Meditating

Meditation

The Basics

To meditate, drop a meditation rug on the ground, right click it, and choose "Nature -> Meditate". Due to the flatness of the rug models, it is recommended to use them in a container you place on the ground, such as a bucket, to enable easier pickup. The earliest you can join a meditation path at 15 Meditation skill. You can wait to join until 20 Meditation skill, but you will not be able to gain further skill past 20 without joining a path.

Skill Training

Skill can be gained on any tile. A successful meditation is completing the two minute meditation timer but you will not necessarily gain skill every time.

Example:

Assume the server was restarted at 12:00 and you start meditating right away. The first 5 meditations can be done at 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30 and 14:00. The next ones must be at least 3 hours past the previous one and are available at 17:00, 20:00 and 23:00. After getting some sleep bonus you continue to meditate at 8:00 and 11:00. At 12:00, 24 hours after the server restart the minimum spacing returns to 30 minutes again. The meditation timer resets every day at the same hour that the last server reset was, and you can check when that is by typing /uptime.

You do not lose a chance nor do you get any meditation skill if you meditate before the wait time is up or if you meditate within 10 tiles of the previous meditation spot. If you are eligible to gain skill (waited long enough and moved the 10 tiles) you will use up a chance and randomly get meditation skill. The ratio of skill gain per tries depends on the meditation rug. At lower levels a ratio of about 50% can be reached. Around 70 meditation skill the highest ratio has been about 40%. It is possible that you don't get any skill in one or two days but if the ratio over at least 10-20 tries is way below the listed examples you should try to change the quality of the rug. The listed ratios have been reached with a rug in the range of 20-30 quality.

Path Management and Advancement

Starting and Following a Path

On certain tiles, there can be a pop-up after finishing meditating that allows you to start a path. There are five paths that a player may follow. They are as follows:

1. - Insanity: Any cave tile
2. - Love: Any grass, bush, or tree
3. - Hate: Any mycelium, mycelium bush, or infected tree
4. - Knowledge: Any sand
5. - Power: Any rock or cliff tile (above ground).

To join a path you need to have at least 15 meditating skill.

Leaving a Path

If you have chosen a path, you now have the option Nature -> Leave path. This brings up a dialog that says: "Select quit to stop following this path. The result is immediate and dramatic".

You must wait 24 hours before joining a meditation path after leaving one: "You recently left a cult and need to contemplate the changes for another [cooldown time remaining] before embarking on a new philosophical journey."

Level	Delay to reach	Skill	Path of Knowledge Titles	Path of Insanity Titles	Path of Power Titles	Path of Love Titles	Path of Hate Titles
0	None	None	Uninitiated	Uninitiated	Uninitiated	Uninitiated	Uninitiated
1	3 Hours	15	Initiate	Initiate	Initiate	Initiate	Initiate
2	6 Hours	15	Eager	Disturbed	Gatherer	Nice	Ridiculous
3	12 Hours	15	Explorer	Crazed	Greedy	Gentle	Envious
4*	27 hours	15	Sheetfolder	Deranged	Strong	Warm	Hateful
5	2 Days	15	Desertmind	Sicko	Released	Goodhearted	Finger
6	3 Days 3 Hours	20	Observer	Mental	Unafraid	Giving	Sheep
7*	4.5 Days	30	Bookkeeper	Psycho	Brave	Rock	Snake
8	4.5 Days	40	Mud-dweller	Beast	Performer	Splendid	Shark
9*	4.5 Days	50	Thought Eater	Maniac	Liberator	Protector	Infection
10	4.5 Days	60	Crooked	Drooling	Force	Respectful	Swarm
11*	4.5 Days	70	Enlightened	Gone	Vibrant Light	Saint	Free
12*	4.5 Days	80	12th Hierophant	12th Eidolon	12th Sovereign	12th Deva	12th Harbinger
13*	4.5 Days	90	13th Hierophant	13th Eidolon	13th Sovereign	13th Deva	13th Harbinger
14	4.5 Days	90	14th Hierophant	14th Eidolon	14th Sovereign	14th Deva	14th Harbinger
15	4.5 Days	90	15th Hierophant	15th Eidolon	15th Sovereign	15th Deva	15th Harbinger
16	4.5 Days	90	16th Hierophant	16th Eidolon	16th Sovereign	16th Deva	16th Harbinger

Path Bonuses (Mod)

	Path of Knowledge	Path of Insanity	Path of Power	Path of Love	Path of Hate
Replaced	None	The Shield of the Gone bonus from Insanity is replaced with a new effect to Path of Insanity which grants 2% increased action speed per level starting at 7. At Insanity level 13, this bonus equates to 12% increased action speed. Does not affect weapon swing speed.	Grants 5 bonus stamina at level 7, and adds 5 additional stamina per level afterwards. At Power level 13, this bonus equates to 30% additional Body Stamina.	None	Remove the active effect to deal increased damage in combat from Path of Hate.

Pathname	Abilities and changes
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Path of Love	Ability 1 This change has this effect Ability 2 This change has that effect
Path of Hate	Ability 1 This change has this effect Ability 2 This change has that effect