Workshed item strategy

Your Workshed can be a very useful aid during your next Ascension, given you prepared it with the right item for the job.

Choosing the right item

As of 2022/12/22, workshed items are automatically ejected upon Ascension, and all IotM worksheds became auto-pulls. You can only change your workshed item once per day, however, two different workshed items can be installed on the same day if the workshed is empty.

For the most current Path, you'll probably switch between two available workshed items from what's not on the restricted list.

If you're allowed to use restricted items, consider the following flowchart.

Requirements	Item used
Do you own a Model Train Set, and do you like huge stat buffs? If so, consider this item.	model train set
Do you own a Cold medicine cabinet, and do you need additional food and booze? If so, consider this item.	cold medicine cabinet
Do you own a diabolic pizza cube, and will you be able to consume food on your Path? If so, consider this item.	diabolic pizza cube
Do you own a Asdon Martin keyfob, and will you be unable to consume food or booze on your Path? If so, consider this item. This is optimal for License to Adventure run.	Asdon Martin keyfob (on ring)
Do you own a portable Mayo Clinic, and will you be able to consume food? If so, is your current turn-generation plan either much higher than necessary to make your daycount target, or just barely not high enough? Alternately, are you going into a run where turn generation will be completely irrelevant, such as Slow and Steady?	portable Mayo Clinic
Do you own a Little Geneticist DNA-Splicing Lab?	Little Geneticist DNA-Splicing Lab
Do you own a Garden that will be accessible during your next ascension?	snow machine
Will you not have access to friendly Degrassi Knoll?	warbear auto-anvil
Will you be able to consume food?	warbear induction oven
Will you be able to consume booze?	warbear high-efficiency still
Do you have the Pulverize skill either permed or available much earlier than usual (BIG!, CA2, ...)?	warbear jackhammer drill press
Will the Advanced Saucecrafting skill be accessible during your next ascension?	warbear chemistry lab
Will you be in a BIG! ascension, as an AT, with some of those songs permed that you can record?	warbear LP-ROM burner
You're not giving me much to work with here...	spinning wheel

Model Train Set

• This set provides huge stat gains, some medium-quality food and item drops, and some special item drops.
• These rotate between eight benefits and can be configured.

Cold Medicine Cabinet

• This set provides variety of food, booze, and potions.
• Food and booze generally gives benefits to your primary stat.

Diabolic Pizza Cube

Allows you to create 3-fullness diabolic pizzas that can greatly vary in adventure yields, substats granted, bonus effect and other benefits based on the ingredients you cook them with. Each pizza is made with four items as ingredients; any item that is is tradable, discardable, non-NPC-purchased and not a gift item can be used.

• Adventure yields range between 3 and 15, depending on the total character count of the ingredients. Having Pizza Lover increases this by another 3, potentially yielding Epic-quality pizzas with impressive adventure gains.
• Potentially grants muscle substats for food-based ingredients and moxie substats for booze-based ingredients, based on the fullness or drunkenness of the ingredients.
• Each pizza gives a buff depending on the first character of each ingredient, serving as a more restrictive genie bottle or cursed monkey's paw, based on ingredient & effect name restrictions. The duration varies based on the total autosell value of the ingredients (minimum of 5).
• Each pizza also yields a miscellaneous benefit, potentially yielding extra items or other effects if ingredient(s) meet particular conditions, but only one of these can occur with each pizza. The most noteworthy ones are:
  • If an ingredient is a Spleen Item: An additional bonus to all substats (depending on your level).
  • If an ingredient is a Familiar Hatchling or Familiar Equipment: Familiar-specific equipment (or a lead necklace) as well as an experience bonus for your current familiar.
  • If an ingredient contains the word cloak: a dead mimic, allowing for easy access to a Zapping Wand.
  • If an ingredient contains the word milk or cheese: 3 wedges of goat cheese, perfect for the Mt. McLargeHuge Quest.
  • If an ingredient is a Combat Item: A set of 3 random combat items, some of which are ascension relevant, such as a Short writ of habeas corpus or cigarette lighter.
  • If an ingredient contains the word star, space or dot: 5 stars, to create Richard's star key if the line and star chart requirements are already met.
• While they also potentially yield disassembled clovers, these are no longer useful with advent of Lucky Adventures.

Asdon Martin Keyfob

If your turn generation is limited in a path that cannot consider food or booze, consider this. The car converts food and booze into Fuel that can be used for buffs as well as combat skills, and there is no known limit on the amount of food/booze you can put into the car. In Aftercore, there is virtually no limit to how much Fuel and therefore how many buffs you can get per day. During an ascension, however, you would likely need to be somewhat conservative with your fuel usage, depending on available resources. Each turn that would be gained from consuming the food/booze is converted to 1 Fuel. 37 fuel powers a 30 turn buff, while the combat skills each cost fuel to use.

• Only PvP-stealable items that cannot be directly bought from NPC stores are eligible for fuel conversion. However, items made by crafting NPC-store items are fair game; loaf of soda breads are great for this during ascensions, cooked from bottles of soda water (purchased at The General Store) and wads of dough (purchased at any of the the Kingdom's bakeries).
• During ascensions, the buffs that are probably most useful are +/- combat frequency, item drops, and ML.
  • Although you can only have one driving effect running at a time, you can freely extend or deactivate the effect at will, allowing you to run whatever buff specifically suits your requirements at any given time.
  • For general purposes, consider the +item enchantment. It helps get many of the early and late-game quests done much easier
  • For high skill runs, the +ML can really help you level faster. In either case, the -combat helps many quests go faster.
  • This buff is not lost when swapping to another workshed item.
• See below for a full list of buffs:
  • Driving Obnoxiously: +10% Combat Frequency
  • Driving Stealthily: -10% Combat Frequency
  • Driving Wastefully: Reduces pressure at Oil Peak.
  • Driving Safely: +50 Damage Absorption, +10 Damage Reduction, +1 Resistance to All Elements
  • Driving Recklessly: +25 Monster Level
  • Driving Quickly: +50% Combat Initiative
  • Driving Intimidatingly: -25 Monster Level
  • Driving Observantly: 50% Item Drops, +50% Booze Drops, +50% Meat Drops
  • Driving Waterproofly: Underwater breathing, reduces underwater pressure penalty by 10%, familiar can breathe underwater
• The most noteworthy combat skills are as follows:
  • The Spring-Loaded Front Bumper, for 50 fuel, provides a 30 turn banish (that doesn't cost a turn to use) every 30 turns, which will save a considerable number of turns over the duration of an ascension.
  • The Missile Launcher, for 100 fuel, functions similar to a yellow ray, though it's limited to one use per day instead of causing Everything Looks Yellow (and is also a free kill).

The Mayo Clinic

• If your turn generation is much higher than necessary, use Mayonex to gain blood-mayo instead of Adventures, and use the extra blood-mayo to fuel yellow rays from a mayo lance. How much Mayonex to use depends on just how much extra turngen you have to work with.
• If you are in Slow and Steady, you can fill your Mayo Minder™ with Mayonex and be done with it. The sphygmayomanometer can be used to boost your stats, if you are confident you won't need more than one yellow ray that day.
• If your turn generation is too low, it gets fiddly.
  • Mayodiol converts 1 fullness into 1 drunkenness, after you've completely eaten the food. This helps because food tends to be better turngen than booze, but it does depend on what's available to you.
  • Mayostat produces 1-fullness mayoluses of the same quality as the food you eat, which helps you stretch your EPIC-quality food such as the grue egg omelette, but is useful only in the narrow case that you have some high-quality food yet not enough to cover your entire diet. Note that 1-fullness foods, such as those from Semi-Rare Adventures, do not work with Mayostat.
  • Mayoflex simply adds +1 adventure to whatever you eat. This is, naturally, most effective on 1-fullness foods. Such as mayoluses. Micromanagement ahoy!
• In all cases, you might find it helpful to use Mayozapine to double the length of a food's effect. Manually-used mayonnaise will override the Minder's setting, so you don't need to fiddle with that between meals.

Little Geneticist DNA-Splicing Lab

Players with a Deck of Every Card can use its [cheat] function to fight a monster of a phylum of their choice.

Intrinsic

• Human-Weird Thing Hybrid from weird creatures for the +4 stats. Players with access to Spring Break Beach can visit Sloppy Seconds Diner; fighting a mimic in the Barrel full of Barrels works nicely otherwise
• Human-Fish Hybrid from fish for +10 familiar weight. Fish are usually underwater and can't be reached until level 13. Exceptions to this include:
  • minnows and piranhas in Sweet-Ade Lake - Requires a grimstone mask from a Grimstone Golem.
  • lava lampreys in The Bubblin' Caldera - Requires access to That 70s Volcano, either via charter or one-day ticket.
  • broctopus and cocktail shrimp in The Sunken Party Yacht - Requires air supply and access to Spring Break Beach, either via charter or one-day ticket.
  • alley catfish or piranhadon in Heavy Rains - Wandering monsters specific to the challenge path
• Human-Penguin Hybrid (+25% item drops) from Category:Penguins. This typically requires faxing a penguin and therefore access to the fax machine. Penguins are also available via the monorail, but will consume 10 adventures. Item drop is helpful throughout the entire run for most paths. In Heavy Rains, players can use Rain Man instead.

Charges

• Human-Human Hybrid (+10 to all attributes, +10% item drops) from Dudes. More item drop is always good and the stats can help for certain battles. Players can encounter warwelf and wolfman in The Spooky Forest very early on. Sleepy mariachi is a great option as it is commonly faxed and yellow rayed for the equipment on turn 1. Quantum Mechanic is also a common fax target for the large box it gives.
• Gene Tonic: Humanoid (+10% all stats, +20% Meat from Monsters) from Humanoids. Players will need one for the Nuns and can be obtained from any giant while doing the Giant Trash Quest.
• Gene Tonic: Constellation (+50% Meat from Monsters) from Constellations. Players will need one for the Nuns and can be obtained from any constellation while obtaining star equipment in The Hole in the Sky.
• Gene Tonic: Elemental (+3 Resistance to All Elements) for resistance checks. This includes The Haunted Kitchen, The Mist-Shrouded Peak, A-boo Peak, Twin Peak, Lord Spookyraven, and The Hedge Maze. The Boss Bat's Lair is too early for most players as the Tonic water elemental is encountered in the Daily dungeon but isn't always available and players don't have skeleton keys or similar yet. Barf Mountain, The Bubblin' Caldera and The Edge of the Swamp are early options for elemental DNA if you want it.
• Gene Tonic: Construct (Damage Absorption +50, Damage Reduction: 5, +5 to Familiar Weight) from Constructs. More familiar weight for item drop, meat drop, stats, and runaways.
• Gene Tonic: Hippy (Maximum MP +20, +1 Stats Per Fight) from Hippies. The +MP will help players reach the required MP for Ode to Booze and Inigo's Incantation of Inspiration (skill) in the first or second day. The stat bonus is somewhat helpful, but other tonics will prove more beneficial.

Strategic advice

Some items are rather straightforward, but some require extra consideration when you plan your day.

• Asdon Martin keyfob – At the beginning or end of a day, consider what food or booze you will not eat, and convert them to fuel. They can then be converted for extra buffs for the Tower registration or quests, or for a yellow ray once per day.
• Snow machine – The details for this option are already discussed elsewhere. Just harvest your garden every day, since the extra items from the snow machine don't carry over to the next day.
• Warbear induction oven – Only the first item you cook per day will be doubled, after that your chances are 5% for each cooked food item.
• Warbear jackhammer drill press – Your chances for getting an antimatter wad from this are 1%, so pulverize everything you don't need if it has the chance of yielding a wad.
• Warbear chemistry lab – The more potions you cook up, the better your chances for the additional potions become. If you want to have any real benefit from this a chef-in-the-box is mandatory, and permed The Way of Sauce highly recommended.
• Warbear LP-ROM burner – To get Rolando's you'll have to record plenty of extra songs, so you should be able to generate and store large amounts of MP. Inigo's makes a good choice and would be pretty much your only choice as a non-AT, if you're not planning on wasting karma on Donho's – which should be rather invested into Pulverize...

Ascension Strategy
Rankings:	HC Skills - HC Familiars - HC IotMs
General:	Class selection - Familiar usage - Lucky adventures
Paths:	BHY - Fist - AoB - BI - ZS - AoJ - BIG! - KOLHS - CA2 - AoSP - SS - HR - Picky - Ed - Random - AoWoL - Source - NA - GN - LtA - L.A.R. - PF - G-Lover - DD
Additional Paths:	DG - 2CRS - KoE - PotP - LKS - GG - Y,Robot - QT - WF - GY - JM - FotD
IotMs:	Tomes - Faxing - Copying - YR - Garden - Correspondent - Workshed - Tea party - Florist