The Culinary Crucible: Carp-e Diem

The Culinary Crucible: Carp-e Diem is a Culinary Crucible Event in Twisted Wonderland that features Deuce Spade and Jamil Viper. The event's story covers Deuce and Jamil's experiences in the Master Chef elective class.

As the event's name implies, all of the dishes featured in this event use fish as an ingredient. Each dish, high score, skill and recipe can be viewed in the Album, under the Culinary Crucible tab.

Associated Summoning Event: The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Deuce & Jamil)

Associated Story: Carp-e Diem Story

Event Period
March 10, 2022 2:00 PT to March 21, 2022 23:59 PT

How to Play

 * 1) Gather ingredients
 * 2) Cook a dish
 * 3) Based on the points earned for each dish, you will earn Culinary Crucible Tokens
 * 4) Use the medals to exchange for Deuce and Jamil, and unlock the epilogue for the story
 * 5) Trade Culinary Crucible Tokens for items in the Culinary Crucible Token Shop (closes January 7, 2023 23:59 PT)
 * 6) You can also trade Chef Medals for Low Grade ingredients in the Ingredients Shop

Gathering

 * Select the location you would like to go to for an excursion.
 * You can get different kinds of ingredients based on the location you select.
 * The longer you spend on an excursion, the more ingredients you'll get.
 * Please note that you must have either Deuce or Jamil cards to start the excursion.
 * R Deuce (School Uniform) and R Jamil (School Uniform) are also available in Card Shop (Thaumarks).


 * The following cards will grant a bonus to the number of ingredients you earn from excursion.
 * SR Deuce (Apprentice Chef)
 * SR Jamil (Apprentice Chef)


 * Ingredients can come in 3 qualities: Low, Medium and High


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Cooking

 * Use collected ingredients to cook dishes.
 * Select a dish and ingredients from the menu.
 * Recipes start off hidden. Each correct ingredient used will be revealed only after cooking.
 * The score of the dish you cook will be affected by the quality of ingredients.
 * If you select the wrong ingredients, the dish is considered a failure.
 * No matter if you cook the dish successfully or not, you will not regain spent ingredients.
 * The dish icons do not represent the actual recipe; the required ingredients may differ from the icons.
 * The number of stars is not determined by the total score from judges but based on the quality of ingredients and your cooking skill.
 * The order of the ingredients does not matter.


 * You earn Thaumarks for each dish you cook regardless of its success or failure. The Thaumarks distributed is based on the number of ingredients used in the dish.

Judges

 * The amount of Culinary Crucible Tokens you receive is based on your score.
 * As your skill of each dish raises, you will be able to cook higher scoring dishes.

Event Missions

 * Clear the limited missions during the event period and get the following rewards:
 * Gems: 60 (maximum)
 * Culinary Crucible Tokens: 230 (maximum)
 * Please claim your limited mission rewards before January 7 at 23:59. (PT). After this date, you can no longer do missions or get rewards.

Magical Key (Master Chef) Shop

 * SR Deuce (Apprentice Chef) and SR Jamil (Apprentice Chef), which can be exchanged for Magical Key (Culinary Crucible), are the same cards as The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time Showcase.
 * Culinary Crucible Token Shop and Magical Key (Culinary Crucible) Shop are available until January 7 at 23:59 (PT).

Culinary Crucible Token Shop

 * You can use Culinary Crucible Tokens in the Culinary Crucible Token Shop to exchange them for Magical Keys (Culinary Crucible) and other items.
 * After you collect 1000 Culinary Crucible Tokens, you will unlock the story ending.
 * Culinary Crucible Token Shop and Magical Key (Culinary Crucible) Shop are available until January 7 at 23:59 (PT).

Ingredients Shop

 * Please note that the ingredients in this shop are LOW QUALITY only.
 * You can only purchase ingredients that are available via procurement.
 * Ingredient Shop is available until December 31 at 23:59 (PT).

Trivia

 * Sam's chibi sprite made its debut in this event.