So you're at a party, and there's people sitting around a hookah. What do you need to know to join in? Just this:
We smoke because it gives eventual permanent gains in perception points. See below. If you're at a party and click on a hookah and see the option to smoke, go for it! There's no need to go get a skill or tech or anything, and it won't effect your stats the way eating food does. (You'll get the Fumeology skill automatically when you first smoke.) You only get a Fumeology point from herbs or herb combinations you haven't already got a point from, so keep track so you don't waste herbs. If you're at a party, don't clean the hookah bowl until the herb is used up. Usually the host will take care of filling and lighting it. And that's what you need to know to smoke at a party. Have fun!
A Hookah can be loaded with herbs, lit, and cleaned only by the owner. The owner can also pick it up, and it can be stashed in a chest like any other object. Just drop it again to use it. If it still had an herb in it when picked up, you can continue smoking that herb when you drop it. Anyone may smoke from a hookah once it is lit. One or multiple types of herbs may be loaded into a Hookah. Each lighting provides a number of tokes based on Hookah quality, no matter how many herbs are added. You need one deben of Charcoal to light a Hookah, and one Water in Jugs to clean the Hookah. The Hookah must be cleaned each time in order to add new herbs. The timer between tokes is based on Constitution and is 45 seconds with 0 Constiution.
Points seem to be given randomly. Some people will get points, others may not. When you do get a point, it will say:
Followed by a description of the herb. "The smoke is <type> and <flavor>, with an aroma of <aroma>.", where type is :
You can fail to get a point on the first toke or first several tokes of an herb, but then get one later. A point on the 34th toke is the latest which has been observed so far, but some combinations of herbs may just not give points at all.
It seems that one can not get a Fumeology point from the same herb or combination of herbs more than once, although it has been confirmed by multiple people that different herbs, or combinations thereof, with identical tastes and aromas (see tables below) will give additional Fumeology points. At 49 Fumeology, one receives a permanent increase to their perception. At 243 Fumeology, one receives a second permanent increase to their perception.
It is possible to get a point in Fumeology, but not see a message about flavor/aroma. To avoid wasting additional herbs, check your score while you're smoking. You might have gotten a "stealth" point! It's not clear if this is a bug or not, but that's how it works!
Me and some friends made an interesting observation with smoking. It seems as if u get the flavor and aroma a lot more at night than during daytime. We're doing a bit more of testing in this. Did anyone else notice this? - Mortomes
Yes, I have also noticed that. Me and my friend were smoking at around 3:00 AM, but as day came, it began to go significantly slower - Peronix
Me aswell, seems to start around 1AM for me... Not sure when itl end yet.-Zatarg
The number of tokes I've found per herb has maxed out at 25, with exceptional food. It may be that the number is based on hookah, or it might be that only the time per burning is influenced. Any conflicting data on this one? - Sedelyan
When smoking more then a single herb, it appears that if X+Y = P , where P is an aroma flavor combo and X and Y are some herbs , X+Y+X and 2X+Y are all gong to equal P . Y+X and X+Y also equal both the same value : P. - Illumination
Yes, but does it give a different point? - Sedelyan
While smoking several hundred combos (2-herb pairs) on CON food I usually got 1 point per 7 pairs on average. If smoking on +CON+PER (was +35CON +25PER) food I would get 1 point per 4 pairs (around 60 pairs tryed for this statistic), on average. Could this be a coincidence or is there the possibility that the more PER an avatar has, the bigger chance each toke will roll a point? - Blogmul
Tables showing the flavor and aroma for particular herbs or combinations of herbs:
The equivalent tables for Tale 2 can be found here:
Fumeology seems to work the same in both tales, so these tables may still be useful.
Aromas Observed So Far
| Hookah Quality | # Puffs |
| 3344 | 13 |
| 6532 | 21 |
| 7717 | 29 |
| 8550 | 36 |
I think the # of puffs is related to both actual puffs and time spent lit. My cheap Q:3366 hookah normally gave me 11 puffs if I'm on the ball. However, if I get distracted for a minute here and there, I may only get 8. And when I was on +10 con food (about 18 seconds between puffs), I could get 13 puffs total. - Bahaumaut
Nevermind. I was somewhat mistaken. I still got 13 puffs out of my Q:3344 hookah However, there may still be a timer on the hookah. Maybe, after N seconds, if a puff hasn't occured, it subtracts a remaining puff? - Bahaumaut
The herb disappears with no message 15 minutes after being lit - OldJoe