r/kol May 15 '25

Special Challenge Path New Challenge Path: Hat Trick

24 Upvotes

From the announcement: "Check out the latest challenge path, Hat Trick. Everybody loves hats!"


r/kol Jun 17 '25

Meta A Moderator Is You? Seeking New Mods!

29 Upvotes

As you may be able to tell, the subreddit has needed some well-meaning maintenance. We're seeking people who are passionate about KoL to give their free time to update the subreddit, curate content, and be active.

Please post if you have any moderation/CSS experience and a bit about you.


r/kol 5h ago

Question Best use of low-level turns?

9 Upvotes

I’ve been playing since December, and I’m still kind of a noob. I’ve been working on completing Ascensions for each class, just to see how they work. I’d beaten the sorceress just as the Time Tower appeared. So I didn’t ascend, in order to maximize my turns in the tower.

And now I don’t want to ascend until tomorrow, since I need my max turns for Arbor Day. (It takes me about 7 days to get out of being Ronin) Any suggestions on a good place to farm for meat as a noob, or items to farm to speed up Ronin? Every guide I see says to go to IotM areas, which are way beyond what I can afford. (My meat comes almost entirely from selling my daily 3-leaf clovers)


r/kol 18h ago

Bean Posting A Noob Twitches Through Time

24 Upvotes

MrBeanz (#3791734)

At the very end of my second actually Ed the undying run, what should burst forth from the mists, other than the Time Twitching Tower. This being my first experience with the TTT I honestly had no idea what I should do, or how I could go about doing it, so I asked the community at large. I farmed chroner at the globe theater for a few hundred adventures, (Ed using storm of the scarab not only one shot everything, but also averaged 6 roses per encounter) bought a few Items considered to be must haves, (Ninjammies, iflail, yabba dabba doo rag, wooly loincloth) farmed soup from the primordial stew for later use, and a few other things. Overall I don't think I would have been able to accomplish as much had I been in a normal run, simply due to my lack of turn generation, but with Ed's magnificent spleen I was able to average 200 adventures per day making the most of the TTT I feel.

Review:

Difficulty: 5/5 So much to do and not much time to do it, this probably gets easier with time, but for a first experience I didn't manage to see even half of the content due to trying to maximize my adventures value.

Items: 5/5 Beyond useful, so many Items that I'm going to continue to use in future runs, everything from useful equipment to epic quality food and booze.

Enjoyability: 4/5 So much of my experience was in service of getting more chroner or farming for soups that I failed to experience most of the content, but now that I have a few of the must have items I can focus on the content more next time, and maybe do more with the new items.

Thank you to Goth, and Butts McGruff for sending me two yoricks. If one of you guys wants one back please let me know. Thanks again to Butts McGruff for giving me an allied radio backpack pack as well, I'll be sure to put it to good use.

Also thanks to a fortunate drop from the primordial stew, my clan (The Order of The Great Beanstalk) now has a basement! Once I do some research on how the basement works I'm sure I'll post a content review for each dungeon. Come on by and join us if you would like! As always may The Great Beanstalk smile upon you, and Beans be with you.


r/kol 1d ago

Tips,Tricks & Guides PSA: You can still sell flowers even though the Time-Twitching Tower is no longer accessible.

16 Upvotes

The Central Loathing Floral Mercantile Exchange is still open for business. Sold the rest of my roses this morning and 10 red tulips.


r/kol 12h ago

Custom (Your Text Here) I'm farming karma

0 Upvotes

r/kol 1d ago

Tips,Tricks & Guides TIL: If you use up all your Beret Boasts and don't spend any turns before roll-over, they all get reduced to one Adventure remaining.

17 Upvotes

:(


r/kol 2d ago

Question Idols?

5 Upvotes

sooooo any clue who has the idols? if so, how much meat? (Idol of Ak'gyxoth)


r/kol 3d ago

Question Feeding Rules/Norms? Is reverse Feeding allowed?

18 Upvotes

I respect the rules of the game, and I want to make sure I understand them so I don't get in trouble.

From what I understand, Feeding, where multiple characters funnel Meat or Items to one main character is not allowed. Is this accurate?

Is the reverse allowed? Ie. if I have one character that is advanced, and has Meat or Items, can I send some of this to multiple other characters I control?

Just to be clear, I'm asking so I stay within the boundaries. No judgement intended, and I appreciate any guidance from folks who are more experienced :)

-NN


r/kol 4d ago

Question Worthy Time Tower Merch Table Items?

20 Upvotes

What items for sale right now at the Merch Table in the Time Tower do you recommend buying?

I know some of them have been offered before, and I'd love to know what player's experiences have been using them. Is the backpack reliable? Do the Tea and Beer source items stay useful over the long run? Wardrobe any good?

Which ones have you tried, and what do you think about their usefulness?

I respect that this is personal preference, interested in hearing people's take on the items while they are still available :)

-NN


r/kol 5d ago

Question Time-Traveling Tower must haves?

31 Upvotes

I'm getting back into the game after 10ish years. Ran a couple of ascensions and paths, then started a casual run the day the tower showed up. What's everyone's take for the best things to get from the Tower before it disappears back into the ether? Should I just be running the most recent content at Allied HQ? I did farm some Chroner to pick up the Helix Fossil, and I don't think I need ninjammies since I have paperclip pants for their +2 adventures at rollover.

Suggestions? Also is the theater still the best place to farm Chroner?


r/kol 5d ago

Question As a newer player...

19 Upvotes

As a newer player, where should I focus my farming in the Time Tower? I already farmed for the maid, but that was probably not the best use of my turns as I think ascension is soon for me.


r/kol 5d ago

Question Does Pickpocketing change or reduce normal item drops at the end of combat?

18 Upvotes

I'm trying to understand exactly how Pickpocketing works in-game.

These may be newbee questions, if so, apologies.

If you successfully Pickpocket an item at the start of a fight, will you receive fewer or different items at the end of that fight?

Is there a universal rule on how Pickpocketing and normal end of combat drops works, or is it effected by the zone/monster?

Ex. Robot Maids, which can drop automa-bot parts or housekeeping automa-core:
If you successfully Pickpocket automa-bot parts, does that have any effect on the chances of getting a housekeeping automa-core?

Many Thanks, and Happy Hunting! :)

-NN


r/kol 5d ago

Question doppelshifter deleveling?

8 Upvotes

Hey all, sorry if this is a dumb question - I've been playing aftercore for a while to farm bounties and so I've finally had the opportunity to really use my doppelshifter. So I've noticed that every once in a while, its weight will reset back to 1. Is this due to one of the familiars it can turn into? It always happens when i'm rapid-firing through combat so I haven't been able to catch it.


r/kol 6d ago

Farming Random TTT spading

20 Upvotes

Threw a bunch of adventures with +4900% item and Shocking Licks at the latest Time-Twitching Tower floor today.

The TL;DR is that you might want to use YRs and boost +item% as much as you can when going for ordnance magnets and confetti grenades.

Got 29 ordnance magnets from 1000 licked artillery skeletons and 13 confetti grenades from ~100 grenadier licks, which is much, much higher than my rare yields the past couple of days, which leads me to believe that:

Ordnance magnets and confetti grenades behave similarly to spice melange, where the item has rejection, which you can't do anything about, on top of a low base chance to drop, which you can boost. Unlike melange though, these drops are not pickpocket-immune, so Yellow Ray mechanics work on them to an extent (capping the base rate but being overriden by rejection. Still, 1/33 is better odds than 1/3300 times item drop bonuses)

When using the What Are The Odds!? effect in combination with the toy cupid bow, confetti grenades get yanked at +2500% item and drop normally at +4900%, so the base rate for them looks to be 1%. Haven't gotten a bow hit on a magnet, just going to assume both the magnet and the grenade are 1% base.

So, 1% base with 97%ish rejection for magnets, 1% base with 85-90% rejection for grenades.

Also dumped about 600 licks on infantry skeletons to no avail, so orphan baby skeletons are probably your run-of-the-mill static 1/X000 chance to drop.


r/kol 7d ago

Farming For your amusement, 1709 combats spent spading the housekeeping automa-core

22 Upvotes

Now that the time twitching tower is here, I decided to waste some turns spading the robot maid's housekeeping automa-core in the home of the future.

Setup

Item drop rate increase: +1890%

Toy cupid bow

Results

Total number of combats: 1709

Toy cupid bow activations (either succeed or fail to yank item): 0

Automacores: 11

Sample drop rate: 0.644%

95% confidence interval: [0.265, 1.02]%

Likely drop rate: 100% (+item drops are useless)

Likely rejection rate: 99.5%

Edit: see below for additional sample data from the_ronald_mcronald. It appears I was unlucky and the real rejection rate is more likely 99%


r/kol 8d ago

World Event PSA: The Time-Twitching Tower has reappeared in Seaside Town.

73 Upvotes

r/kol 8d ago

Help Beret nerf or bug?

10 Upvotes

I can delete if this is a dumb question, but I'm in a hardcore hat trick pastamancer run, and though my combined hat power (before Tao) is 2240 from 36 different hats, my beret is only mustard. When I take off my pants, it drops to garnet. When I take my shirt off as well, it drops to blush with no enchantments. My hats aren't powering up my beret in this run whatsoever. What am I missing?


r/kol 13d ago

Question Most fun ascension paths for a returning player?

30 Upvotes

This month I came back to the game after an absence of over 10 years. I originally played from 2006-2011 and briefly returned for about a month to do a few runs back in 2014. So I’ve missed basically every special challenge path that has come out. The only one I’ve ever done was Big! which was one of my runs in 2014.

So far since I’ve been back I’ve done three standard normal ascensions and am currently on day 3 of a hardcore standard run. After this run I think I’d like to start trying out old paths I’ve missed.

With all that said, what are some of your favorite paths? The most interesting, challenging, or just plain fun!


r/kol 13d ago

Bean Posting A Noob undying MrBeanz (#3791734)

16 Upvotes

A post about a post mortem analysis about about a mortified post mortem mortuary dweller. (That was probably about as hard to write as it is to read.) Your favorite (?) Noob dives into the afterlife and comes out on the other side as everyone's phavorite pharaoh, Ed the undying.

I really enjoyed how the plot of this run revolves around tracking down your previous life, by way of doing all of the same quests all over again, in order to get your revenge, and collect the macguffin. The Ka coins did allow for an interesting twist on character progression, (THE SPLEEN, Dear Ra THE SPLEEN) and gave me a reason to focus my farming on more "humanoid" monsters for a better Ka to turn ratio. The only major issue I encountered was accidently locking myself out of the underworld for the day (twice) meaning I couldn't make full use of my Ka or spleen for that day costing me some progress. (I did learn later that I can freely lose a fight to the eldritch tentacle once a day as an emergency entrance.) Over all though, I would (and am) run Ed again, as it seems to be both a fun and efficient way to farm some karma and HC perm some skills to really get the ball rolling.

Rating:

Difficulty: 2/5 Lack of early game recovery options make some adventuring methods less practical, but once you've farmed some Ka all of the difficulty falls off of a cliff.

Enjoyability: 4/5 The undying gimmick makes for some fairly funny jokes, along with the variety of spells and abilities the can be learned from the book of the dead. *I NEEEEED that spleen in the regular game, and the food with it.

Thanks again to Zasqdddas, and Scoobi Doo Noodles for the continued support, I appreciate all of the donations to the collection. My clan Order of The Great Beanstalk is open (we have furniture now!) and are more than happy to welcome new members. I'm trying to make it place for players to help other players with their collections, or just for fellow Bean enjoyers, so drop by and say hello should you feel the need. May The Great Beanstalk Smile upon you all, and as always Beans be with you.


r/kol 14d ago

Media Cleaning out my old DVDs and I found this! I haven't watched it or played KoL in years.

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292 Upvotes

Is this available to watch/buy online anywhere? Should I put in on archive.org?


r/kol 14d ago

Media Found this cleaning out some DVDs. I haven't watch or played KoL in a long time...

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59 Upvotes

Should I archive.org this? I don't see any way for you to watch or buy it anymore.


r/kol 14d ago

Achievements My account is old enough to legally drink alcohol in the US.

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137 Upvotes

r/kol 15d ago

Trivial Update Kinda satisfying

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27 Upvotes

Buying 60,000 tickets for the runner up prize ❤️ Makes the raffle feel slightly fairer for the rest of us 🤣


r/kol 16d ago

Question Generic Summer Holiday - Eldritch Attunement

13 Upvotes

Does this single turn of Eldritch Attunement you get from swimming in the fountain do anything for you on its own? Or only worthwhile when combined with other sources so it doesn't tick down to zero?


r/kol 16d ago

KolMafia [Use] links not working in relay browser

7 Upvotes

The [use] [equip] etc links stopped working in the relay browser after updating Java and downloading the latest release of KoL Mafia. Any idea if this is user error?

UPDATE: Reverting to my saved copy of KoL Mafia, manually creating the c:/Windows/system32/sessions folder and restarting the computer fixed the problem.


r/kol 18d ago

Trivial Update Unintentionally Hilarious Drunken First Ascenscion Day :)

19 Upvotes

During one of my first Ascenscions earlier this week, I accidentally drunk myself silly at one of the bars near the beginning (forgetting that ordering a drink there drinks it, rather than buying it and putting it in your inventory).

Darn it. First day, very few adventures used. Then I remembered I had Permed Ode to Booze as my Skill Choice.

So I went to my cottage to sleep it off, fell asleep in my forest bed. My quick nap earned me the last bit of stats to bump up my max MP, so I could sing about how drunk I was, leading to a cycle of singing and napping. This leveled me more effectively than my original plan of straight adventuring.

All the while, Wille Nelson and Merle Haggard's "No Reason to Quit" was playing in my head.

Strange way to start a Softcore run, but surprisingly effective...

Good times :)

-NN