New World Consumables Guide

Introduction

New World has a diverse selection of consumables to offer to its players, complimenting its in-depth crafting system. In this guide, we will showcase the types of consumables and their use in New World.

Food

In New World, food is one way to obtain health and mana. Food can also provide a boost to your primary stat of choice. In addition, there are also trade skill foods that give you a boost to gathering and crafting. In New World, Food can be looted or crafted by the cooking profession. For an in-depth look at food and the cooking profession, you can check out our complete cooking guide.

Recovery Food

Recovery food grants health and mana recovery in New World. You can craft these at any tier kitchen or Camp. You can also consume recovery food to gain X amount of health or mana over X seconds. The recovery stops if you take damage. Recovery food effects can not be stacked. There are 2 different types of Recovery Foods in New World:

Health Recovery:

Food	Tier	Effect
Light Ration	I	Recover 40 health per second for 20 seconds. This recovery stops if damage is taken. Additionally, recover 1% of your health every 2.5 seconds for 20 minutes.
Travel Ration	II	Recover 60 health per second for 20 seconds. This recovery stops if damage is taken. Additionally, recover 1% of your health every 2.5 seconds for 25 minutes.
Light Meal	III	Recover 100 health per second for 20 seconds. This recovery stops if damage is taken. Additionally, recover 1% of your health every 2.5 seconds for 30 minutes.
Satisfying Meal	IV	Recover 150 health per second for 20 seconds. This recovery stops if damage is taken. Additionally, recover 1% of your health every 2.5 seconds for 35 minutes.
Hearty Meal	V	Recover 220 health per second for 20 seconds. This recovery stops if damage is taken. Additionally, recover 1% of your health every 2.5 seconds for 40 minutes.
Artisians Flatbread	V	Recover 220 health per second for 20 seconds. This recovery stops if damage is taken. Additionally, recover 1% of your health every 2.5 seconds for 40 minutes.

Mana Recovery:

Food	Tier	Effect
Energizing Light Ration	I	Increases mana regen rate by 10% for 20 minutes.
Energizing Travel Ration	II	Increases mana regen rate by 15% for 25 minutes.
Energizing Light Meal	III	Increases mana regen rate by 20% for 30 minutes.
Energizing Satisfying Meal	IV	Increases mana regen rate by 25% for 35 minutes.
Energizing Hearty Meal	V	Increases mana regen rate by 30% for 40 minutes.

Attribute Food

Attribute food is a type of food used to give the player additional attributes. For Instance, if a player is using Great Axe, they might want to use Roasted Gnufish to increase their strength in order to deal more damage. Below are all the attribute foods in New World:

Each type of attribute food will also give you the well fed buff. This buff heals you for 1% of your max health every 2.5 seconds.

Strength Food

Food	Tier	Effect
Pork Chops and Apple Sauce	II	Increase Strength by 10 for 25 minutes.
Supreme Omelet	III	Increase Strength by 20 for 30 minutes.
Clam Chowder	IV	Increase Strength by 30 for 35 minutes.
Banana Bread	V	Increase Strength by 44 for 40 minutes.
Roasted Gnufish	V	Increase Strength by 48 for 40 minutes.

Dexterity Food:

Food	Tier	Effect
Meat Pie	II	Increase Dexterity by 10 for 25 minutes
Honeyed Melon	III	Increase Dexterity by 20 for 30 minutes
Seafood Bisque	IV	Increase Dexterity by 30 for 35 minutes
Banana Pudding	V	Increase Dexterity by 44 for 40 minutes
Fried Albenaja	V	Increase Dexterity by 48 for 40 minutes

Intelligence Food:

Food	Tier	Effect
Blackened Fish Filet	II	Increase Intelligence by 10 for 25 minutes
Stuffed Pork Chop	III	Increase Intelligence by 20 for 30 minutes
Calamari and Tomato Stew	IV	Increase Intelligence by 30 for 35 minutes
Fruit Salad	V	Increase Intelligence by 44 for 40 minutes
Steamed Abaia Serpe	V	Increase Intelligence by 48 for 40 minutes

Focus Food:

Food	Tier	Effect
Venison Pot Roast	II	Increase Focus by 10 for 25 minutes
Baked Fish Filet	III	Increase Focus by 20 for 30 minutes
Turkey Pot Pie	IV	Increase Focus by 30 for 35 minutes
Tostones	V	Increase Focus by 48 for 40 minutes
Blackened Lava Barb with Corn Succotash	V	Increase Focus by 44 for 40 minutes

Constitution Food:

Food	Tier	Effect
Tarragon Poultry Sliders	II	Increase Constitution by 10 for 25 minutes
Game Meat with Citrus Glaze	III	Increase Constitution by 20 for 30 minutes
Stuffed Calamari	IV	Increase Constitution by 30 for 35 minutes
Banana Parfait	V	Increase Constitution by 44 for 40 minutes
Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables	V	Increase Constitution by 48 for 40 minutes

Mitigation Food

There is one type of mitigation food in New World. It’s called Desert Sunrise. This food is only available as a tier V food, and requires level 60+ to consume.

Desert Sunrise – Reduces the duration of DOTs by 17.5% for 40 minutes.

Trade Skill Food

Trade Skill foods are used to enhance both crafting and gathering in New world. They can be crafted at a Kitchen of the appropriate Tier. There’s trade skill food for both the crafting and gathering professions. There is no trade skill food for Cooking or Fishing.

Crafting foods

When crafting food is consumed, your minimum and maximum gear score while crafting will increase. For example, consuming a Savory Vegetable Medley will increase your minimum and maximum gear score of weapons crafted by 15. The effects of the food will last 40 minutes. Therefore, these trade skill foods will be essential to end game crafting to craft maximum gear score items. There’s only one tier of crafting food, Tier V. However, you can consume the tier V crafting food at character level 15+.

Profession	Food
Arcana	Sweet Wild Berry Infusion
Armoring	Spicy Cabbage Soup
Engineering	Herb-Crusted Vegetables
Jewelcrafting	Glazed Melon Bread
Weaponsmithing	Savory Vegetable Medley

Gathering Goods

The other variant of trade skill food consists of gathering foods. Gathering foods increase your luck for that specific gathering skill by a specified amount. Therefore, gathering foods are incredibly important in order to obtain rare resources that are sometimes impossible to obtain without the use of additional luck.

There’s only one tier of gathering food, Tier V. However, you can consume the tier V crafting food at character level 15+. The gathering foods consist of the following:

Food	Skill	Luck Increase	Cooking Level
Spicy Steak Pie	Harvesting	2,000	125
Biscuits and Gravy	Harvesting	2,500	235
Salted Poultry with Cabbage	Logging	2,000	125
Bear Flank and Cabbage	Logging	2,500	235
Salted Roasted Vegetables	Mining	2,000	125
Crispy Chicken and Potatoes	Mining	2,500	235
Savory Fish Cake	Skinning	2,000	125
Grilled Tenderloin and Vegetables	Skinning	2,500	235

Potions

New World has a massive variety of potions. These include classic varieties such as health, mana, and regeneration potions. There are also tinctures that will remove the blight and corruption afflictions. Also included in this group of consumables, are weapon coatings. Weapon coatings can give you an offensive boost to a specific enemy type. There are also absorption and ward potions that will increase your damage absorption against certain types of mobs and elements.

Potions require an Arcana station or camp of the appropriate tier. For an in-depth look at potions and how to craft them, you can check out our complete Arcana guide.

Health, Mana, Regeneration,& Encumbrance Potions

Health Potions – Use to instantly restore a portion of your health. The higher the tier the more health you gain on use. Using a health potion triggers a 25 second cooldown before you can consume another health potion.

Mana Potions – Use to instantly restore a portion of your mana. The higher the tier the more mana you gain on use. Using a mana potion triggers a 20-second cooldown before you can consume another mana potion.

Regeneration Potions – Use to restore both health and mana. These restore X% of health every 1 second and X% of mana per 1 second for 10 seconds. Using this potion triggers a 25-second cooldown before you can use another regeneration potion. You can use a health or mana potion after consuming a regeneration potion.

Regeneration Serum – Restores 400 health +1% of your max health, 5 Stamina and 2 Mana per second for 20 seconds. Cooldown 60 seconds.

Encumbrance Potions – Use to increase your encumbrance limit by a specified amount for a short duration. You can not stack these potions.

Tier 5 – increases max weight carried by 500 for 10 minutes.

Weapon Coatings

Weapon Coatings are only available in tier V. There is a coating for each enemy type in the game which includes, beasts, lost, corrupted, ancients, and angry earth. They can then be applied to your currently drawn weapon to gain a % damage boost against whichever enemy type you crafted the coating for. The coating will last for a specified duration or will be removed upon equipping your weapon, whichever comes first. You can only apply one coating to one weapon at a time. Therefore, you will need to choose wisely based on the enemies you’ll be facing.

Tier V – 15% damage buff, lasts 40 minutes

Tinctures

Tinctures will remove certain afflictions and give you resistance to that affliction for a specified duration. They can be crafted at both a camp and an arcana station of the appropriate tiers. There are two different types of tinctures, Blight Tinctures, and Corruption Tinctures. These are only available as infused, tier V versions.

Tier V – Fully remove the Blight Affliction and gain maximum resistance to it for a short time. Increases blight absorption by 97.5%

Consuming a corruption tincture will fully remove the corruption affliction and you will gain resistance to the corruption affliction for 5 minutes.

Tier V – Fully remove the Corruption Affliction and gain maximum resistance to it for a short time. Increases corruption absorption by 97.5%

Acid Tincture

Acid Tinctures are used in the Brimstone Sands zone, or to mitigate any other source of acid damage. These will help you navigate the sulfur pools and loot the chests in the area. There is only one tier of acid tincture, tier V.

Acid Tincture – Removes acid burn and grants 20 more points of resistance to acid lasting up to 5 minutes.

Tinctures can not be stacked. If you consume a blight potion and then immediately consume a corruption potion you will still remove the blight affliction, but the blight resistance will be overridden by the corruption resistance.

Ward Potions

Next, Ward potions are potions that when consumed will grant you increased damage absorption against one of the 6 enemy types: Ancients, Angry Earth, Beast, Corrupted, Lost, and Human. They are only available in tier V, and these potions have a 3-second shared cooldown. You will receive your increased damage absorption for a specified duration after receiving damage from that enemy type a certain amount of times.

Tier V – Increase damage absorption by 10% for 40 minutes.

These can be very useful when running expeditions and mutations or farming a certain enemy type in the open world. ‘

Absorption Potions

Likewise, Absorption potions are potions that when consumed will grant you increased damage absorption against one of the 5 elemental types: Arcane, Fire, Lightning, Nature, and Void. They are only available in tier V. You will receive increased absorption by a specified percentage for a specified duration. These potions can not stack. Only one can be active at a time. These potions have a 100-second shared cooldown.

Tier V – Increase absorption by 15% for 30 seconds

Proficiency Boosters

Proficiency boosters are crafted at a workshop of the appropriate tier. They are only available in tier V. Consuming a proficiency booster will increase the number of resources gathered by X% for X minutes.

Powerful Proficiency Booster – Increases the amount of resources gathered with a tool by 15% for 30 minutes.

Secrets of the Spores

There’s a specific type of potion available for the Elysian Wilds zone (requires Rise of the Angry Earth expansion). These potions will give you additional bonuses while in spore clouds within the zone.

Boon of Artemis Potion – Consuming this potion attunes you to the Spores. Lasts for 120 minutes. Upon entering a Spore Cloud and becoming “Spore Drenched,” deal 27% more damage and gain increased loot from creatures in the Elysian Wilds for 270 seconds.
Boon of Demeter Potion – Consuming this potion attunes you to the Spores. Lasts for 120 minutes. Upon entering a Spore Cloud and becoming “Spore Drenched,” take 27% less damage and gain increased resources when Harvesting Sporeplants for 270 seconds.

Other Consumables

Honing Stones

Next, are Honing Stones. These are crafted by the weaponsmithing profession at the forge. In short, Honing Stones are used to increase a player’s overall weapon damage. Upon use, you will receive a % of weapon damage increase for a specified period of time depending on the tier of honing stone used.

Weak Honing Stone – 4% for 25 Minutes
Common Honing Stone – 5% for 30 Minutes
Strong Honing Stone – 6% for 35 Minutes
Powerful Honing Stone – 7 % for 40 Minutes

Incense

Incense are crafted by the furnishing profession at a workshop and increases a player’s resistance to all afflictions by a set amount for a specified duration of time depending on the tier of incense used.

Weak Incense – Increased Resistance by 20 for 10 Minutes
Common Incense – Increased Resistance by 30 for 15 Minutes
Strong Incense – Increased Resistance by 40 for 20 Minutes
Powerful Incense – Increased Resistance by 50 for 30 Minutes

Gemstone Dust

Gemstone dust is crafted at the outfitter’s station using the Jewelcrafting profession. This consumable increases a player’s elemental damage absorption. The amount of absorption/ number of times the damage is received is based on the tier of gemstone dust used. Below is a list of each version of Gemstone Dust below:

Weak Gemstone Dust – 10% for 20 seconds or damage received 6 times
Common Gemstone Dust – 17% for 20 seconds or damage received 9 times
Strong Gemstone Dust – 25% for 20 seconds or damage received 12 times
Powerful Gemstone Dust – 35% for 20 seconds or damage received 15 times

Oakflesh Balm

Oakflesh Balm is crafted at the outfitter’s station using the armoring profession. These potions increase the absorption of physical damage by a specified %. They last for 20 seconds or until the damage is received a specified amount of times, whichever comes first. Below is a list of each of the Oakflesh Tiers:

Weak Oakflesh Balm – 10% or damage received 6 times
Common Oakflesh Balm – 17% or damage received 9 times
Strong Oakflesh Balm – 25% or damage received 12 times
Powerful Oakflesh Balm – 35% or damage received 15 times

Dyes

Dyes are used to dye clothing or armor. These are crafted using the cooking profession at a kitchen. Dyes can not be crafted using cooking at a camp. In order to craft a dye, you must have water and the appropriate pigment.