Meads

Every mead but one starts as a base mixed at the Mead Ketill, then sits in the Fermenter for 40 minutes, a little over one in-game day, and pays out six bottles (Berserkir Mead gives three). The Love Potion is bought from the Bog Witch instead, 110 coins for five. Healing, stamina and eitr meads each share one cooldown across the whole group, so a Minor Healing Mead locks out the Major and the Lingering one with it, and there is no reason to carry anything but the strongest you can brew. Resistance meads are the real boss keys: poison resistance for Bonemass, fire resistance for Yagluth and the Ashlands, frost resistance for the Mountain and the Deep North.

Mead	Effect	Duration	Cooldown	Base recipe
Anti-Sting Concoction	Deathsquitos leave you alone	10 min	None	Cloudberries x10, Grouper x3, Fragrant Bundle x1
Berserkir Mead	Attack, block and dodge stamina cost -80%, but takes 1.5x slash, blunt and pierce damage	20s	2 min	Mushroom x10, Yellow Mushroom x10, Toadstool x1
Brew of Animal Whispers	Creatures nearby tame twice as fast	10 min	None	Onion x5, Carrot x10, Pungent Pebbles x1
Draught of Vananidir	-50% swim stamina cost	5 min	None	Dandelion x10, Perch x2, Fresh Seaweed x1
Fire Resistance Barley Wine	Fire resistance	10 min	None	Barley x10, Cloudberries x10
Frost Resistance Mead	Frost resistance	10 min	None	Honey x10, Thistle x5, Bloodbag x2, Greydwarf Eye x1
Lightfoot Mead	-30% jump stamina cost, +20% jump height	10 min	None	Scale Hide x2, Feathers x5, Magecap x5
Lingering Eitr Mead	+25% eitr regen	5 min	Shared (eitr)	Sap x10, Vineberry Cluster x10, Magecap x10
Lingering Healing Mead	+25% health regen	5 min	Shared (health)	Sap x10, Vineberry Cluster x10, Smoke Puff x10
Lingering Stamina Mead	+25% stamina regen	5 min	Shared (stamina)	Sap x10, Cloudberries x10, Jotun Puffs x10
Love Potion	Draws trolls to you	5 min	None
Major Healing Mead	Restores 125 health	2 min	Shared (health)	Honey x10, Blood Clot x4, Royal Jelly x5
Mead of Troll Endurance	+250 carry weight	5 min	2 min	Trollfish x2, Honey x10, Powdered Dragon Eggshells x1
Medium Healing Mead	Restores 75 health	2 min	Shared (health)	Honey x10, Bloodbag x4, Raspberries x10, Dandelion x1
Medium Stamina Mead	Restores 160 stamina	2 min	Shared (stamina)	Honey x10, Cloudberries x10, Yellow Mushroom x10
Minor Eitr Mead	Restores 125 eitr	2 min	Shared (eitr)	Honey x10, Sap x5, Jotun Puffs x2, Magecap x5
Minor Healing Mead	Restores 50 health	2 min	Shared (health)	Honey x10, Blueberries x5, Raspberries x10, Dandelion x1
Minor Stamina Mead	Restores 80 stamina	2 min	Shared (stamina)	Honey x10, Raspberries x10, Yellow Mushroom x10
Poison Resistance Mead	Poison resistance	10 min	None	Honey x10, Thistle x5, Neck Tail x1, Coal x10
Tasty Mead	+100% stamina regen, -50% health regen	10s	None	Honey x10, Raspberries x10, Blueberries x5
Tonic of Ratatosk	+15% run and walk speed, +7.5% swim speed	10 min	None	Honey x10, Blueberries x10, Cured Squirrel Hamstring x1

Eleven of the twenty bases want ten Honey each, so beehives are the first farm worth building. Ten bottles of frost resistance mead will carry you through the whole Mountain stage before you ever craft wolf armor, and the Deep North will get through a far bigger stack than that.