To pass the test, you must prepare a seven-course banquet for 21 people (the host plus 20 guests). Each University of Body will provide you with a different possible menu for this banquet. If you don't like the menu you receive, you may visit a different university to receive a different menu. In addition, the menu given out by any given university will change after a week has elapsed. (If you return to a university a second time before a week has passed, you will receive the same menu as you did before.)
[It seems menus change at a given time, perhaps Sunday(US time); my menus changed between Friday and Monday and others have noticed the same - Haqikah.]
Each course of the banquet consists of a food, a wine, and a beer.
The foods will have a required base (at least 1/7 of the servings must come from the base) and a required duration. For example, "Dish with Tilapia Fish at least one seventh by item, duration at least 29 minutes 51 seconds." You must prepare at least 21 servings of each food. It should be a trivial task for any halfway competent cook to come up a recipe matching such a requirement. Note tha 21 course, 1/7 base means 21*7/7=21 deben of the base is required. As it appears even herbs are fair game, it might be worth it to shop around to avoid excessively expensive ingredients. WARNING the food must have at least one POSITIVE stat attribute, this has tripped me up at the last hurdle - Zebediah
The wines will have a required flavor and two required attributes. For example, "Wine with: Flavor of Cherry, Residual Sugar at least 9 percent. Concentration at least 468." Age, residual sugar, alcohol, tannin, and concentration comprise the list of attributes that can be required. A single bottle of wine no longer suffices to serve all 21 banqueters - you will need 3 identical wines!!. Extra flavors are not a problem, as with ambrosias. That is, a "strawberryjam soysauce pineapple" wine will fit the bill for any one of the individual flavors in it.
The beers will have a required flavor. For example, "Beer that is: Potent Brown nutmeg." A single keg of each beer is required. The beer must be fresh, not spoiled, so leave it in the kettle until it is needed. If no potency is called for, the beer may be any potency. If a potency level is specified, then the beer must be that exact potency. For example, "Potent fruity dry honey" may be used in place of "Fruity dry honey," but "Very potent black cherry" may not be used in place of "Potent black cherry."
A banquet is conducted at a banquet table.
Once you have everything you need for your banquet, you must load the banquet table. The "Set..." menu option on the table allows you to set the table for each course. For each course, choose the wine and beer you need for that course. To load food, you must first cook the dish in the cook pot, then you can load it into the appropriate course. When loading an item, the table will verify its attributes; if the item doesn't meet the requirements, the table will not accept it (the item is not consumed in this case). Be careful when loading your wines and beers, if you have some that fit multiple courses; you don't want to load your 6 tannin cherry apple wine into a course that just required 10 alcohol cherry wine, and be left without a suitable wine for the course that required 6 tannin apple. You can review the items you have served with the option "Review Dishes Served, Open the banquet".
After the table is loaded, you must add at least 21 valid player names to the guest list before you will be allowed to open the banquet. One of the 21 names should be your own. You can, however, view and change the list after the banquet is opened. People on the guest list will have a "Eat" option on the banquet table, regardless of the permissions on the table. Each guest can only eat once from the table.
Once you open the banquet, you must get 21 people to eat within two hours, so plan accordingly. Holding the banquet near a chariot stop or other popular gathering spot is probably a good idea, as is holding it during a time when lots of people are on.
Everybody who eats at the banquet receives a +7 boost to all stats that last for 24 game hours. Also, when the banquet is opened, there will be 21 copies of the menu in the table, which the host can pass out to their guests, and which can be read using the "Special -> Read..." menu.
- Food is made in the banquet table and each recipe must have at least 21 servings.
- From Teppy - Beer and Food WILL spoil as normal when loaded on to the banquet table - so dib dib dib be prepared!!
- Despite Teppy having told me this I have had some VP Beer loaded into my banquet table for over 1 week and it has yet to spoil.
It appears from LC's pic below that although beer does not, food will spoil ~ Zintwana- Actually thanks to <beep> who didnt loaded the non potent beers I brew him before a week, we realized EVEN A SPOILED BEER can be loaded in the table. Ankh-el-Pandemis
- Despite Teppy having told me this I have had some VP Beer loaded into my banquet table for over 1 week and it has yet to spoil.
- As only one meal can be made at a time food is also loaded into the courses one at a time.
Base dishes
Too lazy to cook? Here are two base dishes that should cover most needs. Garantied to work for up to 27 minutes requirements, and will probably work for up to 30. To test, click on the appropriate the link below and add 21 of the required ingredient. (Note that this is untested, I will update after my test) --- Cappu.
- If the requirement is not Dates, Honey, Malt (Burnt), Barley (Burnt), Eggplant, Camel Meat, Wild Lettuce
- If the requirement is not Cabbage, Perch, Carrots, Gunpowder, Oxyrynchus, Dark Ochoa, Peppers
Pictures:
All options on the banquet table at a glance:
A picture of the popup that you get after clicking "Review Dishes Served, Open the banquet" (if the menu is complete, you will be asked if you want to open the banquet):
Further information
Links:
Lists of needed supplies, and suppliers Example Menus
