Basic Ore Tea

Stone, metal and sulfur nodes all count. The game text promises a small, temporary increase in your yield from harvesting ores, so every swing at a node gives a little more than it would without the cup. It takes the edge off thirst on a long walk between rocks as well.

Early in a wipe the sums are simple. You have a stone pickaxe, a few berry bushes near the shack and a furnace that wants feeding. A cup before a loop around the hills turns the same session of mining into a slightly fatter stack of sulfur ore, and that stack is where your first gunpowder comes from.

You mix it at the Mixing Table from berries; the table's recipe list shows which colours it wants. Several basic cups make one Advanced Ore Tea, so keep those for heavier runs once your farm can spare the berries.