Tarisland Food Festival event guide – How to cook meals and find chests

The Food Festival is live in Tarisland, and everyone can enjoy the festivities and earn rewards, including recipes and titles. Here’s a complete guide on how to complete the Food Festival event in Tarisland.

How to complete the Food Festival event in Tarisland

Cook a festival meal

The first step of the Food Festival event in Tarisland is to cook a festival meal. On the event screen, there’s a cookbook you can use to find recipes and locate ingredients.

To cook a meal, go to the festival stand. There’s a cooking stand in every region depending on the type of meal: Stews in Ancash Canyon, BBQ in SilverLit, and drinks in Misty Forest. The cooking stand is always next to its corresponding merchant, and you can buy one ingredient for each meal from the festival merchant for Silver Coins.

Unlike in some Reputation Events, this cooking minigame shows what temperature you need for cooking, so follow the instructions, and you should get it done in no time.

Share the food with someone

Go to the Maeve Ironelbow next to the cooking stand and submit your cooked dish to him. Talk with Maeve, and you should get a timer at the top saying to look around for a special someone. Walk around until the game assigns you a player to share food with.

To find the player, try sending them a private message (red button near the timer) and ask them where they are. You can also send them your location by pressing the location button near the chat window, as they should also have you as their special someone. Find each other and use the Share Food skill to complete the task.

If you don’t find them by the time the timer expires, return to Maeve and start looking for the next person.

Collect Gourmet Giftboxes

Gourmet Giftboxes drop from Elite Dungeons and Arcane Realms. The lowest Elite Dungeon is the level 16 Library of Chaos. Complete the Dungeon, and you should get Chef’s Giftbox in your inventory. Remember to open it because it gets you some fun event items and Rainbow Candy to spend at merchants.

Unlock Gourmet Chests

There are 12 Gourmet Chests in the world, four in each explorable area. Each chest requires a Pure quality of a specific meal. The easiest one to unlock is right behind the chief’s tent in the Ancash Tribe on one of the guard towers, and it requires the Sour Wild Wolf Soup (Pure).

Jump on the tower using your mount and open it. You can only open the chest when you have the food in your inventory. Unlocking the chest grants a recipe of the food for you to keep and a bit of Rainbow Candy.

Unfortunately, most of the chests are time-gated, as you can’t make all of the Food Festival meals straight away. I recommend waiting until the end of the event and then opening all of them in one go.

Win the eating contest

The next task is to enjoy the gourmet feast and win the eating contest, but we might have to wait until we can enjoy the festivities. This event task is seemingly bugged because you can’t complete it.

The step directs you to a food stand with a small dinosaur in front of the Town Hall in SilverLit, and that’s it. The event page states the costume party only starts at 12:00 and 18:00 every day, and you should put on your “cutest costume.”

The text bubbles of the dinosaur suggest you can buy the costume from it for five Gold Coins, but there’s no way to interact with it. I stood near the food stand at 12pm (real-time and in-game), and nothing happened.

It could be you have to be there at 12pm or 6pm server time (which is unknown), or it’s just bugged. Either way, keep an eye on the stand, and we’ll update the guide once we know more.