Setting Up Incense Buffs and Permanent Censers

Incense blocks grant specialized healing buffs for combat, farming, and exploration. Choosing the right incense for your activity—and upgrading it into a permanent fixture—gives you reliable sustain without draining potions.

Selecting the Right Incense

Check your recipe book to craft the incense block that matches what you plan to do:

• Acrid Incense: Best for direct melee combat; it boosts your attack damage and heals you whenever you strike an enemy.
• Bright Incense: Ideal for mob grinders and mining; it increases experience gain and heals you as you collect experience orbs.
• Bland Incense: Useful against mobs that inflict debuffs; it clears specific status effects and heals you each time an effect is removed.
• Fresh Incense: Great for ocean exploration or rainy biomes, granting passive health regeneration while you stand in water or rain.
• Sweet Incense: Stretches your food supply by boosting nutrition and saturation while healing you based on the food eaten.
• Verdant Incense: Amplifies the strength of all incoming healing effects, making it a strong pairing with other healing sources.

Installing Permanent Censers

Instead of relying on temporary setups, craft Censers to turn your incense into permanent burners. Hang Censers from the underside of blocks around your arenas, farms, or base hubs. Because Censers are waterloggable, you can also submerge them directly inside underwater bases or flooded arenas—pairing especially well with Fresh Incense.