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Synergies

Secret Sauce and Food

Official backpack screenshot with equipment arranged together

How the combination works

Secret Sauce adds poison and extraction benefits, but disables marked Food. Keep Special Banana, The Carver's Grin and other Food you need outside its selector while marking the eligible non-Food attack.

  • Secret Sauce
  • Food
  • Poison
  • Character items
Offensive effect
Adds poison damage to marked eligible equipment.
Route effect
Reduces fuel requirements and speeds departure.
Food drawback
Food inside the selector is deactivated rather than exempted because it is a character item.
1.0 Food list
Coffee, Special Banana, Fresh Pumpkin and The Carver's Grin explicitly count as Food.

Priorities

  1. Place the intended non-Food recipient inside Sauce's marks.
  2. Move needed Food outside those marks without breaking its other supports.
  3. If damage drops immediately after adding Sauce, inspect the character item before buying another weapon.
  4. Keep the original setup if the bag cannot preserve both the Food attack and the intended Sauce benefit.

Useful equipment and guides

Secret Sauce helps extraction and adds poison to marked equipment. Marked Food is deactivated instead. Version 1.0 explicitly counts Coffee, Special Banana, Fresh Pumpkin and The Carver’s Grin as Food.

For Banana or pumpkin setups, inspect the character item before assigning Sauce. A signature item is not exempt from the Food rule simply because it supplies most of the damage.

Secret Sauce positioning

Put the eligible non-Food attack inside Sauce’s marks, then inspect the other marked cells. Move Food you need outside the selector and preserve its existing support. If that layout won’t fit, keep the original setup rather than accepting the disabled item.

A Food-based character can still use Sauce when the layout keeps both effects active.

A new item, merge or bag extension can change the marks. If damage suddenly falls after adding Sauce, inspect the character item before buying another weapon. It may have been deactivated rather than outscaled.

Sources

Last updated 2026-11-02.

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