Bartending (minigame)

Bartending (also known as the Tavern minigame) is a minigame about serving drinks to customers as fast as possible, before their patience bar runs out.

It is unlocked after asking Orson at the tavern for a job and can be played by talking to Orson in the evening. It advances time and provides the protagonist with gold and XP. It's one of the earliest minigames that can be unlocked and it doesn't cost any gold to play.

How to Play
Each customer will have a patience bar below their portrait and they can order 1 of 5 available drinks. They must be served before its time bar runs out. To serve a drink, click and drag the drink from the counter and drop the drink on their portrait.

Failing to serve a customer the right drink in time will inflect 10 damage to the player's HP. Time can be temporary slowed down by pressing Q, this also costs 20 MP. However you only unlock this skill after completing your spirit training with Ivy.

Pop ups can occasionally appear, and provide the player benefits when clicked.


 * Coins - gives the player some gold
 * Beer Mugs - instantly serves all the customers on the screen
 * Turquoise Flask - recovers some mana

Strategy
To get the "I'm the fastest bartender alive achievement", you want to max Endurance, Wisdom, and Agility. You want to drink a Potion of Agility XL to raise your Agility to 35, which is 5 points less than than the highest you can go. Maxing Endurance gives you 150HP, which will allow you to sponge more damage. Max Wisdom is for 150MP, which is nice for slowing the the game down in crucial moments.

Another buff you can get is through Consume. After crafting the Garden upgrades through Lily, the Consume spell grants you +2 to an attribute when you consume a fruit. By consuming 3 Strawberries, you will reach the cap for Agility at 40. This effectively slows the game down as much as possible. Consume 5 Alluring fruits to get get +10 to Endurance (+50HP). Last of all, you can also get the Butterfly buff to get an extra +100MP.

Equipping Von Kamfeer's Helmet (artifact) is helpful here because sometimes you take 1 damage instead of 10. Additionally it adds another +2 to Endurance (+10 HP)

The rest is up to being fast and being lucky. Getting Beer Mugs in the higher levels (to clear all the customers in the room) and rolling a decent amount of damage mitigation from Von Kamfeer's Helmet should get you to level 12.

Bug: Consuming Alluring fruit raises Endurance but HP does not go up in v0.20.1

Bug: Von Kamfeer's Helmet does not seem to buff Endurance in v0.20.1

Achievements

 * Lukewarm beer - Reach level 3 on the tavern minigame
 * Crowd pleaser - Reach level 6 on the tavern minigame
 * Drunk Town- Reach level 9 on the tavern minigame
 * I think that might be enough - Reach level 10 on the tavern minigame
 * I'm the fastest bartender alive - Reach level 12 on the tavern minigame