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Everyone, regardless of who they used to be back in the Old World, comes to the New World the same, as equals. But, you don’t have to stay that way for long! This guide will give you all the information you need, and probably more, to become strong in this harsh environment.




Humours

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There are four main stats, called Humours, here in the New World. Each is affected by and are depleted by various activities. They are:

Blood is essentially your health.
Things such as falling whilst climbing, being knocked around in combat and snapping a Tinder Drill will hurt you.

Phlegm is essentially your endurance.
It determines how long you can do laborious activities such as running, crafting, and destroying.

Yellow bile is essentially your strength.
More Yellow bile means more damage, and more moves to be used before it is depleted. It also allows you to carry more and use Forage for longer.

Black bile is essentially your brains.
It is used up when studying items and doing crimes.

Humours are depleted by various activities but can be replenished by eating Food. A Humour's maximum value can be increased with Gluttony. The higher your maximum Humours the stronger you are.

You can see your exact Humours by hovering the cursor over your Humour bars. You will see something like 5.0/5.0/5.0. These are your current/expected/maximum Humours. Since it takes a moment to digest your Food, "expected" is the amount that will be gained after the digesting has finished.

Foods

Before you start chomping away, there are a few things you should know about Foods.

Food Groups

Food are broken up into several different Food Groups such as:

However, until you've been here a while and learned to farm, you'll probably focus mostly on:

And after you've learned Small Game Hunting icon.png Small Game Hunting and Fishing icon.png Fishing:

Food Group Debuff

Eating too much Food while in a single Gluttony session from the same Food Group will reduce that Food’s effectiveness. Basically if you want to get big you need to eat a balanced diet. Hovering over any item of Food to see how much it will reduce and at what chance.

For instance eating Oakworth icon.png Oakworth during a Gluttony session has a 50% chance to reduce further Foods from the Vegetables and Greens icon.png Vegetables and Greens Food Group by 50%.

Restore Foods

There are some Foods in the New World that may end up whetting your appetite. These are known as Restore Foods, and as the name implies, these Foods restore a portion of the debuff gained when eating too much of a single Food Group. Each Food Group has at least one Restore Food. But take for instance one of the Candies. Let’s say you’ve eaten a Lobster Mushroom icon.png Lobster Mushroom and gained a 50% reduction to Mushrooms icon.png Mushrooms. Eating a Unknown Item icon.png [[]] has a chance of

Purity

If you hold hover over or hold down CTRL you can see a number come up which represents the Purity (also know as AEther) of that item of Food. Many items in the game have Purity, but for Food this number increases how much that item of Food heals for and will increase your Humours for in a Gluttony session. In general, the higher the Purity; the better the Food.

Purity on most plants comes from growing them in either Till Field icon.png Tilled Fields or Gardening Pot icon.png Gardening Pots. The Purity on meats comes from the Butcher Knife icon.png Butcher Knife used to cut the meat.

Early on you don't need to worry about Purity, but as you become stronger, and Gluttony harder, you'll want to focus on Foods with higher Purity. See Everything Your Mother Never Wanted You to Know About AEther for more information on Purity.

Cravings

As you spend time in the New World you will find yourself Craving particular Foods. When this happens you will see a small dropdown near your Gluttony forks will appear with an image of the Food that you Crave.

If you eat a piece of Food which shares the same Food Group as what you Crave then you will instantly gain one Humor point at random. However, if eat the exact Food that you Crave, then you will instead gain 1 to EACH Humour! This is the better option if you can obtain the Food that you Crave, but be careful not to accidentally eat a Food in the same Food Group.

The longer you have been in the New World, and the stronger you are, the more refined your pallette become. The Foods that you Crave will begin to diversify, but also that the time between cravings extends as well.

Gluttony

Gluttony is the main process by which a Pilgrim in the New World raises their Humours.

To raise a Humour during Gluttony, a Pilgrim must eat enough Food to fill up one of the Humour bars. When this happens, that Humour will be raised by one. To see what Humour an item of Food is most likely to affect, hold down CTRL - the color of the Purity Number corresponds to the Humour.

To start a Gluttony session click on the forks below your Humour bars. This will change the pointer to a fork which can then be used to eat Foods from your inventory, or from a Table. Opening any other container will close your Gluttony session. Hovering your fork over an item of Food in a Gluttony Session shows the maximum and minimum amounts that each Humour bar will be filled by that Food item. If eating an item of Food causes two Humours to exceed the highest value, one of the two will be randomly chosen to be increased.

Full & Fed-up

Apart from just increasing your Humours, consuming any Food while in Gluttony Session also adds a little bit of time to your Full & Fed-up debuff. This

Adding to your "Full & Fed-up

Sugar & Spice

Your Sugar & Spice Proficiency will help decrease your Full & Fed Up timer. For every 3 points you gain in a session, you get a RNG roll based on this proficiency which will remove some amount of time from your timer. It is weighted to be more beneficial to newbies than to veterans as a means to help them catch up to older players.


Feasting Artifice

A food item needs to be completely unused to be possible to be consumed in gluttony mode, and consuming the item in gluttony mode will consume the item entirely, regardless of how many uses the item still has left.


Take note that the Feasting Artifice also determines the limit of these bonuses. A set of 200 Feasting points will only allow you to gain bonuses up to 20 gobble points.


Gluttony Bonuses

There is also a 'Gobble Bonus' that can be had from very long Gluttony sessions if you have a dedicated clothing set with a high enough Feasting Artifice value. Each time you raise a humor during a session, you receive a Gobble Point displayed below your Humor Bars. With a Feasting Artifice of 100 or more you will, if those gobble points reach 10 or more, get you 2 or more points to that Humor instead of 1. The gobble points will however still only go up with 1 point.

  • Gobble Points yield (2) Humors once you achieve a 10+ point session.
  • Gobble Points yield (3) Humors once you achieve a 30+ point session.
  • Gobble Points yield (4) Humors once you achieve a 60+ point session.



Quick Newbie Guide

Gluttony in Salem can be very complex if you want to make the most of your food with the least debuff, but getting from 5 to 20 is fairly simple.

First, a new player will have access to only a few Food Groups, so choose carefully to spread your food to be Gluttonied across as many groups as possible. Three main groups accessible to newbies are Foraged, Seafood, and Meat. Note that smaller groups inside these main groups include Slugs Bugs and Kritters, Fishes, Crustacea and Shellfish, Berries, Nuts and Seeds, Flowers and Herbs and Mushrooms.

You always want to gain as many points as possible in a single session until you run out of food in your inventory and table or until the reductions on the food you have are greater than the reduction to the timer from points gained. This means early on when most food have high reductions you will probably only want to eat 1 thing from each category. Also pay attention to foods that reduce categories that contain other categories, such as Food, Foraged, Seafood, and Meat and try to save them for last.

If you have a hard time planning out multiple points or finding a selection of food types some than it's best to have short gluttony sessions involving eating one or two foods for a single point, and then waiting for the debuff to wear off, its better to miss out on the timer reduction then to mess up a glutt and waste your glutting for a day. Good foods for one point sessions include Cranberry, Lilypad Bulb, Wild Garlic, Sizzled Slug, Sugar Caps, Roasted Crab Meat, Oakworth, Boiled Toadstool (key for Black Bile), and Honeysuckle Kudzu.

If Gluttonying for more than one point at a time, start with the food or combination of foods that will give the smallest amount of debuff for the first point. See the section above for a more in-depth explanation on the debuff timer.

Good early Blood foods include: Crispy Cricket, Roasted Chestnut, Lilypad Bulb, Cranberry, Roasted Crab Meat, Devil's Wort, Berries-on-a-Straw, Roasted Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch, Lobster Mushroom, Roasted Angel-Winged Seabass, and Lumberjack Frikadel.

Good early Phlegm foods include: Roasted Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper, Roasted Rabbit Cut, Huckleberries, Filet on the Rocks, Wild Salad, Roasted Red-Finned Mullet, Roasted Red Herring, Wild Garlic, Sizzled Slug, Roasted Rabbit Steak, Boiled Witch's Hat, Froghetti, and Cooked King Crab.

Good early Yellow Bile foods include: Ostrich Fiddlehead, Roasted Pine Nuts, Lavender Blewit, Oakworth, Sugar Caps, Wild Salad, Roasted Crab Meat, Lobster Mushroom, Roasted Red-Finned Mullet, Roasted Shin Spinner, and 'Shrooms-on-a-Stick.

Good early Black Bile foods include: Blackberries, Lilypad Bulb, Roasted Chestnut, Boiled Toadstool, Roasted Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper, Boiled Witch's Hat and Honeysuckle Kudzu.



==Quick Low Humor Guide (everything passed this point may be obsolete. needs updating.)==

Because every player's situation is different, with some players finding it easy to hunt small game, and others having good fishing sites, or living in a biome with one foraged ingredient being common while another is rare, it's difficult to say "Just use these foods and you'll be 50 Humors in no time", but there are some tips that can be given to make you more efficient.

Also, at this point, your debuff timer will be getting longer per point you gain. Don't be surprised if you gain only about one Humor point per hour of debuff as you pass 35-40 and your timer starts lasting half the day.

First, it's not necessary at all to be farming yet, or even to by worrying much about Variable Foods. You can get to 50 Humors off foraged and hunted foods, while still searching for that perfect place to settle, or using your inspiration on defensive skills rather than agricultural ones.

Second, there are a few Food Groups that have only a few members early on:

  • Offal

Marrow Dumplings

  • Vegetables and Greens

Boiled Gourd and Tendergrass Rump

  • Nuts and Seeds

Autumn Delight and Roasted Chestnut

  • Poultry

Roasted Turkey Cut

  • Crustacea and Shellfish

Cooked King Crab and Roasted Crab Meat

So, each Gluttony session you set up where you intend to get more than one or two points should include foods from each of these groups if possible, and it is a good idea to lead off your session with points from one or more of these foods.

Third, to find other good Gluttony foods for 21-50, use the table on the Food page for Gluttony Values. Sort by Humour/minute of whatever Humor you need foods for and look in your range of humors.

Fourth, remember that the effectiveness of food Gluttonied will by reduced as you go, so you will need fillers to make up the last little bit you need when the main food doesn't quite make it. The fillers will mostly be the foods you used as main foods when you were a Newbie. Lots of Berries, Mushrooms, Foraged recipies, Fish fillets. So, good fillers include Berries-on-a-Straw, Boiled Witch's Hat, Crispy Cricket, Cranberry, etc. Be careful when you chose the filler as many early foods have high reduction penalties to foods you might want to eat later in the session.

Fifth, make a Simple Table if you can, it will allow 9 more foods to choose from for greater variety, more points, and more efficient debuffs. This starts to become almost necessary around 40 points if you want more than a few points in a session. An Old Style Table is even better with 16 food slots, but costs a small fortune which might be better spent on claim setup.

Medium Humor Gluttony

Beyond 50, you should have a good idea of the basics. Now is the time to start farming and gain access to Food Groups like Bread, Candy, Cabbage, and Pies. Expanding your range of foods and food groups with the addition of Farms, Ovens, and Stoves is enough to go from 51 to 80 using the same methods used in the 21-50 range. There are a few tips to follow though.

First, it's definitely time to farm. Time to build Baking Tables, Bread Ovens, and at least a Pilgrim's Hovel with a Stove.

Second, become familiar with what the foods you are Gluttonying reduce. Pumpkin Pie reduces Pies, but not Pumpkins and Gourds. You can eat your Pumpkin Pies and follow them with whole Pumpkins or Pumpkin Flesh later.

Third, remember that the foods you eat for your first Humor Point of Gluttony are full timer, but later points have reductions. You will often need to eat two or three foods for that first point, so make sure their combination of timers is small as it can be. This might determine which Humor you start with in a session.

Fourth, it's more important now to keep your humors balanced and to plan ahead. In the lower humors, you could mostly grab whatever was available and wing it for a pretty good Gluttony session. Now, you'll still get points doing that, but you'll get fewer points for a longer gluttony timer than you would otherwise have. If time is not important to you, that's fine, but if you're trying to build a raider asap, you'll need to research the Food table and/or make your own lists of favorite foods.


High Humor Gluttony

Above 80 humors, Gluttony becomes more difficult. The best 0% purity foods with no Variable Food bonuses give only 65 points to whatever Humor. This is the time to get serious about Purity and Variable Foods. Luckily, this is also a good time to stop. For a farmer character, 80 humors is about as far as anyone needs to go as long as you don't accidentally build a Windmill backwards and have to destroy it. For those who do want to go farther for whatever reason, there are a few ways to eek out a little more efficiency when Gluttonying.

First, Purity. Purity water added to your Oatmeal Crackers or whatever can increase their Gluttony values significantly. Dramatic mulipliers of 10x for 100% purity aren't possible in the world right now, but increasing some foods up to at least 20% is, and that is nearly a 300% increase in Gluttony values with no increase in Gluttony timer or other ill effects.

Right now, it is possible to find areas for hunting Deer or other game where the products from the animal will have up to 10% purity. The same is true of Water, which is used as an ingredient in many recipes.

10% Purity Water, Lime, and Granite, can also be used to make pots to grow trees with higher purity, which can then be made into Humus bins whose Humus will add some purity to grown crops. See the pages on Compost Bins and Gardening Pots for more information.

Boiled foods also take some of their purity from the water in the pot and from the purity of the pot itself. Having higher purity water and a higher purity Copper Pot (from your own mine or bought), can get you a handful of foods that will have a few percent purity cooked into them for relatively little effort.

Second, Variable Foods. Certain foods such as Cabbage Cakes, and Humble Meat Pies can be made with Leaf of Cabbage, or Meat Shreds, or Flour, generic ingredients that can be any type of cabbage, or meat from any type of animal, or flour from any kind of cereal. Each different ingredient will have a different, usually beneficial, effect on the food it's added to. See the page on Variable Foods for a more in-depth explanation, and a table listing the effects.

A few things to note about the effects on the table:

Pure Oatmeal has the benefit of a pretty good chance of restoring Meat a bit, but also reduces the amount of Blood or Yellow Bile you will get to 95% of normal. Consider adding a tiny bit, .01 kg, of Barley Flour or other Flour to the mix when you are making your food to avoid the reduction. You will also remove the beneficial restoration, so consider carefully.

Deer meat restores Pies when used as a variable ingredient, so consider setting up to Gluttony Simple Sunday Steak made from Deer or some other variable Deer food after Gluttonying some of your Pies.

Similarly, Leaf of Red Cabbage restores so many useful food groups, it's almost a must to have Red Cabbage Variable Foods at higher humors.

Also, note which ingredients multiply which humors. Bear has no Reduction, but does add 15% to Yellow Bile and Black Bile. So, don't use it for Humble Meat Pie, use Beaver and Rabbit. Don't waste a Garlic Bulb on a Garlic Rabbit. Sugar Caps are an excellent ingredient for the 'Shroom-Stuffed Bellpepper. And so on.

Blackberries, and Lobster Mushrooms both Reduce rather than Restore, in exchange for rather decent Humor Multipliers. Thus, the Lobster Mushroom is useless for anything but a 'Shroom-Legume Salad.