Fantine's Bakery: Rebuilt!
The old bakery gave you one oven, a dropdown for every ingredient, and if you scorched one of Fantine's pans you couldn't bake again until you bought her a new one. That's all different now 🥖.
You get up to four ovens. The second one opens at baking level 5, the third at 10 and the fourth at 20, and each oven runs on its own timer. Fill all ovens puts a recipe in every empty one at once.
The pantry holds your ingredients, and bakes use what's in there before anything in your inventory. You can move a whole stack in at once, and Account Search finds what's in it.
The recipe book sorts every recipe into Ready to bake, Missing a few things, and Higher level, and you can sort it by level, name, fewest missing or least baked. A recipe you can't make yet lists what it needs, with a link to the shop that sells each ingredient, a shop search and an account search.
Fantine also buys baked goods now! Her counter is in the Farmer's Market, she'll take up to 20 a day, and the better your ribbon for a recipe, the more she pays for it.
The burn is rolled when you collect, so a finished bake can sit in the oven as long as you like. A scorched pan is an achievement now instead of a lockout. Past level 20, every level makes your bakes a little faster and a little less likely to burn, up to level 50. You can turn on alerts in the kitchen to get an event when an oven finishes, and the bakery is on the Dailies list.
There are ten baking achievements, with prizes that include titles like Flour-Dusted and Head Baker, and two new name plates, Lattice Crust and Oven Glow.
Your baking level and XP came with you, and anything you had in the old oven moved into your first one. Ribbons and the Journal start fresh, because the old bakery never kept track of which recipes you baked.
Ingredients have been the biggest complaint, so the Food Market now restocks baking staples like flour, sugar, butter, milk and eggs as common items, and more ingredients count than before, like plant milks, sanding sugars and nut butters.
She has a quest now too, Fantine's Baking Class! She's outfitting her students, so she asks for two baking tools or pieces of kitchenware. Every quest pays 9 to 13 baking ingredients, four different ones: a staple like flour or eggs, baking powder, baking soda or yeast, and two things recipes ask for by name, like heavy whipping cream or canola oil. The more recipes use an ingredient, the more often she pays it. You can do it 5 times a day, or 8 with a Gold Account, and recipes you're missing things for link straight to her.
Posted by Keith
I hadn't been to the bakery in a while so maybe I'm wrong, but I think the NPC art is new? Either way I love it! Fantine looks so cute, like a lil cupcake.
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I hope the rum extract and maple syrup also get restocked somewhere (or will soon) because both cost 400-500k a piece, which is far more than the other ingredients ever did when I was seeking them (usually in the 100-200k range).