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STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar - Complete Food Benefit Guide
This guide explains all the food benefits in STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar, including how they work, their effectiveness, and which ones are most recommended for different situations. It covers aspects such as increasing running speed, increasing maximum stamina, stamina saving, fishing rod durability, percentage of rare crops when watering, percentage of rare items when petting animals, increasing pet happiness, pet training, increasing friendship when chatting, and happy energy gain.
1. Introduction to food benefits and basic mechanics in Grand Bazaar
- ✅ Food provides very useful benefits in the game.
- ✅ Learning recipes is done by eating the dishes.
- ✅ A blue check indicates that you already know the recipe.
- ⚠️ Some dishes are obtained by mail, others in the cafe or bazaar shops, and others by winning festivals.
00:00 - 00:28
1. Introduction to food benefits and basic mechanics in Grand Bazaar
- ✅ Food provides very useful benefits in the game.
- ✅ Learning recipes is done by eating the dishes.
- ✅ A blue check indicates that you already know the recipe.
- ⚠️ Some dishes are obtained by mail, others in the cafe or bazaar shops, and others by winning festivals.
00:29 - 01:54
2. Ingredient quality, duration of effects, and how to stack benefits
- ✅ The star quality of a dish determines the amount of stamina it recovers and the duration of the benefit.
- ⚠️ Quality does not increase the strength of the benefit.
- ❌ You cannot stack multiple food benefits; each time you eat something, it replaces the current benefit.
- ✅ Some dishes replenish more stamina and allow you to maintain the benefit you already have.
01:55 - 04:33
3. 🏃♂️ Increase in running speed: Is it worth it?
- ✅ Running speed increase dishes are mainly found in the soup section.
- ✅ Egg soup and herb soup are easy to make.
- ✅ Corn soup is more demanding due to seasonal ingredients.
| Benefit | Effect |
|---|---|
| Egg Soup (Level 1) | 10% increase in running speed. |
| Corn Soup (Level 4) | 40% increase in running speed. |
- ✅ Jumping is faster and cheaper than using the level 1 speed boost.
- ✅ Higher level benefits are more powerful and worth it.
04:34 - 06:04
4. 💪 Increase in maximum stamina: Is it effective?
- ✅ Most of these dishes are in the side dish category and are easy to make.
- ✅ Boiled egg is level 1, and there are many level 2 and 3 options with simple ingredients.
| Benefit | Effect |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | Approximately 20% extra stamina. |
| Level 3 | 50% extra stamina. |
- ✅ The increase is not a percentage of your stamina, but a fixed amount.
- ✅ The lower your base stamina, the more noticeable the effect will be.
06:05 - 07:25
5. 🌿 Stamina saving vs. Maximum stamina increase
- ✅ Stamina saving makes your actions consume less stamina.
- ✅ Most of these dishes are in the salad category.
- ✅ If you already have high maximum stamina, stamina saving is better.
- ✅ If you don't have high maximum stamina, maximum stamina increase is better.
- ✅ The maximum stamina increase lasts longer and the recipes are easier to make.
07:26 - 08:21
6. 🎣 Increase in fishing rod durability: When to use it?
- ✅ These dishes are mainly found in soups.
- ✅ Onion soup is an easy level 3 to make.
- ✅ This benefit makes the fishing bar not decrease as quickly.
- ✅ It is useful for fishing garden fish or for an extended period.
- ✅ It is suggested to use at least a level 3 to feel the effect.
08:22 - 10:13
7. 🌱 Percentage of rare crops when watering: Impact and use
- ✅ This benefit increases the probability of growing rare variants of crops.
- ✅ Most of these recipes are in the salad category.
- ✅ Onion salad is an easy level 1 option, and mashed potatoes are level 2.
| Strategy | Results |
|---|---|
| Watering without benefit | 628 regular potatoes, 20 star potatoes. |
| Benefit only on the last day | 620 regular potatoes, 28 star potatoes. |
| Benefit every day | 516 regular potatoes, 132 star potatoes. |
- ✅ The effect is cumulative and makes a big difference if used daily.
- ✅ Rare crops are more valuable and give a 0.5 star bonus when transforming or cooking them.
10:14 - 11:37
8. 🐾 Percentage of rare items when petting animals: How does it work?
- ✅ These dishes are mainly desserts.
- ✅ Petting animals with the active benefit increases the probability that their next product will be of plus rarity.
| Condition | Results (5 days) |
|---|---|
| Without benefit | 3 animals gave plus products. |
| With benefit | 7 animals gave plus products. |
- ✅ The results are more than double with the benefit.
- ⚠️ Petting all the animals consumes time.
11:38 - 13:55
9. 💖 Increase in pet happiness: Long-term benefits
- ✅ Farm animals have two main stats: affection and happiness.
- ✅ Affection determines the star quality of the products.
- ✅ Happiness determines the chances of obtaining plus products.
- ✅ Happiness increase dishes are also in the dessert category.
| Condition | Results (5 days) |
|---|---|
| Without benefit | Minimum increase in happiness. |
| With benefit | Significant increase in happiness. |
- ✅ Increasing pet happiness is good in the long term for obtaining rare products regularly.
- ✅ Both benefits (petting rare item % and petting happiness up) can be used one after the other.
13:56 - 14:59
10. 🐕 Pet training: Increases the efficiency of your pets
- ✅ These dishes are in the beverage category.
- ✅ Pet training increases the number of animals they can herd.
| Condition | Results (5 days) |
|---|---|
| Without benefit | Increase from 7 llamas to 7.5 llamas. |
| With benefit | Increase from 7 llamas to 8.25 llamas. |
- ✅ Apple juice practically doubled the training effect.
- ✅ The more animals your pets can take care of, the more time you will have to make friends.
15:00 - 16:45
11. 🤝 Increase in friendship when chatting: Effective strategies
- ✅ Some of these recipes are in the side dish category, but most are in the beverages.
- ✅ You don't have to do everything yourself; you can buy drinks at the store.
| Action | Effect |
|---|---|
| Chat | Increases friendship. |
| Chat with drink | Significantly increases friendship. |
| Quick greeting | Minimally increases friendship. |
| Quick greeting with drink | Increases friendship more than a chat without a drink. |
- ✅ A quick greeting with a level 2 benefit is better than a chat without a benefit.
- ✅ Don't feel bad for just quickly greeting everyone in town; it will still benefit your relationships.
16:46 - 18:35
12. ✨ Happy energy gain: Is it worth the effort?
- ✅ Happy energy is the currency you get for doing almost anything in the game.
- ✅ These dishes increase the amount of happy energy you get.
- ✅ The dishes are: happy forest mix, happy mushroom fry, happy chef salad, and happy fruit platter.
| Level | Happy energy points |
|---|---|
| Without benefit | 30 |
| Level 1 | 36 |
| Level 2 | 45 |
| Level 3 | 60 |
| Level 4 | 90 |
- ✅ The happy energy increase is huge, but the last recipe requires a hard watermelon.
- ✅ It is not necessary to eat this food unless you challenge yourself to get everything from the sprites in a certain time.
- ✅ The amount of happy energy you get when leveling up the sprites is not affected by the benefit.
18:36 - 19:03
13. Conclusions and final recommendations on food benefits
- ✅ The most recommended benefits are increasing pet happiness and the percentage of rare crops when watering.