Psychite tea

Psychite tea

A fragrant tea infused with leaves of the psychoid plant. Drinking it induces a subtle psychite euphoria. This tea is easy to produce at cooking facilities, but can produce psychite addiction if consumed too often.
Many tribes use psychoid tea, both as a daily energizer and as part of social and religious rituals.

Base Stats

Type

Drug – Social drug

Tech Level

Neolithic

Market Value

10 

Stack Limit

150

Mass

0.05 kg

HP

50

Deterioration Rate

6

Flammability

100%

Rotatable

False

Path Cost

15 (46%)

Ingestion

Recreation Offset

40%

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Recreation Kind

chemical

Addictiveness

2%

Maximum To Ingest

1

Ingestion Time

210 ticks (3.5 secs)

Creation

Crafted At

 /  / 

Required Research

Psychoid brewing

Skill Required

Cooking 2

Work To Make

400 ticks (6.67 secs)

Resources to make

4

Technical

defName

PsychiteTea

Preferability

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Drug Category

social

Psychite tea is a relatively "safe" social drug, that provides a +12 mood buff as well as slightly reducing pain (10% reduction) and the rate pawns get tired (20% reduction), and raises Recreation by 40. It is relatively very easy to research compared to other drugs, especially for Tribal colonies (who suffer a penalty for "advanced" techs like Drug Production, which this does not require).

Acquisition

Psychite tea can be cooked at a Campfire, Fueled stove, or Electric stove once the Psychoid brewing research project has been completed. Each dose requires  4 Psychoid leaves, 400 ticks (6.67 secs) of work, and a Cooking skill of 2. Its cooking speed is dependent on the Cooking skill.

It can also be purchased from Tribal traders, especially Shaman Merchants who commonly stock it, as well as Tribal faction bases. Tribal visitors and raiders will also occasionally carry them.

Summary

Psychite tea is a moderately potent social drug that has a variety of effects. These can be broken into effects that occur:

• Instantaneously and one time upon using the drug.
• While high on the drug.
• While addicted to the drug.
• While withdrawing from the drug.

Upon drinking

A pawn taking psychite tea will do so right where it stands without looking for a place to sit first. Go-juice is taken by drinking, taking 210 ticks (3.5 secs). It has the following one time effects:

• +40% Chemical recreation
• +75% Psychite tea high severity (see "Psychite tea high" below)
• +10% Rest
• 2% Addiction chance
• If the pawn has an addiction already:
  • +90% Psychite Tea need (see "Addiction" below)
  • +15% Addiction severity (see "Withdrawal" below)

Psychite tea high

"Active psychite tea in the bloodstream. Generates a mild euphoric effect."

• +12 Mood ("Drinking that tea made me feel great. I love having this energy!")
• ×90% Pain
• ×80% Tiredness (rest fall factor)

Tolerance

If a pawn has a visible tolerance to psychite, they will develop chemical damage in the kidneys in a mean time of 120 days.

Addiction

"A chemical addiction to psychite. Long-term presence of psychite has caused neurological adaptations at the cellular level, so the brain can no longer function properly without the drug. Without regular doses of psychite from drugs like flake or yayo, withdrawal symptoms will begin. However, extended abstinence will force the brain to adapt back to its normal state, resolving the addiction."

— Addiction description

Developing an addiction means a pawn has a psychite need. The need for psychite falls by 33.3% per day, consuming psychite tea satisfies the need by 90% (see "Upon drinking" above), meaning the pawn will need to consume psychite tea at least every 2.7 days to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

Withdrawal

"Because of a psychite addiction, this person needs to regularly consume the drug to avoid withdrawal symptoms."

— Need description

Like Yayo and Flake, Psychite tea can cause psychite addiction. Withdrawal lasts for 30 days and causes the following symptoms:

• −35 Mood
• −20% Consciousness
• −20% Moving
• −20% Manipulation
• +30% Rest fall factor (meaning the pawn needs to sleep about a 30% sooner)
• Mental break chances:
  • Hard drug binge: on average every 40 days. This averages to  hard drug binges during each withdrawal.
  • Psychotic wandering: on average every 10 days. This averages to  psychotic wanderings during each withdrawal.

Analysis

Psychite tea is much less addictive than flake or yayo. A colonist can drink it every 2 days without becoming addicted. If drunk more often, and the tolerance reaches 10% or more, then drinking psychite tea only has a 2% chance to create addiction - the same as smokeleaf - without smokeleaf's penalties to movement and consciousness. The tea is even better than ambrosia, especially in the mid-game, with the downside of only being able to give the mood buff every 2 days and a cost of research and time cooking and planting psychoid.

It is less cost-efficient than the other psychoid drugs, flake and yayo, as it is worth the least and takes the longest to make. However, its beneficial properties, lack of risk for limited use, simpler research requirement and much simpler production requirements (i.e. a campfire is adequate, any stove is faster) makes it a good option in the early game, and still useful to end game. This is an especially good option for tribal colonies, who start the game with psychoid brewing already researched.

Gallery

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  One tea

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  Partial stack

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  Full stack

Version history

• Beta 18 - Added as Psychoid pekoe.
• Beta 19 - Renamed from Psychoid pekoe to Psychite tea. No longer made at a crafting spot.
• Beta 19/1.0 - tolerance gain 0.02 -> 0.03, market value 14 -> 10, restFallFactor 0.9 -> 0.8

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Drugs

Social drugs

Ambrosia • Beer • Psychite tea • Smokeleaf joint

Hard drugs

Flake • Go-juice • Wake-up • Yayo

Medical drugs

Luciferium • Penoxycyline

Serums

Ghoul resurrection serum • Juggernaut serum • Metalblood serum • Mind-numb serum • Voidsight serum