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# Prestige System

Cooking and eligible game rewards grant XP. Your Profile shows your level, XP and the next progression target. Recipes, ingredients, production options and plot capacity can have level requirements.

### Skills

Skill points are a separate progression resource. Open Skills to choose effects suited to your plan, such as Greenhouse growth, crop bonuses, cooking preparation or diner revenue.

Each skill has its own point cost, level requirement and maximum rank. Some effects target a specific ingredient, crop or dish category. Read the target and effect rather than assuming every skill applies globally.

Skills follow a points budget. A higher player level and prestige rewards can provide more points under the active rules. Spending Stars is not a substitute for the normal skill-point requirement.

A skill reset removes your current allocation so you can choose again. The window shows whether a free reset is available, the next free-reset date and the Stars cost of a paid reset. Paid resets become more expensive between free-reset cycles.

### Prestige

Prestige becomes available at the maximum level. It starts a new progression run and grants the benefit shown in the Prestige window.

This is a broad reset. Prestige returns level, XP and Coins to their starting state and clears ordinary production progress, stock, active food, seeds, skills and several progression systems before granting a starter kit. It preserves Stars and TIPS; reserved Marketplace buy-offer TIPS are returned as the offers are removed.

The exact reset scope should be reviewed in the in-game confirmation before you proceed. Do not prestige while assuming your cooked stock, growing crops or ordinary machine progress will carry over.