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Stats
This is taken from the Tale 3 Wiki found here. All information is subject to change.
Attributes
There are seven character attributes: Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Speed, Constitution, Focus, and Perception. Each attribute starts at zero. Attributes may be increased temporarily by eating raw herbs from the ground, by eating grilled foods, or by eating cooked food from a kitchen. Catching a whiff of Incense will provide a short term stat +1 boost to one attribute and decrease another by -1. Permanent attribute increases are mostly gained by passing Tests in the Discipline of the Human Body.
Strength
- Permanent boost: You gain 1 STR for every 4 animals you add to the logbook of the Test of The Safari. Maximum permanent Strength is 7.
- Temporary boost: Eating grilled cucumbers gives a temporary boost +2
- Controls how much weight you may carry. If you have positive or 0 strength, you can carry 500 + (500 * str) weight. If you have negative or 0 strength, you can carry 500 / (1 - str) weight.
- Governs the timer used when seperating Coconut Meat and Coconut Water in a kitchen.
- Strength score is added to the amount a Deep Well is wound from one pull.
- Controls one of the timers in Mining.
- Controls timer for stirring cement in clinker vat along with endurance.
Dexterity
- Permanent boost: You gain 1 DEX for every four Acrobat moves you learn. Maximum permanent Dexterity is 7.
- Temporary boost: Eating grilled eggplant gives a temporary boost +2
- Controls how much bulk you may carry. Formulas are the same as for Strength and Weight.
- Increases your off-road running speed by 3% per Dexterity point (up to 7). Bonus dissipates if carrying more than 1000 bulk.
- Increases your chance of getting a Rabbit Pelt when slaughtering a rabbit in a Rabbit Hutch.
Endurance
- Permanent boost: adding pearls to your necklace doing the Test of the Oyster catcher
- Temporary boost: Eating Grilled Onions or a Grilled Fish increases endurance by +2 for a few minutes.
- Controls timers for flax processing
- Controls timer for digging (with shovels, at a hole)
- Controls timers for gathering dirt and limestone
- Controls timer for Deep Well mines (but strength is more important for that)
- Controls timer for stirring cement in a Clinker Vat along with strength.
Speed
- Permanent boost: You gain 1 speed every time you're in the top 21 of the Test Of The Singing Cicada. Maximum speed is 21.
- Temporary boost: Eating Grilled Cabbage increases speed by +2 for a few minutes.
- Increases your on-road running speed.
- Increases the size of fishing catches.
- Gives you a chance of not losing bees when harvesting from an apiary.
Constitution
- Permanent boost: You gain 1 constitution each time you check off a stage in The Test Of Darkest Night.
- Governs the timer used when making substances in a Chemistry Laboratory or Toxin Kitchen.
- Governs the timer used for Fumeology.
Focus
- Permanent boost: You gain focus from success in the Test Of The Archaeologist.
- Temporary boost: Eating Grilled Garlic increases focus by +2 for a few minutes.
- Governs the timer used when dowsing.
- Governs the timer used when carving.
- Governs the timer used when inspecting installed blades in a carpentry shop.
- Helps removing pearls from your necklace (See Test Of The Oyster Catcher).
Perception
- Permanent boost: Gained from Food, Wine, Beer and Herb Smoking.
- Finishing one of the Wine Notebooks and turning in to School of Body gives +1 PER.
- Temporary boost: Eating Grilled Carrots increases perception by +2 for a few minutes.
- Used when dowsing for metal veins (higher Perception allows detection of more metal types).
- Required for finding marble deposits - see Rocks of the Ages
- Random boost to harvesting from trees.
- Controls one of the timers in Mining.
Timers
Various activities require a period of recovery before they can be performed again. For example, you must rest between uses of a loom. The length of time you must wait is controlled by a timer based on one of the seven statistics.
Icons in the upper-right corner of the screen indicate what timers are currently active for you.
ATITD_Timer is a 3rd party program that can be used to time in-game events in Real time or estimated Teppy or Game time.
The reuse time of a stat-based activity is:
base reuse time * 7 / (7 + stat)
| Activity | Stat | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Capturing a bullfrog (Safari) | Endurance | 300s |
| Carving (barrel tap) | Focus | 120s |
| Carving (crudely carved handle) | Focus | 30s |
| Carving (large crude handle) | Focus | 60s |
| Focus | 20s | |
| Carving (sharpened stick) | Focus | 30s |
| Carving (tinder) | Focus | 30s |
| Carving (wooden peg) | Focus | 20s |
| Carving (wooden pestle) | Focus | 10s |
| Collecting dirt (shovel) | Endurance | 20s |
| Collecting limestone (heavy hammer & lead chisel) | Endurance | 30s |
| Digging for stones (hole & shovel) | Endurance (+58 to solo) | 40s |
| Dowsing | Focus | 600s |
| Inspect a blade (Carpentry Shop) | Focus | 120s |
| Make Gunpowder | Constitution | 12s |
| Make Ink | Constitution | 4s |
| Make Nut's Essence | Constitution | 1800s |
| Mining | Strength & Perception | 5s |
| Quarrying marble | Endurance | 30s |
| Raking flax, female avatar | Endurance | 60s |
| Raking flax, male avatar | Endurance | 50s |
| Search for falcon roosts (Safari) | Endurance | 120s |
| Separating a coconut | Strength | 6s |
| Smoking a Hookah Pipe | Constitution | 45s |
| Stirring cement | Strength & Endurance (+21 on both to solo) | 45s |
| Weaving, female avatar | Endurance | 60s |
| Weaving, male avatar | Endurance | 80s |
| Winding barrel grinder | Endurance (+36 to solo) | 120s |
| Winding deep well | Endurance | 180s |
Timers that still need to be measured: tapping bore rods (lead hammer) and other pyramid block operations
Changes in time for modified stats:
| Stat Bonus | 40s | 45s | 60s | 80s | 90s | 180s | 10m | 30m | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 20s | 23s | 30s | 40s | 45s | 60s | 90s | 5.0m | 15.0m |
| 14 | 13s | 15s | 20s | 27s | 30s | 40s | 60s | 3m20 | 10.0m |
| 21 | 10s | 11s | 15s | 20s | 23s | 30s | 45s | 2m30 | 7.5m |
| 28 | 8s | 9s | 12s | 16s | 18s | 24s | 36s | 2.0m | 6.0m |
| 35 | 7s | 8s | 10s | 13s | 15s | 20s | 30s | 1m40 | 5.0m |
| 42 | 6s | 7s | 9s | 12s | 13s | 17s | 26s | 1m26 | 4.3m |
| 49 | 5s | 6s | 8s | 10s | 12s | 15s | 23s | 1m20 | 3.8m |
Minimum stat needed for various timings. E.g, To get a 60s timer down to 10s you need stat 32 food.
| Timer | 10 !12 !30 !40 !45 !60 !80 !120 !1800 |
|---|
Additional Timers
Some activities have their own timers, which are not tied into the stat timers:
- Lessons for teaching a University learned skill to another player - 10 minutes (Number of lessons/skill varies by skill and mentor-leadership mods)
- Attempting to repair a building with the Structure Repair skill - 60 secs if you fail (unconfirmed)
- Upgrading a guild hall with camp decoration - 1 week
