Drinking Strategies
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A drinking strategy is how to ensure that you will have booze available to as you adventure, and maximizing your adventures accordingly. Best Booze has a list of all available booze in the game, and should be used to determine the best drink you can consume at a particular level.
Stats versus Adventures
Adventures are better than stats in almost all cases.
Softcore, Out of Ronin
If you are out of ronin, and in softcore, the world is your oyster. You can purchase drinks in the mall, get the Hobo Market booze option, or use those BGE shotglasses. As drinking is constantly changing, this guide does not attempt to replicate the Best Booze page, but the simplest "optimal strategy" are three jars of fermented pickle juice, a synthetic dog hair pill, and a fourth jar of fermented pickle juice. Not only will you get 126 adventures on average from this, you'll be able to reuse a whopping 20 spleen. (Even assuming that only have less-optimal not-a-pipes or glimmering roc feathers, that translates to another 40 adventures.
Softcore, In Ronin
Your strategy is to ensure you have a wide variety of cocktails in Hagnk's and available for pull. Occasionally, new cocktails can create better pull options, but typically, stock up corpse drinks and supercocks. The emphasis will be on stocking high-drunkenness items (corpse drinks have a drunkenness of 6) to reduce the number of pulls you need. As an example, over the course of a low-stress 4-day softcore run:
- Day 1: 1 corpse + 2 SHC during run, 1 corpse as nightcap
- Day 2: 3 SHC, 1 corpse during run, 1 corpse as nightcap
- Day 3: 3 SHC, 1 corpse during run, 1 corpse as nightcap
- Day 4: 4 SHC, no nightcap needed
On Day 1, wait as long as you can before drinking. (Ideally, you'll get Liver of Steel on day 1.) You can drink corpse drinks at level 5, and SHC drinks at level 6. Once that threshhold has passed, you'll no longer need to worry about level.
Having a pumpkin patch allows you to make pumpkin beer cheaply, which gives you a great way to fill up 3 drunkenness without a pull.
Hardcore
As you'll have no pulls to work with, Hardcore booze is all about what skills you have available and what you can find with minimal effort. Some places you'll want to get booze:
- Pumpkin beer. As in softcore, having a pumpkin patch easily fills up 3 drunkenness per day with an excellent booze.
- Typical Tavern swill. You'll get these for free once you complete the level 3 quest, and these can be improved if you know Advanced Cocktailcrafting.
- The top row of the Barrel Full of Barrels provides drinks that can be improved with Advanced Cocktailcrafting.
If you do have to farm for booze ingredients, remember to balance out how long you think you'll need with adventures you'll get from the booze.
