Cocktailcrafting

Cocktailcrafting is the fine art of mixing drinks. Mixing drinks always results in a drink that is better than the ingredients used to make it.

You cannot mix your own drinks unless you have a cocktailcrafting kit in your inventory or either a bartender-in-the-box or a clockwork bartender-in-the-box installed in your campsite. A cocktailcrafting kit allows you to mix one drink at the cost of one adventure, while a boxed bartender allows you to mix one drink for zero adventures. However, your bartender will explode after a certain number of turns and you'll have to build a new one.

To mix drinks, go to your inventory and click on make cocktails.

Here's a complete drink list; not all of these require cocktailcrafting.

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Drink Categories

There are several categories or "tiers" of drinks. Each starts with a basic booze, then adds additional ingredients which give better gains in adventures and/or stats. In addition, some drinks are created only as a result of a bartender explosion and cannot be mixed on purpose.

The major categories of drinks are:

• Basic Drinks
• Advanced Cocktailcrafting or "Disco Bandit Drinks"
• Tiny plastic sword drinks
• Fermenting powder drinks
• Mushroom fermenting solution drinks
• Ice-cold beer drinks
• Bartender-in-the-box explosion drinks
• Other random drinks

Basic Boozes

There are six basic boozes in the game:

• bottle of gin
• bottle of rum
• bottle of tequila
• bottle of vodka
• bottle of whiskey
• boxed wine

There are other base drink-mixing ingredients that aren't generally considered to be basic boozes but serve essentially the same function:

• fermenting powder
• ice-cold beer
• mushroom fermenting solution

These items are combinted with various mixers and garnishes to form better and better drinks. The recipes and benefits of those drinks are what this guide is all about.

Advanced Cocktailcrafting Drinks

Advanced Cocktailcrafting is a Disco Bandit skill. These drinks are mixed with a garnish, such as a coconut shell, little paper umbrella, or magical ice cubes. These drinks are generally the best in the game if you don't have a tiny plastic sword or if you're trying to maximize your stat gains. The final drinks typically give:

• 4 Drunkenness
• Either 34-36 of a single stat, or split between two stats with a 25-27 & 8-10 distribution (for a total range of 33-37 stat points).
• 10-14 Adventures

Tiny Plastic Sword Drinks

Tiny plastic sword drinks can be mixed by anyone. These drinks are generally the best in the game if you're trying to maximize your adventures. The final drinks typically give:

• 6 Drunkenness
• 18 Stats (all of a single stat)
• 24 Adventures

Fermenting Powder Drinks

Fermenting powder drinks can be mixed by anyone. The final drinks typically give:

• 1 Drunkenness
• 4.5 Stats (either all of one stat or evenly divided among all 3 stats)
• 2 Adventures

Since these drinks can be mixed using components purchased at NPC stores, you can make a lot of them very cheaply. This is a handy way of intentionally blowing up a bartender-in-the-box.

Mushroom Fermenting Solution Drinks

Mushroom fermenting solution is only available as a reward for completing a muscle quest. Mixing it with a tier 1 mushroom will typically give:

• 3 Drunkenness
• 4-6 Stats
• 10-13 Adventures

Mixing it with a tier 2 mushroom will typically give:

• 3 Drunkenness
• 8-10 Stats
• 10-14 Adventures

Mixing it with a tier 3 mushroom will typically give:

• 3 Drunkenness
• 12-15 Stats
• 10-14 Adventures

They can be mixed with mushrooms grown in Degrassi Knoll if you are a muscle zodiac sign.

Ice-Cold Beer Drinks

Ice-cold beer mixes with only a few things:

• Mix with a tomato to make a bloody beer
• Mix with a ten-leaf clover on St. Sneaky Pete's Day to make a green beer

Bartender-in-the-Box Explosion Drinks

These drinks form when a bartender-in-the-box explodes - you cannot mix them yourself on purpose. Some of them are pretty disgusting, but generally they're slightly better than what you could mix yourself.

• beertini
• papaya slung
• salty slug
• tomato daiquiri

Other Random Drinks

These drinks don't really fit easily in other categories. They exist either because it's interesting or funny for them to exist, or they used to be part of other recipes but have since changed. These include:

• bloody mary
• eggnog
• especially salty dog
• extra-spicy bloody mary
• lumbering jack
• redrum
• rum and cola
• spiced rum
• vodka and cranberry
• whiskey and cola
• white Canadian

Drinks That Cannot Be Mixed

Some drinks just drop and cannot be cocktailcrafted, including:

• ice-cold fotie
• Imp Ale
• Mad Train wine
• white lightning

Mafia Wines

A variety of bottles of wine were given away in raffles held by the Penguin Mafia:

• Acqua Del Piatto Merlot
• Acque Luride Grezze Cabernet
• Ferita Del Petto Zinfandel
• Maiali Sifilitici Pinot Noir
• Spasmi Dolorosi Del Rene Champagne
• Uovo Marcio Shiraz

Other Rare Drinks

And some drinks are just plain rare:

• N. O. Beer - Custom item for Noblesse Oblige
• Otorian Battle Scar - Custom item for Otori
• bottle of single-barrel whiskey - Reward for completing a Boozetafarian ascension

Game Mechanics and Impact Upon Drinking

Drunkenness

Drunkenness is an indication of how much booze you have drunk. Each booze item gives you a certain amount of drunkenness, which is added to your running total. If your total drunkenness is more than a certain amount, then you can no longer spend adventures usefully in the game (other than at the Clan Gym). The maximum drunkenness level that still allows you to adventure is:

• 14 if you do not have the Liver of Steel skill (15+ is too drunk)
• 19 if you have the Liver of Steel skill (20+ is too drunk)

If you try adventuring while you are falling-down drunk, you get the Drunken Stupor adventure.

Drinking Before and After Adventuring

Drinking before adventuring is done to give you the maximum number of turns possible with which to adventure today. Drinking after your day's worth of turns is over is done to give you the maximum number of adventures when you first log in tomorrow (after rollover).

Liver of Steel

Normally, you can drink until you have 14 drunkenness and retain the ability to adventure (adventuring with drunkenness of 15 or more gives you the Drunken Stupor adventure). The Liver of Steel skill raises that threshold to 19 drunkenness (and 20 or more gives you the Drunken Stupor). The Liver of Steel cannot be taken with you across ascensions - you have to get it by completing the Deep Fat Friars' Gate Quest.

Ode to Booze

Ode to Booze is an Accordion Thief buff that gives you one extra adventure per drink. If you can, make sure you have this buff before drinking anything. You will need it before you adventure and after your adventures are complete.

Blender Zodiac Sign

The Blender zodiac sign is purported to give a boost to the number of adventures gained while drinking, but its effects have not been characterized as of this writing.

Optimum Drinking Strategies

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 and Advanced 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 the best 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.

If you have neither a tiny plastic sword nor the Advanced Cocktailcrafting skill and are not interested in getting either, then you can find the Advanced 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.

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	With tiny plastic sword 98 Adventures, 76 Primary Stat	With Advanced Cocktailcrafting 69 Adventures, 97 Primary Stat
Muscle Seal Clubber Turtle Tamer	Before Adventuring: 3 grogtini or bodyslam 1 shot of orange schnapps 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
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
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

Drinking for Stat Gains

Best stat-gain drinking strategy

Optimum Daily Drinking Strategy for Stat Gains WITH Liver of Steel
Primary Stat	With Advanced 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, 102 Muscle
Mysticality Pastamancer Sauceror	Before Adventuring: 4 roll in the hay or horizontal tango 3 shot of grapefruit schnapps After Adventuring: 1 roll in the hay or horizontal tango Results: 66 Adventures, 101 Stat Gains
Moxie Accordion Thief Disco Bandit	Before Adventuring: 6 spiced rum 1 fine wine After Adventuring: 1 spiced rum Results: 42 Adventures, 115 Stat Gains

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	With tiny plastic sword X Adventures, Y Primary Stat	Without tiny plastic sword X Adventures, Y Primary Stat
With Ode to Booze Effect	+W Adventures	+Z Adventures
With Blender Zodiac Sign	Effect Unknown	Effect Unknown
Muscle Seal Clubber Turtle Tamer	Before Adventuring: ? After Adventuring: ?	Before Adventuring: ? After Adventuring: ?
Mysticality Pastamancer Sauceror	Before Adventuring: ? After Adventuring: ?	Before Adventuring: ? After Adventuring: ?
Moxie Accordion Thief Disco Bandit	Before Adventuring: ? After Adventuring: ?	Before Adventuring: ? After Adventuring: ?

Drinking for Stat Gains

Best stat-gain drinking strategy

Best Drinks

The quality of a drink is a measure of the benefit of the drink compared to the drunkenness it gives you. For instance, if a drink gives you 5 adventures and 12 muscle substat points for 2 drunkenness, then it has an adventure quality of 2.5 and a muscle substat quality of 6.

Best Drinks for Adventures

The following table lists which drinks are the best quality for maximizing the number of adventures you get for each unit of drunkenness. They are sorted in descending order by adventures-per-unit-drunk.

Tier	Item(s)	Adventures	Drunk	Adv/Drunk
Ascension Rewards	bottle of single-barrel whiskey	18	3	6.0
Penguin Mafia wines	Acqua Del Piatto Merlot, Acque Luride Grezze Cabernet, Ferita Del Petto Zinfandel, Maiali Sifilitici Pinot Noir, Spasmi Dolorosi Del Rene Champagne, Uovo Marcio Shiraz,	6	1
tiny plastic sword final	bodyslam, cherry bomb, dirty martini, grogtini, sangria del diablo, vesper	24	6	4.0
mushroom fermenting solution	icy mushroom wine, flaming mushroom wine, stinky mushroom wine, flat mushroom wine, cool mushroom wine, pointy mushroom wine, Knob mushroom wine, Knoll mushroom wine, spooky mushroom wine	12	3
Advanced Cocktailcrafting final	ducha de oro, calle de miel, pink pony, rockin' wagon, roll in the hay, slip 'n' slide, ocean motion, horizontal tango, perpendicular hula, slap and tickle, fuzzbump, a little sump'm sump'm,	12	4	3.0
N/A	especially salty dog,	10.8	4	2.7
tiny plastic sword base	dry martini, dry vodka martini, grog, old-fashioned, sangria, tequila with training wheels,	7.5	3	2.5
N/A	extra-spicy bloody mary, eggnog	7.5	3
bartender-in-the-box explosions	salty slug, beertini, papaya slung, tomato daiquiri,	6	3	2.0
N/A	lumbering jack, spiced rum,	6	3
fermenting powder	fine wine, shot of flower schnapps, shot of grapefruit schnapps, shot of orange schnapps, shot of tomato schnapps,	2	1
N/A	green beer,	2	1
N/A	papaya sling,	5.1	3	1.7
Advanced Cocktailcrafting base	margarita, martini, monkey wrench, salty dog, screwdriver, strawberry daiquiri, strawberry wine, tequila sunrise, vodka martini, whiskey and soda, whiskey sour, wine spritzer,	4.5	3	1.5
N/A	bloody mary, rum and cola, vodka and cranberry, whiskey and cola, white Canadian,	4.5	3
N/A	bloody beer, Imp Ale,	1.5	1
N/A	white lightning,	3.9	3	1.3
N/A	Mad Train wine,	3.6	3	1.2
Basic Booze	bottle of gin, bottle of rum, bottle of tequila, bottle of vodka, bottle of whiskey, boxed wine,	3	3	1.0
N/A	ice-cold fotie,	3	3
N/A	ice-cold beer,	1	1

Best Drinks for Stat Gains

These drinks are good for stat gains.

Drinks	Drunk	Adv	Muscle	Myst	Moxie	Stat/Drunk
bottle of single-barrel whiskey	3	16.5	45	45	45	45
slip 'n' slide	4	12	35			8.75
fuzzbump	4	12	35
roll in the hay	4	12		35
horizontal tango	4	12		35
perpendicular hula	4	12			35
rockin' wagon	4	12			35
ocean motion	4	12	26	9		8.75
pink pony	4	12	26		9
ducha de oro	4	12	9	26
a little sump'm sump'm	4	12		26	9
calle de miel	4	12	9		26
slap and tickle	4	12		9	26
grogtini	6	24	18			3
bodyslam	6	24	18
cherry bomb	6	24		18
sangria del diablo	6	24		18
dirty martini	6	24			18
vesper	6	24			18

Drinks by Ingredient

Drinks by Basic Booze

Basic Booze		Mixed Drinks
	bottle of gin	a little sump'm sump'm dirty martini dry martini especially salty dog martini salty dog slap and tickle
	bottle of rum	eggnog grog grogtini monkey wrench ocean motion perpendicular hula rum and cola spiced rum strawberry daiquiri
	bottle of tequila	bodyslam calle de miel ducha de oro margarita tequila sunrise tequila with training wheels
	bottle of vodka	bloody mary dry vodka martini extra-spicy bloody mary rockin' wagon screwdriver slip 'n' slide vodka and cranberry vodka martini vesper white Canadian
	bottle of whiskey	cherry bomb fuzzbump lumbering jack old-fashioned roll in the hay whiskey and cola whiskey and soda whiskey sour
	boxed wine	horizontal tango pink pony sangria sangria del diablo strawberry wine wine spritzer
	fermenting powder	fine wine shot of flower schnapps shot of grapefruit schnapps shot of orange schnapps shot of tomato schnapps
	ice-cold beer	bloody beer green beer
	mushroom fermenting solution	Knob mushroom wine Knoll mushroom wine spooky mushroom wine flat mushroom wine cool mushroom wine pointy mushroom wine flaming mushroom wine icy mushroom wine stinky mushroom wine

Drinks by Mixer

Mixer		Mixed Drinks
	Blatantly Canadian	lumbering jack
	cherry	old-fashioned cherry bomb sangria sangria del diablo
	Cloaca-Cola	rum and cola whiskey and cola
	cranberries	vodka and cranberry
	Dyspepsi-Cola	rum and cola whiskey and cola
	ghuol egg	eggnog
	glass of goat's milk	white Canadian
	grapefruit	monkey wrench ocean motion salty dog shot of grapefruit schnapps slap and tickle
	grapes	fine wine
	jumbo olive	dirty martini dry martini dry vodka martini vesper
	lemon	calle de miel fuzzbump margarita whiskey sour
	lime	bodyslam grog grogtini tequila with training wheels
	mushroom	cool mushroom wine flaming mushroom wine flat mushroom wine icy mushroom wine Knob mushroom wine Knoll mushroom wine pointy mushroom wine spooky mushroom wine stinky mushroom wine
	olive	a little sump'm sump'm martini rockin' wagon vodka martini
	orange	ducha de oro screwdriver shot of orange schnapps slip 'n' slide tequila sunrise
	papaya	papaya sling
	pretty flower	shot of flower schnapps
	soda water	horizontal tango roll in the hay wine spritzer whiskey and soda
	spices	eggnog extra-spicy bloody mary spiced rum
	strawberry	perpendicular hula pink pony strawberry daiquiri strawberry wine
	ten-leaf clover	green beer
	tomato	bloody beer bloody mary extra-spicy bloody mary shot of tomato schnapps

Drinks by Garnish

Mixer		Mixed Drinks
	coconut shell	fuzzbump ocean motion pink pony slip 'n' slide
	little paper umbrella	a little sump'm sump'm ducha de oro horizontal tango roll in the hay
	magical ice cubes	calle de miel perpendicular hula rockin' wagon slap and tickle
	tiny plastic sword	bodyslam cherry bomb dirty martini grogtini sangria del diablo vesper