Consumables

Consumables are the potions, elixirs, powders, cleansers, whistles and jars you drink, eat, blow or set down during a run. In the game's item table they are the rows with main type 2. This page lists every one of them with the numbers the game uses, where each can be bought or found, how the blessed versions are made, and the hidden rules around them. For things you throw, see Throwables. For how the buffs themselves behave (stacking, talents, duration), see Buffs.

Groups#

Every hero carries a quick menu of 7 slots for these (and for throwables). Slot 7 is skipped when the game looks for a free slot to put a new item in. In the normal game you assign slots yourself; only in Arcade mode are picked-up consumables placed into a free slot automatically.

Health Potions#

The Health Potion is not a normal bag item. Each hero has a stock of potions saved on the hero (3 for Terrence, 2 for every other hero; the talent Health Potions: Stock adds 1 / 2 / 3). The game's table gives every hero 4 "second potions" as well (Medium Health Potion), but nothing in the code ever uses them.

• Heal: Ceil(base max Health x 350 / 1000), so 35% of your base maximum Health, rounded up. A Terrence with 849 Health heals 298. It uses base maximum Health, so Health buffs do not make potions stronger.
• Talent "Health Potion: Evolved" multiplies the 35% by 1.10 / 1.20 / 1.30 (38.5% / 42% / 45.5%). The result is capped at 100%.
• Cannot be drunk at full Health. The potion is not used up and nothing happens.
• Refilled to the maximum every time your hero is reborn (after a death, and when you rest at an altar, which uses the same routine; inferred) and, apart from your first load, when an area is loaded outside the maze (inferred from InitData). Potions are the only consumable that comes back for free.
• Benita's tolerance. While Benita is in the abnormal sanity state, drinking builds a "drug resistance" gauge (statuses 10044-10046). Once it is active (30 s), her potions heal half as much (SanItemValueSubRate 500). See Benita.
• Speed Drinking (talent) switches the drinking animation to a faster one. Drinking gives no poise armour unless the hero has Health Potion: Patience (see Poise and stagger).

The Fully Recovery Potion uses the same code with a heal value of 3000 per mille, which is clamped to 100%. It is a normal bag item (stack of 10) and is also refused at full Health.

All consumables#

Durations given as "normal / blessed". Effects in the "Buffs" article are described in full there; the numbers below are taken from the same status rows.

Blessed versions have the item id +1000 (for example 20010 becomes 21010). Maze copies with ids 72111-72120 are the maze's own versions of the blessed Inertia, Antitoxin, Energy, Recovery, Epiphany and Petrification (72113, 72114, 72116-72119), plain Elixir of Hallucination (72115), Shriveled Holy Fruit (72120) and Hound Amulet (72111), and Slightly Sweet Roots+ (72112) makes you immune for 300 s instead of 30 s. They are only handed out by the maze.

Blessed versions#

Twelve elixirs and powders can be blessed: Stamina, Health, Brute Force, Powder of Defence, Inertia, Antitoxin, Dimming, Anti-Sendril, Energy, Recovery, Epiphany and Petrification. A blessed version has the same strength and twice the duration (60 s instead of 30 s; Elixir of Energy 30 s instead of 15 s). Its drawbacks last twice as long as well.

Benita does the blessing at the carriage (cost 15 Bone Fragments per potion for Stamina, Health, Brute Force and Powder of Defence; 25 for Inertia, Antitoxin, Dimming and Anti-Sendril; 30 for Energy, Recovery, Epiphany and Petrification). Each potion succeeds with a 40% chance (70% / 100% with her talent Elixir Research), a failed potion comes back unchanged, and 20 successes on one potion teach you its recipe. The full rules, the hidden jackpot roll and the cost to learn a recipe are in Blessing.

Recipes#

Brewing happens at an altar and never fails; the ingredient list, quest condition and formula source of every recipe are in Alchemy#Recipes: Recovery, Alchemy#Recipes: Enhancement and Alchemy#Recipes: Combat Item. Four recipes use other elixirs as ingredients: Energy needs two Elixirs of Stamina, Recovery two Elixirs of Health, Epiphany two Brute Force and Petrification two Powders of Defence. The Elixir of Sanity needs no formula item (6 Bone Fragments, shown by the early Alchemy intro). Ten formulas are sold by chapter merchants, five Formula items come from quest rewards or a pick-up, and the Epiphany and Petrification formulas have no source except the blessing counter (Alchemy#Where the formulas really come from).

Where to get them#

Merchants#

Prices are for journey 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 (journey 4 and beyond use the last column). Merchants are named by their story monster id (merchants 1902-1904 and 99601 are the carriage vendors); see Merchants and Chapter merchants. "Restocks on rest" means the stock is refilled each time your hero is reborn (death or altar rest); other stocks only reset in a new journey.

Placed in the world#

Fixed pick-ups in the story areas (some are dropped by a particular enemy). Quantities are the totals for journey 1 / 2 / 3 / 4, so the same chest holds more in later journeys. Health Potion refills appear in the world only in Arcade mode stages.

Enemy drops#

Enemy drops use a pool per enemy type: each pool is a list of weights and one entry is chosen. Consumables are rare in these pools.

Hidden mechanics#

• Potions cannot be wasted on drops. When your potion stock is full, the Health Potion entry is removed from every drop pool before the roll (Drops and loot#How a group is rolled), and a Health Potion on the ground cannot be picked up ("bag full").
• The first kill is a guaranteed refill for four enemies in Heggem; every other regular enemy has the 35% pool.
• Potion strength is a flat 35% of the base maximum Health, so potions are relatively stronger the lower your maximum Health, and equipment that raises max Health does not raise the heal.
• Only one buff per family. Drinking a different resistance elixir cancels the previous one, and Elixir of Stamina and Elixir of Energy replace each other. Details in Buffs.
• Revive key rules. The Ancient Silver Key only works if your second hero is dead; otherwise the game shows an error and keeps the key. It does nothing in dream stories. The revived hero returns with 25% Health (75% for the unobtainable "Revive+") and full Sanity.
• The Broken Bronze Whistle is not free. Using it runs the same "lost bones" routine as death: you lose a random 25% to 35% of your Bone Fragments (rule and worked table: Death and respawn#When the whole team falls), except in Arcade mode, where the loss is skipped (controllerstorymode.lua:10213-10217). Unlike a death, the lost bones are not left on the ground (inferred: the return value is thrown away). The Bone Whistle is used up instead. It is sold by the carriage merchant 99601 once quest 21006 is done, and also lies around in the world (see the pick-up table above).
• Maze-only and non-maze items are enforced. The Elixir of Sanity is refused in the maze, and Hound Amulet, Glowstone, Vertebra Nail and the Moon Jellyfish Jar are refused outside the maze and Arcade mode.
• Consumables cannot be sold. Their price entries are 0 or -1 (the Bone Whistle has 50, but it is a consumable) and the sell screen only lists materials and bone items. See Items.
• Talents. Prolonged Duration and Improved Effect cover most elixirs, with levels that differ per hero (Prolonged Duration +10/20/30% for Terrence, Viola and Benita, +10/20% for Norwood and Jerold, +15% for Elena; Improved Effect +10/20/30%, Elena +15/30%, see Buffs#hm-the-item-talents-are-bigger-than-they-look); Sanity: Enhanced Elixir restores 10 Sanity per potion according to its text, but the data value is 5 (see the talent trees). Many talents are not applied to the maze copies.
• Doppelganger. A sanity doppelganger drinks your Health Potions; the Health Potion stock lost this way is dropped again when you kill it (the sanity doppelganger enemy; the drop pool exists, the rest is inferred).
• Prices rise with every journey. The same shop row has four prices, one per journey (an Elixir of Health costs 10 / 15 / 25 / 35 Bone Fragments), and journeys 4 and above use the last one. Placed pick-ups also grow. See New Game Plus loot and shops.

Sources#

• HeroTalent types 42 and 48: StoneLevel "2,3,4" for 11302, 12302, 13302 and 11305 to 14305, "2,3" for 14302, "2,5" for 15302, "2" for 17302 (Value 150), "2,3" for 17304 (Value 150).
• reference/lua_src/gamedata/structdata/exportdata/es_itemdata.lua: rows 20001-20033, 21010-21027, 26001-26004, 72111-72120, 90001 (Type, NumMax, Param1, StatusId1/2, BlessPrice, IsBless).
• es_statusdata.lua: rows 10005-10009, 10047-10069, 10072-10074, 10084-10087, 10098-10100, 10123.
• logic/player/animalbase.lua:12891-13015 (using items), 6559-6660 (drinking: Hp heal formula, status application), 4668-4697 (EatItem).
• controller/controllerstorymode.lua:1485, 1966-2018 (potion refill, restock), 5355-5417 (drop roll), 5520-5580, 5663-5730 (HP stock as items), 10208-10232 (whistle), 1877-1894 (bone loss), 2048-2074 (revive).
• structdata/fs_herodata.lua:150-212 (potion stock), ui/controller/exchangectrl.lua:296-450 (blessing), 592-1100 (shop, selling), 1521-1551 (shop list), structdata/ms_transactiondata.lua, structdata/ms_itemdata.lua:12-170 (types and constants).
• es_transactiondata.lua, es_itemdropdata.lua, es_storyitem.lua, es_formuladata.lua (rows of types 203 and 204), es_herodata.lua (HpAddNum). Formula sources, quests 45076, 75062-75064 and 95218: see Sources of Alchemy. Blessing rules: Blessing.
• ms_itemdata.lua:156-163 and controllerstorymode.lua:1877-1894 (loss constants 0.25 / 0.35 / 0.3, shared with death), :10205-10217 (whistle transfer, Arcade skip).
• Talent text from reports/talent_trees.md.