Scrap Tea is the looter's tea. It boosts the scrap you pull from barrels and crates by up to 200%, turning a regular road farm into a scrap goldmine. Drink before a road run, then unload at a recycler with the buff still active to compound the gain.
Recipe & tiers
Tier
Effect
Duration
Berries
Basic
+50% scrap from barrels
30 min
1× yellow + 1× white
Advanced
+100% scrap from barrels
30 min
Mid-tier recipe
Pure
+200% scrap from barrels (3×)
30 min
2× yellow + 2× white
Brew at a Mixing Table or Cooking Workbench. The order of berries in the slots matters — check the Berry & Tea Reference if unsure. The Tea Brewery Calculator tells you how many of each tier you can brew from your current berry stockpile.
When to use it
Road runs, recycler grinds, and large monument loot sweeps. Drink right before you start hitting barrels — every barrel you crack during the buff is 2-3× the scrap.
What it stacks with
Max Health Tea — Stay alive while running roads; both buffs run independently
Healing Tea — Carry instant-heal teas in case you get rolled by a pirate
What it doesn't stack with
Another Scrap Tea (the new one replaces).
Ore Tea / Wood Tea — different yield types but you can drink both at once for mixed runs.
Tips from the wipe meta
White berries are the bottleneck for Scrap Tea. Plant a small white-berry plot specifically for scrap teas.
Hit a recycler immediately after a road run while buffed — recycled component scrap is also boosted.
Weekend wipes: brew 4-6 Pure Scrap Teas before launch night. Best ROI early when barrels are dense and uncontested.
Common mistakes
Drinking before you've identified a route — you'll waste minutes of the buff travelling.
Expecting it to boost component scrap from cracking blueprints — only barrel/crate scrap is affected.
Want exact yields combined with Bear Pie or other buffs? Run the numbers in the Yield Calculator.