Salem

I'm still new and trying to learn the Gluttony side of things.

I know I need to get all 4 of my stats up full, but I seem to constantly raise 3 up there, but the yellow bile always ticks down - meaning I rarely hit the top without wasting lots of food I intended to eat in Gluttony mode.

How should I be activating the Gluttony mode to be efficient.

I have been eating a lot of mushrooms, perhaps that's part of the problem?

If I recall correctly:
Start with lavender blewits, then when you get your biles to ~10-15 kill crickets and make wartbites. After that you need to start farming (T2/T3 lavender blewit mushroom pies, white cabbage / bear cabbage rolls).
You can use devil's wort to reduce blood events with lavender blewits.
If you have some cash, buy deer meat and make colewort / deer shred cabbage rolls. It gives you mostly blood but occasionally yellow bile too.

It's not really the food that's the problem.

For example, if I fill up my bags with blackberries. I stop still and my yellow bile might be 4.8/5, so I eat a blackberry and it looks like it will cover up to 5, but ticks up to 4.9 then starts dropping (The "amount your food will fill" bar also drops to 4.9). At 4.9 I eat another and another but it just keeps ticking down before it hits 5 and so I never get there.

I think it must be something to do with the mushrooms - but this occurs even when I am not poisoned. I have managed to get it working when I didn't eat any mushrooms for a while and the yellow bile stayed steady, allowing me to easily hit the gluttony mode. I can't help but think this is a bug!

You also might have been in darkness, where it is impossible to glutton because of constant drain on your biles.

Another thing is that having the "foraging" skill on will constantly drain small amounts of yellow bile as well as phlegm.

The mushrooms are good regen food for low-bile characters, but two of them actually make your "max" biles drop. The Waxing-Toadstool makes the max biles drop my 0.1, so until the "poisoned" debuff disappears, you can't regen to your actual max, and so can't glutton.

This said, you also have "movements" that drain your biles. For exemple... I bet you have the "Forage" mode ON, so when you walk with it, it drains your phlegm and Yellow Bile (see this : http://salemwiki.info/index.php/Forage ). Try to disable it and it should be fine
Or maybe the Guard. Hmm if you only have YB problems, I'd rather bet on the Guard on, after all... http://salemwiki.info/index.php/Guard

Actually, you can glutton with poisoned debuff. The only way this debuff can cause problems is when it fades while you are healing therefore raising your max.

Procne wrote:Actually, you can glutton with poisoned debuff. The only way this debuff can cause problems is when it fades while you are healing therefore raising your max.

If you are poisoned enough you can't successfully glut anything.

Define "enough".

Procne wrote:Define "enough".

I think its one full point missing, but its been a long time since I tried glutting unboiled witch's caps.

DarkNacht wrote:

Procne wrote:Define "enough".

I think its one full point missing, but its been a long time since I tried glutting unboiled witch's caps.

Unboiled witch's hats are REALLY ***** deadly.. They will massacre your biles.