Buffs

Buffs are temporary boosts or drains on the player's stats and abilities. They can be achieved by consuming various foods and drinks, or from monster attacks.

Combining Buffs

In general, buffs do not stack, but instead replace any previous buffs. More specifically, buffs from exactly one food and one drink can be active at a given time. Eating a food with buffs will wipe out any buffs from previously-eaten food (but not buffs from a previous drink); one drink's buffs will replace any previous drink's buffs, but have no effect on existing food buffs. Foods or drinks that have no buffs (but restore Health and Energy) can be safely consumed without any effect on active buffs.

Only two buffs, namely Speed and Max Energy, are available from both food and drink and can therefore be stacked:

• +1 Speed from Coffee or Triple Shot Espresso can be added to the +1 Speed from a food.
• +30 Max Energy from Green Tea can be added to the +30 to +50 Max Energy from a food.

Special-effect and negative buffs ("debuffs") are each handled individually, independently of standard food- and drink-derived buffs: only one instance of each of these buffs can be active, and they are unaffected by other types of buffs. The special-effect buffs are "Adrenaline Rush", "Oil of Garlic", "Warrior Energy", "Yoba's Blessing", and "Squid Ink Ravioli Buff"; the negative buffs are "Jinxed", "Slimed", "Tipsy", "Burnt", "Darkness", "Weakness", "Frozen", and "Nauseated".

For example, drinking an alcoholic beverage makes the player "Tipsy". Drinking another alcoholic beverage replaces the first "Tipsy" effect with a new one (the magnitude remains -1 speed, but the duration is reset). Consuming any other drink or food (including ones with buffs) will not remove the "Tipsy" effect -- at best, +1 Speed buff (e.g., from Coffee) can be used to counteract the -1 Speed.

Buff Duration

Buff durations are specified on the wiki and in-game using real-time minutes and seconds.

Typically, 43 real-time seconds are equivalent to one game hour. (7 real-time minutes are 10 game hours.)

However, time in Skull Cavern runs more slowly: one game hour lasts 54 real-time seconds. (Except in multiplayer games and on Prehistoric Floors, which revert to 43-second hours). So one cup of Coffee, that normally would last for two hours, will only last for one and a half hours in Skull Cavern.

All buffs are cleared once the player sleeps.

Preventing negative buffs

Immunity and Squid Ink Ravioli mitigate or prevent the application of negative buffs to the player. The Slime Charmer Ring prevents the Slimed effect in particular from being applied. The Sturdy Ring cuts the duration of negative effects that are applied to the player in half.

Available Buffs

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Image	Name	Effect	Cause	Duration
	Jinxed	Defense (-8)	Being hit by a Shadow Shaman's fireball	8s
	Slimed	Speed (-4)	Being hit by a Slime	2.5-3s
	Tipsy	Speed (-1)	Consuming alcohol (Beer, Mead, Pale Ale, or Wine)	30s
	Adrenaline Rush	Speed (+2)	Killing an enemy while wearing a Savage Ring	3s
	Oil of Garlic	Your skin exudes a pungent aroma	Consuming Oil of Garlic	10m
File:Warrior Energy.png	Warrior Energy	Attack (+10)	Killing an enemy while wearing a Warrior Ring	5s
	Yoba's Blessing	Invincibility	Being hit by an enemy while wearing a Ring of Yoba	5s
	Speed Buff	Speed (+1)	Consuming various food or drink (Coffee or Espresso)	Varies
File:Mining Buff.png	Mining Buff	Alters pickaxe proficiency by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food	Varies
File:Fishing Buff.png	Fishing Buff	Alters fishing rod proficiency by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food	Varies
File:Farming Buff.png	Farming Buff	Alters hoe and watering can proficiency by an amount dependent on what was consumed. Also has an effect on the quality of crops when harvested.	Consuming various food	Varies
File:Foraging Buff.png	Foraging Buff	Alters axe proficiency by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food	Varies
	Attack Buff	Alters Attack by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food	Varies
	Defense Buff	Alters Defense by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food	Varies
	Magnetic Radius Buff	Alters magnetic radius by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food	Varies
	Max Energy Buff	Increases the player's Max Energy by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food or Green Tea	Varies
	Luck Buff	Increases Luck by an amount dependent on what was consumed	Consuming various food or Ginger Ale	Varies
	Burnt	Speed (-2) Defense (-3)	Being hit by a Magma Sparker	6s
	Darkness	Makes the screen go almost completely dark	Being hit by a Shadow Sniper	5s
	Weakness	Attack (-20)	Being hit by a Blue Squids orb	10s
	Frozen	Speed (-8)	Being hit by a Skeleton Mage	2s
	Nauseated	Prevents the player from eating or drinking anything	Being hit by a Putrid Ghost	2mNote: this can be secretly cured by eating Ginger or drinking Ginger Ale
	Squid Ink Ravioli Buff	Prevents all debuffs	Consuming Squid Ink Ravioli	3m
	Monster Musk Buff	Your scent makes you irresistible to monsters. Encounter more enemies.	Using Monster Musk	10m

Bugs

• The Squid Ink Ravioli Buff does not prevent the Tipsy debuff.
• The Squid Ink Ravioli Buff does not remain active if another food with buff is consumed later, although the special buff icon continues to appear.

History

• Sometime between v1.11 and v1.3, a bug was removed that caused the duration of buffs to decrease as the day progressed.
• 1.5: Added Burnt, Darkness, Frozen, Nauseated, Weakness, Monster Musk, and Squid Ink Ravioli Buffs. The buff indicator now blinks before expiring.