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== Meditation ==
 
== Meditation ==
 
===The Basics===
 
===The Basics===
To meditate, drop a [[:Category:Meditating rugs|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 [[Meditating#Starting_and_Following_a_Path|path]] is at 15 Meditation skill. You can leave it until 20 Meditation skill, but you will not be able to gain further skill past 20 without joining a path.
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To meditate, drop a [[:Category:Meditating rugs|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 [[Meditating#Starting_and_Following_a_Path|path]] is 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 Training===
Skill can be gained on any tile but you have to move at least 10 tiles from the spot of the previous meditation. A successful meditation is completing the two minute meditation timer but you will not necessarily gain skill every time.
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Skill can be gained on any tile, but you have to move at least 10 tiles away from the tile that you meditated on previously. A successful meditation only occurs after completing the two minute meditation timer. You will not necessarily gain skill on every meditation.
  
Below 20 meditation skill there is '''no time limit''' between skill gains. You only have to move 10 tiles between meditations. A popular method is to drop a rug on the first tile and a second rug on the 11th tile of a path and to move between the two rugs. Another one is to patrol the perimeter of an 11x11 box and to meditate each corner.
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Below 20 meditation skill, there is '''no time limit''' between skill gains. You only have to move 10 tiles between meditations. A popular method is to drop a rug on the first tile and a second rug on the 11th tile of a path and to move between the two rugs. Another one is to patrol the perimeter of an 11x11 box and to meditate on each corner.
  
Above 20 meditation skill the chances to gain skill are limited to a few per day:
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Above 20 meditation skill, the chances to gain skill are limited to a few per day:
  
* All meditations need to be 30 minutes apart at least
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* First 5 meditations need to be at least 30 minutes apart
* Only 4 meditations per day can be less than 3 hours from the previous one. The message ''You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again'' indicates the longer wait time.
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* After your fifth meditation, the wait timer will change from 30 minutes to 3 hours. The message ''You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again'' indicates the longer wait time.
* Every 24 hours after a server restart the counter is reset and you get 4 new chances at closer meditation immediately.
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* Every 24 hours after a server restart, the timers reset to the 30 minute wait.
  
 
Example:
 
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.
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: 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 skill 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.
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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 (i.e. you waited long enough and moved 10 tiles), then you will use up a chance to meditate, and will have a random chance to gain meditation skill.  
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Your chance at gaining skill on a given meditation depends on the quality of your meditation rug, although the type of rug used appears to be irrelevant for skill gain. At lower levels, a ratio of about 50% can be reached. Around 70 meditation skill, the highest ratio has been about 40%. (These ratios have been reached with a rug in the range of 20-30 quality.)
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If you get particularly unlucky, it is possible that you won't gain any skill in one or two days. However, if the ratio over at least 10-20 tries is way below the above examples, then you should try changing the quality of your meditation rug. As a general rule of thumb, as you gain skill, you should lower the quality of your meditation rug to increase the difficulty of the meditation action and raise your chance of a skill tick occurring.
  
 
== Path Management and Advancement ==
 
== Path Management and Advancement ==
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=== Starting and Following a Path ===
 
=== 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 thought to be many paths, though some are more easily found than others.  
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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:
Verified paths are:  
 
  
 
The [[Path of Knowledge|Path of Knowledge]]
 
The [[Path of Knowledge|Path of Knowledge]]
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For the subsequent questions of each path, the dialog starts as follows: "If the path of X contains the truth or simply is the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it poses an interesting challenge. The following question springs to mind", and is then followed by a new question with five possible [[Meditating answers|answers]].
 
For the subsequent questions of each path, the dialog starts as follows: "If the path of X contains the truth or simply is the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it poses an interesting challenge. The following question springs to mind", and is then followed by a new question with five possible [[Meditating answers|answers]].
  
The further along a path you are, the harder it becomes to get the question dialogs to appear. The chance to receive a question is determined by your meditation skill, and the quality/type of the rug you are using. The various rugs in order of increasing effectiveness are: [[Meditation rug]], [[Fine meditation rug]], [[Beautiful meditation rug]], and [[Exquisite meditation rug]]. '''If you fail to receive a question, you can simply keep meditating on the same special tile until you succeed; there is no need to move elsewhere or wait for 30 minutes.'''
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The further along a path you are, the harder it becomes to get the question dialogs to appear. The chance to receive a question is determined by your meditation skill, your path level, and the quality of the rug you are using. '''If you fail to receive a question, you can simply keep meditating on the same special tile until you succeed; there is no need to move elsewhere or wait for 30 minutes.'''
  
 
If you get a question wrong, the delay timer resets and you must wait out the full period over again. For example if you choose wrongly on the level 4 question, you have to wait another 6 days (real time) before you can try again.
 
If you get a question wrong, the delay timer resets and you must wait out the full period over again. For example if you choose wrongly on the level 4 question, you have to wait another 6 days (real time) before you can try again.
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You do not lose any meditating skill if you leave your path. However, you do lose all progress in the path and any path powers you have gained.
 
You do not lose any meditating skill if you leave your path. However, you do lose all progress in the path and any path powers you have gained.
  
You must wait 24 hours before switching to another path after leaving another.
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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."
  
 
===Path Leaders===
 
===Path Leaders===
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===Enlightenment===
 
===Enlightenment===
  
Leaders in paths are able to Enlighten others who are exactly three levels below the leader's current level. For example, a level 9 can advance a level 6 to level 7. A player can be enlightened 7 days after their last path advancement, regardless of level, or visible wait time.  You will not need to move or wait if the attempt fails, but multiple attempts may be necessary. There is a one minute cool-down between attempts, and a difficulty check will affect success chance (see end of this section).
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Leaders in paths are able to Enlighten others who are exactly three levels below the leader's current level. For example, a level 9 can advance a level 6 to level 7. A player can be enlightened 7 days after their last path advancement, regardless of level or regular wait time.  You will not need to move or wait if the attempt fails, but multiple attempts may be necessary. There is a one minute cool-down between attempts, and a difficulty check will affect success chance (see end of this section).
  
 
Simple instructions:
 
Simple instructions:
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After the v1.1 patch a new difficulty check was added:
 
After the v1.1 patch a new difficulty check was added:
  
Rolf: it's not a skill requirement per se but there's a difficulty check
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Rolf: it's not a skill requirement per se but there's a difficulty check
 
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Rolf: like level you try to achieve *10 or so
Rolf: like level you try to achieve *10 or so
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Rolf: increasing meditation skill will increase chances yes
 
 
Rolf: increasing meditation skill will increase chances yes
 
  
 
Rumour suggests that a successful enlightenment requires a meditation skill of approximately 75% progress to the actual required level to path up yourself. E.g. around 27 meditating needed to be enlightened to level 7.
 
Rumour suggests that a successful enlightenment requires a meditation skill of approximately 75% progress to the actual required level to path up yourself. E.g. around 27 meditating needed to be enlightened to level 7.
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! Level
 
! Level
! Delay to reach !! Total Time to reach** !! Skill !! [[Path of Knowledge]] Titles !! [[Path of Insanity]] Titles !! [[Path of Power]] Titles !! [[Path of Love]] Titles !![[Path of Hate]] Titles
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! Delay to reach !! Total Time to reach** !! Minimum Skill !! [[Path of Knowledge]] Titles !! [[Path of Insanity]] Titles !! [[Path of Power]] Titles !! [[Path of Love]] Titles !![[Path of Hate]] Titles
 
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| 0
 
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|-
 
| 2
 
| 2
| 24 Hours|| 36 hours || 15  || Eager || Disturbed || Gatherer || Nice || Ridiculous
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| 1 Day || 1 Day 12 hours || 15  || Eager || Disturbed || Gatherer || Nice || Ridiculous
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 3
 
| 3
| 3 Days || 4 Days 12 hours || 15  || Explorer || Crazed || Greedy || Gentle || Envious
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| 2 Days || 3 Days 12 hours || 15  || Explorer || Crazed || Greedy || Gentle || Envious
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 4*
 
| 4*
| 6 Days || 10 Days 12 hours || 15  || Sheetfolder || Deranged || Strong || Warm|| Hateful
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| 4.5 Days || 8 Days || 15  || Sheetfolder || Deranged || Strong || Warm|| Hateful
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 5
 
| 5
| 12 Days || 22 Days 12 hours || 15  || Desertmind || Sicko || Released || Goodhearted || Finger
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| 8 Days || 16 Days || 15  || Desertmind || Sicko || Released || Goodhearted || Finger
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 6
 
| 6
| 24 Days || 46 Days 12 hours || 20 || Observer || Mental || Unafraid || Giving || Sheep
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| 12.5 Days || 28 Days 12 hours || 20 || Observer || Mental || Unafraid || Giving || Sheep
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 7*
 
| 7*
| 24 Days || 70 Days 12 hours || 30 || Bookkeeper || Psycho || Brave || Rock || Snake
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| 18 Days || 46 Days 12 hours || 30 || Bookkeeper || Psycho || Brave || Rock || Snake
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 8
 
| 8
| 24 Days || 94 Days 12 hours  || 40 || Mud-dweller || Beast || Performer || Splendid || Shark
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| 18 Days || 64 Days 12 hours  || 40 || Mud-dweller || Beast || Performer || Splendid || Shark
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 9*
 
| 9*
| 24 Days || 118 Days 12 hours || 50 || Thought Eater || Maniac || Liberator || Protector || Infection
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| 18 Days || 82 Days 12 hours || 50 || Thought Eater || Maniac || Liberator || Protector || Infection
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 10
 
| 10
| 24 Days || 142 Days 12 hours || 60 || Crooked || Drooling || Force || Respectful || Swarm
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| 18 Days || 100 Days 12 hours || 60 || Crooked || Drooling || Force || Respectful || Swarm
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 11*
 
| 11*
| 24 Days || 166 Days 12 hours || 70 || Enlightened || Gone || Vibrant Light || Saint || Free
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| 18 Days || 118 Days 12 hours || 70 || Enlightened || Gone || Vibrant Light || Saint || Free
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 12*
 
| 12*
| 24 Days || 190 Days 12 hours || 80 || 12th Hierophant || 12th Eidolon || 12th Sovereign || 12th Deva || 12th Harbinger
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| 18 Days || 136 Days 12 hours || 80 || 12th Hierophant || 12th Eidolon || 12th Sovereign || 12th Deva || 12th Harbinger
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 13*
 
| 13*
| 24 Days || 214 Days 12 hours || 90 || 13th Hierophant || 13th Eidolon || 13th Sovereign || 13th Deva || 13th Harbinger
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| 18 Days || 154 Days 12 hours || 90 || 13th Hierophant || 13th Eidolon || 13th Sovereign || 13th Deva || 13th Harbinger
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 14
 
| 14
| 24 Days || 238 Days 12 hours || 90 || 14th Hierophant  || 14th Eidolon || 14th Sovereign || 14th Deva || 14th Harbinger
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| 18 Days || 172 Days 12 hours || 90 || 14th Hierophant  || 14th Eidolon || 14th Sovereign || 14th Deva || 14th Harbinger
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 15
 
| 15
| 24 Days || 262 Days 12 hours || 90 || 15th Hierophant  || 15th Eidolon || 15th Sovereign || 15th Deva || 15th Harbinger
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| 18 Days || 190 Days 12 hours || 90 || 15th Hierophant  || 15th Eidolon || 15th Sovereign || 15th Deva || 15th Harbinger
 
|-
 
|-
| 16
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| 16***
| 24 Days || 286 Days 12 hours || 90 || 16th Hierophant  || 16th Eidolon  || 16th Sovereign || 16th Deva|| 16th Harbinger
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| 18 Days || 208 Days 12 hours || 90 || 16th Hierophant  || 16th Eidolon  || 16th Sovereign || 16th Deva|| 16th Harbinger
 
|}
 
|}
  
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''** Minimum time from the start of the path to that level. Doesn`t take server off-line time and skill needed into account.''
 
''** Minimum time from the start of the path to that level. Doesn`t take server off-line time and skill needed into account.''
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''***Levels above 16 go on to infinity(ish), with the same requirements of 18 days between. Higher levels reduce to cooldown timers, like Recall home being reduced by 1 hour for each level above 12
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If your Meditation skill is higher than current level x 15 the cooldown timer will be halved (e.g. If you have higher than 45 Meditation, the time between level 3 and 4 will be 2.25 days instead of 4.5 days.)
  
 
== Path Bonuses ==
 
== Path Bonuses ==
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|-
 
|-
 
| 7
 
| 7
| '[[Path_of_Knowledge#Get_Info_.28Level_2.29|Get Info (Level 2)]]' || '[[Path of Insanity#Fill|Fill]]' || '[[Path of Power#Erupt/Freeze|Erupt & Freeze]]' || '[[Path of Love#Enchant|Enchant]]' || '[[Path of Hate#Rage|Rage (Level 2)]]'
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| '[[Path_of_Knowledge#Get_Info_.28Level_2.29|Get Info (Level 2)]]' || '[[Path of Insanity#Fill|Fill]]','[[Path of Insanity#Shield of the Gone|Shield of the Gone]]' || '[[Path of Power#Erupt/Freeze|Erupt & Freeze]]' || '[[Path of Love#Enchant|Enchant]]' || '[[Path of Hate#Rage|Rage (Level 2)]]'
 
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| 9
 
| 9
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|-
 
| 11
 
| 11
| '[[Path_of_Knowledge#Intellect of the Enlightened|Intellect of the Enlightened]]' || '[[Path of Insanity#Shield of the Gone|Shield of the Gone]]' || '[[Path of Power#Stamina of the Vibrant Light|Stamina of the Vibrant Light]]' || '[[Path of Love#Healing Hands|Healing Hands]]' || '[[Path of Hate#Spell Immunity|Spell Immunity]]'
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| '[[Path_of_Knowledge#Intellect of the Enlightened|Intellect of the Enlightened]]' || || '[[Path of Power#Stamina of the Vibrant Light|Stamina of the Vibrant Light]]' || '[[Path of Love#Healing Hands|Healing Hands]]' || '[[Path of Hate#Spell Immunity|Spell Immunity]]'
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 12
 
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== Additional Bonuses ==
 
== Additional Bonuses ==
Commonly referred to as a "Refresh tick". Randomly appears at the end of a successful meditation at higher levels (9+).
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=== Refresh ===
Your food and water will be filled (Nutrition is unaffected) and you will receive a mini skill increase in meditation.
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There is a small, random chance that your food and water will be filled at the end of a successful meditation, with meditation skill level and rug quality increasing the chance. Your nutrition and CCFP values will be unaffected. You will receive a mini skill increase in meditation regardless of if you get a normal skill increase, but it will stack if you do.
  
 
== Messages ==
 
== Messages ==
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;You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again. :You have used your 5 meditating skill attemps or some extra attempt after them, and must wait 3 hours for another chance to get skill.
 
;You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again. :You have used your 5 meditating skill attemps or some extra attempt after them, and must wait 3 hours for another chance to get skill.
  
;You gain no inspiration here for your own path. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation.  You were meditating on a special tile that is on a path other than the one you have chosen.
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;You gain no inspiration here for your own path. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation.  You were meditating on a special tile that is on a path other than the one you have chosen or that you previously used for leveling at your own path.
  
 
;You have hard time to focus and no question comes to you. You probably need higher meditation skill. :You need more meditating skill if you want to get the question.
 
;You have hard time to focus and no question comes to you. You probably need higher meditation skill. :You need more meditating skill if you want to get the question.
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;You should return here when you have become better at meditating. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation.  You have found a special tile but do not have the required skill to start following a path.
 
;You should return here when you have become better at meditating. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation.  You have found a special tile but do not have the required skill to start following a path.
  
;You still need to let your recent progress sink in for a few hours / several hours / days / more than a week / a few weeks. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation.  You get this message after meditating on a special tile if you are following a path but must still wait until the next path question.
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;You still need to let your recent progress sink in for a few hours / several hours / many hours / days / more than a week / a few weeks. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation.  You get this message after meditating on a special tile if you are following a path but must still wait until the next path question.
  
 
;You recently left a cult and need to contemplate the changes for another X hours and Y minutes before embarking on a new philosophical journey. :Appears after leaving a path. You must wait 24 hours before switching meditation paths.
 
;You recently left a cult and need to contemplate the changes for another X hours and Y minutes before embarking on a new philosophical journey. :Appears after leaving a path. You must wait 24 hours before switching meditation paths.
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=== Waiting Messages ===
 
=== Waiting Messages ===
 
The decision has been made to remove this spoiler. It only takes away surprise and interest from the feature and should not be re-added.
 
The decision has been made to remove this spoiler. It only takes away surprise and interest from the feature and should not be re-added.
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==Characteristics trained==
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See: [[Characteristics]]
  
 
== [[Titles]] ==
 
== [[Titles]] ==

Revision as of 05:00, 21 June 2022

Main / Skills / Nature / 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 is 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, but you have to move at least 10 tiles away from the tile that you meditated on previously. A successful meditation only occurs after completing the two minute meditation timer. You will not necessarily gain skill on every meditation.

Below 20 meditation skill, there is no time limit between skill gains. You only have to move 10 tiles between meditations. A popular method is to drop a rug on the first tile and a second rug on the 11th tile of a path and to move between the two rugs. Another one is to patrol the perimeter of an 11x11 box and to meditate on each corner.

Above 20 meditation skill, the chances to gain skill are limited to a few per day:

  • First 5 meditations need to be at least 30 minutes apart
  • After your fifth meditation, the wait timer will change from 30 minutes to 3 hours. The message You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again indicates the longer wait time.
  • Every 24 hours after a server restart, the timers reset to the 30 minute wait.

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 (i.e. you waited long enough and moved 10 tiles), then you will use up a chance to meditate, and will have a random chance to gain meditation skill.

Your chance at gaining skill on a given meditation depends on the quality of your meditation rug, although the type of rug used appears to be irrelevant for skill gain. At lower levels, a ratio of about 50% can be reached. Around 70 meditation skill, the highest ratio has been about 40%. (These ratios have been reached with a rug in the range of 20-30 quality.)

If you get particularly unlucky, it is possible that you won't gain any skill in one or two days. However, if the ratio over at least 10-20 tries is way below the above examples, then you should try changing the quality of your meditation rug. As a general rule of thumb, as you gain skill, you should lower the quality of your meditation rug to increase the difficulty of the meditation action and raise your chance of a skill tick occurring.

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:

The Path of Knowledge

The Path of Power

The Path of Insanity

The Path of Love

The Path of Hate.

To join a path you need to have at least 15 meditating skill. However, even if you start a path at 15 meditating skill the meditating limitation of one meditation per 30 minutes for skill does not apply until you reach 20 skill.

Once you are on the path, a title will appear next to your name, similar to the champion title. Each step of the path brings a new title. At each step, you must wait for an increasing amount of time before you can advance to the next step on the path. Times between steps are shown in the section on Titles below. You can only follow 1 path.

The message you get to start each path seems to take the following form: "As you meditate upon these things you realize that there is a pattern of thinking that you can try to follow. If this path contains the truth or simply the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it may pose an interesting challenge. Do you wish to embark on the philosophical journey of the path of X? If you answer yes, you will be challenged by the selected path as you visit more places like this one and mediate.". Answering yes will make you an adherent of that particular path, with the title of Uninitiated.

For the subsequent questions of each path, the dialog starts as follows: "If the path of X contains the truth or simply is the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it poses an interesting challenge. The following question springs to mind", and is then followed by a new question with five possible answers.

The further along a path you are, the harder it becomes to get the question dialogs to appear. The chance to receive a question is determined by your meditation skill, your path level, and the quality of the rug you are using. If you fail to receive a question, you can simply keep meditating on the same special tile until you succeed; there is no need to move elsewhere or wait for 30 minutes.

If you get a question wrong, the delay timer resets and you must wait out the full period over again. For example if you choose wrongly on the level 4 question, you have to wait another 6 days (real time) before you can try again.

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".

If you select Quit, you get this message: "You decide to stop pursuing the path of knowledge."

You do not lose any meditating skill if you leave your path. However, you do lose all progress in the path and any path powers you have gained.

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."

Path Leaders

Once you have reached level 3 in your chosen path, you will have a new option Nature -> Path leaders. This brings up a dialog that says "You consider the local leaders of the path:". "Local" here means the server you are currently on. Once you reach level 4, your own name becomes eligible to appear on this list. You will need to be on the list to use the Light Path option for others.

Enlightenment

Leaders in paths are able to Enlighten others who are exactly three levels below the leader's current level. For example, a level 9 can advance a level 6 to level 7. A player can be enlightened 7 days after their last path advancement, regardless of level or regular wait time. You will not need to move or wait if the attempt fails, but multiple attempts may be necessary. There is a one minute cool-down between attempts, and a difficulty check will affect success chance (see end of this section).

Simple instructions:

  • Leader activates a meditation rug
  • Student types /invitations
  • Leader right-clicks the student and looks for the Light Path option
  • Leader repeats this attempt until the student gets the path question dialog window that we're used to seeing for path advances
  • May 2013 update - there is now a one minute cool-down for enlightenment

Example of successful enlightenment:

  • Path leader:
[12:07:16] STUDENT needs to type in the command /invitations.
[12:07:27] You attempt to light the path for STUDENT.
[12:07:27] You ask STUDENT a question. she seems to think hard.
[12:07:58] STUDENT has reached the level of Goodhearted of the path of love!
  • Student:
[12:07:24] You will now accept invitations to change kingdom and religion.
[12:07:27] TEACHER asks you a question.
[12:07:58] You think 'Sounds about right'
[12:07:58] Congratulations! You have now reached the level of Goodhearted of the path of love!
  • Failure (Path leader). If you get those messages just retry after waiting 1 minute:
[12:07:20] You attempt to light the path for <Player>.
[12:07:20] <Player> does not grasp the question. he needs to meditate more.
  • Failure (Student). If you get those messages just retry after waiting 1 minute:
 <Player> asks you a very confusing question. You do not understand it and need to contemplate more. 

After a path enlightenment the leader cannot do it again for 7 days.

After the v1.1 patch a new difficulty check was added:

Rolf: it's not a skill requirement per se but there's a difficulty check
Rolf: like level you try to achieve *10 or so
Rolf: increasing meditation skill will increase chances yes

Rumour suggests that a successful enlightenment requires a meditation skill of approximately 75% progress to the actual required level to path up yourself. E.g. around 27 meditating needed to be enlightened to level 7.

Path Levels

A note to further make clear the timing for path advancement:

The information in the "Delay to reach" column refers to the time that must pass in real-life hours or days since you gained your last level in the path.

Example: When you first convert to a path (represented below as 0 level), you then must wait 12 real-life hours before you can try for level 1. During that 12 hours, you may still meditate as normal for meditating skill gain (even on Path tiles). But when you meditate on a Path tile during this period, you will receive a message that says you "need to let your recent progress sink in" for some period of time before you may progress in the path.

Meditation titles can be toggled via a check-box in the /titles command. They appear in your display name in the form of "<character name> the <meditation title>".

Level Delay to reach Total Time to reach** Minimum Skill Path of Knowledge Titles Path of Insanity Titles Path of Power Titles Path of Love Titles Path of Hate Titles
0 None None 15 Uninitiated Uninitiated Uninitiated Uninitiated Uninitiated
1 12 Hours 12 hours 15 Initiate Initiate Initiate Initiate Initiate
2 1 Day 1 Day 12 hours 15 Eager Disturbed Gatherer Nice Ridiculous
3 2 Days 3 Days 12 hours 15 Explorer Crazed Greedy Gentle Envious
4* 4.5 Days 8 Days 15 Sheetfolder Deranged Strong Warm Hateful
5 8 Days 16 Days 15 Desertmind Sicko Released Goodhearted Finger
6 12.5 Days 28 Days 12 hours 20 Observer Mental Unafraid Giving Sheep
7* 18 Days 46 Days 12 hours 30 Bookkeeper Psycho Brave Rock Snake
8 18 Days 64 Days 12 hours 40 Mud-dweller Beast Performer Splendid Shark
9* 18 Days 82 Days 12 hours 50 Thought Eater Maniac Liberator Protector Infection
10 18 Days 100 Days 12 hours 60 Crooked Drooling Force Respectful Swarm
11* 18 Days 118 Days 12 hours 70 Enlightened Gone Vibrant Light Saint Free
12* 18 Days 136 Days 12 hours 80 12th Hierophant 12th Eidolon 12th Sovereign 12th Deva 12th Harbinger
13* 18 Days 154 Days 12 hours 90 13th Hierophant 13th Eidolon 13th Sovereign 13th Deva 13th Harbinger
14 18 Days 172 Days 12 hours 90 14th Hierophant 14th Eidolon 14th Sovereign 14th Deva 14th Harbinger
15 18 Days 190 Days 12 hours 90 15th Hierophant 15th Eidolon 15th Sovereign 15th Deva 15th Harbinger
16*** 18 Days 208 Days 12 hours 90 16th Hierophant 16th Eidolon 16th Sovereign 16th Deva 16th Harbinger

* New bonus available at this level, see below for more details

** Minimum time from the start of the path to that level. Doesn`t take server off-line time and skill needed into account.

***Levels above 16 go on to infinity(ish), with the same requirements of 18 days between. Higher levels reduce to cooldown timers, like Recall home being reduced by 1 hour for each level above 12

If your Meditation skill is higher than current level x 15 the cooldown timer will be halved (e.g. If you have higher than 45 Meditation, the time between level 3 and 4 will be 2.25 days instead of 4.5 days.)

Path Bonuses

Follow the link to a bonus to find out what it does.

Level Path of Knowledge Path of Insanity Path of Power Path of Love Path of Hate
4 'Get Info (Level 1)' 'Clean Wound' 'Trap Immunity' 'Refresh' 'Rage (Level 1)'
7 'Get Info (Level 2)' 'Fill','Shield of the Gone' 'Erupt & Freeze' 'Enchant' 'Rage (Level 2)'
9 'Get Info (Level 3)', No skill loss 'Teleport' 'Elemental Immunity' 'Love Effect' 'Fear'
11 'Intellect of the Enlightened' 'Stamina of the Vibrant Light' 'Healing Hands' 'Spell Immunity'
12 'Recall Home' 'Recall Home' 'Recall Home' 'Recall Home' 'Recall Home'
13 'Final Breath' 'Final Breath' 'Final Breath' 'Final Breath' 'Final Breath'

Additional Bonuses

Refresh

There is a small, random chance that your food and water will be filled at the end of a successful meditation, with meditation skill level and rug quality increasing the chance. Your nutrition and CCFP values will be unaffected. You will receive a mini skill increase in meditation regardless of if you get a normal skill increase, but it will stack if you do.

Messages

You recently meditated here and need to find new insights somewhere else.
Appears at start of meditation. After a successful meditation on a tile, you need to move 10 tiles in one direction to meditate again or you will not gain any skill. You could still join a path or get the path question, however.
You start meditating.
Appears at start of meditation. You start meditating, obviously.
You fail to relax.
Appears after meditating for five seconds. You failed starting your meditation, try again.
You fall into a trance. (Waiting Message)
Appears after meditating for five seconds. Your attempt is successful. Do not move or you will interrupt the action.
You finish your meditation.
Appears at the end of a successful meditation. Additional messages may also appear.
This is indeed a special place.
Appears at the end of a successful meditation. You have found a special tile that belongs to a path. There is no message on special tiles of the path of insanity.
You decide to start pursuing the insights of the path of [...]
Appears at the end of a successful meditation and if you choose "yes" in a path dialog (see above).
You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again.
You have used your 5 meditating skill attemps or some extra attempt after them, and must wait 3 hours for another chance to get skill.
You gain no inspiration here for your own path.
Appears at the end of a successful meditation. You were meditating on a special tile that is on a path other than the one you have chosen or that you previously used for leveling at your own path.
You have hard time to focus and no question comes to you. You probably need higher meditation skill.
You need more meditating skill if you want to get the question.
You need to find deeper mysteries in order to advance your skill in meditation now.
You need to join a path in order to gain more meditating skill.
You should return here when you have become better at meditating.
Appears at the end of a successful meditation. You have found a special tile but do not have the required skill to start following a path.
You still need to let your recent progress sink in for a few hours / several hours / many hours / days / more than a week / a few weeks.
Appears at the end of a successful meditation. You get this message after meditating on a special tile if you are following a path but must still wait until the next path question.
You recently left a cult and need to contemplate the changes for another X hours and Y minutes before embarking on a new philosophical journey.
Appears after leaving a path. You must wait 24 hours before switching meditation paths.

Waiting Messages

The decision has been made to remove this spoiler. It only takes away surprise and interest from the feature and should not be re-added.

Characteristics trained

See: Characteristics

Titles

  • Guru at 50 skill
  • Swami at 70 skill
  • Rama at 90 skill