The Rootstock Faire is upon us! The festival, features three mini-games to partake in, a fun quest line, and a number of dishes that can only be made during the festival using special ingredients and cooking stations.

A number of ingredients and recipes can only be obtained by following the event-specific questline, completing dailies and scoring in mini-games.

This guide will contain any information you might want to know about. Please use the comments below for feedback, for example if some information is wrong.

Rootstock has a minimum level requirement of 29!

Map

The opaque circles on the map above show where the festival-exclusive crops are located. The white stars are the mini-games (except for Bamarama). The white circles are quest-related.

All relevant locations have a Teleport Master that will teleport you to any of the other masters for free. Use them.

Rootstock

When the event starts, you receive a red questline in your questlog which points to the Rootstock faire area. Following the questline introduces you to the cooking mechanic and rewards you with a handful ingredients and cooking recipes. Furthermore, you unlock three daily quests.

Cooking Food

By using food recipes while standing in the appropriate cooking station (mentioned in the recipe's tooltip) and having all the required ingredients in your inventory, you can cook a set of consumables that provide different combat stats, such as MP regeneration, Stamina bonus for your entire group or crit rate.

Ingredients

There are three types of ingredients.

Root Vegetables (harvestable) Common Ingredients (buyable from merchant) Rare Ingrediens (only obtainable from quests or mini-games)

Root Vegetables

Moongourd

Flame Pepper

Cobseed

Floretta

Taproot

Mudroot

Shevranberry

Sky Lotus

Take a look at the map above to find the locations where vegetables grow. You get one vegetable for each gather. The roots respawn after a small duration, so you will hardly be able to harvest them all.

Unlike the other vegetables, which can be found on the ground, the Sky Lotuses are located on a small flying platform at Sky Pond.

Common Ingredients

Salad Dressing

Special Sauce

Butter

Salt

Sugar

Herb-Seasoned Salt

You can buy these from Melsa for 53s50c each.

Rare Ingredients

Rare ingredients can only be obtained from completing a quest in the initial questline, from completing a daily quest or from getting the rank 1 rewards in the mini-games.

Struthio Breast - questline and daily quest

Used for: Struthio Breast Salad , Bleak Wings

- questline and daily quest Used for: , Milk - questline and daily quest

Used for: Floretta Soup



- questline and daily quest Used for: Lamb - questline and daily quest

Used for: Lamb Bulgogi , Half-Moon Croquette

- questline and daily quest Used for: , Cured Pigling - getting rank 1 in the Pigling Rodeo mini-game

Used for: Traditional Bleakfields BBQ



- getting rank 1 in the mini-game Used for: Special Salad Dressing - getting rank 1 in the Kick-Bale mini-game

Used for: Freeholds Flame Salad



Recipes

Melsa in the Rootstoock Fairground sells recipes for food. By following the quest line you can obtain a few recipes for free, while the superior recipes can only be obtained from playing the mini-games a few times.

Since you can easily look up the required ingredients in-game, they are not listed here.

Check below for what the cooked food of each recipe provides.

Food And Their Effects

Superior food can always be used, while common to rare (white to blue) food only allow one being active at a time. Higher rarity food will take precedence.

Each effect is active for 15 minutes.

Common Mudroot Salad

Restores 1% of your total HP every 5 seconds. Grilled Pigling

Restores 1% of your total MP every 5 seconds. Popped Cobseed

Raises HP by 5%.

Uncommon Moongourd Muffin

Restores 1% of your HP every 5 seconds and increases endurance by 1. Shevranberry Cookie

Restores 1% of your total MP every 5 seconds and increases power by 1. Floretta Soup

Raises max HP by 5% and crit rate by 10.

Rare Lamb Bulgogi

Raises max HP by 5%, crit rate by 20, and attack speed by 3. Struthio Breast Salad

Restores 1% of your total HP every 5 seconds, increases endurance by 2 and attack speed by 3. Half-Moon Croquette

Restores 1% of your total MP, increases power by 2, and attack speed by 3.

Superior Freeholds Flame Salad

Raises maximum stamina by 15 for you and up to 20 people within 20 meters. Bleak Wings

Prevents stamina from decreasing for you and up to 20 people within 20 meters. Traditional Bleakfields BBQ

Increases healing effects by 9% for you and up to 20 people within 20 meters.



Cooking Stations

There are two stations of each, near Melsa in the Foodstock Fairground.

Mini-Games

Bamarama

In the Bamarama mini-game, you can bet on one out of two BAMs fighting each other in an arena. The BAM fights begin at 5PM PST/8PM EST and last until 10PM PST/13AM EST. You can purchase Gold Tickets and place bets with the bookie NPCs in the arena area during Bamarama. Betting and matches begin every 10 minutes.

The last match before the full hour (so XX:50) is a "diamond match", where you bet with Diamond Tickets instead of Gold Tickets.

Note that Gold Tickets sell for less to merchants than what you buy them for.

Kick-Bale

Talk to Digory in Digory's Farmstead to start the game.

With a special skill (range 5m) you have to "kick" the "bale" so that two scarecrow minions can not attack it. Each hit grants you 50 points, while a minion hit removes 15. The game ends after 1 minute.

Basic strategy: Kick the bale in a wide circle in the piazza by adjusting your angle slightly on eevry kick.

By the points you have aquired, you can earn the following rewards:

Rank 1 (1000 points) Special Salad Dressing

Kick-Bale Gift Box

Flour Dough (x10)

50s Rank 2 (800 points) Flour Dough (x5)

40s Rank 3 (500 points) Flour Dough (x3)

30s Rank 4 (?) Flour Dough

20s No rank 10s

Pigling Rodeo

Talk to Tippani in Lee's End to start the game.

With a special skill (range 10m) you have to attack piglings, which will start to follow you. A Fringed Scarecrow will attempt to attack the piglings, killing it in the process and causing it to respawn later. It can only hit one at a time. Each pigling that is following you grants 100 points. The game ends after 1 minute.

By the points you have aquired, you can earn the following rewards:

Rank 1 (1000 points) Herb-Seasoned Salt

Cured Pigling

Pigling Rodeo Gift Box

Pigling Meat (x10)

50s Rank 2 (800 points) Pigling Meat (x2)

40s

Other ranks are unknown at the moment but likely similar to Kick-Bale.

Achievements

This video explains it very well, but I might add the info as text later.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAB8BJzci3k)

Event dates

2015-06-25 to 2015-07-06

2014-11 to 2014-12

2014-01 to 2014-04-01

Sources:

Changelog