Cook's Assistant

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Cook's Assistant (#1)

Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members only?	No
Quest series	None
Official difficulty	Novice
Official length	Short
Developer	Original: Paul Gower Rework: Chihiro Y Second improvement: Fred M

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Cook's Assistant is the first RuneScape quest ever released.<ref name="BHS">Jagex. "Behind the Scenes - March". 6 March 2006. RuneScape News. *</ref> In the quest, players must obtain a bucket of top-quality milk, a super large egg, and a pot of extra fine flour. They need to give the items to the cook, who requires the ingredients to make a cake for Duke Horacio.

This quest was one of the six available during RuneScape's launch, and was originally developed by Paul Gower. It has since gone through a rework and another improvement which introduced different ingredients and additional rewards.

Official description

“	The Lumbridge Castle cook is in a mess. It is the Duke of Lumbridge's birthday and the cook is making the cake. He needs a lot of ingredients and doesn't have much time.	”
	— Game Guide<ref name="Guide">Jagex. Cook's Assistant. RuneScape Game Guide.*</ref>

Walkthrough

Start point:	Speak to the cook in the kitchen of Lumbridge Castle.
Members only:	No
Official difficulty:	Novice
Description:	None
Length:	Short<ref name="Guide">Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified.*</ref>
Requirements:	None
Items required:	A bucket (can be obtained during the quest) An empty pot (can be obtained during the quest)
Enemies to defeat:	None

The Lumbridge cook

Starting point

A feast for a Duke

To begin the quest, talk to the cook in the Lumbridge Castle's kitchen, which is on the ground floor. He tells you that it is Duke Horacio's birthday, and he is supposed to prepare a cake for the celebration, but he has forgotten to bring some of the ingredients required for the cake. Thus, he requires you to bring him a bucket of top-quality milk, a super large egg, and a pot of extra fine flour.

Obtaining the ingredients

Before heading off to collect the ingredients, it is advised to take the empty pot sitting on the table in the kitchen, to collect the flour with. The bucket for collecting the milk can be obtained right next to the prized cow, in the cattle pen east of the River Lum and south of the chicken farm, next to the prized dairy cow from whom the top-quality milk is collected. One could alternatively buy both of the items in a general store.

Useful locations

Top-quality milk

A bucket of top-quality milk may be obtained from the Lumbridge cow field. To do this, simply use a bucket on the prized dairy cow to receive a bucket of Top-quality milk.

Super large egg

To obtain a super large egg, visit the chicken farm in Lumbridge, east of the River Lum, and pick up the super large egg there. The egg can also be found outside Fred the Farmer's farm, which is north of Lumbridge Castle and south-east of Mill Lane Mill, a local windmill.

Extra fine flour

Lastly, to obtain the extra fine flour, you should pick up some wheat from the field west of Fred the Farmer's farm, leave the field, and head north to Mill Lane Mill. Speak to Millie Miller about making extra fine flour before climbing to the top floor, so she can convert regular flour into the extra fine kind by realigning millstones. Use the grain with the hopper and operate the hopper controls, in order to cause the grain to grind. Finally, head down to the ground floor and empty the flour bin by clicking on it.

Delivery

To wrap up, take the ingredients back to the cook in the castle. Speak to him for the final time, and give him the ingredients to complete the quest.

Rewards

The following are rewarded to you upon completion of the quest:

• 1 quest point
• 300 Cooking experience
• 500 coins
• 20 sardines
• Permission to use the Cook-o-matic 25 range, which has a lesser ratio of burning food than other ranges.
• 2 extra spins on the Squeal of Fortune

If you have completed the quest before the update that awards 20 sardines and 500 coins, you can claim them at any time by speaking to the cook.

Required for completing

The completion of Cook's Assistant is a requirement to complete the following:

• Recipe for Disaster
• Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks:
  • Medium: "A Meal Fit For a Duke"
  • Hard: "Have your Cake and Eat It"

Development and release

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Paul and Andrew Gower

Cook's Assistant was first released on 4 January 2001 on the launch of RuneScape Classic, the same day The Restless Ghost, Demon Slayer, Romeo & Juliet, Shield of Arrav and Sheep Shearer quests were released. It was originally developed by Paul Gower, one of the co-founders of Jagex.<ref name="Co-founders">IP Profile: RuneScape. Develop. 19 May 2008.*</ref> Andrew Gower, another co-founder,<ref name="Co-founders"></ref> originally did the conversion, while Nishal K did the QuestHelp and Ian T did the audio for the quest.<ref name="Guide">Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified.*</ref>

The quest has been reworked since its release. The rework was developed by Chihiro Y, the Quality Assurance was done by Daniel G, and the graphics were done by Matt M.<ref name="Guide">Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified.*</ref>

Another improvement was implemented on 15 December 2009.<ref>Mod Srowley. Patch Notes - Archive. RuneScape Forums. 16 December 2009. (Archived from the original on 8 July 2011.)*</ref> The 500 coins and 20 sardines rewards were added with it. The improvement also changed the type of ingredients that were required. Beforehand, players only had to bring an ordinary egg, bucket of milk and flour to the cook, which meant that they could just finish the quest by talking to the cook twice with the ingredients ready. The second improvement was developed by Fred M, the Quality Assurance was done by Dean O and James H, and the graphics were done by Alec V, Giuseppe G, and Daniel J.<ref name="Guide">Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified.*</ref>

Reception and sequel

In a 2007 poll, 3% of players voted that Cook's Assistant was their favourite novice quest. In another poll in the same year, 50% of players voted that it was the first quest they completed. A sequel to the quest, Recipe for Disaster,<ref name="BHS"></ref> was released on 15 March 2006.<ref name="Sequel">Jagex. "Hundredth Quest - Recipe for Disaster!". 15 March 2006. RuneScape News. *</ref>

References

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