The Mixing Table is here!

With just one week prior to the big August update, the developers have released an exciting new item to the staging branch. This article provides a brief overview of the Mixing Table - expect a full guide on this table prior to the update next week.

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Mixing Table on staging

For weeks (months even) we’ve seen commits to a mysterious mixing table branch. Keeping it close to the chest, the developers didn’t share any real specifics about what this table will do, leaving players to guess what the functionality could be. 

That guessing game is over as the Mixing Table was adding to the staging branch for testing yesterday. So what does it do exactly? Well, as per the description, it’s used for mixing recipes. What recipes you ask? Tea for the most part - but also explosives.

As you’d expect, each recipe requires certain ingredients, the majority of which are newly added berries. Now, before your head explodes about any part of this, note this is still in its infancy and very likely to get tweaked prior to release.

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Berries

As mentioned above, the majority of what people can make with this table appears to be tea at the moment. That tea is made from berries. As such, a number of berries have been added to the game. These berries can be found in various bushes around the map. 

Berries can also be grown from seeds and cloned (you receive one seed when picking a bush). Eaten alone, they provide a small amount of caloric intake and hydration (5 and 2 respectively). That said, the real magic begins when you start combining them into teas on the mixing table.

Types of berries

Yellow Berry

White Berry

Green Berry

Red Berry

Black Berry

Blue Berry

Tiers of tea

Now before we get into the exact types of tea, it’s important to cover the tiers of tea. With 5 tiers total, teas can have a range of impacts depending which tier they are. To get a higher tier tea, you simply combine 5 of the lower tier teas together and it’ll produce one high tier (I.E. 5 greater healing teas will combine into an advanced healing tea).

1. Normal

2. Greater

3. Advanced

4. Superior

5. Pure

Types of tea

In total, there are 7 types of tea. Each type requires different berries and provides different effects. Below is a list of the current types of tea and their effects. Note that in order to properly produce the tea, you must follow the recipe in the exact order. Failure to do so will have you wasting ingredients. 

Max Health Tea
Increases your maximum health

Recipe
Red, Red, Red, Yellow, Yellow

Normal
Max health: +5%

Greater
Max health: +8.75%

Advanced
Max health: +12.5%

Superior
Max health: +16.25%

Pure
Max health: +20%

Healing Tea
Restores health over time

Recipe
Red, Red, Red, Red, Red

Normal
Healing: +30

Greater
Healing: +37.5

Advanced
Healing: +45

Superior
Healing: +52.5

Pure
Healing: +60

Ore Tea
Increases the amount of ore you receive

Recipe
Yellow, Blue, Yellow, Blue, Yellow

Normal
Ore yield: +10%

Greater
Ore yield: +20%

Advanced
Ore yield: +30%

Superior
Ore yield: +40%

Pure
Ore yield: +50%

Wood Tea
Increases the amount of wood you receive

Recipe
Red, Blue, Red, Blue, Red

Normal
Wood yield: +2%

Greater
Wood yield: +4%

Advanced
Wood yield: +6%

Superior
Wood yield: +8%

Pure
Wood yield: +10%

Scrap Tea
Increases the amount of scrap you receive

Recipe
Yellow, White, Yellow, White, Yellow

Normal
Scrap yield: +10%

Greater
Scrap yield: +20%

Advanced
Scrap yield: +30%

Superior
Scrap yield: +40%

Pure
Scrap yield: +50%

Rad Removal Tea
A tea that removes radiation

Recipe
Red, Red, Red, Green, Green

Normal
Radiation: -6

Greater
Radiation: -7

Advanced
Radiation: -8

Superior
Radiation: -9

Pure
Radiation: -10

Rad Resistance Tea
Reduces the amount of health lost from radiation

Recipe
Red, Red, Green, Green, Green

Normal
Rad Resistance: +5%
Rad Exposure Resistance: +50%

Greater
Rad Resistance: +10%
Rad Exposure Resistance: +50%

Advanced
Rad Resistance: +15%
Rad Exposure Resistance: +50%

Superior
Rad Resistance: +20%
Rad Exposure Resistance: +50%

Pure
Rad Resistance: +25%
Rad Exposure Resistance: +50%

Explosives?!

That’s right, you can also produce explosives on the Mixing Table. Now, you do need to have learned the blueprint already. Provided you do, however, adding fertilizer and low grade fuel together in a certain combination will result in an explosive. Here is more information:

Recipe
1 Fertilizer
10 Low Grade
1 Fertilizer
10 Low Grade

Time
30 seconds

Yield
1 Explosive

New armor passenger module

The first new vehicle module since the launch of vehicles has been added. The Armored Passenger module allows for 2 passengers to sit in a protected passenger cabin full with working armored windows on the front and sides.

Cost
225 frags
10 HQM

Crafting time
30 seconds

Workbench
Level 3 required

Research
125 scrap

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New armor design for modules

Armored Cockpits got a bit of a visual overhaul with the addition of the armored passenger module.

Horseshoe cave nerf

A big setback for all the cave dwellers out there as a large nerf was applied to the horseshoe cave. Players are no longer able to build in the middle building pocket in the horseshoe cave.

Other stuff

• Better car gibs

• Lifts can be placed in tighter areas (including T-shaped floor sections)

• Cars can climb hills better

• Engine internals now survive twice as long

• Fixes for car collisions

• Fix for minicopters and modular cars becoming unusable after loading from a save if the server was saved during engine start up

• Only show hostile marker when within 200m of safe zone

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