The Misty Thicket Picnic is a great type of food. This Miraculous Meal (the longest lasting type of food) gives an extra STR 5, STA 5, WIS 5, INT 5, HP 20 and mana 30 to the diligent muncher, and all at only 0.1 weight. A worthwhile food for all. It is, however, a bugger to make. There are many, many subcombines all of which will eat up your inventory space, and will likely drive you round the bend while doing them aswell. Finding myself in short supply of other methods to reach my goal of 250, I decided that enough was enough, and that one way or another it was going to have to be picnics.

TAKE NOTE: This method of making picnics will provide you with enough materials to do 100 final picnic combines. It will eat up a crapload of inventory and bank space, and be made more difficult by the fact that you do still need room to buy ingredients for the next sub-item and also have room to combine them, and put the subcombines for the subitem you just made. Before the Legacy of Ykesha expansion which gave us twice as much bank space, I used to have to use a mule on my second account, on my second PC, so I had somewhere to put the finished sub-items while I made the next set. Once I got the increased bank space (and before I filled it up with more junk) I didn't need to use him any more.

I would estimate that you would need to have maybe 5 10-slot bags available just for storage and another couple available for working space in your inventory (you will also need a mixing bowl at some point). So if you can clean out some room in the bank, DO IT or you wont have room. Also, you will soon begin to fill up on successful picnic combines. These don't sell for much to a vendor, but they go well in the bazaar for anything from 5pp each to 30pp. Vendor them, flog them, give them away, give each of your alts a lifetime's supply, but you don't want to keep hold of too many of them, or you'll be running out of room again (each success makes 4 picnics).

ALSO You will need some basic skill in Smithing (up to about 50 is good), Tailoring (around 80 is good, but easy) and Brewing (162 ok that's not quite so basic, but check out my brewing guide). I do recommend that where possible you look to buy a couple extra ingredients for each combine, because somewhere along the line you're going to fail and not have quite enough. This is annoying.

Anyway. Now that you know you (a) Need a lot of room (b) Need mostly minor skill in a couple of other tradeskills (c) will be doing a LOT of combines, we are ready to begin making our picnic. Once into the swing of things, I was preparing 100 picnic combines in about an hour, with the minimum of fuss. The Plane of Knowledge is a good place for this as it has many of the items and stationary tradeskill containers you will be needing. It may seem hard at first, and more work than you want to be doing, but when I was getting a skill up every 30 or so combines (3 per session) life looked a lot better (from often going 60 or more combines on other recipes per skill up, and using mob dropped items). Good luck!

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Misty Thicket Picnic	1 Picnic Basket, 1 Marmalade Sandwich, 1 Jumjum Spiced Beer, 1 Jumjum Salad, 1 Royal Mints, 1 Mature Cheese, 2 (that's TWO) Slices of Jumjum Cake combined in an Oven (a spit isn't big enough).	>250	Baking ..duh yield 4

Items and Utensils you will need

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
File	1 Water, 1 Metal Bits, 1 File Mold combined in a Forge	21	Smithing
Metal Bits	1 Water, 2 Small Pieces of Ore combined in a Forge	18	Smithing
Mixing Bowl	Buy the damned thing, I keep forgetting the recipe.	-	The vendor
Dairy Spoon	2 Metal Bits, 1 Water, 1 Scaler Mold combined in a Forge	74	Smithing
Cake Round	1 Block of Clay, 1 Water, 1 Glass Shard, 1 Cake Round Sketch combined in a Pottery Wheel, then fired with a High Quality Firing Sheet in a Kiln.	115	Pottery
Cake Round (alternative)	1 Metal Bits, 1 Cake Round Mold, 1 Water, 1 Ceramic Lining combined in a Forge	38	Smithing
Ceramic Lining	1 Small Block of Clay, 1 Ceramic Lining Sketch, 1 Water combined in a Pottery Wheel, then fired with a Quality Firing Sheet in a Kiln.	36	Pottery

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Picnic Basket	1 Woven Mandrake, 1 Steel Boning, combined in a Sewing Kit or Loom	76	Tailoring yield 10
Woven Mandrake	2 Mandrake Roots combined in a Sewing Kit or a Loom	66	Tailoring
Steel Boning	1 Small Brick of Ore, 1 Water and a File combined in a Forge	37	Smithing

Each successful basket combine creates 10 Picnic Baskets.

To make 100 Picnic Baskets =

10 Woven Mandrake = 20 Mandrake Roots

10 Steel Bonings

Mandrake Roots can be bought from any Alchemy Vendor (note that Alchemy vendors come in pairs, there are too many herbs for one person to sell).

Ore can be bought from an ore vendor.

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Marmalade Sandwich	1 Apricot Marmalade, 1 Bread combined in a Mixing Bowl	99	Baking yield 12
Apricot Marmalade	3 Frosting, 1 Fruit (foraged)	99	Baking yield 6

Each successful sandwich combine creates 12 Sandwiches.
Each successful Marmalade combine creates 6 marmalade.

To make 100 Sandwiches (and a few spare) =

2 Fruit and 6 Frosting = 12 Marmalade = 144 sandwiches.

Fruit is foraged. But you don't need very much so follow a druid around until they drop some, or just ask nicely for some.

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Jumjum Spiced Beer	1 Barley, 1 Hops, 1 Spices, 1 Water, 1 Bottle, 1 Jumjum Stalk combined in a Brew Barrel	162	Brewing yield 10

Each successful beer combine creates 10 Jumjum Spiced Beer.

To make 100 Jumjum Spiced Beer =

10 each of Barley, Hops, Spices, Water, Bottle, Jumjum Stalks

Jumjum Stalks can be bought from Daleena Leafsway in Rivervale near the Druid guild, or in Shadowhaven from Alorob Bolrodo located in the halfling district, in the Lost Turnip.

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Jumjum Salad	1 Lettuce, 1 Fennel, 1 Vegetable (foraged), 1 Jumjum Stalk combined in a Mixing Bowl	142	Baking

Each successful salad combine creates 10 Jumjum Salads.

To make 100 Picnic Baskets =

Get 10 each of Fennel, Lettuce, Vegetables (foraged) and Jumjum Stalks

Fennel can be bought from any Alchemy Vendor (note that Alchemy vendors come in pairs, there are too many herbs for one person to sell).

Lettuce can be bought from special baking vendors. Daleena Leafsway in Rivervale near the Druid guild has some, and so does a vendor in the Plane of Knowledge near the brewing vendors.

Vegetables are foraged.

Jumjum Stalks can be bought from Daleena Leafsway in Rivervale near the Druid guild, or in Shadowhaven from Alorob Bolrodo located in the halfling district, in the Lost Turnip.

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Royal Mints	1 Frosting, 1 Eucalyptus combined in a Mixing Bowl	76	Baking yield 10

Each successful mints combine creates 10 Royal Mints.

To make 100 Royal Mints =

10 each of Frosting and Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus can be bought from any Alchemy Vendor (note that Alchemy vendors come in pairs, there are too many herbs for one person to sell).

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Mature Cheese	1 Rennet, 2 Milk, and a Dairy Spoon combined in a Mixing Bowl	84	Baking yield 10

Each successful cheese combine creates 10 Mature Cheese.

To make 100 Mature Cheese =

10 Rennet and 20 Milk

Rennet can be bought from several vendors, most notably in Shadowhaven and a vendor located with the brewing vendrs in Plane of Knowledge (will find names asap). Rennet looks like blue frosting.

Item	Recipe	Trivial	Made By
Sliced Jumjum Cake	1 Jumjum Cake combined in an oven or spit.	27	Baking yield 10
WHOLE Jumjum Cake	1 Jumjum Stalk, 1 Clump of Dough, 1 Frosting, 1 Winter Chocolate and a Cake Round combined in an oven or a spit.	166	Baking yield 20
Clump of Dough	1 Cup of Flour, 1 Milk, 1 Egg (many kinds can be used) combined in a Mixing Bowl	17	Baking yield varies
Winter Chocolate	2 Frosting, 1 Brownie Parts	95	Baking yield 1

Each successful slice combine creates 10 Sliced Jumjum Cake.

Each successful cake combine creates 20 Jumjum Cakes.

To make 200 Slices of jumjum Cake =

You only need 1 successful Cake combine. You bet your ass that even as a master baker you are going to manage to somehow fail to slice a cake, and completely ruin it in the process. Make an extra stack, you won't regret it.

Eggs can be gotten all over the place either foraged or dropped from mobs.

Brownie Parts unsurprisingly drop off Brownies. If you are not advanced in levels hunt the little ones in Greater Fay or in Steamfont. If you don't mind getting your arse handed to you at round level 30 or so, hunt them Lesser Faydark. If you are looking for bloody vengeance for past crimes perpetrated by the little buggers, go to any of these places. Alternatively, go to the bazaar.

Jumjum Stalks can be bought from Daleena Leafsway in Rivervale near the Druid guild, or in Shadowhaven from Alorob Bolrodo located in the halfling district, in the Lost Turnip.

And there you have it. I hope this guide is easier to follow than some. If you have the requisite skills, the space and the patience I really do feel that picnics are the way to go past 200. Good luck!