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Purity, also known as Aether, is a bonus which generally adds to the effectiveness of an item. Purity has no effect on Inspirationals.

Purity vs Aether

Purity and Aether are generally used interchangeably to describe the bonus value Foods are multiplied by. In the past Aether applied only to the bonus value and Purity applied to the 4 elements listed on each Food:

  • Mercury
  • Sulphur
  • Lead

Currently while these elements can still be seen they have no effect.

Food Purity

Food Purity is a bonus which multiplies the Gluttony and Heal values of your Food. The Purity of a Food is listed on all Foods and raw ingredients as a percent. At 100% Purity the values of the Food are twice as high as they would normally be.For this reason raising the Purity of your Foods is a powerful way of increasing the effectiveness of your Food whether that be to Heal more or to gain more points faster during a Gluttony Session.

Purity is NOT required on all ingredients of a recipe to get a Purity bonus on the resulting Food, ONLY the ingredients which match the Food Group that Food belongs to. For example Papricharred Charcuterie icon.png Papricharred Charcuterie belongs to the Slugs Bugs and Kritters icon.png Slugs Bugs and Kritters Food Group so only the Any Bugs icon.png Any Bugs used in the recipe will affect the finial Purity. The Purity of the Raw Venison Steak icon.png Raw Venison Steak this recipe required will not affect the finial Purity whatsoever. However, if the recipe was Simple Sunday Steak icon.png Simple Sunday Steak, part of the Game Meat icon.png Game Meat Food Group, the Purity of the Raw Venison Steak would matter. For this reason it is sometimes worthwhile to save your Pure raw ingredients for the appropriate recipes. If the Purity of the raw ingredients matching the Food Group are different the finial Purity will be averaged. Purity multiplier is automatically applied to your Foods and is visible when looking at a Food's stats.

Food Group Ingredients That Affect Purity
Berries icon.png Berries
Bread icon.png Bread
Cabbage and Kale icon.png Cabbage and Kale Any Cabbage Leaf icon.png Any Cabbage Leaf
Crustacea and Shellfish icon.png Crustacea and Shellfish
Dairy Foods icon.png Dairy Foods N/A
Domesticated Meat icon.png Domesticated Meat
Fishes icon.png Fishes
Fruit icon.png Fruit Any Fruit icon.png Any Fruit
Game Meat icon.png Game Meat
Maize icon.png Maize
Mushrooms icon.png Mushrooms Any Mushroom icon.png Any Mushroom
Nuts and Seeds icon.png Nuts and Seeds
Potato Foods icon.png Potato Foods Any Potato icon.png Any Potato
Poultry icon.png Poultry
Pumpkins and Gourds icon.png Pumpkins and Gourds
Slugs Bugs and Kritters icon.png Slugs Bugs and Kritters
Vegetables and Greens icon.png Vegetables and Greens

Sources of Purity

Brazier Purity

When Collecting Charcoal icon.png Charcoal from a Coal Clamp icon.png Coal Clamp there is a chance to receive an Unscathed Wood icon.png Unscathed Wood instead with a Purity equal to the average of all the Woodblock icon.png Woodblocks used in the Coal Clamp's construction. Woodblock Purity is influenced by Gardening Purity. The Purity of a Baby Brazier icon.png Baby Brazier and Blazing Brazier icon.png Blazing Brazier always starts a Purity of 0%, but each time an Unscathed Wood is added with a Purity higher than your Brazier, that Brazier gains 10% of the difference. An Unscathed Wood can be added even if the Brazier is full. The Purer your Brazier is the higher the chance of your Brazier dealing Critical Damage. While clicking on a Torchpost icon.png Torchpost shows its Purity, there is currently no way to raise this.

Bug Purity

Any Bugs icon.png Any Bugs can have their Purity altered by selecting the Bug and right-clicking it on Any Plant icon.png Any Plant. The Bug will then consume the plant and take on that plant's Purity. This is a direct transfer of Purity, meaning feeding Any Bug a Plant can cause its Purity to increase OR a decrease, so be careful.

Bush Purity

The Purity of Bush icon.png Bushes and their products are determined by the Purity of the Gardening Pot icon.png Gardening Pot it was grown in. When Destroy icon.png Destroyed the resulting Woodblock icon.png Woodblocks will retain this Purity.

Farming Purity

The Purity of crops Harvested from a Till Field icon.png Tilled Field is based on a combination of the Purity of the Tilled Field, the Purity of the Seeds used when Planting, and chance, which may increase or decrease the Purity of a Harvest by a few percent. Each time the Harvest is higher than the Tilled Field's Purity that Field's Purity will permanently increase by up to 1%.

Fish Purity

Any Fish icon.png Any Fish caught will take their Purity directly from the Bait used to catch it. A Fish Hook icon.png Fish Hook takes on the Purity of the Bar of Any Metal icon.png Bar of Any Metal used in its construction. This Purity is passed onto Any Lure which is made from it. A Common Earthworm icon.png Common Earthworm receives its Purity from Worm Purity and a Grub icon.png Grub's purity comes from Bug Purity.

Fruit Purity

Each Everbloom icon.png Everbloom that a Fruit Tree icon.png Fruit Tree ripes with a Bee Skep icon.png Bee Skep in range, will cause your Fruit Tree to gain 10% of the difference between the Fruit Tree's Purity and the Purity of Bee Skep that pollinates it, multiplied by the percent fill of your 60,000 Worker Bees. For instance, if your Fruit Tree is at 0% Purity and your Bee Skep at 90% filled with 30k Worker Bees your Fruit Tree will gain 4.5% (90% x 50% (60k/30k). The Purity of a Bee Skep is equal to the average Purity of the Hay icon.png Hay used in it's

Gardening Purity

Three factors influence Gardening Purity. The Purity of the Humus icon.png Humus, the Purity of the Plant, and the Purity of the Gardening Pot icon.png Gardening Pot. The Harvested Plant will be the average Purity of these three factors weighted towards the Humus. The formula is: Resulting Plant = ((Humus*2)+Pot+Initial Plant)/4. Any time the Resulting Plant's Purity is higher than the Gardening Pot's, the Gardening Pot's Purity will permanently increase by up to 2.56%. You may check your Gardening Pot's Purity by right-clicking it.

Hay Purity

The Purity of Hay icon.png Hay is determined by either the average of all Autumn Grass icon.png Autumn Grass used when crafting the Hay recipe, or the average of all the contents of a Hay Stack icon.png Hay Stack. Pure Hay is used to make Bee Skep icon.png Bee Skeps which in turn influences the Purity of Any Fruit icon.png Any Fruit.

Iron Purity

The Purity of a Bar of Pig Iron icon.png Bar of Pig Iron comes from the Iron Ore Boulder icon.png Iron Ore Boulder the Iron Ore icon.png Iron Ore used to make it, was Chipped from. Iron Ore Boulders' get their Purity from a combination of Mine Level, distance from the ramp, and chance. Iron Purity will transfer directly onto Fish Hook icon.png Fish Hooks, Knife Blade icon.png Knife Blades, or any Wrought Iron Bar icon.png Wrought Iron Bars made from it.

Meat and Knife Purity

A Knife will take on the Purity of the Bar of Pig Iron icon.png Bar of Pig Iron used to make its Knife Blade icon.png Knife Blade. The Purity of your Knife will transfer directly onto the Meat you receive when Butchering a Creature while your Knife is equipped.

Shellfish Trap Purity

A Shellfish Trap icon.png Shellfish Trap takes its Purity from the Fibre Netting icon.png Fibre Netting used in its construction. Fibre Netting can be made from any Fibre icon.png Fibre, but the only Purity Fibres available are Clean Cotton icon.png Cotton and Milkweed Jute icon.png Milkweed Jute which affected by Farming Purity and Gardening Purity respectively. A Shellfish Trap's Purity transfers directly onto Any Shellfish icon.png Any Shellfish caught in it.

Tree Purity

The Purity of Tree icon.png Trees and their products are determined by the Purity of the Gardening Pot icon.png Gardening Pot it was grown in. When chopped down, Woodblock icon.png Woodblocks will retain this Purity, however Woodblocks and products from Destroy icon.png Destroying the resulting Tree Stump icon.png Tree Stump will not have any Purity.

Turkey Purity

Turkey Purity is based on a combination of the average Purity of all Turkeys inside it and the Purity of the Turkey Coop icon.png Turkey Coop itself, and chance. Each time a Turkey Egg icon.png Turkey Egg is lain with a higher Purity than the Turkey Coop, the Purity of the entire Turkey Coop will increase by up to .10%. A Turkey will have the Purity of the Turkey Egg it was hatched from. That Purity will be passed onto the products which come from that Turkey. Wild-caught Turkeys will always have a Purity of 0% which will generally negatively affect the average Purity of the Turkey's inside a Turkey Coop.

Weapon Purity

Craftable metal Weapons such as Halberd icon.png Halberds and Spanish Sabre icon.png Spanish Sabres initially take their Purity from the Wrought Iron Bar icon.png Wrought Iron Bars used in their construction but the Purity of all Polearms and Sword can be modified by selecting a Whetstone icon.png Whetstone and right-clicking it on the Weapon and selecting "Sharpen". This will consume the Whetstone and transfer its Purity onto the Weapon. Purity increases the amount of damage done by the Weapon by up to 10% at 100% Purity.

Whetstone Purity

The Purity of a Whetstone icon.png Whetstone comes from the Boulder icon.png Boulder it was Chipped from. Only Boulders from within a Mine Entrance icon.png Mine Entrance have Purity, which is from a combination of Mine Level, distance from the ramp, and chance. A Whetstone can be used to Sharpen Weapons such as Halberd icon.png Halberds and Spanish Sabre icon.png Spanish Sabres to increase their damage.

Worm and Humus Purity

Common Earthworm icon.png Common Earthworms and Earthworm Python icon.png Earthworm Pythons can have their Purity raised by allowing them to eat Any Plant icon.png Any Plant with a higher Purity than their own. To do this place a Worm in a Container and place your pure Any Plants directly next to, above, or below the Worm. After a few hours the Worm will eat one of the Plants and take 10% of the difference between the Plant's Purity and the Worm's Purity. Additionally Common Earthworms found when Rummaging an Abandoned Bird's Nest icon.png Abandoned Bird's Nest will take on the Purity of the Tree icon.png Tree it came from. Worms in turn pass their Purity to the Humus icon.png Humus they produce in a Compost Bin icon.png Compost Bin based on the average Purity of ALL the Worms inside the Compost Bin and its Worm Efficiency. For this reason it is recommended you regularly check on your Compost Bin and remove any unwanted Worms that spawn as they will lower your average Purity. Humus is one of three components for Gardening Purity.

Wrought Iron Purity

The Purity of a Wrought Iron Bar icon.png Wrought Iron Bar comes from the Bar of Pig Iron icon.png Bar of Pig Iron it was made from and will pass its Purity onto Weapons such as Halberd icon.png Halberds and Spanish Sabre icon.png Spanish Sabres made from it.