I scanned the first few pages of Dev Corner and didn’t see this suggested, so forgive me if this is a repeat!

A lot of the time I find myself running out of ingredients for specific luncheon options when I’m trying to give boosts to the same jobs and adventuring stats multiple days in a row, and it can be kind of frustrating when I need just one more broccoli and my farmers decide to grow everything except broccoli for 3 days straight. Plus with a full village the ingredient costs can get pretty high!

I think it would be neat to have a specialty role that decreases luncheon ingredient costs by a certain percentage, similar to how the merchant role decreases the cost of out of season shop items. I think a chef or cook role would make a lot of sense for this purpose, and they could use their perception stat (or perhaps finesse?) to decrease the ingredient cost by, say, 5%, 10%, or 15% depending on how high the stat is. Not a huge discount but enough to make a difference in the long term.

As for the requirements for unlocking the role, I think that crafting a kitchen or mess hall building would make sense, plus it would also be a nice indoor space to place bakers in scenes.

support! it would be really useful because luncheons take a lot to do everyday, plus the idea of having a chef cat and kitchen building would be cute (and useful for scenes too ive been wanting more kitchen like stuff for a while)

support!! i think this would be super useful and also would add another spot in the village through a specialty role... which is desperately needed

Oh this sounds really cute! And useful! Support.

Chef was a super popular suggestion back on the specialty roles mega-thread in here before Village Lodge released! I would love this ability a lot and support it again.

As for stats, I would love to see stats that aren't normally used for specialty roles. Using Dedication and then something like Finesse, Cleverness, or Perception would be cool. I know Cleverness is used already for Doctor and Teacher but it makes sense to cleverly come up with recipes to use less but still get the same amount

i would love this! wonder if health could potentially be used...?

this is really useful! support c:

I would love this, support!

Support!

Support ^~^! Finesse and dedication might make sense. Benevolence might make sense too, since they would be interacting with the cats they’re feeding.