Overview
Honey Tea is a drink in Crimson Desert brewed from honey and herbs at a cauldron. The tea restores spirit on consumption and temporarily boosts stamina regeneration, which is useful for players who rely on dodging, sprinting, and other stamina-heavy actions during combat.
Honey Tea is categorized under Drinks within the Provisions system. It requires a cauldron to brew, available at the Greymane Camp and in town crafting areas. Honey is a relatively uncommon ingredient compared to basic vegetables and meat, so players should stockpile it when they find beehives during exploration.
Recipe
Ingredient | Quantity | Where to Find |
|---|---|---|
2 | Harvested from beehives found on trees and cliff faces | |
Medicinal Herb | 1 | Foraging from herb patches in meadows and forest clearings |
1 | Collected from rivers, lakes, and wells |
Crafting Station: Cauldron
Effects
Effect | Value | Duration |
|---|---|---|
Spirit Restoration | +14.0 | Instant |
Stamina Regeneration | +15% | 45 seconds |
Sell Value: 10
How to Obtain
The Honey Tea recipe can be obtained from merchants in major settlements or through quest rewards in the Greymane storyline. Honey is harvested from beehives attached to large trees and occasionally found on cliff faces. Beehive locations are scattered throughout Pywel, but they appear more frequently near rivers and forest edges.
Honey Tea is not commonly sold by vendors, making it worth crafting for personal use rather than relying on merchant supply.
Tips
Honey Tea is excellent before fights that require heavy dodging, like the Stag Lord encounter.
If you raise livestock at the Greymane Camp, beekeeping provides a steady honey supply.
The stamina regeneration buff lasts long enough to cover most boss fight phases.
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Honey Tea as a Trust Gift
Outside of its cooking-and-buff role, Honey Tea is one of the more targeted gifts in the NPC Trust System. It hits two races for a solid +10 trust per cup, which makes it the preferred stock for anyone planning to cap shopkeepers and named NPCs from those populations.
Orcs: +10 trust per Honey Tea. They also love Ivory for +20 each, so the optimal orc loadout is a split stack of Honey Tea and ivory.
Trolls: +10 trust per Honey Tea. Trolls also accept multiple hide types for +10 each, so hides plus Honey Tea covers their entire preference list.
Honey Tea does not count as a drink for the peasant, farmer, or peddler profession gift tables, so the +10 per cup comes purely from the race layer. A troll quarryman will not take Honey Tea twice, but the combined race-plus-profession effective value is still +10 because only the race preference applies.
Why This Matters For Farming
Several of the most reward-dense max-trust sources are troll scholars and orc shopkeepers. Troll scholars hand over two pieces of advanced alchemy material at cap, and orc profession NPCs cover a range of valuable rewards. Because Honey Tea stacks and is easy to brew from Pywel's abundant honey supply, building up 20 or 30 cups before a farm run is a low-effort way to guarantee enough +10 gifts to top several NPCs at once.
Pairing With Trust Gain Bonuses
Every Honey Tea gift benefits from the Rabbit Leather Mask's +2 trust gain (each cup becomes +12) and stacks with any abyss gear trust-gain affix. Wearing both during an orc or troll farm is the meta-correct play.
Quest Use: Starting Scholar's Stone Research
Honey Tea is the consumable trigger that unlocks the research chain at the Scholar's Stone Institute inside Skala Stone. A specific scholar at the institute's marked desk asks for one. Most players already have a Honey Tea in inventory by the time they reach Skala Stone; if not, the NPC drops a marker pointing to a nearby pickup so the gating step takes only a couple of minutes.
What the Honey Tea Unlocks
Abyssal Environment Research. Handing over the tea and talking to the scholar a second time opens this entry-level project on the institute's Research System board.
Abyssal Energy Research. After clearing the short Skala Stone Institute prerequisite quests in the Journal, the Abyssal Energy Research project becomes available. At 50% progress, this project spawns Research Scholars who can be pickpocketed for Abyss Artifact drops.
Refresh loop. The on-site Abyss Nexus NPC respawns the scholar group on demand, so the artifact farm runs effectively forever once the Honey Tea has done its job.
This single-tea handover is the first link in the chain documented by the Abyss Artifacts Farming Guide, which most players treat as the fastest way to bank Abyss Artifacts in bulk.