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Rush Tokens, Hired Help, potions and the rest of the timed items.
Consumables are single-use items that give you an immediate boost. They're sold at /vendor once your city's Trading Post reaches Level 2.
Open /vendor and scroll to the 🛒 Consumables section. Tap any buy button to purchase immediately. Some effects apply on the spot (Queue Boost, Rested Potion); others — Rush Token, Hired Help, and Hunting Party — are stored in your inventory so you choose when to activate them.
| Item | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Queue Boost | 300g | Immediately adds 2 extra slots to your action queue for 24 ticks (24 hours). One charge decays per tick regardless of use — spend the extra slots while you have them. |
| 💤 Rested Potion | 200g | Grants 3 rested charges immediately. Each charge gives your next active gather, craft or Library research contribution a +50% yield bonus, consumed one per boosted action. On research, a charge is only used when your city still has room under its hourly research limit after everyone's normal contributions, so it never takes Pages from another citizen's hour. Stacks with charges you've already built up from idle ticks (up to the 24-charge cap). |
| ⏩ Rush Token | 500g | Stored in your personal inventory. When activated, all crafts run 50% faster for 2 hours — including any crafts already in progress. Activate from the /craft panel or with /use rush_token. |
| 👷 Hired Help | 500g | Stored in your personal inventory. When activated, adds 5 extra crafting queue slots for 2 hours. Only appears at the vendor once your Workbench reaches Level 5. Activating it again while active extends the timer by another 2 hours rather than resetting it. |
| 🐕 Hunting Party | 500g | Stored in your personal inventory. When activated, adds 5 extra slots to your hunt queue for 2 hours, so you can line up more hunts at once from the 🏹 Hunt panel. Activate it from the 🏹 Hunt panel or with /use hunting_party; activating again while active extends the timer. Only appears at the vendor once your city has a Hunter's Lodge. (Affects the casual hunt queue only, not expeditions.) |
👷 Hired Help is the only consumable gated behind a tool level — it rewards master crafters. With a Lv5 Workbench you jump from 5 to 10 craft slots, letting you blitz through a batch of crafting in a focused session.
Both Rush Token and Hired Help boost the /craft Workbench panel only — they don't speed up or add slots to your city /queue action queue. If you want more from the action queue, that's what Queue Boost is for.
Rush Tokens, Hired Help, and Hunting Party go into your inventory when purchased — you choose when to activate them. Queue Boost and Rested Potion apply instantly, because their effect is banked the moment you buy.
Or open /craft and tap the ⏩ Activate Rush Token or 👷 Activate Hired Help button at the bottom of the panel; for the Hunting Party, open /hunt and tap 🐕 Activate Party. Each button shows how many you own, and each stays visible while its boost is running — it just reads Extend instead.
⏱ Every timed boost stacks by extending the clock. If you own three Rush Tokens and burn them back to back, you get one continuous 6-hour window — you never lose time you already paid for, and you never have to sit and wait for a window to lapse before spending the next one. The same is true of Hired Help, Second Shift, the Hunting Party and Mr. Crane's Invitation.