Kitchen Equipment
The decision this page helps you make: which burner do you gear up, and for which recipe? Kitchen equipment slots onto a cooking burner and modifies that cook — so you put your best gear on the burner running your hardest or most valuable recipe, to lift its odds and its rarity output.
Kitchen equipment boosts cooking. It is a completely separate system from Avatar equipment (Weapon / Shield / Body / Boots / Hat), which boosts your fighters in Journey and Arena. Different items, different slots, different screen. The app shows a (Kitchen) pill so you can tell them apart.
How it works — the burner snapshot
Each cooking burner (slot) has its own equipment. When you start a cook, the burner snapshots whatever gear is on it at that moment. Everything the equipment does is baked in at start:
- Success rate — equipment adds to it additively (
cook_success_pct). More gear points = a higher chance the cook succeeds. - Cook time — equipment sets the cook's time (
time_to_cook_pct). Better gear shortens the timer. - Rarity-upgrade chance — equipment sets the roll (
result_rarity_pct) that can bump the output one rarity tier.
Because the burner snapshots at start, removing or swapping gear mid-cook doesn't change that cook's outcome — it only affects the next cook you start on that burner. So gear the burner before you hit Start.
Cultivators grow your ingredient supply passively; equipment makes each cook pay off more. Gear a burner to raise the success, speed, and rarity of the specific recipe you're about to run on it.
Equipment stat lines now display as flat points — a piece shows "+12 Skill", not "+12% Skill". The recipe-success curve takes the sum of points across your rack and converts that into a probability: gear equal to half the recipe's threshold lands you at ~75% success, gear equal to the full threshold at ~95%, and only gear beyond the threshold creeps toward the 99.99% ceiling.
Concretely, six perfect Mythicals on a maxed rack adds up to ~120 total stat points. The full stat ranges below were re-rolled today against the new system — every existing equipment token was re-issued under the new bands.
The 6 slots, walkthrough
Kitchen equipment has 6 typed slots; a burner holds one piece per slot. There's no Tune-In gate on the slots themselves — they just start empty. The slot taxonomy is kitchen-flavored and has nothing to do with Avatar equipment's Weapon / Shield / Body / Boots / Hat, which is a different system for your fighters. The UI shows a (Kitchen) pill on each piece to keep them distinct.
| Slot | What it is (kitchen-flavored) | Standard piece | Rare piece | Mythical piece |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | The main heat source / cooktop | Pulse Hearth | Plasma Range | Singularity Skillet |
| Secondary | Mixing / agitation tool | Sonic Spinner | Harmonic Mixer | Quasar Whisk |
| Vest | Torso garment (apron / smock) | Stardust Apron | Spectrum Smock | Void Carapace |
| Cap | Headwear (toque / beanie / halo) | Quantum Toque | Pulsar Beanie | Frequency Halo |
| Gloves | Hands | Echo Mitts | Heat-Sink Gauntlets | Gravity Grips |
| Tool | Hand-held implement (spoon / ladle / spatula) | Spectral Spoon | Resonant Ladle | Singularity Spatula |
What each slot contributes
Each slot is functionally identical in what kinds of stat lines it can roll — Primary doesn't favor Skill over Elegance, for example. The slot exists to structure your loadout — one piece per slot, no doubling up.
Every equipped piece adds flat points to one, two, or three of the three axes:
| Axis | "Stat line type" in the data | Plain-English |
|---|---|---|
| Skill | cook_success_pct | Adds points to your Skill total → raises success rate |
| Speed | time_to_cook_pct | Adds points to your Speed total → shortens cook timer |
| Elegance | result_rarity_pct | Adds points to your Elegance total → raises rarity-upgrade roll chance |
(The _pct suffix is a legacy field name in the data, kept for backward compatibility. The numbers are flat points, not percentages. A piece showing "+12 Skill" adds 12 points to your Skill total. See Advanced — The Three Stat Axes for the math.)
Stat lines roll per piece at mint (new ranges 2026-05-20)
Every equipment piece rolls a tier-dependent number of stat lines at mint, within its tier band. The 2026-05-20 rebalance set these ranges:
| Tier | Stat lines | Points per stat | How many stats roll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 1 stat | +3 to +5 | Always 1 |
| Rare | 1–2 stats | +6 to +10 | 80% chance of 1 stat, 20% chance of 2 |
| Mythical | 2–3 stats | +11 to +20 | 80% chance of 2 stats, 20% chance of 3 |
A perfect Mythical (max roll on every line, 3 stats) caps near +60 points per piece. A full 6-piece Mythical rack tops out around ~120 total points across Skill / Speed / Elegance combined.
Effects stack additively across the rack. Two pieces with +5 Skill stack to +10 Skill. Two pieces with +8 Speed stack to +16 Speed. Equip more, get more — gear equal to the recipe's full threshold lands you near 95% success, and the 95% → 99.99% band beyond that is asymptotic, so more gear keeps helping but with steep diminishing returns.
Leveling — Reforge via Cook
Equipment levels 1 → 10. Leveling multiplies each of the piece's already-rolled stat lines by +5% per level (L1 = ×1.00, L10 = ×1.45) — it doesn't re-roll the piece, it scales the lines it already has. Your Singularity Skillet's Skill points are worth ~45% more at L10 than at L1.
Equipment levels up through a dedicated Reforge cook recipe — not a cash payment. Open the piece in the rack, hit the Reforge → L+1 button, and the kitchen does the rest.
How it works
- Open the piece — tap the equipped item in the rack to open its detail modal.
- Hit Reforge — the modal shows a
L{current} → L{next}chip and a Reforge → L+1 button. Tap it. - Cook Start opens pre-targeted — the cook recipe is bound to this specific equipped piece. You don't pick the recipe; the modal opens straight into the ingredient grid for the matching transition.
- Pick ingredients — 4 ingredients per Reforge cook (Plating, Ingot, Spark, Shard), all from the same tier band:
- L1 → L4 uses Standard tier (cids 193 / 187 / 204 / 198)
- L4 → L7 uses Rare tier (cids 195 / 189 / 206 / 200)
- L7 → L10 uses Mythical tier (cids 197 / 191 / 208 / 202)
- Hold to Cook — same gesture as any other cook. Both the Equipment detail modal AND the Cook Start modal close once the cook starts; you land back on the kitchen view.
- UPGRADING overlay — while the cook is in flight, the slot's tile shows an UPGRADING overlay. You can't start a second Reforge against the same piece — pick a different slot or wait.
- Claim → auto-redeem — when the timer hits zero and you tap Claim, the equipment level bumps in the same response. You get a toast:
⚒️ Equipment leveled up · L→L+1.
Reforge ladder reference
The full L1 → L10 ladder is published for all 6 slots (54 recipes total). Cook time and ingredient quantity scale by band:
| Transition | Tier | Plating × | Ingot × | Spark × | Shard × | Cook time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L1 → L2 | Standard | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 60 min |
| L2 → L3 | Standard | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 60 min |
| L3 → L4 | Standard | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 60 min |
| L4 → L5 | Rare | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 90 min |
| L5 → L6 | Rare | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 90 min |
| L6 → L7 | Rare | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 90 min |
| L7 → L8 | Mythical | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 120 min |
| L8 → L9 | Mythical | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 120 min |
| L9 → L10 | Mythical | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 120 min |
The kL gate on the recipe (Kitchen Level required to attempt) scales 5 / 15 / 30 across the Standard / Rare / Mythical bands. RSNC cost = 0 — you only pay the ingredient inputs.
The cook output is a marker collection — there's no rarity-upgrade roll involved. The Cook Start modal hides the Elegance variant picker on Reforge recipes so you can't accidentally swap to a higher-tier ingredient for an Elegance bonus that has no effect.
Things to know
- The burner shows the equipment piece, not a placeholder. The Reforge marker output (collection 1135) has no art; the kitchen swaps in your piece's hero image so a vest cook shows your vest, a primary cook shows your primary, etc.
- You can run multiple Reforges in parallel — one per slot. Three slots reforging at once = three burners occupied for the duration. (Make sure you have the temp slots to spare — see Recipes and Cooking — Cooking slots.)
- If a transition isn't shipped yet, the modal says "Upgrade recipe coming soon" instead of the Reforge button. The full L1 → L10 ladder shipped 2026-06-04 so all transitions are live today; this guard is here for any future content gap.
- Auto-bind defense. Even on edge-case paths where the binding doesn't reach the cook row (a stale tab, a race), the backend looks up your equipped piece for the recipe's slot and bumps the right token. You won't lose a Reforge to a "null target" silent failure.
Pricing (mint)
| Tier | USDSC | RSNC (pre-Tune-In discount) |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $5 | 5,000 |
| Rare | $15 | 15,000 |
| Mythical | $50 | 50,000 |
Pay-or-Play parity applies — Tune-In discount on the RSNC side only.
Legendary equipment is not directly mintable. Legendary pieces come only from:
- The L60+ Apotheosis chain recipe (one Legendary per slot per successful cook)
- The Apotheosis Gacha Pack ($50 USDSC / 50,000 RSNC — random slot)
See Advanced — L60+ Apotheosis for the gating + math.
Where each tier of equipment comes from
| Source | Tier | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace | Standard, Rare, Mythical | Direct mint, any slot |
| Mailbox | Standard mostly, occasional Rare | Random slot |
| Flash recipe — Tidal Tartare | Rare | Random slot |
| Limited recipe — Quasar Quiche | Mythical | Random slot |
| L40 Tier-Up chain | Mythical | You pick the slot (3 Rare slot pieces + Mythic ingredient catalyst → 1 Mythic of the same slot) |
| L60+ Apotheosis chain | Legendary | You pick the slot, but with soft stat-gate + 40% success rate |
| Apotheosis Gacha Pack | Legendary | Random slot, premium price |
Strategy notes
- Start with the cheapest path to a meaningful Skill floor. Filling all six slots with cheap Standard pieces (six × 5K RSNC = 30K RSNC) stacks a solid pile of Skill points before you chase Mythicals — every point adds additively to your rack total.
- Don't over-equip Skill. Once you're past 95% success rate on the recipes you actually run, additional Skill points hit the asymptotic band. Rotate those into Speed or Elegance.
- For Limited / Apotheosis recipes, prioritize Elegance. Low base success rates (30–45%) mean Skill matters, but Result Rarity matters more — the whole point of the recipe is the rare output, and Elegance procs are how you upgrade or double the result. See Advanced — Variant Elegance.
- A full cheap rack beats a half-filled expensive one. Six Standard pieces all rolling Skill can out-total a mismatched four-piece Rare loadout — filled slots and stacked points are what move the curve.
- Reforge before you re-buy. Leveling a piece 1 → 10 raises its stat ceiling within its tier band and is often cheaper than buying another Mythical.
See also
- Kitchen Quickstart — your first walkthrough
- Recipes and Cooking — what your equipment modifies
- Advanced Guide — the point system + Apotheosis math
- Reference — stat bands in one table
- Avatar Equipment — the SEPARATE gear system for your fighters