How to Make Coffee in Windrose Before You Miserably Perish

If you are looking to significantly boost your durability during tough encounters and long voyages in Windrose, brewing Coffee is one of the best steps you can take. This item provides an excellent maximum health buff that lasts for a full 30 minutes, making it a staple for high-risk exploration and boss fights.

Here is a polite, factual guide on how to safely gather the ingredients, brew your coffee, and avoid a critical progression bug.

How to Acquire Coffee Beans

There are two primary methods to secure coffee beans: trading with a specific merchant or scavenging the open seas.

1. Trading in Tortuga (Reliable Method)

• Unlock the Market: You must first complete the specific story mission that reveals the market area location on your map.
• Build Trust: Locate the market NPC in Tortuga. You will need to complete tasks or trades to raise your vendor trust level to Level 3. Once you reach this milestone, coffee beans will become available for purchase.

2. Salvaging at Sea (Exploration Method)

• If you prefer to find them yourself, keep a close eye out while sailing. Coffee beans can reliably be looted from floating ocean crates, cargo containers, and chest rewards found within sunken vessels.

Gathering Cane Sugar and Brewing

To complete the recipe, you will need to combine your beans with sweetener.

• Finding Cane Sugar: Like salvaged coffee beans, Cane Sugar is found primarily by looting ocean containers and shipwreck crates out at sea.
• The Recipe: Once you have the ingredients, head to your cooking station. You will need exactly 4 Coffee Beans and 4 Cane Sugar to brew one serving of Coffee.

Critical Bug Warning

Do not drink your crafted coffee too early in the game. Specifically, if you consume coffee before the main tutorial explicitly objectives you to drink it, you will trigger a known progression bug. This bug can permanently trap your character in the starting tutorial area, forcing you to delete your character and restart your progress. Wait until the game prompts you before taking your first sip!

The Brutal Steps to Brewing

• Survive long enough to complete the mission revealing the market location.
• Beg and grovel to raise the trader NPC trust to level three.
• Purchase the beans, or risk drowning to loot them from ship crates.
• Combine four Coffee Beans and four Cane Sugar to craft the drink.