Cooking Mama 3

What does randomization do to this game?

Recipes, Friends to cook for, Shopping Minigames, and other unlockables are locked behind progression in the multiworld. The minigame timer, bonus counter, and other minor gameplay elements can be temporarily or permanently modified.

What Cooking Mama 3 items can appear in other players' worlds?

• Special Items
  • normally obtained by communicating with a copy of Gardening Mama
  • These unlock one Cooking Contest Challenge each and may be required for goal
• Recipe Unlocks
  • for the 66 non-secret recipes in the game
• Friend Unlocks
  • for the 8 friends in the game
• Ingredients
  • for the 6 ingredients in Let's Match mode. combinations of 2 of them unlock secret recipes
  • all 6 of them unlock 15 secret recipes in total
• Progressive Cooking Contest Challenge Page
  • Unlocks 4 Cooking Contest Challenges each
• Progressive Shopping Minigame
• Progressive Minigame Timer
  • adds a small amount of time to each timed minigame
• Progressive Bonus Counter
  • allows the Bonus Counter to be filled using fewer bonuses
• Accessories
  • Diary Stickers, Mama's Clothing, and Kitchen Decorations can be found as filler
  • There are 3 tiers of Accessory filler, one of which is added to your world depending on your settings and how many available filler slots are left: Collections unlock everything in one of the three customization options. Sets unlock categories of items within these options. Individual accessories place every single accessory item into the pool.
• Extra Bonus
  • Individual, one-time bonuses are sent as filler.
• Bad Fashion Trap
  • Shuffles Mama's accessories randomly.
• Less Time Trap
  • Removes a small amount of time from one timed minigame.
• Babel Trap
  • Sets the language to the unfinished Italian localization, shuffling the text in unexpected ways.

What is considered a location check in Cooking Mama 3?

• Obtaining medals for a finished recipe in any of the three cooking modes present in the game.
  • Some of these may be excluded using the yaml options
• Successfully cooking a meal for one friend.
• Meeting certain score thresholds in the shopping minigame levels.
• Meeting certain score thresholds in the Cooking Contest solo challenges.
• Filling the Bonus Counter and getting a bonus prize.

When the player receives an item, what happens?

The effects of the item are immediately applied. Some menus may need to be exited and re-enter for the changes to appear. Special cases include:

• Extra Bonuses are added to the bonus total of the next finished recipe.
• Less Time Traps take effect on the next timed minigame.