Spicy stew

Spicy stews are normal stews with special spices from Evil Dave added to the stew. They are members' only and can temporarily increase or decrease a player's skill levels.

Spicy stews are available only to those who have started the Recipe for Disaster quest, and have completed to the Evil Dave subquest.

Making the spicy stew

 * First get a regular stew by cooking or buying. Stew may be bougth in Seer's village at the Forester's Arms Pub for 20 coins.


 * Get the spices
 * go to Evil Dave's basement in the house west of the Edgeville bank
 * get a cat (or hellcat) to chase the hellrats
 * when the cat successfully captures a hellrat, it will drop a spice shaker, one of 4 colours, which may have up to 4 doses of that colour in them.
 * Add up to 3 doses of a colour spice to the regular stew to get a spicy stew.

Skills affected
A spicy stew can temporarily boost or lose skill levels. The colours will determine what skills will be affected by the stew as determined in the table.

Skill gain or loss
The doses will determine how much a skill will gain or lose as noted in the table. This is the maximum number of level gain or loss. For example, if the number is 6, the gain/loss may be any number between 0 and 6.

A player can also try putting 3 doses of each colour in to get an extremely variable stew.

Eating multiple stews
Only one stew can be made at the time, but the player can have several normal stews in their inventory along with several spices, and mix the next one after consuming the previously made spicy stew.

As with all player temporary skill boosts, the spicy stew will not boost higher than the player's natural skill level plus the boost amount. However, the negative boosts can keep taking the players skill level down.

For example, if the player starts with a skill level of 50, and takes several spicy stews the effects could be something like:

This boost gain limitation also applies to other player temporary boosts. For example, in construction, the tea (which can give a boost of up to +3) cannot be used with spicy stew to get +9 (the best is still the +6). However, item boosts (like the crystal saw, which gives +3 to construction) will still add on top of the players temporary boosts.