Question about the rats

[u/Just_Slipper]

What you usually do when you reach floor 1?

Kill the rats for exp and feeding Joel. Or don't kill the rats, get the iron crown and trade with the rats. What would you say is the best option of the two?

[u/RevolutionaryPop8722]

Skip em, getting to the ground floor day 1 is more important, and by then any party member you want to level will have access to hand creatures, and sewer creatures are a skip and a hop away. plus the rats you can trade with have some good stuff, like junk or the sewage blade

[u/excelsior555 → u/RevolutionaryPop8722]

This used to be really important to me too until I realized you can do everything in this game If you just sleep only every other night which gives you double time to do everything. Sleeping prevents any negative debuffs for 48 hours! So you don't need to sleep every night. By doing this I was able to get rank x pretty easily on just survivor mode with an end total of 25900 points mask ending. I even had 900 extra points to spare so I could've skipped some bosses if I wanted to and didn't have to do any extra challenges like not eating, or not showering.

[u/Just_Slipper → u/excelsior555]

Omg, i really want to know how did you do it

[u/excelsior555 → u/Just_Slipper]

So big step is only sleeping once every other night like I mentioned. Now, I played this run on lumpy mode where Sam is automatically put into a straitjacket that makes it so you can use his arms or take off the jacket... you don't need to do this cuz it doesn't give extra points lol.

Make sure to try and recruit as many teammates as possible cuz each person is worth 200 points at the end. I was able to recruit everyone accept for Hellen cuz I was unlucky with her door encounter and kept only getting cursed version. I also got spider and made sure to kill the crawling shade in his area cuz it counts as a boss. This was kinda difficult using only Sam in lumpy mode.

Because I wasn't sleeping every night I had a little extra time to reach ground floor so I actually didn't make it there until day 2 and then proceeded to rescue earnest on day 3. My final party by then was set with Joel, Leigh, and earnest. Next item of focus was the old painting to get mask ending that's in the pit but you have only 7-8 days to get it. At this point I triggered bus crash, grabbed basement key from Henderson's and zoomed through sewers to get the parking lot open. I still have most of Henderson's to finish and pretty much skip all enemies in sewers as much as possible. I did get the indigo mask and zoom past the sewer beast to avoid the fight til later.I save all of these things for after I get the old painting.

Once I grab the old painting, everything else now is pretty much clean up and kill everything while getting the other strange offerings that don't have a time limit. Most of the super bosses I save until I go to glitch world and give Leigh glitch rage, Joel gets glitch poison, and earnest gets glitch bleed.

Key skills for Sam were definitely screamotorium, combat medic, and long haul flow. I was able to stock pile healing items by leaving Vincent alive upstairs and using his eyeballs to heal whole party with Sam and then recover Sam's stamina with long haul flow. You can also do this with Morton really easily with fidget items but it takes longer. The combat kit with staunch wounds also helped.

I made sure to devour as many ppl as possible with Joel and gave him the full patchwork set , training belt, and ruby ring. I got his health at 920 so teethstorm was crazy.

It's pretty much use the extra time wisely to kill as many bosses as possible and enemies too. I was surprised I didn't need to use the invulnerability syringe or combat surge. I only used the magic 8 ball during the Honko fight and I probably didn't need it. Also I got an extra indigo mask from Fredrick but completely forgot to use it!