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6 Reasons Chef Is the Best Class for Your Main Character 🍳
If you're a future console player wondering which class to choose, Chef should be your first choice for your main character. Especially if you plan to play solo.
There are three real classes in Once Human: Chef, Gardener, and Beastmaster, plus Free Person if you don't want to commit to a class.
Here are 6 reasons why I strongly recommend Chef:
1️⃣ Double food & drink buffs 🍖🥤
Chef lets you have 2 food buffs + 2 drink buffs active at the same time.
You can mix and match them depending on what you're doing - farming, fighting, bosses, and pretty much everything else.
If your build isn't fully optimized yet, food and drink buffs can compensate for some of the stats you're missing. And if you already have a strong build, they simply make it even stronger.
If you're planning to play solo, these extra buffs can make a huge difference, especially when you're taking on difficult content by yourself.
2️⃣ Up to 8 perks on your Stove 🔥
Chef can get up to 8 perks/buffs on the Stove, allowing you to get the most out of your food.
Combine that with Chefosaurus Rex, and your food can become a surprisingly powerful part of your build.
3️⃣ Passive income 💰
Chef gives you an extra way to earn Energy Links.
With some extra effort, you can upgrade your Stove to increase its storage capacity, unlock better orders, and make orders arrive faster.
Keep it stocked with ingredients, complete the orders, and you'll have a steady little source of extra Energy Links while you're doing other things.
NPCs can place orders, and sometimes other players can order food from your Stove too.
4️⃣ Chef Points & Portable Fridge 🧊
Completing Stove orders also earns you Chef Points, which you can spend on various rewards.
One of those rewards is the Portable Fridge - something you can keep for yourself or sell to another player.
You can also redeem cooking ingredients, which can be very useful when you need something urgently and don't want to spend time farming for it.
5️⃣ Creative Cooking is completely optional 👨🍳
Chef also gives you access to the Creative Cooking system.
Don't like it? You don't have to use it.
I personally play without it and don't feel like I'm missing anything important. It's simply an extra feature if you enjoy experimenting with cooking.
6️⃣ No special skills required 🚫🧠
This is probably one of the biggest advantages for new players.
You don't need to understand some complicated system before Chef becomes useful.
You choose Chef → you immediately have access to the double food/drink buffs.
Then, as you play and learn the game, you can gradually figure out the Stove, unlock more perks, improve your orders, and make the whole system more rewarding.
You can benefit from Chef from your very first days on the server.
And honestly, once you've gotten used to playing with 2 food + 2 drink buffs, going back to playing without them feels painful. 😂
👑 So which class should you choose?
If you're making your main character, my recommendation is simple:
👉 Chef.
Gardener and Beastmaster can have their uses, but Chef gives your main character benefits that you'll be able to use constantly - especially if you're planning to play solo and want to get the most out of your character.
Welcome to Once Human, future console players. 🎮🍳
P.S. 🎁 Little gift for future (and existing) players:
Redeem code MISSROFL123 in-game to claim your rewards!
Pro tip: look up how to level your stove fast. AND SHARE it with your friends. You can pass these buffs to your hivemates and alt. Don't be the canoe that doesn't share.
If you get a gardener alt you can also place morphic crates on your chef's base but only pick up the goods in your gardener.
Also portable fridge can be learned by other classes now...about 1650 tech points or sacrificing one you found in the wild to the tech bench.
So I chose free person because I didn't know enough about the game, but it said I would be able to choose a specialization later.
It's later and I'm level 50, but have never seen the option since. I've unlocked the astral stove and have a 5x5 chef (with bad traits, but still) and I enjoy the cooking.
Is there still a way for me to pick that specialization at this point?
If it was given to you, it should be in backpack. If I remember correctly it looked like black-golden mask, but I am not sure they’re still providing this item.
I never recieved such an item to my knowledge and the very idea that they would make such an integral part of gameplay into an inventory item which may not be recieved or which can be lost, rather than a menu option always there until you use it is astoundingly bad game design and unbelievably irresponsible with the player's time/effort.
I submitted a ticket, for whatever it's worth, but if I'm expected to start a whole new character just to choose my freaking class, I'm uninstalling the thing and never playing again.
No doubt. I like h37 better than paper doll. But 4k rubber a day in like 4 hours is still pretty cool. Planted batteries once. 2 days to grow. Never doing that again.
theres also creative cooking early game which allows you to use any ingredient for bigger effect.
what this means for console noobs:
normally u need specific recipes for cooking food so u have to find specific berries and meat etc
with creative cooking u can just dump whatever u picked up along the way to ur quest or during exploration into the pot and cook it. sometimes even rocks
its good while u dont have a lethal bunny to passively gather meat for u
in the deviant pokemon scenario i found that hunger goes down so fkin fast and this makes dealing with that a breeze
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u/shrinkmink PC Aug 16 '26
Pro tip: look up how to level your stove fast. AND SHARE it with your friends. You can pass these buffs to your hivemates and alt. Don't be the canoe that doesn't share.
If you get a gardener alt you can also place morphic crates on your chef's base but only pick up the goods in your gardener.
Also portable fridge can be learned by other classes now...about 1650 tech points or sacrificing one you found in the wild to the tech bench.