We keep seeing people put up complains about how long it takes to make tea and pass it onto barrels because currently drinks are limited in use to handling satiations, which does give them utility but makes so that actually having piping hot tea isn't much more useful than cold tea if supply isn't a problem, like for anyone proppely stablished. So, allow us pipestuff-like bonuses for hot beverages instead of the current faster satiation, with variations depending on the kind of tea(or coffe).
Buffs from piping hot drinks wouldn't be stackable, they could all be called piping hot, or whatever else comes from jorb writing mind. The buff would grow over half a hour irl depending on how much you drank, up to 1l for the full effect, 1/10 of the effect for every 0,1l and drinking any other piping hot drinks would reset the buff counter under the new drink. Then decay over another irl hour until its gone or it gets reset, when either happens it should leave a small exaustion would(24 damage?) that heals over 3 hafen days(could be more) and applies 2/3/4 times whatever debuff came from the drink while it was taken. The buff size shouldn't be affect by quality just like pipestuff.
While this adds even more methods to raise quality of certain items it'll also severely affect the characters for at least a rl day to come, the problem with this being that it would unfarly affect younger characters to bigger effect than the oldest titans, as, -40/-80/-160 in a stat is a lot more for younglings than for titans, possibly locking certain age characters from safely using some of the drinks, the good alternative is having a -% debuff instead if thats possible on the current state of the code.
Coffee Madness
Wild Coffee Beans is a forage only resource that can be made into Soft coffe. Beans should be accessible by somewhat young characters, starting to show up at 300-800 Per*Exploration.The beans can then be dried on a herbalist table into Dried Coffee Beans, which can then be roasted with 4 branches on a oven for Roasted coffee beans, which in turn allow for Dark Coffee to be made.
A fun but unnecessary addition would be magpie coffe, based on the brazilian paradise coffee where birds eat fresh beans then poop out dried beans which are then cleaned and roasted then sold as luxury items in the us/europe. The idea for hafen being dropping Wild Coffee Beans near magpies and waiting until they notice it, path directly into it, 'eat' the beans and drop out a pickable 'magpie beans' behide, same could be done for other birds and chickens just changing the final drink buff. The fun thing here being that it adds something that is forage based, wanted by even the oldest characters and can't be botted because of the fine movement required to not spook the birds.
Soft Coffee +10 to Will and Perception and -20 to Strenght while piping hot.
Satiations: Bread 1%, Cheese 0.5% at q10
Dark Coffee +5 Will, +15 Perception and -20 Strenght while piping hot.
Satiations: Bread 1%, Cheese 0.5% at q10
Magpie Coffee +15 Will, +5 Perception and -40 Strenght while piping hot.
Satiations: Bread 1%, Cheese 0.5% at q10
Chicken Coffee +15 Will and -60 Strenght while piping hot.
Satiations: Bread 1%, Cheese 0.5% at q10
Tea Paradise
Fennel a forage only herb, can be made into fennel tea or strong fennel tea after being dried.
Fennel Tea +10 Psyche and Charisma and -20 Constitution while piping hot.
Satiations: Creepies & Crawlies 1.5%, Nuts and Seeds 1% at q10
Strong Fennel Tea +15 Psyche, +5 Charisma and -20 Constitution
Satiations: Creepies & Crawlies 1.5%, Nuts and Seeds 1% at q10
Camomile works the same as currently, camomile tea can be made out of fresh leaves and strong camomile tea can out of dried camomile.
Camomile Tea +15 Charisma and -15 Dexterity
Satiations: Forage 1.5% at q10
Strong Camomile Tea +15 Dexterity and -15 Charisma
Satiations: Forage 1.5% at q10
Stinging Nettle Tea +15 Perception and -15 Charisma
Satiations: Forage 0.75%, Creepies & Crawlies 0.75% at q10
Milk Tea, made out of milk, water and black camomile
Cow/Auroch Milk Tea +15 Strenght and -15 Constitution
Satiations: Fruit 1%, Berries 0.5%
Goat Milk Tea +15 Will and -15 Strenght
Satiations: Dairy 1%, Forage 0.5%
Sheep Milk Tea +15 Dexterity and -15 Strenght
Satiations: Offal 1%, Poultry 0.5%
Warm and Spiced Wine would be a nice kinda cute addition but i ran out of ideas