I just quit my old clan to come hang out with you guys! I’m on my third ascension; I’ve been a Disco Bandit and an Accordian Thief, and right now I’m a level 12 Sauceror. I think next I’ll try Seal Clubber.
I’ve got oh so much stuff to add to the stash…
You can sell stuff in the flea market or you can buy a store in the mall and sell it there.
The Kingdom runs on booze, let there be no mistake. (Hey, you don’t have to be drunk to live here, but it helps.)
There are six basic boozes; gin, rum, tequila, vodka, whiskey and wine. All of these will give you 3 adventures and 3 drunkeness. When your drunkeness reaches 15 you can no longer adventure for the day. If you have Liver of Steel (from the Deep Fat Friars gate) you can drink until it reaches 20.
Basic booze isn’t very effective however and mixed drinks are better. To mix drinks you need a cocktailcrafting kit (from the market) or a bartender in a box (recommended). Mixed drinks give you 5-6 adventures and raise one of your stats by 8-10 points. They still give you 3 drunkeness. These are made by mixing a basic booze with another item, usually a fruit but some use soda water.
If you have the skill Advanced Cocktailcrafting you can combine a mixed drink with a garnish (obtained using the Advanced Cocktailcrafting skill) to create an advanced drink. These give 10-14 adventures plus 34-36 points to a single stat or divided among two stats. They give 4 drunkeness.
Here are the main drink recipies.
gin + grapefruit = salty dog (mysticality) + magical ice cubes = slap and tickle (moxie/mysticality)
gin + olive = martini (moxie) + little paper umbrella = a little sump’m sump’m (mysticality/moxie)
rum + grapefruit = monkey wrench (mysticality) + coconut shell = ocean motion (muscle/mysticality)
rum + strawberry = strawberry daiquri (moxie) + magical ice cubes = perpendicular hula (moxie)
tequila + lemon = margarita (muscle) + magical ice cubes = calle de miel (moxie/muscle)
tequila + orange = tequila sunrise (muscle) + little paper umbrella = ducha de oro (mysticality/muscle)
vodka + olive = vodka martini (moxie) + magical ice cubes = rockin’ wagon (moxie)
vodka + orange = screwdriver (muscle) + coconut shell = slip 'n slide (muscle)
whiskey + lemon = whiskey sour (muscle) + coconut shell = fuzzbump (muscle)
whiskey + soda water = whiskey and soda (mysticality) + little paper umbrella = roll in the hay (mysticality)
wine + soda water = wine spritzer (mysticality) + little paper umbrella = horizontal tango (mysticality)
wine + strawberry = strawberry wine (moxie) + coconut shell = pink pony (muscle/moxie)
As Zsofia pointed out, you can get drinks from the Barrel Full of Barrels. (Be carefull, some barrels explode.) The first two rows contain mixed drinks, the next two contain basic booze. Don’t bother with the last two.
The best place to get fruit for mixers is the Hippy Store. You have to either be wearing a Filthy Hippy disguise or have helped the storekeeper during the frat/hippy war in order to access it.
Hope this helps.
I believe you don’t get access to the mall as a newbie for a few levels? At any rate, in hardcore you’re stuck with the “autosell”, which is what you get when you just pick “sell items” in your inventory. For most items, you get massively cheated by the autosell, but in hardcore it’s the only game in town. (You can stock your Mall store in hardcore but you don’t get the cash until you’re out.) Also, it costs quite a bit of meat for a newbie to buy a mall store.
Woo Hoo! I just made a Meat Maid!
Also, I posted a thread on "Clan Stash Etiquette in the clan message board, if anybody’s interested in participating.
I can’t believe it. Stupid oversight - here I am at the Sorceress’ Lair, got everything I need except… I’d totally forgotten to get my keys. D’oh! I mean, I had the digital one and the skeleton one and the star one, but I totally forgot about the dungeon keys. And my wand blew up. So here I am, day after day, trying to get Sneaky Pete’s key. This suxx0rs. Don’t do that.
I recently had my first ascension, but my play has dropped off. I’d like to join next time I get on. I’m pretty sure my name there is the same as my name here.
tanstaafl, the kingdom may run on booze, but I’m a teetotaler. I’ll happily add any booze I make to the clan’s stash.
I love this game 
It’s so completely goofy.
I’m in a clan consisting of my husband and I, but I’ll gladly answer any questions anyone might have. My handle there is Aangelica, also.
I’m vaguely horrified to realize that I have 27 ascensions, with 20 of them in hardcore to my count.
Zsofia’s right though, NS13 added whole vast piles of new content, but did slow down ascending a whole lot. I don’t actually mind, really. Some of the new content is really neat. I’m loving the new improved pirates.
I can do one better. A few ascensions back I got all the way to the Naughty Sorceress’ Lair, defeated her first two forms…
…and discovered I had forgotten to actually assemble the Wand. DOH!
Maybe I just haven’t read the right spots yet, but I’m a little lost on what ‘hardcore’ refers to in KoL.
Until you ascend once, it means nothing. Nothing!
Once you do ascend (“beat the game”), you have to make some choices for your next ascension. You choose your class, sign (various zodiac signs open up new areas for you) and challenges. You also choose one skill you have purchased during this run to make permanent. If you don’t want any particular challenges, you go “normal”, often called “softcore”. In softcore, you have access to all of your accumulated items after a thousand turns (I think? They just changed it.) and you can get 20 a day from the very beginning by pulling them out of storage. You also get to have whatever skills you have “permed”, or made permanent at the end of your run.
In hardcore, you can’t touch your old stuff and you only have the skills you’ve made permanent during a hardcore run. You also can’t use stuff from clan stashes, the Mall, etc. There are also some things you can’t equip, usually Items of the Month.
You can mix it up even more by choosing other challenges - you can swear off food, drink, or both. You get various rewards for ascending with these challenges, the best of them with “oxycore”, or no food no drink hardcore.
There’s also Bad Moon, which is new and completely different, but you can learn about that later.
You can drop any challenge at any time if you don’t like it, but you won’t get the reward. You can drop anything you want after you “finish” the game but before you actually ascend with no ill effects.
To the people saying that the level 11 and 12 quests added ages to ascension: come on. In skill-less, familiar-less Hardcore, I can usually manage to finish both of them in three, maybe four days. Sure, it’s not fast, but if you know what you’re doing, you can get through in fairly little time.
FTR, I’m Disky in-game, perma-HC, so I don’t plan to leave Hardcore Nation. Oh, and there’s a contest there for Bad Moon ascension, so you might want to look into that. PM me if you want more information.
Well, some of the new content just seems like content for content’s sake. Kind of padded, you know? I like the War quest, and parts of the McGuffin one (love the new pirates) but there are definitely bits that make you think somebody was just sitting around and saying, “You know, this should take longer.”
Hah, speaking of ‘padded’, did you do Crimbo this year? Aigh! HOW many golden rings!? God,that was interminable. At least the payoff was awesome.
I always love Crimbo. I thought it was cute and funny - I mean, you can ignore the whole thing if you want. The exasperation was part of the humor, I thought. I think my favorite Crimbo was the Nightmare Before Crimbo one, though.
40 gold rings. (5 each on days 5 thru 12.) I actually didn’t think it was that bad and spent a good amount of time on it (I probably could have gotten another ascension in the time I spent on Crimbo). It was entertaining though and the robogoose is a fun familiar.
The only thing I haven’t spent much time on is exploring the ocean off the new pirates cove. Haven’t even been to El Vibrato island yet.
I got my one year anniversary present today.
The mall does require a minimal level to have it available. You can often sell something in the flee market for more than the mall. Especially since the new search function at the mall has insured only the cheapest item is ever bought.
This years Crimbo made me download the KoLmafia. I got so sick of the 12 days of Cimbo bit.
Ya - it’s a fairly rare ascension anymore that I don’t manage to plow through the 11 and 12 quests combined in 3 days. Usually it’s only three days because when I start the war and get to the nun quest, I’ll only keep going until I burn off my turns of Preternatural Greed and Winklered for the day - so it takes 2 days I’m not much of a diamond, though.
I’m basically perma-Hardcore, too, though. I’ll do the occasional softcore run, but generally only for a trophy (did one to pick up the wedding cake trophy, will do 6 to get the level 30 trophies, for example).
Damn you to Hey Deze and back. I blew half a million meat buying robotronic eggs, and I still came up empty on a robogoose.
I only play Hardcore, and my first six ascensions were HCO. I’m getting my last stainless item now, and then I’m going to work on a few more trophies/tattoos/epenis before going Bad Moon.
I’m in now as Gjakoll. Could I join the cool kids?