7 Days to Die: How to Make Goldenrod Tea

7 Days to Die is packed with different recipes you can make to survive a little easier, and Goldenrod Tea is an essential one to get your hands on - especially in the earlier game stages. It's great for hydration and treating illness, and thankfully, you don't have to look too far to get the ingredients you need to make it.

The only caveat, as it is with most crafting in 7 Days to Die, is that you need a certain Cooking Skill level and some tools in order to craft Goldenrod Tea. It's not particularly expensive to make, and it doesn't take too much looting and leveling to get the tea, but knowing where to look can make the process a lot easier from the get-go. Plus, once you're further in your game stage, you can start crafting Goldenrod Tea without even looking for ingredients outside your base.

How to Craft Goldenrod Tea in 7 Days to Die

You can't make Goldenrod Tea without first having a Cooking Pot in 7 Days to Die, so your first step is to find one. You can usually find Cooking Pots in various POIs, but you can also buy one from a Trader or craft one yourself. The easiest way is to look for one in the wild to loot, though, because they can be expensive to buy and costly to craft at first. Once you have a Cooking Pot, all you need to do is craft a campfire and then add the pot to it in the top right corner.

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You need one Goldenrod Flower and one Water to craft Goldenrod Tea. You can find the flowers all over the Forest Biome and harvest them by punching them or hitting them with a weapon. They've got a golden hue to them, which is different from the grass and Chrysanthemum flowers. You can either buy Water from traders, find it as loot in towns and POIs, or you can make it yourself. To make Water, you just need to boil Murky Water at your campfire.

Now that you have your Cooking Pot and your ingredients, the last thing you need is a Level 4 Cooking Skill. You can upgrade your Cooking Skill by reading the Home Cooking Weekly Crafting Magazine, which you can also find while exploring POIs, buying from traders, or as a reward for completing quests. You have everything you need now, so the last thing to do is actually craft the tea. Here's how to do it:

Interact with your Campfire.
Navigate to "Drink" in the left-side menu.
Click on Goldenrod Tea.
Click "Cook" underneath the image of the drink.

Additionally, make sure that you have enough Wood so your campfire can burn and cook the tea. Goldenrod Tea takes 1:40 to finish boiling, so you need enough wood to last that time (or more, if you're making more tea). You can check how much fuel you have for your fire underneath "Fuel" on the right-side menu.

How to Farm Goldenrod Tea

As you get into the later game stages of 7 Days to Die, you'll be able to start farming cooking ingredients, and Goldenrod Flowers is one of them. All you need is a Goldenrod Seed and a Farm Plot Block. Once you have both, plant the Goldenrod Seed in the Block, and you'll have a fresh flower to harvest in about three days in-game time. To craft a Farm Plot Block, you need:

4 Wood
7 Rotting Flesh
17 Nitrate Powder
70 Clay Soil

Wood can be chopped from trees using your Stone Axe, Rotting Flesh can be harvested from corpses, Nitrate Powder can be found while mining, and Clay Soil can be harvested by digging up ground. Once you have your ingredients, you can craft the Farm Plot Block from the building menu. If you want to craft Goldenrod Seeds, you need to have a Level 4 Farming Skill. You can increase this skill by reading the Southern Farming Crafting Magazine.

Why Goldenrod Tea is Worth Making

Goldenrod Tea gives you +24 Hydration, but the main reason you'll want to make it is that it cures Dysentery. Initially, Dysentery doesn't have much of an effect, but if you leave it untreated it starts reducing your fullness and hydration by the second. It gets pretty impossible to manage, and you may even find yourself starving to death or completely dehydrated. Just be aware that Goldenrod Tea only removes 20% of a Dysentery infection, so make sure you drink it quickly after you get infected to make sure you're completely healed.

You can get Dysentery in 7 Days to Die from eating Old Sham Sandwiches, Raw Meat, and Rotting Flesh, or from drinking Murky Water. It's always best to eat canned food or drink Purified Water, but this is not always possible, so getting Dysentery is almost a given especially in the early game.

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