With a focus object, the psycaster meditates near the object and focuses on it to gain extra psyfocus during meditation. Pawns will do this in caravans, in prison, or in hospital, but in normal situations they’ll meditate using meditation focus objects to gain psyfocus faster.
The most basic kind of meditation is simply to meditate without any kind of aid at all.There’s a new entry in the scheduling tab which allows assigning them to meditation time. You can place meditation spots on the ground and assign them to colonists, though if you don’t they’ll try to find an optimal spot themselves anyway. Psyfocus is primarily built up by meditation.So if you have a psycaster whose powers you don’t want to invest in any more, you can just stop any time and reactivate them later. There’s no downside to letting psyfocus exhaust, aside from losing the ability to use psycasts.This means that you can easily maintain your lower-level psycasters at low levels, but high-level psycasts will need a bit more investment to maintain their power. Higher levels of psyfocus allow you to use higher level psycasts, but the psyfocus also ticks down a bit faster at higher levels. It also very slowly ticks down over time. Fictionally, it’s a sort of mental structuring that a psycaster can build up. Psyfocus is a new long-term resource on psycasters.
