Comfort and Rested

A character becomes Rested by staying sheltered, sitting or sleeping with a heat source nearby and no threats around. The buff charges for as long as that lasts and can be refreshed anywhere, so sitting by a campfire works in the wild as well as at home. Sleeping in any of the 12 beds also gives Healthy Nap, which regenerates some Health. Sugar Rush grants 5 minutes of Rested on its own, but only once every 30 minutes.

Comfort is counted by category, with 266 items spread across 16 categories. Placing the best item of each one, the Flame Altar included for its single point in the Flame category, adds up to 107. Trophies are the highest category at 10, for gold trophies such as the Gold Cyclops Trophy, while most furniture categories stop at 8 and carpets at 4. On 12 objects the placed value or category differs from the tooltip. The Steel Hanging Lamp and Steel Wall Lamp count 6 rather than 5 once placed, and the Furry Straw Mats drop from 3 to 2. A few objects give comfort with no tooltip line at all, such as the Cooking Station at 2 and the Oven at 3.

Each point of comfort adds less Rested time than the one before, and the buff gets harder to extend as a player progresses. Comfort 10 gives about 11 minutes, comfort 50 about 37 and the full 107 about 57. The Well Rested skill adds 2 minutes per level over 3 levels, up to 6 minutes, at 1 skill point per level. Six pieces of gear, among them the Gemini Ring and the Hawk Helmet, carry the Well Rested perk for +1 skill level.

An instrument adds comfort while it is played, +1 for common ones such as the Lute, +2 for ornate ones and +3 for exceptional ones. The bonus builds over 10 seconds of playing. Up to 4 instruments count, and music never adds more than 15 comfort. The Bard makes the common instruments; the ornate ones lie beside lore notes left by the Honeydews band, except the drum, which is looted from its previous owner.