Buffs

Players are expected to have at least a food buff.

Weekend buffs

• the game developers can choose to have a buff active during weekends or holidays

(examples : 10% chance to yield extra items from Gardening or picking mushrooms; increase in the money given when turning in workorders)

Long term buffs (an hour or more)

• Food, usually from Cooking
  • Meals and Snacks are different and stack.
  • However eating multiple meals will not stack. Only the highest level food buff will the used and shown. Food buffs usually give regeneration of Health and power.
  • Most foods will also give a straight increase in the total amount of Health or Power the player has.
• Nature Appreciation 1 (appreciate a flower): increase maximum Power
• Nature Appreciation 2 (appreciate a bouquet): bouquet buff for 4 hours
  • flower and bouquet buffs stack
  • example bouquet buff: Gardening Luck, +10% chance to yield 2 items while Gardening instead of 1
• Music Performance (you or fellow players have made music by using a musical instrument): increase in earned combat XP; Bonus out-of-combat Armor regeneration
• Dance Appreciation (while player-music was made; other players did an Interpretive Dance): increase in crafting XP; increase in Metabolism
• Potions
  • Many potions will stack if they do not buff the same stat.
  • Example potion: Memory Enhancer gives an hour of +10% earned combat XP
• Meditation
  • Most useful to players using Unarmed.
  • There are meditation recipes that give extra buffs like cold resistance.
  • Using a Meditation Stool will increase the buff duration a lot.
• Calligraphy
  • Most useful for players using the Sword skill.
  • There are calligraphy recipes that buff slashing, piercing, crushing, cold damage, reduce rage etc.
  • Using a Calligraphy Bench will increase the buff duration.
• buffs from Art Appreciation (click on a statue like Silver Dragon) : 10% increase in crafting XP
• Augury gives one hour buffs with many effects.

Medium term buffs (10 to 15 minutes)

• certain advanced player abilities give an increase to Haste : being able to move more quickly
• Through Alchemy several potions or drugs can be made that either boost damage done or increase the players resistance to certain damage types
• Alcohol buffs last 15 minutes, 3 beers and 1 liquor can be stacked.

Short term buffs (upto a minute)

• these are mostly Buffs from Combat Skill Abilities