Focus

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Focus is a mechanic in Palia.

“	It’s important to ensure you’re getting the most out of your skills, and it’s always easier to focus on a full stomach. Eating meals or raw food will increase your Focus, giving you a bonus for all experience gained. If you’re struggling to find recipes to cook, check in with Reth at the Ormuu’s Horn Inn for some tips.	”
–Almanac of Palia

Mechanics

Gaining Focus is as simple as eating. When you earn Experience (XP), some of your Focus is consumed to increase the total amount of experience received.

The amount of Focus Points spent is based on your current Focus Bonus, and 1 Focus Point is equivalent to 1 XP. For example, if you gain 10 XP with a 50% Focus Bonus, you will gain an extra 5 XP (an extra 50%, 15 XP total) and lose 5 Focus Points (50% of the experience gained).

In order to gain bonus Experience from a task, your Focus Bar only needs to be full enough to cover the cost of the XP gained. This means you do not need a full Focus Bar to get the bonus XP from your Focus Bonus. Put another way, if your Focus is 0, you do not get the extra XP from your Focus Bonus but you will still get the base XP for the specific task you performed. If your Focus is less than the bonus you'd gain, you will only get the amount of bonus that you have focus points for. This is why making sure you have enough Focus when doing a task will maximize the amount of Experience you earn and help you level up your Skills faster.

Example: You are at 10/300 Focus with a 50% Focus Bonus and you do a task that gives 100 XP (before focus bonus is applied). The Focus cost will be 100 XP (from the task) times 50% (your focus bonus) = 50 Focus Points. However, since you only have 10 Focus Points available you don't get the full bonus on the experience gained, and will only get the 10 bonus XP for which you have focus points available. This means that you'll get 110 XP total, compared to the 150 you would've gotten if you had at least 50 focus points.

Increasing

“	If you notice you’re not gaining any new experience while you’re completing skills, make sure to check your focus bar. If it’s empty - grab something to eat! Don’t work on an empty stomach!	”
–Palia Website

Food items that can be eaten are labeled with a purple "up" arrow. Some examples are shown in the above image.

Eat food to fill your Focus meter, shown on the top left of your display. Dishes give the most Focus, but some Ingredients like Milk, Mushrooms, Vegetables, or Fruit will also grant some Focus. Edible items that grant focus (and other items that grant a beneficial effect when consumed) are designated by a purple arrow when viewed in the player's inventory or storage.

 Renown can be spent to alter your focus: the Dragon Shrine will increase your Max Focus, and the Phoenix Shrine will increase your Focus Bonus.

Max Focus

Max Focus is the amount needed to fill your Focus bar completely. Every character starts with 200 Max Focus. The first increase is free, increasing your Focus bar to 300. The limit to Max Focus is 1,000. Max Focus can be increased at the Dragon Shrine in Maji's Hollow.

• It will cost  100 Renown for every  50 Focus that you gain.
• After 500 Focus, each gain is only  25 Focus.
• After 750 Focus, each gain is only  10 Focus.
• To reach the maximum of 1,000 Focus, the Player must increase a total of 40 times.

The total cost to reach the Max Focus limit is  3,900 Renown.

Focus Bonus

The Focus Bonus determines the amount of XP gained when utilizing Skills. Each character starts with a 20% Focus Bonus, which means you will gain 20% more experience while using any skill. The first increase is free, increasing your Focus Bonus to 25%. The maximum Focus Bonus is 100%. Your Focus Bonus can be increased at the Phoenix Shrine, located in Phoenix Falls.

• It will cost  100 Renown for every 5% bonus that you gain.
• At 50% Focus Bonus, each gain is only 2.5% Focus Bonus.
• At 75% Focus Bonus, each gain is only 1% Focus Bonus.
• The Player can increase the bonus a total of 41 times.

The total cost to reach the maximum Focus Bonus is  4,000 Renown.

Notes

• Keeping track of your gained Max Focus and your Focus Bonus will prove beneficial in the long run, as the differences between each bonus may not be apparent until a player is far into the game. Increased Max Focus will provide a full Focus bar for much longer. However, an increased Focus Bonus increases gained experience, and your Focus bar will deplete much faster. This will require eating far more often to maintain your Focus bar. Praying to both shrines equally will make adjusting to the increases much more manageable.