Cost Analysis of Restoring HP and MP

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Description

The page provides a cost analysis of the common ways of restoring HP and MP (omitting dropped items and other inapplicable ways of restoring).

Purchasable MP Restorers

Below is a list of MP restorers that can be bought from in game stores. There are many more MP restorers which can be found as monster drops, but as such cannot be given a meat value and will cost adventures to acquire.

Source MP Gain Cost Meat per MP Notes
tonic water 30-50 (40 avg) 70 Meat and 1 Still use 1.75 Requires access to Nash Crosby's Still, limit 10 per day.
Internal Soda Machine 20 10 2 Requires Nuclear Autumn path
Doc Galaktik's Invigorating Tonic after Quest 9-11 (10 avg) 60 Meat 6 This price requires doing a Quest
black cherry soda 9-11 (10 avg) 80 Meat 8 Requires access to The Black Market, opens during the level 11 quest.
Knob Goblin seltzer 8-12 (10 avg) 80 Meat 8 Can be bought from the Dispensary.
Doc Galaktik's Invigorating Tonic before Quest 9-11 (10 avg) 90 Meat 9  
Regular Cloaca Cola
Diet Cloaca Cola
Cherry Cloaca Cola 		7-9 (8 avg) 80 Meat 10 Requires access to The White Citadel.
soda water 3-5 (4 avg) 70 Meat 17.5  
magical mystery juice Variable 100 Meat Variable Requires access to Gouda's Grimoire and Grocery.

Magical Mystery Juice

Magical mystery juice costs 100 meat or 95 meat if you are wearing Travoltan trousers. The amount of MP restored equals (1.5 * level) + (4 to 6). Note: If you are farming and using Magical mystery juice you should use this instead of the A Comfy Sofa when you have 333.4 or higher MPA (Meat Per Adventure) however there may be better alternatives at some level.

Level Average MP Gain Meat per MP 5-finger
1 6.5 15.385 14.615
2 8 12.5 11.875
3 9.5 10.526 10
4 11 9.091 8.636
5 12.5 8 7.6
6 14 7.143 6.786
7 15.5 6.452 6.129
8 17 5.882 5.588
9 18.5 5.405 5.135
10 20 5 4.75
11 21.5 4.651 4.524
12 23 4.348 4.13
13 24.5 4.082 3.878
14 26 3.846 3.654
15 27.5 3.636 3.455

Notable levels:

  • Level 4: MMJ beats pre Quest galaktic if you have 5-finger discount
  • Level 5: MMJ beats pre Quest galaktic, matches black cherry soda and knob goblin seltzer. It beats them with 5-finger discount.
  • Level 8: MMJ beats Quest discounted galaktic.
  • Level 9: MMJ becomes available to Accordion Thief class
  • Level 35: MMJ beats tonic water

HP Restorers

For meat:

Source HP Gain Cost Meat per HP Notes
Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs Full HP 100 Meat & 1 Spleen varies Requires access to The Smacketeria. Costs 1 spleen to use.
Doc Galaktik's Homeopathic Elixir after quest 18-20 80 Meat 4.21 This price requires doing a Quest
Doc Galaktik's Pungent Unguent after quest 3-5 20 Meat 5 This price requires doing a Quest
Doc Galaktik's Homeopathic Elixir before quest 18-20 120 Meat 6.3  
Doc Galaktik's Pungent Unguent before quest 3-5 30 Meat 7.5  

For MP (last columns apply if you can cast spells with reduced MP):

Source HP Gain Cost MP/HP MP/HP (-1) MP/HP (-2) MP/HP (-3) Notes
Cannelloni Cocoon 1000 HP 20 MP 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02
Disco Nap with Adventurer of Leisure 40 8 MP 0.2 0.175 0.15 0.125 Cures various effects
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 10 MP 0.286 0.257 0.229 0.2 Cures Beaten Up and various other effects
Lasagna Bandages (non-combat) 10-30 6 MP 0.3 0.25 0.2 0.15
Saucy Salve 10-15 4 MP 0.32 0.24 0.16 0.08 Combat-only
Lasagna Bandages (combat) 10-20 6 MP 0.4 0.333 0.267 0.2
Disco Nap 20 8 MP 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 Cures various effects

In order to calculate Meat per HP, multiply Meat/MP by MP/HP.

Restoring HP by buying MP-restores and healing

Skill Comparison

The relative cost of different skills remain the same no matter how much Meat each MP costs. Doubling meat costs per MP will affect all skills equally, and as such the choice on the relative efficiency of skills can be determined by looking at a single Meat/MP set of charts. There is also no reason to use a more expensive MP restorer if you have access to a cheaper one, although with these charts you will know exactly how much you save.

The determining factors on which skill to use are:

  • Are you at risk of wastage from overhealing. If your HP is 10/20 then lasagna bandages will be better than adventurer of leisure disco nap, since both will heal you to max HP but Lasagna Bandages is cheaper per cast.
  • If no overhealing will occur, then the choice of skill depends on your current MP cost reducers. Which are hard capped at -3 cost per skill.

Not taking into account Cannelloni Cocoon. Disco Nap is always the worst while Disco Nap upgraded with Adventurer of Leisure is always the best. Without MP discounts Tongue of Walrus is in second place, but with MP reduction (any between -1 to -3) it drops to 3rd place. Lasagna Bandages start out at 3rd place, rising to 2nd with MP reducers. Every point of MP reduction makes Lasagna Bandages close the gap towards 1st place. But it never quite reaches it.

Cannelloni Cocoon efficiency varies based on how much HP you are healing. The breakeven point where it equals Disco Leisure Nap depends only on your MP discount and shows up at the same spot on all the charts below.

  • At no MP discount it ties for first place at 100HP healed.
  • At -1 MP discount it is 2nd best at 108HP and best at 109HP (the breakeven point is 108.571428571429 HP)
  • At -2 MP discount it ties for first place at 120HP healed.
  • At -3 MP discount it ties for first place at 136HP healed.

1.75 Meat/MP

1.75 Meat/MP with no MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 20 35 0.35 @ 100 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 8 14 0.35
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 10 17.5 0.5
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 6 10.5 0.525
Disco Nap 20 20 8 14 0.7
1.75 Meat/MP with -1 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 19 33.25 0.30625 @ ~108.6 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 7 12.25 0.30625
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 9 15.75 0.45
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 5 8.75 0.4375
Disco Nap 20 20 7 12.25 0.6125
1.75 Meat/MP with -2 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 18 31.5 0.2625 @ 120 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 6 10.5 0.2625
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 8 14 0.4
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 4 7 0.35
Disco Nap 20 20 6 10.5 0.525
1.75 Meat/MP with -3 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 17 29.75 0.21875 @ 136 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 5 8.75 0.21875
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 7 12.25 0.35
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 3 5.25 0.2625
Disco Nap 20 20 5 8.75 0.4375

6 Meat/MP

  • Doc Galaktik's Invigorating Tonic is available to everyone at any time. Starting at a cost of 9 meat per MP before dropping to 6 meat per MP after doing a Quest. Below are tables showing efficiency for the 6 meat/MP version.
6 Meat/MP with no MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 20 120 1.2 @ 100 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 8 48 1.2
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 10 60 1.714
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 6 36 1.8
Disco Nap 20 20 8 48 2.4
6 Meat/MP with -1 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 19 114 1.05 @ ~108.6 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 7 42 1.05
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 9 54 1.543
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 5 30 1.5
Disco Nap 20 20 7 42 2.1
6 Meat/MP with -2 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 18 108 0.9 @ 120 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 6 36 0.9
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 8 48 1.371
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 4 24 1.2
Disco Nap 20 20 6 36 1.8
6 Meat/MP with -3 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 17 102 0.75 @ 136 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 5 30 0.75
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 7 42 1.2
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 3 18 0.9
Disco Nap 20 20 5 30 1.5

8 Meat/MP

8 Meat/MP with no MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 20 160 1.6 @ 100 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 8 64 1.6
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 10 80 2.29
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 6 48 2.4
Disco Nap 20 20 8 64 3.2
8 Meat/MP with -1 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 19 152 1.4 @ ~108.6 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 7 56 1.4
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 9 72 2.06
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 5 40 2
Disco Nap 20 20 7 56 2.8
8 Meat/MP with -2 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 18 144 1.2 @ 120 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 6 48 1.2
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 8 64 1.83
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 4 32 1.6
Disco Nap 20 20 6 48 2.4
8 Meat/MP with -3 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 17 136 1 @ 136 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 5 40 1
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 7 56 1.6
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 3 24 1.2
Disco Nap 20 20 5 40 2

9 Meat/MP

  • Doc Galaktik's Invigorating Tonic is available to everyone at any time. Starting at a cost of 9 meat per MP before dropping to 6 meat per MP after doing a Quest. Below are tables showing efficiency for the 9 meat/MP version.
9 Meat/MP with no MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 20 180 1.8 @ 100 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 8 72 1.8
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 10 90 2.57
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 6 54 2.7
Disco Nap 20 20 8 72 3.6
9 Meat/MP with -1 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 19 171 1.575 @ ~108.6 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 7 63 1.575
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 9 81 2.314
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 5 45 2.25
Disco Nap 20 20 7 63 3.15
9 Meat/MP with -2 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 18 162 1.35 @ 120 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 6 54 1.35
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 8 72 2.057
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 4 36 1.8
Disco Nap 20 20 6 54 2.7
9 Meat/MP with -3 MP cost modifiers
Source HP range Avg HP MP cost Meat cost Meat/HP
Cannelloni Cocoon all all 17 153 1.125 @ 136 HP
Disco Leisure Nap 40 40 5 45 1.125
Tongue of the Walrus 30-40 35 7 63 1.8
Lasagna Bandages 10-30 20 3 27 1.35
Disco Nap 20 20 5 45 2.25

10+ Meat/MP

Many restorers require unlocking. Because 9 meat/MP restorers are available immediately without need to unlock, no charts are provided for 10+ Meat/MP restorers. As they are never economical.

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