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Have you tasted the Teltier Noodles? I know a little place outside of Coronet that serves them with Corellian Ale and it really hits the spot...

I love shish-kabobbed Gruuvan Shaal, all brown and crispy after I've been in the Talus outback hunting Tortur hides. It fills me with a feeling of health and well being...the way it felt when my mother used to make it.

I love top shelf Vasarian Brandy, served neat, in this little cantina outside of Keren that sells for prices usually reserved for good spices. It's full of action and keeps me going when I'm out chasing bounties.

I love a fluffy Won Won right out of the oven. I always seem to do a better job of blasting pirates after gobbling down a tasty pastry.

I love all the wonderful foods out there in the galaxy. They fill me up and really give me a competitive edge while I'm making my way across the landscape, no matter what I'm doing. The trick is knowing which foods go together and which don't.

What's on the Menu?

Chefs and Artisans in Star Wars Galaxies™ can cook up a wide variety of foods, drinks and desserts that do a lot more than just fill up your character's belly. Devouring foods and drinks in Galaxies can offer you a lot of great benefits.

Foods can offer a wide variety of buffs and bonuses that can get you out of a tight spot and there are even some foods to help your pets. Getting the most out of the various foods comes from knowing what to eat and knowing what the benefits are.

Tired of spending the afternoon taking a dirtnap while incapacitated? Have some Cavellian Creams. They are the "little food that could". They will reduce the amount of time you spend incapacitated. Some say they even help duelists win the day.

Having a tough day dodging hits? Get yourself some Pikatta Pie. Eating dessert before dinner is always fun and the bonus to your dodge will definitely help. Some will argue otherwise, but we think you should try it out for yourself.

Need to regenerate yourself after a tough battle? Pull some Blob Candy and Spiced tea out of your backpack to quicken the pace and get back into the action.

Stop missing out on the little advantages that can make a big difference when it means the most. There are chefs and artisans out there who want to sell you the best they have to offer and what they are selling could mean the difference between winning a duel, taking down a rancor or improving your chances at surviving a mean quest. If you can't find what you're looking for in your neck of the galaxy, then find a Chef to cook it up for you. I have it on good authority that chefs like to cook and if you find a great chef, you should see if they can hook you up with a standing order! Don't wait for the right dish to come along, go out there and get it!

An in Depth look at the SWG food Menu

Straight from the center of the galaxy is a menu of the various foods that can be found in Star Wars Galaxies™. When you're looking over the menu, you'll notice that next to the name of the food, there is a "Max Filling" column. For Chefs and Artisans, "Max Filling" is the lowest possible filling rating for the food item. When you purchase a food item, you may find numbers higher than 45.

A "best" Max Filling is a lower number because it takes up less stomach space. For instance, if you look at Vasarian Brandy on the menu, it shows a Max Filling of 45. If you look at the example of Vasarian Brandy below, you will notice it has a filling of 48. 45 is better than 48 because it has a lower filling.

This is important because the maximum amount of possible stomach space is 100, whether you're a spry Bothan or a portly Wookiee.

The next morsel of information in the next column is the "Buff Priority". A "Buff Priority" is one of the key secrets to good eating because it will help you figure out how to stack your food buffs. There are so many foods in the galaxy that some of these culinary concoctions can get pretty confusing. The next thing you know, you'll be chasing down some Kanali Wafers with some Breath of Heaven and end with some breath that knock out a Gamorrean!

Basically, the Buff Effect column shows what buff effects a food item will offer you. The type of buff effects for each of these items can be found in-game by clicking on the item on a bazaar, vendor or in your inventory and looking over the item details.

You can see these details either in the window on the left hand side of your inventory or by using your radial menu to examine the food item.

The specific buff effects and their value will be listed like this:

Name
Max
Filling
Buff
Priority Buff Effect
Accarragm 45 5 Attribute Modifier: Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration, and Mind Regeneration
Aitha 15 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Heal Efficiency
Bespin Port 20 1 Crafting Experimentation Bonus
Blue Milk 30 2 Skill Modifier: Cure Efficiency
Breath of Heavenn 60 6 Attribute Modifier: Health, Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration and Mind Regeneration
Caf 15 2 Attribute Modifier: Health and Mind Regeneration
Corellian Ale 15 2 Skill Modifier: Melee Accuracy
Corellian Brandy 15 2 Skill Modifier: Disease Resistance
Deuterium Pyro 15 2 Skill Modifier: Ranged Accuracy
Durindfire 15 2 Skill Modifier: Poison Resistance
Elshandruu Pica Thundercloud 15 1 Skill Modifier: Ranged Defense
Flameout 60 3 Damage Mitigation Bonus
Garrmorl 45 5 Attribute Modifier: Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration, and Mind Regeneration
Gralinyn Juice 25 1 Skill Modifier: Accuracy Bonus to Creature Hit
Ithorian Mist 15 2 Skill Modifier: Fire Resistance
Jaar 60 Instant Instant: Cure Poison
Jawa Beer 20 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Mask Scent
Mandalorian Winene 60 6 Attribute Modifier: Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration, Mind Regeneration
Ruby Bliel 20 1 Improves Stimpack Roundtime
Spice Tea 8 1 Attribute Modifier: Mind Regeneration
Starshine Surpriseise 30 1 Reduces Incapacitation Time
Tilla Tiil 75 Instant Instant: Food Reduction
Tssolok 40 1 Buff Duration Bonus
Vasarian Brandyy 45 5 Attribute Modifier: Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration, and Mind Regeneration
Vayerbok 20 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Block
Veronian Berry Wine 15 2 Skill Mod: Bleed Resistance
Warrl Surprise 50 1 Combat Defense, Health Regeneration, and causes you to Riposte melee attacks

Name
Max
Filling
Buff
Priority Buff Effect
Ahrisa 30 3 Attribute Modifier: Health and Mind Regeneration
Bivoli Tempari 25 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Buff Efficiency
Blood Chowder 15 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Bleed Resistance
Cho-Nor-Hoola 15 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Poison Resistance
Crispic 15 1 Skill Modifier: Melee and Ranged Accuracy
Dustcrepe 60 Instant Instant: Cure Disease
Exo Protien Wafers 5 1 Damage Mitigation Bonus
Gruuvan Shaal 30 3 Attribute Modifier: Health and Health Regeneration
Havla 30 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Disease Resistance
K-18 Rations 15 Instant Instant: Burst Run HAM Reduction
Kanali Wafers 15 2 Attribute Modifier: Health and Health Regeneration
Karkan Ribenes 75 1 Attribute Modifier: Health Regeneration
Ormachek 75 1 % XP Increase
Rakririan Burnout Sauce 25 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Unarmed Damage
Scrimpi 30 3 Attribute Modifier: Health and Action Regeneration
Synthsteak 25 2 Damage Mitigation Bonus
Teltier Noodles 15 2 Attribute Modifier: Health and Action Regeneration
Terratta 25 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Camouflage
Thakitillo 40 3 Skill Modifier: Heal Efficiency
Travel Biscuits 8 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Terrain Negotiation
Trimpian 15 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Fire Resistance
Vegeparsine 25 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Melee Defense
Veghash 15 1 Skill Modifier: Improves Creature Harvesting
Vercupti of Agazza Boleruuee 60 6 Attribute Modifier: Health, Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration and Mind Regeneration

Name
Max
Filling
Buff
Priority Buff Effect
Blap Biscuit 20 1 Attribute Modifier: % Health Buff (Pet Only)
Felbar 20 3 Attribute Modifier: Health and Health Regeneration (Pet Only)
Pastebread 20 2 Attrib Modifier: Health and Health Regeneration (Pet Only)
Sweesonberry Rollsolls 20 4 Attribute Modifier (Pet Only): Health, Health Regeneration, Defense and Accuracy

Understanding Buff Priority

When dining on artisan and chef foods for the character buffs, there is something you should keep in mind; Different types of foods and drinks have what is called a buff priority . What this basically means is that you can't gobble down every food and drink item like Jabba the Hutt hoping to become nigh invulnerable. "But how does this buff priority work?" you might ask.

Glancing at the menu above, you will see that many of the culinary delights offer more than one type of helpful buff effect. For instance, the tasty entrie Gruuvan Shaal and the rich dessert Won-Won both offer the bonus of Health and Health Regeneration. If you eat them both, they won't be added together. So how does a person know how the food and drink will stack? By knowing its Buff Priority (Buff Priorities are listed on the menu above). All buffs that are not an instant buff have what is called a "Buff Priority". A Buff Priority determines which buff takes priority over other buffs when stacking them. For instance, if you sit down to a meal of Gruuvan Shaal (buff priority 3) and chase it down with a Won-Won dessert (buff priority 4), The Won-Won will take priority and you will only get the effects of the Won-Won and the Gruuvan Shaal will only serve to fill your character's belly with no bonus.

There are two key terms to keep in mind when stacking buffs; "buff priority" and "buff groups". A buff priority determines which buff is more important and a buff group indicates which other buffs may be stacked with the first buff . Buff groups can generally be identified by examining a food item and looking at the effects. The top two most potent buffs represent the "buff group".

For example, if you examine Vasarian Brandy in-game (see picture above), it has three buff effects - Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration and Mind Regeneration. Health Regeneration and Action Regeneration can have values up to 200 while Mind Regeneration can only have a maximum bonus of 50. The Buff Group for Vasarian brandy would be Health Regeneration and Action Regeneration because out of the three buff effects, Health Regeneration and Action Regeneration have the highest potential values.

Here are some additional developer comments to help understand how all of this works together:

* A higher number on the buff priority indicates a higher priority. For example, buff priority 4 is higher than buff priority 1

* Buffs can have up to two buffs in the "buff group" and are usually associated with the primary bonuses.

* If two different buffs with the same Buff Priority offer different types of effects (different groups), then all you need is enough room in your character's belly to eat the food.

* If two different buffs with a different Buff Priority offer different types of effects, then all you need is enough room in your character's belly to eat the food.

* For any two (or more) items that have the same, single buff effect, the buffs don't stack. The edible item with the higher Buff Priority is the bonus that will count.

* For any food or drink items that have the same buff priority and have different buff groups, you can eat the foods and gain the benefits of all effects that are different. As long as the buff groups are different, ALL the effects will stack, even if they affect the same stats. (For example, health and health regeneration both affect health and will stack).

* If two food items both have the same buff groups and the same buff priority, the second buff you try to apply will be discarded. That is to say, i n cases where you have one buff on your character and you try to apply a second, if either one of the buff groups has the same effect and the buff priorities are the same, then the second buff will NOT be applied and you will not consume the second food item.

For instance, let's say you have a sweet tooth and try to eat the dessert Won-Won (buff priority 4) and then a Kiwik Clusjo Swirl (buff priority 4). Won-Won provides Health , Health Regeneration, and a little Action Regeneration, while Kiwik Clusjo Swirl provides Health , Mind Regeneration, and a little Action Regeneration. Your character would gain the effects of the Won-Won (because it was eaten first), and you would not be able to eat the Kiwik Clusjo Swirl, because they share "Health" as one of their primary buff effects in the buff groups.

* Food and drink items are not stacked as different groups, they are both considered by their buff priority at the time your character consumes the buff.
* Spices fall into a different type of buff category and should always stack with food/drink items.
* Foraged foods all have a Buff Priority of zero (0) and will always be negated by Chef and Artisan foods.

Understanding "Buff Groups" only has a general rule. The general rule is that the two highest buffs represent the buff group. Let's look at Vagenerian Canape and Vasarian Brandy to see if they stack.
Name
Max
Filling
Buff
Priority Buff Effect
Vagnerian Canape 35 4 Attribute Modifier: Health, Health Regeneration and Mind Regeneration
Vasarian Brandy 45 5 Attribute Modifier: Health Regeneration, Action Regeneration, and Mind Regeneration

If we take a closer look at the buff effect column and the maximum buff effects of each item, in most cases, the first two most powerful buffs represent the buff groups. When looking at the Canape and the Brandy, the first two most potent buffs are different, so these two items will stack.
Vagnerian Canape Health (200) Mind Regen (200) Health Regen (50)
Vasarian Brandy Health Regen (200) Action Regen (200) Mind Regen (50)

We hope this guide help you understand the Secrets of Good Eating !

Thanks and don't forget to kiss the chef!