Coffee (3.5e Equipment)

Coffee
Coffee is a bitter-tasting liquid commonly drunk by upper-class humanoids in the morning to cast away their dreary eyes. Coffee is made by pushing water through a strainer full of coffee beans. Separate species of coffee trees will lead to slightly different tasting coffees, though all coffee is bitter. Coffee spoils after eight hours unless contained in a safe container.

One cup of coffee in a 24 hour period will grant its drinker a +4 bonus against sleep effects for an hour. Subsequent cups of coffee causes its drinker to be extremely energetic for one minute, as if under a haste effect, and then fatigue him for an hour. These bonuses and penalties apply only to living creatures. Constructs, Undead, Elementals and any creature normally immune to fatigue or exhaustion, such as Warforged, cannot benefit or suffer from the effects of coffee.

Do to the dehydrating effects of coffee, despite being made mostly of water, coffee does not count as a drink. Furthermore, if a plant drinks coffee, it immediately becomes exhausted for one hour instead of the effects described above. Throwing coffee on a plant is not enough to cause this effect. The plant must fully consume it. The plant may remove the exhaustion effect by consuming two cups of water for each cup of coffee consumed or submerging itself in water.

To make coffee, one must have at least 1 oz. of coffee beans and a strainer. It takes ten minutes to make one gallon, enough coffee for eight drinks. Coffee beans may be bought in bulk for 1gp per lb. or one cup for 1cp. A cup of coffee weights 1/8 a lb.