Fieldguide
Quick reference
Buy access to the facilities your next objective needs. Item Workbench enables planned crafts and Chicken's crafting objective; radar supports looting, while repeaters need a useful effect to transfer before they justify space.
- Crafting prerequisite
- A planned workbench craft requires Item Workbench access first.
- Chicken objective
- Crafting different legendary items can serve both a weapon goal and the character unlock.
- Radar and repeaters
- Radar supports finding loot; a repeater needs an existing effect worth transferring.
- Item exclusions
- 1.0 expands banish capacity; an excluded item can also be a recipe ingredient or fallback.
- Prices and prerequisites
- 1.0 changes pack names, requirements and costs; the base preview is the current purchase reference.
What to do
- Choose the next facility around a specific run or unlock objective.
- Unlock workbench access before reserving space for a recipe you cannot use.
- Buy a repeater for an identified support connection, not as a substitute for finding the support itself.
- Review banished items when changing characters or crafting goals.
Useful equipment and guides
Workbench and early unlocks
A planned craft needs Item Workbench first. Chicken’s achievement also involves crafting different legendary items, so that facility can serve both a weapon goal and a character unlock.
Choose the next purchase around the run you want to attempt. If loot is scarce, examine looting and airdrop unlocks. If extraction keeps failing, change the return route before investing everything in a complicated damage setup.
Radar and repeaters
Jolly recommends radar and wireless repeater progression when available. Radar serves the looting plan; a repeater is useful when you already know which support effect needs transferring. Buying it does not supply a worthwhile effect by itself.
Item banishing
Version 1.0 expands banish capacity. Excluding an item narrows the loot pool, but can also remove a recipe ingredient or a useful fallback. Reconsider exclusions when changing characters or pursuing another build.
Remove equipment you consistently replace or a mechanic you deliberately don’t intend to use. Keep alternatives while learning a new character rather than narrowing the run before seeing its problems.
Use the base unlock preview for item-pack prices and prerequisites before choosing the next purchase.
Apples, duct tape and item packs
Apples buy repeatable stat upgrades at the bookshelf. Duct tape buys one-time facilities and item packs at the workbench. A pack adds its equipment to future finds; purchasing it does not put those items straight into the current backpack.
Unlock Item Workbench for recipes, Toy Box for Rubber Ball, and More Rarities when matching epic items can no longer merge. The Costume Shop is a route encounter unlocked at the workbench. It sells other characters’ signature items. Character selection itself is at the campfire.
MKing response level
The bomb symbols at base show MKing response level, the campaign’s difficulty progression. This differs from the threat that rises while you stay out at night. In 1.0, losing or abandoning a run before its first boss win lowers response level by one.
Higher response levels increase starting threat and rewards. Check the response level before comparing a new character with an older successful run. The Weekly Challenge always uses response level 5.
Banish capacity increases through 3, 6 and 12 slots. Check the active exclusions when a needed ingredient never appears; an unlock cannot put a banished item back into your finds.
Reset character-item sticker choices at the campfire when changing how a signature item works. Inspect the new effect before rebuilding its supports.
If Costume Shop is locked behind Multiple Personalities, equip two character items in the same backpack. Start with a character who already has a signature item and keep it while obtaining the second. Check Character unlocks for the Fresh Pumpkin route.
