Meat. Basis of the KoL economy and basis of clan karma. The more of it you have, the easier the game is (including the hardcore game, excluding Bad Moon) and the faster you can gain access to Hobopolis (should you wish to do so).
Making millions of meat in KoL is fairly straightforward if you use your initial resources wisely. What follows is a quick guide to what you can expect to recover from farming the Castle in the Sky and is aimed at the newer player.
Firstly, what can you expect from boosting +item% (numbers are meat-per-adventure; note that the combat rate assumes you turn the wheel to its non-stat boost position)
| Boost% Raver Procrastination Possibility Goth Furry Alphabet Expected at 82% combats |
| 0 167.14 40.02 91.40 205.76 132.96 111.20 178.43 |
| 25 208.93 50.02 114.25 257.20 166.20 139.00 204.01 |
| 50 250.71 60.03 137.10 308.64 199.44 166.80 229.58 |
| 75 292.50 70.03 159.95 360.08 232.68 194.60 255.15 |
| 100 334.28 80.04 182.80 411.52 265.92 222.40 280.72 |
| 125 376.07 90.05 205.65 462.96 299.16 250.20 306.30 |
| 150 417.85 100.05 228.50 514.40 332.40 278.00 331.87 |
and now, what you can expect from increasing +meat% (numbers are meat per adventure)
| Boost% 82% combat expected |
| 0 123.00 |
| 25 153.75 |
| 50 184.50 |
| 75 215.25 |
| 100 246.00 |
| 125 276.75 |
| 150 307.50 |
| 175 338.25 |
| 200 369.00 |
| 225 399.75 |
| 250 430.50 |
| 275 461.25 |
| 300 492.00 |
Looking at the resources available to a new player, a meat increase rate of +200% is easily achieved (30lb Leprechaun and Polka of Plenty) alongside an item increase rate of +50% (mostly from easily sourced items)
From the above tables this gives you an average return of 369.00+229.58* = 598.58 meat per adventure
(*The above figures assume you take advantage of wadbot and smash then sell the wolf masks and giant needles at 300 meat per wad)
598.58 meat per adventure x 200 adventures per day = 119716 meat per day from the castle.
1 million meat with this sort of setup is 1,671 adventures, or about 8 days.
Alongside this, it is extremely profitable to sell the semirares that you would accrue during this period. Meat-wise the knob lunchboxes and massage oils are pretty good, as is the Inhaler from the Castle in the Sky. If you assume that you can get 70K per semirare the time take to reach 1 million meat drops to around 5.25 days.
1 million in 5.25 days. 1.3 million in a week. A Mr A per month. All this is easily within the grasp of the newest members of the kingdom. Of course, the trade-off is mindless clicking for a while....
edit: after reading the above, does this sit better in the clan guides section?
edit2: tidied up a bit. this forum doesn't appear to do tables very well...
