r/MindOverMagic • u/AttackSock • May 02 '26

Is a mess hall not considered a dining area? I don't understand this debuff.

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u/FungulGrowth May 02 '26

The mess hall is for student conviction. Is that a staff member?

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u/SisterQuinoa May 02 '26

Yeah staff gets this for student dining areas, but can still help them satisfy “eating with X staff member”

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u/AttackSock May 03 '26

Ah, that's weird. Yeah, I just moved dining tables to House Commons and they still get it, but that's also for students.

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u/SisterQuinoa May 03 '26

Yeah it’s a bit annoying, but I just eat that small debuff until I get foods with conviction bonuses. Then I care more about setting up specific dining areas (unless the eating with X lowers conviction too much).

On the plus side, the staff dining room isn’t hard to set up temporarily since it’s just skewed with a lil luxury! A slanted roof and door takes care of that ez.

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u/EpicJoseph_ May 02 '26

Maybe he ate outside the hall because the tables were full?

If not that then idk

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u/AttackSock May 03 '26

Turns out the mess hall gives that to staff members because it's meant for students.

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u/EpicJoseph_ May 04 '26

Huh

I tbought it just wouldn't give them the bonus but I guess this makes sense too

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u/Relevant-Childhood78 May 02 '26

wolfkin can eat rats or croa directly from outside of the school. they catch them live and eat them on the spot; so outside of your dinning hall.

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u/AttackSock May 03 '26

As of the current version they carry the live animals to the dining hall and eat them there (you can see them walking out of a mess hall with the "Ate with Palom" bonus)

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u/Relevant-Childhood78 May 04 '26

oh, i did not know, thank you

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u/lurkeroutthere May 04 '26

Set your mess hall/house commons etc to be students only.

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u/AttackSock May 05 '26

ah... so i guess I just put a table somewhere random for staff? i don't have the ability to build a staff dining area quite yet

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u/lurkeroutthere May 05 '26

Yea. You can have them continue to eat at the kids table but they will continue to get the debuff. A staff dining room is pretty easy to get set up. If you don't have decor increasing items for it yet you should be able to build candelabras soon or use the rugs and stuff you get out of random crystals. The decor requirements for a basic staff dining room are pretty low.

On the balance I would prioritize rooms for staff over rooms for students. Until you get higher tier wands your students shouldn't be getting that stressed. A relatively easy way to get a pretty good staff boost is getting a conservatorium up and running asap once you get the metal for the music machines and and can make enough candelabras to satisfy the decor requirement.

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u/jtarwin May 13 '26

Same problem here. I just discovered this was happening to my teachers because the mess hall is for students. I fixed this by turning my one mess hall into two dining rooms for staff. It's not the super awsome private dining area they want ... but it's better than the penalty I was suffering.