Creamy Pure Anti-Rad Tea

Keep it for the short, ugly part of a run. It sits on the very top of the anti-rad ladder: a Pure Anti-Rad Tea, which already raises your resistance to radiation a large amount, plus three cream. The game text says the cream makes the effect stronger but shorter lived.

Its sibling pulls the other way. The Milky Pure Anti-Rad Tea is the same pure tea with milk, made to last longer. So the choice is about time: a full lap of a monument wants the milky one, a quick in-and-out wants this.

Picture one crate sitting in the worst room of the monument. Your teammate holds the corridor, you only need to get in, loot and get out. Drink it at the door, not on the road there, or the short timer burns down while you are still walking.

Like every tea on this ladder, it protects before, it does not remove after. Radiation you already carry stays until a Pure Rad. Removal Tea or pills deal with it. And unlike the lower tiers, it is a recipe every player knows from the start: you mix it at a Level 1 workbench with nothing to research.