Hello! For those of you who were wanting to try speedrunning the game, I decided to make a small guide to help people get started! This is NOT the definitive guide, as there are still a lot of things not known about the game, as not even a full catalog of all the ingredients available has been made, it's more to help people get started on what to do, and if you find faster ways to do things, go for it! Without further ado, here's my speedrun guide for Potionomics Any%, 1st Edition
Before we begin, you can skip dialogue by pressing the backspace button. so make sure to always spam it whenever you have skippable dialogue
First Week- common
Day 1: make and sell potions
Day 2: go to mint to get free potions to sell, send her on adventure. go to quinn, buy slime to gift her, hang out and rank up for card. end day.
Day 3-8: sell mana potions. buy mudpack cauldron. go to mint. go to batist, get ingredients needed for potions A, B, or C. buy mudpack cauldron. continue until you have two 5* or greater potions. need at least 150 magimins for greater. once potions are made, sleep until tourney.
Day 8: if still missing ingredients, reset
100 cauldron, holds 6
Potion A: A1 B1, Price to beat: 72 Leech Snail x6
Potion B: A1 C1, Price to beat: 77 Warg Pheromones x6
Potion C: B1 C1, Price to beat: 85 Golem's Eye Diamond x6
Note: If you had a god tier first week, don't be afraid to do card battles from here on out. You ideally want to make sure the opponent never gets a turn, so drawing cards is important, hence why we ranked up quinn. You can find a list of the best cards you want for each week at the bottom of each section.
Second Week- greater
Day 11-13: Go to baptiste to get ingredients needed for potions A, B, or C, or any future ingredients needed, like the fire flower or spriggan antler. need at least 290 magimins for grand. Do not sell potions until vending machine unless you need gold. Do not buy cauldron until you have the ingredients
Day 14-18: put potions not sold in vending machine. continue going to baptiste for ingredients for potions. Once ingredients are bought, buy cauldron and make potions. sleep until tourney.
Day 19: if still missing any ingredients, try cats, otherwise reset. if got ingredients from cats, get fuel to speed it up.
225 cauldron, holds 7
Potion A: A1 D1, Price to beat: 215 Saltwatermelon x3, Dwarf Kraken x3
Potion B: A3 B4 C3, Price to beat: 215 Nessie Pheromones x3, Banshee's Bloody Tongue x3
Potion C: C1 D1, Price to beat: 255 Spriggan Antler x3, Fulgurite Ore x4
make sure to save at least one spriggan antler and dwarf kraken for future use
Deck: Set 'Em Up x4; Close It Out x2; Strike or Strike Later x2; Think, Sylvia, Think x4;32 Scheme x2, Press the Attack x2, Sleight of Hand x2, Two Is Better Than One x2;
3rd Week- grand
Note: once you're able to duplicate items, it's much better to go to the cats for ingredients than Baptiste
Day 21: Put potions in vendy, then travel. If no money, go back, otherwise go to Baptiste for ingredients for next potions. need at least 470 magimans for superior.
Day 22: place any ingredient with a high magiman count (HMC) in slime. feed it all items you don't need. travel to corsac to get another slime. pick up any items from baptiste and check for ingredients.. go to salt and pepper to get a chest, go home, make as much potions as you can to sell, then sleep.
Day 23: check garden, put whatever one material you need in the first slime, put the high magiman source in the second. feed both slimes the remaining amount of HMC you have. grab any potions made, make more potions to sell making the fuel time 1, put any potions made in vendy, travel to Muktuk. if you have enough money, buy a cauldron. otherwise go back home to collect potion and put in vendy. if you have enough to buy cauldron, travel back to muktuk to buy it. otherwise, end day. buy the cauldron at the start of the next day.
Day 24-28: continue to duplicate any necessary ingredients and HMCs until you can make the potions you need. go to salt and peppers for treasure chest until you get all the ingredients you need. once you get all the potions made, do garden, and sleep until tourney. you're gonna need a lot of ingredients for the next week. you specifically want to duplicate any ingredient that has 2 equal mana values (like the daredevil pepper). you'll be using them to make potions to sell next week.
Day 29: if you don't have a 3* grand version of any potions you need, reset.
770 cauldron, holds 8
Potion A: A2 C1 D1, Price to beat: 460 Shelled Pudding x4, Ogre's Shadow x4 Fire Flower x5, Spriggan Antler x2, one c ingredient worth 20 Buoyant Blowfish x4, Feathered Gelatin x4
Potion B: B1 D1, Price to beat: 510 Daredevil Pepper x8 Medusa Spore x4, Watchdog Daisy x4
Potion C: 1A 1E, Price to beat: Owlbear Pheromones/Abominable Tarantula x4, Pandemonium Shroom x4 Dwarf Kraken x4, Sepulcher Widow/Blackfrost Lobster x4
Deck: Switch Close It Out x2 with Barrage x2, switch two of the set em ups with 2 ferocity of the squirrel
Barrage x2; Ferocity of the Squirrel x2 Set Em Up x2 Strike or Strike Later x2 Think, Sylvia, Think x4; Scheme x2, Press the Attack x2, Sleight of Hand x2, Two Is Better Than One x2
4th Week- superior
Day 31: Check garden, duplicate HMC and any 2 equal mana value ingredient (2MV), or, if you were able to garden them before the last tourney, duplicate any item you already have that you need for this weeks potions. make more potions to sell, put your tourney potions in vendy, and, unless you already have money to spend, end the day. if you still have some money, go to Baptiste, and be on the look out for an elder being's tusk as well as any ingredient you need for the potions. you'll need that to upgrade the cauldron. need at least 720 magimans for masterwork
Day 32-38: continue to duplicate whatever you need, checking the cats/baptiste for any ingredients or the tusk. go ahead and buy the cauldron on day 32, even if you don't have the tusk to upgrade it. being able to make sell more powerful potions is better. you're basically doing the same thing as last week. if you manage to find a better 2MV, start duplicating that once you have all the ingredients for your potion tourneys done. use whatever you have left of the previous 2MV to feed the new 2MV
Day 39: if you don't have the potions needed, once again, it's a reset.
Note: if you're making good on time and money, be sure to make these masterwork potions for later: 2 health 1 petrification, 1 curse, 1 stamina, and 1 insight enhancer
cauldron 1730, holds 10
Potion A: B2 C1 E1, Price to beat: 1200 Acid Rutabaga, Sepulcher Widow, Delirium Shroom
Potion B: D1 E1, Price to beat: 1440 Rottermelon, Owlbear Pheromones
Potion C: A4 B3 E3, Price to beat: 1530 Dragonblood Tick, Owlbear Pheromones
Deck: Switch Set Em Up with Mulligan
Mulligan x2 Strike or Strike Later x2 Barrage x2; Ferocity of the Squirrel x2 Think, Sylvia, Think x4; Scheme x2, Press the Attack x2, Sleight of Hand x2, Two is Better Than One x2
5th week- masterwork Day 41-49: Sell any tourney potions and head to baptiste. the two main things you're looking for are the cyclops skull, and the cauldron's upgrade items. continue selling potions until you're around 25-30k, then duplicate any potion ingredients you need and keep trying to get the cauldron's upgrade items. if you're good on time, send Corsac to the final adventure area to try and get 3 emp bud barrels, with those potions prepped earlier. if you do get the barrels, put the tourney potions in them so they're worth more.
3315 cauldron, holds 14, upgrade material: arcane quartz, 3400 3 emp bud barrel, 1870 barrel
Potion A: C1 E1; Price to beat: 3800 Dragon Pheramones x7, Yeti Antler x7 Silverstag Antler x7, Owlbear Pheromones x7
Potion B: B1 C1 E2; Price to beat: 3600 Griffon's Whetstone Diamond x7, Owlbear Pheromones x7
Potion C: C3 D4 E3; Price to beat: 3750 Cyclops Skull x14
Unless your first two potions are higher than the price to beat, don't win two in row, go to round 3 to win with potion C
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Thank you for reading this far! If you want to add anything, suggest some changes, or just want to thank me, just lemme know! May the RNGoddes be on your side!
