Drink Ingredients Everywhere, Food Ingredients Rare?

Marcusstratus · June 2015

This one has beverages coming out of his ears like a fountain, meanwhile his stomach rumbles like a thunderstorm.

It seems like every dungeon I go into is teaming with ingredients for drinks. Almost all the crates, sacks, and barrels I check have things to make beverages. However the fruit and veggies I come across are very few and far between, and the secondary ingredients such as seasoning or flour are even more rare. I can never find enough of these to cook anything. Where are they? Can anyone give tips as to where to find FOOD ingredients? (other than opening every crate, barrel, and sack, which I already do and am finding tedious and disappointing when it's yet again more isinglass or jasmine flowers). Is this just my bad luck? Or is anyone else having difficulty finding food ingredients?

Hlaadriel · June 2015

For bananas you can kill monkeys... or keep singing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFukyIIM1XI

Apples come in crate or here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHYkujOVPE

as for the meat you need to kill some of the animals, like the deers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZPMJj-X9M

much more interactive....

Nestor · June 2015

Marcusstratus wrote: »

Or is anyone else having difficulty finding food ingredients?

I find them both at about the same rate. Although, most of my Prov Ingredients come from Provisioning Writs. I also have 5 characters doing them so that helps to. One thing about the Writs, you will be asked for the same 3 foods and drinks 99% of the time. So, if you make a small stack (10 to 12) of the first ones you are asked to make, then the Writs become a Take the Writ and Deliver it type of operation. So, about 1 minute per writ, depending on how far away the drop off is.

You can also find ingredients in the Guild Kiosks. I have been selling a ton of them off my Prov Mule who has multiple 200 stacks of each ingredient. The results of doing the writs.

Tarukmockto · June 2015

@Marcusstratus: My experience is similar to that of Nestor. I find an equal amount of both. I also have 6 alts that all have Provisioning Hireling @ 3 and they all do the Provisioning Writs regularly. This yields plenty of varied mats for both food and drink.
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SirAndy · June 2015

Marcusstratus wrote: »

Can anyone give tips as to where to find FOOD ingredients?

8 chars all at provisioning level 50 with 3 points in hirelings each and my main sous chef is swimming in ingredients!

I don't even pick up provisioning stuff anymore ...

Marcusstratus · June 2015

So... I'm kind of getting the message 'forget gathering food ingredients, put points in hireling and do writs'. Unfortunately the first provisioning writ I got asked me to make a recipe I don't have - took about a week to find it, even searching in guild stores. And then it wants an ingredient I can't seem to find (garlic) even though I've bored myself to tears going through dungeons in different zones, looting all the containers. I must be cursed, lol! no Garlic to be found anywhere I go. And considering the enormous number of different recipes I saw while looking for that one I've been hesitant to even bother with more writs if I'm just going to keep being asked for stuff I can't make.

sigh...

Anyways, thanks for the advice (I'm not being sarcastic there, I do appreciate people taking the time to respond), at least I know I really should stop obsessively and tediously searching crates and sacks. I have noticed that it seems like food ingredients mostly come from named containers (like apple basket, and saltrice sack) while all the un-named ones seem to have beverage stuff 99% of the time - (I have found fish once and cheese twice out of un-named baskets, but otherwise it's all beverage stuff or in the case of baskets there's often random armor). I'm just wondering if things like cheese or millet or bananas Ever come out of crates and barrels? I do plenty of hunting so meat isn't a problem, but flour and seasoning are like... finding a Rekuta. Most of the time things like 'millet sacks' are empty.

Nestor · June 2015

Marcusstratus wrote: »

I've been hesitant to even bother with more writs if I'm just going to keep being asked for stuff I can't make. sigh...

99% of the time there are 3 foods and 3 drinks that the writs ask for. You can buy the recipes in the Guild Kiosk, or or even buy the crafted stuff in a Kiosk for the writs. Once you buy the stacks or have the recipes, then Writs are easy and a great source of ingredients and recipes. Its just getting past the first few recipes that is the trick.

Worse comes to worse, drop the quest and pick it up again tomorrow. Although the odds of being asked for the same thing again is high, see the first sentence.

SirAndy · June 2015

Marcusstratus wrote: »

So... I'm kind of getting the message 'forget gathering food ingredients, put points in hireling and do writs'. Unfortunately the first provisioning writ I got asked me to make a recipe I don't have - took about a week to find it, even searching in guild stores. And then it wants an ingredient I can't seem to find (garlic) even though I've bored myself to tears going through dungeons in different zones, looting all the containers. I must be cursed, lol! no Garlic to be found anywhere I go. And considering the enormous number of different recipes I saw while looking for that one I've been hesitant to even bother with more writs if I'm just going to keep being asked for stuff I can't make. sigh...

Anyways, thanks for the advice (I'm not being sarcastic there, I do appreciate people taking the time to respond), at least I know I really should stop obsessively and tediously searching crates and sacks. I have noticed that it seems like food ingredients mostly come from named containers (like apple basket, and saltrice sack) while all the un-named ones seem to have beverage stuff 99% of the time - (I have found fish once and cheese twice out of un-named baskets, but otherwise it's all beverage stuff or in the case of baskets there's often random armor). I'm just wondering if things like cheese or millet or bananas Ever come out of crates and barrels? I do plenty of hunting so meat isn't a problem, but flour and seasoning are like... finding a Rekuta. Most of the time things like 'millet sacks' are empty.

If you ever run across our Guild Trader (The Sidekick Order) we have 30+ recipes in the store at any given time, many low level ones too. They sell well and we restock them daily.

Named containers are a good world source of mats. You might also want to consider joining a crafting guild. Both crafting guilds i'm a member of have plenty of stacks of provisioning mats in the guild bank.

For higher level mats, you might also consider teleporting to a friend in a higher level zone. As long as you stay to the roads you should be safe from mobs and there's usually plenty of containers in the main zone city.