Hobopolis Strategy

A Maze of Sewer Tunnels

The least adventures someone can spend at minimum in the sewers is 9, in which each of their adventures is a tunnel adventure, and they have a full hobo binder equipped, as well as all of the items for the item tests. For obvious reasons, it is not likely that you will get only noncombats, but it possible to use tattered scraps of paper to avoid combats.

Hobopolis Town Square

There are 3000 hobos here. As such, if you use no non-combats, you can clear the entire square in 1286 adventures if you make the maximum number of scarehobos. However, if you use the tent, you can kill more hobos and thus minimize the number turns. The more people of different classes in your clan with their instrument, the more hobos you can kill.

Side Zones

If you truly want to minimize your adventure count, you should not do any side zones. However, this makes Hodgman much harder to kill. If you cannot kill Hodgman without any side zones finished, you need to defeat some side zones in order to make Hodgman easier. The strategy within the side zones is simple enough: use non-combats to kill as many hobos as possible.

• If you are doing Burnbarrel Boulevard, then you should throw the tires in Getting Tired violently, because they do not kill more hobos if you have more on the pile.
• If you are doing Exposure Esplanade, then always yodel, to kill as many hobos as possible, but make sure that you can still yodel in that Hobopolis instance. For this reason, it is advantageous to have as many people as possible do this zone. As soon as someone gets the message where they vow to never yodel again, they should stop adventuring, and let someone else take over.
• If you are doing the Heap, start as many trashcanoes as possible, and avoid diving for treasure, unless you need to reset the stench.