw aggro if the mob is focused elsewhere (great for multiplayer aggro management)
  • Honey Crystals: slightly increases attack speed
  • Salt Crystals: slows spoilage rate
• I have an idea of "Planar Ham Bat", but do we need this? I dont know.

Dining Skills

Gourmet I

• Eating foods with lasting effects extends their duration.
• Works even on non-Warly-exclusive foods, like Jellybeans or Soothing Tea, etc..
•  Allies near Warly also benefit.
• Warly-exclusive dishes restore +20 Hunger / +10 Sanity / +10 Health (except Galette). This bonus ignores food healing penalties and applies to allies nearby, including Wormwood and Wortox.
• This is pretty strong, so I hope more Warly-exclusive food recipes will be added, even without special effects.

Gourmet II

• Special food effects are strengthened.
  • Jellybeans, Soothing Tea, Pearl's Tea: stronger values
  • Mushy Cake: grants full immunity to groggy/sleep during effect
  • Cordon Bleu: creates moisture absorption aura around the player (like Desiccant Pouch); Asparagus pacho, Chili Salad: creates temperature aura around the player.
  • Glow Berry Mousse: greatly increased radius (one screen wide), still shrinks over time. No glow Berry recipes, because I don’t like just cooking them and swapping character.
  • Stuffed Night Cap: you regenerate 20 health while sleeping
  • Thunder Jelly: makes struck mobs wet?(maybe  too strong)
  • Gloomy Galette: unclear how to buff, maybe leave as-is
• Allies near Warly also benefit.

Fine Dining I

• Foods seasoned with spices last longer. Allies also benefit.

Fine Dining II

• When Warly eats seasoned food, the effect is enhanced (Warly only).
  • Chili Flakes: adds AoE damage
  • Garlic Powder: adds +5 planar defense
  • Honey Crystals: Extra drops from mining or chopping
  • Seasoning Salt: increases also hunger restoration by 25%

 

Special Recipes

Wormhole Meal

• Ingredients: Moleworm, Fig (or other hassle to get stuff).
• If you feed it to a Wormhole, the Wormhole will follow you. (you can relocate the Wormhole)
• Lasts 3 minutes, or until you teleporting/using the Wormhole once. So you can't move Wormholes to islands. Usable by anyone.

 

Buoyancy Snack

• Ingredients: Collected Dust, Durian.
• Eating lets you walk on water for 30s.
• If time runs out or you die while over the ocean, you turn into a Sea Stack and become a ghost. If you have a way to revive, you can plant seaweed anywhere you want. Usable by anyone.
• Inspired by salt formation dialogue. Since salt can’t be put into the crockpot, I used Collected Dust as the ingredient instead; Durian chosen for its “monster food transformation” gimmick and to make a use for underused crops.)

 

Extra farming recipes (I don’t have ideas for dish names or ingredients, so I’ll just describe the effects)

• Gobbler Dish: berry harvest always spawns Gobbler
• Goat Dish: Killing Volt Goat yields double milk (charged only), 100% horn drop
• Butterfly Dish: catching butterflies has 50% chance to drop butter
• Koalefant Dish: footprint investigation always spawns Koalefant
• Barnacles Harvest Dish: Sea Sprout harvest doubled
• Fishing Dish: pond fishing yields double

I know, some of them are lame or too strong. The point is, Warly should be better at farming food ingredients.

Shadow Affinity: Purgatory Drink

• Ingredients: Bone Shard, Nightmare Fuel, Pomegranate, Ice.
• Grants a temporary shield (extra HP). maximum 50?
• Auto-unlocked when choosing Shadow Affinity.

Lunar Affinity: Moon Energy Drink

• Ingredients: Lune Tree Blossom, Moon Moth Wings, Watermelon, Ice.
• Boosts movement speed for a time. (yay coffee)
• Auto-unlocked when choosing Lunar Affinity.

 

Animal Husbandry Skills

Wobster Aquaculture

• Unlocks Wobster Den construction (can be built on sea stacks).

Barnacles Aquaculture

• Unlocks improved Sea Sprouts that don’t grow into Seaweed.

Goat Breeding

• Unlocks Goat Feed recipe. Feeding it to Volt Goats makes them spawn a new goat. (similar to minecraft breeding logic)
• Newborns follow the herd, but if born too far from habitat, they form a new herd.

Tallbird Raising

• Build Nests or something to fix Smallbird positions. Still need to feed them.
• Only Warly with the skill can manage it, and if left unattended for too long, it will stop spawning (like mermking)

Fisherman

• Throwing a Fish Food will instantly summon schools of fish.

Butcher

• When Warly kills small creatures, they drop a meat instead of a morsel.

 

Affinity Skills

Shadow Affinity:  Crockpot Upgrade

• Upgrades crockpot to produce triple(of double?) servings. Upgrade requires Dark Tatters and Pure Horror. Cooking consumes 1 Pure Horror as fuel. Without fuel, produces single servings.

 

Lunar Affinity: Seasoning Station Upgrade

• Upgrades seasoning station to season 3 dishes at once and strengthens spice effects. Consumes 1 Pure Brilliance as fuel. Without fuel, normal seasoning only.
  • Chili Flakes: adds +3 planar damage (not sure if it’s too weak or too strong, but the values are't important)
  • Garlic Powder: reflects blocked damage as planar damage (you can cheese amored bearger)
  • Honey Crystals: further increases tool efficiency, reduces durability consumption.
  • Seasoning Salt: adds +10 HP restoration unaffected by food healing penalties
  • Maybe add new seasonings? 
• Allies near Warly benefit from enhanced spice effects. If Warly has Fine Dining, effects stack.