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{{RETURNTO Mechanics}}
Implemented on [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?t=72622 Apr 27, 2004], the mechanism by which [[:Category:Food|food]] and [[:Category:Booze|booze]] grant [[adventures]] is (usually) governed by two intrinsic qualities of the consumable: size and quality. The information on this page comes from [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1883348&postcount=31 a forum post] where [[Jick]] explicitly discusses this mechanism. He also notes that there are exceptions to this formula.
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==Size==
Size is a representation of how much space the consumable takes up. It is always equal to the [[fullness]] or [[drunkenness]] the consumable takes up, and thus always an integer.

==Quality==
Quality is a representation of how good the consumable item is for its size. Unlike size, it may not be a whole number. If the item is obtained through a recipe, its quality is based on its components' qualities.

==Adventure Gain==
The adventures gained from consuming the item are determined in the following manner:
*A range of numbers is determined.
**The minimum of this range is the item's Size.
**The maximum is the product Quality * Size.
**If the difference between min and max is greater than 7, it is lopped off on either end.
*An integer is chosen from the given range.
**It's quite likely that the maximum is not a whole number. In this case there is an X/20 chance that 1 is added to the result, where X is the tenths place of the maximum.
*This result is the number of adventures gained.

==Notes==
*For an extremely long time, there was a bug in the calculation of food gains where there was a non-integer maximum value. The decimal portion of the number was used directly, so that, for example, a food with size 1 and quality 3.6 would be calculated as (1-3 adventures, plus a 0.6 chance of an extra adventure), meaning that it would, on average, give 2.6 adventures; whereas a size 1, quality 4 item would simply roll (1-4), giving only 2.5 adventures on average. This was silently fixed sometime in May 2010 by halving the percentage chance of the extra adventure.

*Although the majority of consumables introduced during NS11 use this formula, Jick has stated that it is no longer a strict rule, as [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1883348&postcount=31 a few crafted booze items] were tweaked to make them provide more adventures than their ingredients.
*The majority of [[consumables]] introduced during NS13 do not follow the S/Q paradigm. New consumables often have hardcoded adventure production.

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