Resting

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Resting at your campsite uses up one adventure. However, the Disco Bandit skill Disco Nap allows characters to rest once per day without consuming an adventure. Disco Power Nap allows for another two free rests per day.

Resting will replenish both your HP and your MP. For a comprehensive list of everything in the game that restores HP and MP, see HP Restorers and MP Restorers.

Housing

Immediately after creating a new account or ascending the player will be able to rest on the ground, for a tiny HP and MP gain and no PvP bonus. Upgrades to your resting ground allow more HP and MP to be restored every time you rest, and greater advantage when attacked in PvP battles.

The campsite item, Pagoda, will double the amount of HP and MP the player gains each rest. If a player has a comfy blanket in their inventory, resting heals for about 50 more HP. If Ronald is full, MP gains are doubled. If Grimace is full, HP gains are doubled. The item cement shoes has the intrinsic Sleeping with the Fishes, which "improves resting".

The following table shows the item used to upgrade the campsite housing, the resulting image, and the resulting base HP and MP gains.

The Ground	Newbiesport™ Tent	Barskin Tent	Cottage
3 - 5 HP	8 - 10 HP	18 - 20 HP	28 - 30 HP
5 MP	10 MP	20 MP	30 MP
House	Sandcastle	House of Twigs and Spit	Hobo Fortress
38 - 40 HP	48-50 HP	58-60 HP	84-85 HP
40 MP	50 MP	60 MP	85 MP

When changing housing, you must confirm that you wish to destroy your old housing:

Choosing to do so gives a message unique to the housing.

Be aware, any furnishings (see below) installed in your housing will be destroyed along with the structure. Also, you can downgrade your housing, such as replacing a house with a barskin tent; though it is unlikely you'd have reason to do so, the game will not prevent you.

Furnishings

Certain items provide benefits when placed within your dwelling. Some furnishings enhance resting, while others provide a passive benefit. However, keep in mind that you cannot apply any of the dwelling items unless you actually have a roof over your head, so you cannot use them when the only option available is to rest on the ground. Get a house, you hippy.

Clicking on the small magnifying glass above your dwelling displays descriptions of any furnishings within.

Beds

Beds are mutually exclusive. Installing a bed in your dwelling destroys your previous bed.

Item	In-game description	Notes
beanbag chair beanbag chair	Sleeping in this beanbag chair is really relaxing, and allows you to recover an additional 30 Mana Points each time you rest.
bed of coals bed of coals	This hot, hot, hot bed will increase your tolerance for high temperatures.	Gives So-So Hot Resistance
comfy coffin comfy coffin	You have a coffin for a bed. You aren't afraid of anything.	Gives So-So Spooky Resistance
filth-encrusted futon filth-encrusted futon	This thing should've been thrown out years ago. You've had to develop a pretty high tolerance for stench just to be able to be in the same room as it.	Gives So-So Stench Resistance
frigid air mattress frigid air mattress	Just having this in your dwelling will teach you tricks for dealing with the cold.	Gives So-So Cold Resistance
gauze hammock gauze hammock	This big, bandage-like hammock will heal your injuries as you sleep, allowing you to recover an additional 60 HP each time you rest.
stained mattress stained mattress	You sleep on somebody else's stained mattress. Have you no shame? No, actually, I guess you don't.	Gives So-So Sleaze Resistance

Miscellaneous Furnishings

Item	In-game description	Notes
Certificate of Participation Certificate of Participation	Your Kingdom of Loathing Certificate of Participation hangs proudly, declaring to all who view it that you are, indeed, a participant in the Kingdom of Loathing. Go, you!	Replaced the Kingdom of Loathing Certificate of Participation. A shiny version may be obtained by various means.
Resting Shiny Certificate of Participation	Your Kingdom of Loathing Certificate of Participation hangs proudly, declaring to all who view it that you are, indeed, a participant in the Kingdom of Loathing. Go, you! The Certificate is all shiny because you've been to one of the official KoL Conventions.
Feng Shui for Big Dumb Idiots Really Good Feng Shui	The really good Feng Shui of your dwelling allows you to regain an additional 7 Mana Points each time you rest.	Acquired by using Feng Shui for Big Dumb Idiots with windchimes and a decorative fountain in your inventory.

"Tasteful" Furnishings

There are other furnishings that can be installed independently of a bed: the black-and-blue light, the blue plasma ball, and Loudmouth Larry Lamprey, each of which applies an effect when you rest in your dwelling. Furnishings from Summon "Tasteful" Gifts will not activate if the player currently has two or more turns of the effect, and the furnishings will burn out after 3-5 activations.

Item	In-game description	Notes
black-and-blue light black-and-blue light	Your dwelling is bathed in the eerie glow of a black-and-blue light. Sleeping under it will probably make your bruises seem less severe.	Effect: Less Vincible (5 turns): Restores 3-5 HP per Adventure
blue plasma ball blue plasma ball	Your dwelling is equipped with one of those awesome shimmering blue plasma balls. It'll provide literally minutes of fun!	Effect: Stuck-Up Hair (5 turns): Damages enemies when they attack
Loudmouth Larry Lamprey Loudmouth Larry Lamprey	You've got a Loudmouth Larry Lamprey on the wall -- his singing will surely keep you company as you rest.	Effect: In Tuna (5 turns): Restores 3-5 MP per Adventure

Dreams

When resting or relaxing, a player might come across a dream. Only one or no dream will occur each rest, and the dreams, for the most part, have no impact on play. The "underwear" dream was the original dream, and for a very long time, the only dream implemented in the game. The "hockey mask" dream in which the player acquires a mask occurs very rarely, while each of the others occur at approximately equal ratios (excluding the beet, which was borderline ultra rare before it was removed).

The Dreams

You dream you're running through the basement of Cobb's Knob. You enter the boiler room and get jumped by some freaky dude in a striped sweater and jaunty f3d0r4. He's wearing a glove with five razor-sharp pasta spoons strapped to it! He slashes at you and you wake up screaming... but it was only a dream. Or ... was it?

Yeah, I guess it was.

You dream you're running through the basement of Cobb's Knobb. You enter the boiler room and get jumped by some freaky dude in a striped sweater and jaunty f3d0r4. He's wearing a glove with five razor-sharp pasta spoons strapped to it!

He advances on you, but is suddenly tackled from behind by a guy wearing a hockey mask and armed with a huge pair of tongs. They fight for a few minutes, and while they're not paying attention you gaffle the hockey mask, which has fallen off during the fray.

When you wake up, you think to yourself "Pshew, it was just a dream." Then you realize you're still clutching the hockey mask! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!

spooky hockey mask

You acquire an item: spooky hockey mask

(occurs rarely)

You have a dream in which you are approached in your bed by a very fat man wearing a ballerina's outfit and a pair of paper wings on his back.

"Hey," he says, "youse got some teeth. T'anks. Here youse goes."

Meat	You gain 50-60 Meat.

Note: Requires one loose teeth, which is lost.

You have a dream in which you are approached in your bed by a very fat man wearing a ballerina's outfit and a pair of paper wings on his back.

"Youse ain't got any teeth," he says. "I'll try youse again later."

You dream that your teeth fall out, and you put them in your pocket for safe keeping. Fortunately, when you wake up, you appear to have grown a new set.

loose teeth

You acquire an item: loose teeth

Note: the item acquisition message above is not displayed.

You have an incredibly vivid dream in which you're a butterfly, flitting about in the breeze. When you wake up, you aren't quite sure whether you're an adventurer that dreamt of being a butterfly, or a butterfly that's dreaming of being an adventurer.

You do feel an overwhelming urge to pollinate something, though.

You dream that you're standing in front of the Council of Loathing dressed only in your underwear.

You dream that you're running down an endless series of hallways. No matter which way you turn, there are more identical hallways. Just when you're about to give up and call for help, one of the hallways ends at a door. On the door, in huge purple letters, is written a single word: "Erleichda". You step through. When you wake up, you find a lump under your pillow, the smell of perfume in the air, and hoofprints leading away from your campsite.

beet	You acquire an item: beet

(No longer attainable)

References

• The butterfly dream refers to a story from the works of Zhuangzi, a Taoist sage and humorist and maker of Chinese fables. The story concerns the ephemerality of the self and the nature of existence.
• The "freaky dude in a striped sweater" is most likely Freddy Krueger, from the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• The "guy wearing a hockey mask" is most likely Jason Voorhees, from the Friday the 13th movies.
• The dream that results in you acquiring the Spooky Hockey mask is clearly a reference to Freddy vs. Jason. The ending of the dream, where you wake up with the hockey mask is a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street. In the movie, Nancy Thompson falls asleep in a sleep institute and is confronted by Freddy off-screen; when she is awakened, Freddy's brown fedora is in her hand and she states that she pulled it out of her dream.
• The "very fat man wearing a ballerina's outfit" is a play on the Tooth Fairy, possibly inspired by the comic radio serial "The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy".
• A dream about having your teeth fall out is one of the most common types of dream that a person can have, and is often cited as such in dream interpretation books.
• The beet dream refers to the Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume, which prominently features beets and perfume. According to the book, "Erleichda" means "Lighten Up".

See Also

• A Comfy Sofa