Recipes
Recipes are not just for cooking. There are recipes for crafting, for some roleplay occupations, for gardening, and yes, for cooking.
Recipes can be found all over the SecondLife world. That’s right. MyLife does not ship preloaded with recipes that you unlock as you level up. MyLife is based around the principles of roleplay, interaction, discovery, learning, and using the items and locations in SecondLife already available to everyone in order to progress.
Recipes are not unlocked until you discover them. As with all things in MyLife, the system encourages exploration and roleplay. It is through these activities and using the MyPhone (your system HUD) and MyHub, that you will begin to make your first discoveries. If you followed the short tutorial walk-through when you first unpacked and added your MyPhone and MyMeter, you undoubtedly discovered your first recipe, which in turn unlocked a skill point–cooking and/or crafting depending on the type of recipe you first discovered.
Discovery of recipes are necessary in order to unlock the cooking and other crafting skills that utilize recipes. You can also purchase books on recipes and cooking to improve these skills.
As you gain proficiency at a particular recipe the quality of the item you’re cooking/crafting improves, which in turns give better stats, but it also improves your skill level. Once your skill level is high enough, you will be able to write your own Recipe books. Books take a long time to complete but once done you receive an achievement reward and can then sell the item or trade it to other MyLife users.
Because Recipes are only unlocked as you discover them, or in rarer cases, find ones for purchase, the pages for recipes are only viewable to those Users who have reached the correct skill level and have unlocked the recipe.
You can track your recipe knowledge, along with other crucial stats on your MyProfile page.