Food Guide

Food in Sword x Staff can be pretty essential to your progression, whether you use it for healing, to gain buffs and stats in battle, and more important of all, permanently increase your stats with specific food types. 

Food and its applications

Starting with the basic functionality of food, and the most common you will come across, some foods heal you. These basic food types you will have to consistently craft to heal yourself after a battle. You will find a new type of food with every new region you unlock that will be stronger than the previous one. All of these foods are cheap in terms of gold and farmable plants to craft, so you don’t have to worry about being limited in playing the game because you have no potions to heal yourself.

Something important to note is that you can still recover HP by going back home, making that a better option when preparing for big fights. Using food is still really useful while running Dungeons, though.

Foods that grant Temporary Buffs and Permanent Buffs

Some foods provide buffs for several battles, however most are usually for specific regions or a type of fight, so it’s important to read what the foods are for and where they activate BEFORE you consume them. These foods don’t expire at all, so you’re not pressured to rush and consume everything as you get it.

To get the foods that grant Temporary Buffs, you can craft them as you progress through the game or unlock recipes from the Kingdom Shop.

As for foods that grant Permanent Buffs, it’s important to note that they’re, for the most part, Pay 2 Win. However, as a Free to Play player, you will be able to get a good amount of stats long-term by just playing/farming. It is more beneficial to play for the long term instead of getting strong in the short term with these Pay to Win foods, but that doesn’t make them entirely useless.

The amount of stats you get is based on how many of the same food you have already consumed. This prevents people from eating a lot of the same food and getting large buffs quickly, as the efficiency of how much you gain that buff will slowly diminish. For instance, you can use a Permanent Buff food up to 10 times for 100% efficiency, before it drops to a staggering 50%. For the next 11-30 uses, it’ll drop from 50% to 20%, 31-50 is 20%, and 51+ is 5%.