Characteristics
Overview
A basic warming tea that temporarily increases both your core and minimum temperature.
Snow and night are where this tea earns its berries. Cold wears you down slowly: first you get hungry faster, then you start losing health, and at night in the snow that happens even in decent clothes. By the game's own text, the basic warming tea raises your core and your minimum temperature for a while. In plain words, it lifts the floor the cold can push you down to.
It pays off on a night run from a snow base. You head out for metal nodes in the dark, still in a hide poncho because the good jacket stayed behind in the last fight, and the cold icon lights up before the first rock. One cup from the Mixing Table before you leave buys you that trip without crouching by a camp fire every few minutes.
Basic is the bottom rung: berries in, tea out, nothing else needed. Keep a few in the box by the door, so a teammate who respawns at home with nothing on can drink one while his clothes craft. For long hours in deep snow or cold water, step up to the advanced warming tea.
