Meat
Meat
Meat is the currency used in the Kingdom of Loathing. It can be used to purchase items from the various markets and shops, or to purchase items from other players. It is also used to create meat pastes, meat stacks, and dense meat stacks.
A wise player keeps their mind on their Meat, and their Meat on their mind.
It is not edible (no one in their right mind would eat money) so most food in the kingdom of meat-free. Exceptions do exist, like sausage and fish meats. Why? Why not?
According to Jick, the reason why Meat is the currency of KoL is that, when he was developing the game, he did not have a picture of "gold" uploaded. However, there was a picture of meat he made earlier, so he used it instead. It is suspected that it was to get rid of the illogical "finding money on a monster".
Uses
Notes
- There is a cap on the Meat you can carry equal to (232) - 1, or 4,294,967,295. Any Meat in excess of this placed into your inventory, via any mechanism, is lost with no hope of return. Extremely rich players may wish to convert liquid Meat into meat paste, meat stacks, or dense meat stacks, keeping in mind item creation limits also exist. Another solution would be to invest in valuable items, or put meat in your closet.
- There are other forms of currency besides Meat, but their use is limited. Only one - the Crimbuck - can be directly converted from Meat, and none can be converted directly back into Meat:
- Filthy lucre (Good at the The Bounty Hunter Hunter's Shack)
- Quarters and Dimes (The frat and hippie sides, respectively, in the Frat - Hippie War)
- Sand dollars (Good at Big Brother's in the Sea)
- Worthless items (Good at the Hermit's cave)
- Crimbux (Good at The Crimbo Casino and The Crimbo Cartel in Crimbo Town 2009.) The Casino has a change machine that allows you to make Crimbux from meat, fixing the exchange ratio at 1000 Meat : 1 Crimbuck, to a maximum of 100 Crimbux per day.
- There are other items - including fat stacks of fat stacks of cash and piles of gold coins - which look like currency, but cannot be used as such in the Kingdom. These can be sold and traded, but cannot currently be used to buy anything.
Some of these can of course be sold too, like the worthless items. Others, like the sand dollar, can be sold to other players for whatever they want to pay for them, based on supply, demand, and all sorts of other economic things. The others are helpfully marked 'Cannot be traded'.
