Drinking Strategies

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A drinking strategy is a list of drinks to consume in a single day to maximize the stat gains or adventures you get.

The optimum strategy for you depends upon a variety of factors (such as ingredients you have, skills you've acquired, effects you have, etc.). There is no single strategy that applies to all desired results for all players in all cases.

The optimum drinking strategies listed have been designed using the drink quality measurements to give you the maximum benefit (in terms of stat gains and adventures) per unit of drunkenness without making you too drunk to adventure.

These strategies assume a softcore ascension for a player that is no longer in Ronin. There are too many variables that exist in hardcore ascensions to come up with a simple generalized drinking strategy, and some ascension paths do not even allow drinking. However, the rest of this guide should give you enough advice to make the proper drinking choices during a hardcore ascension.

The data for these strategies was obtained from the KoL Item Effects website run by Ohayou.

Tiny Plastic Sword, Advanced and Superhuman Cocktailcrafting

Drinks made with the tiny plastic sword (TPS) are the best quality drinks for adventures. However, the tiny plastic sword is a rare item that does not drop in the game. If you are serious about maximizing your adventures, you need to get one from The Mall of Loathing.

All you need is one TPS ever, regardless of how many drinks you make with it. When you mix a TPS drink, the sword disappears from your inventory. You get the sword back in your inventory when you consume the drink. You can borrow a TPS from a friend, then return it to the friend when you're done drinking for the day.

If you cannot afford a tiny plastic sword, your next best alternative is to ascend as a Disco Bandit and acquire the Advanced Cocktailcrafting skill. It will let you make quality drinks that do not involve a tiny plastic sword. The Advanced Cocktailcrafting skill is an excellent choice to pick up during an early hardcore ascension as it will give you a big adventure/stat boost for subsequent hardcore runs.

Superhuman Cocktailcrafting will let you make the best drinks that do not require a tiny plastic sword. However, the Superhuman Cocktailcrafting drinks require improved spirits and mixers. Nash Crosby's Still in The Department of Shadowy Arts and Crafts allows you to improve basic spirits and mixers in order to make Superhuman Cocktailcrafting drinks. Without access to Nash Crosby's Still, the improved spirits and mixers can be found in The Mall of Loathing.

If you have neither a tiny plastic sword nor the Advanced Cocktailcrafting or Superhuman Cocktailcrafting skills and are not interested in getting either, then you can find the Advanced and Superhuman Cocktailcrafting drinks in The Mall of Loathing.

If you're still not able to get the best drinks described so far, then there are many combinations of drinks that provide you with the next best number of adventures or stats per day, far too many to list here. Hopefully the information in this guide will make it possible for you to find the optimum solution.

Optimum Strategy with Liver of Steel

The following drinking strategies apply only if you have the Liver of Steel, allowing up to 19 points of sobriety.

Drinking for Adventures

The following table shows the combination of drinks that will maximize the number of adventures you gain per day.

Optimum Daily Drinking Strategy for Adventures WITH Liver of Steel.
Primary Stat	Template:Click With tiny plastic sword 98 Adventures, 76 Primary Stat	Template:Click Template:Click Template:Click With Advanced Cocktailcrafting 69 Adventures, 184 Primary Stat	Template:Click Template:Click Template:Click With Superhuman Cocktailcrafting 89 Adventures, 214 Primary Stat
Muscle Seal Clubber Turtle Tamer	Before Adventuring: 3 grogtini or bodyslam 1 Ram's Face Lager After Adventuring: 1 grogtini or bodyslam	Before Adventuring: 4 fuzzbump or slip 'n' slide 1 grog or tequila with training wheels After Adventuring: 1 fuzzbump or slip 'n' slide	Before Adventuring: 4 Mon Tiki or teqiwila slammer 1 grog or tequila with training wheels After Adventuring: 1 Mon Tiki or teqiwila slammer
Mysticality Pastamancer Sauceror	Before Adventuring: 3 cherry bomb or sangria del diablo 1 shot of grapefruit schnapps After Adventuring: 1 cherry bomb or sangria del diablo	Before Adventuring: 4 roll in the hay or horizontal tango 1 old-fashioned or sangria After Adventuring: 1 roll in the hay or horizontal tango	Before Adventuring: 4 gimlet or yellow brick road 1 old-fashioned or sangria After Adventuring: 1 gimlet or yellow brick road
Moxie Accordion Thief Disco Bandit	Before Adventuring: 3 dirty martini or vesper 1 fine wine After Adventuring: 1 dirty martini or vesper	Before Adventuring: 4 perpendicular hula or rockin' wagon 1 dry martini or dry vodka martini After Adventuring: 1 perpendicular hula or rockin' wagon	Before Adventuring: 4 Mae West or prussian cathouse 1 dry martini or dry vodka martini After Adventuring: 1 Mae West or prussian cathouse

Drinking for Stat Gains

Best stat-gain drinking strategy

Optimum Daily Drinking Strategy for Stat Gains WITH Liver of Steel
Primary Stat	Template:Click Template:Click Template:Click With Advanced Cocktailcrafting	Template:Click Template:Click Template:Click With Superhuman Cocktailcrafting
Muscle Seal Clubber Turtle Tamer	Before Adventuring: 4 fuzzbump or slip 'n' slide 1 papaya sling After Adventuring: 1 fuzzbump or slip 'n' slide Results: 64 Adventures, 197 Muscle substats	Before Adventuring: 4 Mon Tiki or teqiwila slammer 1 papaya sling After Adventuring: 1 Mon Tiki or teqiwila slammer Results: 84 Adventures, 227 Muscle substats
Mysticality Pastamancer Sauceror	Before Adventuring: 4 roll in the hay or horizontal tango 1 eggnog After Adventuring: 1 roll in the hay or horizontal tango Results: 66 Adventures, 199 Mysticality substats	Before Adventuring: 4 gimlet or yellow brick road 1 eggnog After Adventuring: 1 gimlet or yellow brick road Results: 86 Adventures, 229 Mysticality substats
Moxie Accordion Thief Disco Bandit	Before Adventuring: 4 perpendicular hula or rockin' wagon 1 spiced rum or eggnog After Adventuring: 1 perpendicular hula or 1 rockin' wagon Results: 62 Adventures, 199 Moxie substats	Before Adventuring: 4 Mae West or prussian cathouse 1 spiced rum or eggnog After Adventuring: 1 Mae West or 1 prussian cathouse Results: 82 Adventures, 229 Moxie substats

Optimum Strategy without Liver of Steel

If you don't have the Liver of Steel skill, you can only drink up to 14 drunkenness without becoming too drunk to adventure.

Drinking for Adventures

Best adventure drinking strategy

Optimum Daily Drinking Strategy WITHOUT Liver of Steel
Primary Stat	Template:Click With tiny plastic sword 76 Adventures 60 Primary Stat	Template:Click Template:Click Template:Click With Advanced Cocktailcrafting 52 Adventures 148 Primary Stat	Template:Click Template:Click Template:Click With Superhuman Cocktailcrafting 68 Adventures 172 Primary Stat
Muscle Seal Clubber Turtle Tamer	Main: (6 each) 2 grogtini or 2 bodyslam Filler: (2) 1 Bottle of Pinot Renoir or 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (6) 1 grogtini or 1 bodyslam	Main: (4 each) 3 fuzzbump or 3 slip 'n' slide Filler: (2) 1 Bottle of Pinot Renoir or 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (4) 1 fuzzbump or 1 slip 'n' slide	Main: (4 each) 3 Mon Tiki or 3 teqiwila slammer Filler: (2) 1 Bottle of Pinot Renoir or 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (4) 1 Mon Tiki or 1 teqiwila slammer
Mysticality Pastamancer Sauceror	Main: (6 each) 2 sangria del diablos or 2 cherry bombs Filler: (2) 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (6) 1 sangria del diablo or 1 cherry bomb	Main: (4 each) 3 roll in the hay or 3 horizontal tangos Filler: (2) 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (4) 1 roll in the hay or 1 horizontal tango	Main: (4 each) 3 gimlet or 3 yellow brick roads Filler: (2) 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (4) 1 gimlet or 1 yellow brick road
Moxie Accordion Thief Disco Bandit	Main: (6 each) 2 dirty martinis or 2 vespers Filler: (2) 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (6) 1 dirty martini or 1 vesper	Main: (4 each) 3 perpendicular hulas or 3 rockin' wagons Filler: (2) 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (4) 1 perpendicular hula or 1 rockin' wagon	Main: (4 each) 3 Mae Wests or 3 prussian cathouses Filler: (2) 2 melted Jell-o shot or 1 Dusty bottle of wine Glyph Four Nightcap: (4) 1 Mae West or 1 prussian cathouse

Drinking for Stat Gains

This section is not complete. However, if you're going for stat gains, it's more effective to drink for adventures, then use those adventures to gain stats.

The notable exceptions are the especially salty dog and the bottle of single-barrel whiskey, which both give a total of 100 to 150 substat gains.