The Culinary Crucible: Carp-e Diem

This article is about an event from the English server for Twisted Wonderland. For the Japanese server's version of this event, see here.

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

• 

  Low

• 

  Medium

• 

  High

Location	Ingredients Available
Octavinelle Dorm	Fish
Ranch	Milk
Windmill	Flour Rice Bread Bread Crumbs
School Store	Chili Powder Egg Consommé Shellfish
Botanical Garden Subtropical Zone	Lettuce Onion Avocado Ginger
Botanical Garden	Carrot Tomato Garlic

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.

Ingredients Used in Dish	Madols Earned
2	×350
3	×400
4	×450
5	×500

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.

Judging Standards	Characters
Strict	Azul Ashengrotto Leona Kingscholar
Reasonable	Sam Floyd Leech Cater Diamond
Lenient	Rook Hunt Idia Shroud Sebek Zigvolt Silver Grim

Recipes

Dish	Recipe
Mackerel Fritters	Fish Milk Flour Egg
Mackerel Curry	Fish Rice Chili Powder Onion Carrot
Fried Sardines	Fish Bread Crumbs
Garudhiya	Fish Chili Powder
Poke Bowl	Fish Rice Avocado
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce	Fish Consommé Tomato
Mackerel Sandwich	Fish Bread Lettuce Onion
Acqua Pazza	Fish Shellfish Tomato Garlic
Saury Braised in Chili Paste	Fish Chili Powder Ginger Garlic

Event Cards

Card	SR Apprentice Chef	SR Apprentice Chef
Unlock Conditions	The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Deuce & Jamil) or buy with Culinary Crucible Key	The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Deuce & Jamil) or buy with Culinary Crucible Key

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.

Rewards	Mission
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Mackerel Fritters
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Mackerel Curry
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Fried Sardine
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Garudhiya
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Poke Bowl
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Mackerel in Tomato Sauce
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Mackerel Sandwich
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Acqua Pazza
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Saury Braised in Chili Paste
×50	Successfully cook all dishes
×10	Successfully cook 10 time(s).
×10	Successfully cook 30 time(s).
×10	Successfully cook 50 time(s).
×30	Successfully cook 100 time(s).

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).

	Item	Limit	Cost
SR Apprentice Chef	SR Deuce Apprentice Chef Card	1	1
SR Apprentice Chef	SR Jamil Apprentice Chef Card	1	1

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).

	Item	Limit	Cost
	Magical Key (Culinary Crucible)	1	1,200
	Magical Key	3	400
	Awakening Perfume (SR)	3	400
	Starshards	5	64
	Bottle of Starshards	3	160
	Phial of Blooming Honey	30	12
	Jar of Blooming Honey	20	24
	Jug of Blooming Honey	10	48
	Secret Snack	30	8
	Secret Spread	20	16
	Secret Smorgasbord	10	40
	Spade Candy	3	120
	Cobra Candy	3	120
	Fire Spellboost Bundle	2	240
	Water Spellboost Bundle	2	240
	Flora Spellboost Bundle	2	240
	Cosmic Spellboost Bundle	2	240
	Phial of Blooming Honey	Unlimited	24
	Secret Snack	Unlimited	16

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).

	Item	Limit	Cost
	Low Quality Fish	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Lettuce	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Onion	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Avocado	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Ginger	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Carrot	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Tomato	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Garlic	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Milk	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Flour	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Rice	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Bread	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Bread Crumbs	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Chili Powder	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Egg	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Consommé	Unlimited	10
	Low Quality Shellfish	Unlimited	10

Trivia

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