Hardcore Strategy

General Tips

• Don't rest. Heal and spend any beaten up turns in a low level area where you still need a drop.
• Become good friends with Doc Galaktik. His Ailment Ointment offers the best heal/value.
• Plan ahead. Keep track of what drops you need and what area they come from.
• Adventure while the area is still your level. Don't skip an area you need a drop from, or you'll be wasting turns later where you could get more stats from better monsters.
• Complete quests on stat days. Using things like the meat globe, stat script, and chest of the bonerdagon are best saved for a nearby stat day.
• Any stat boosts are good stat boosts. When you have next to nothing, anything helps. Assemble any stat boosting accessories you can with what parts you have.

Oxygenarian

• Autosell your food. Just be careful that you don't need it for a quest later on.
• Autosell your booze. Unless you're stocking up for some reason.
• Increase your daily turns by any means necessary. Assemble a meat maid, collect a dead guy's watch, put together your pagoda.