Oil of Garlic
| Oil of Garlic | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Combat Level 6 |
| Sell Price | 1000g |
Oil of Garlic is a pungent drink that keeps weaker monsters away in the Mines. While its effect lasts, ordinary floors of the Mines stop spawning enemies, and the Skull Cavern loses its infested floors and sudden swarms. That turns a dangerous dive into a calm hunt for ore, gems and the next ladder. The recipe arrives with the Combat skill, and the finished bottle is also one of the few crafted items that sells for more than its ingredients. It is the exact opposite of Monster Musk, which draws monsters out instead.
The in-game description reads: Drink this and weaker monsters will avoid you.
Recipe
Reaching Combat level 6 teaches the recipe. Mixing a large handful of Garlic with one bottle of Oil makes a single Oil of Garlic.
The Garlic is a Spring crop. Pierre's General Store starts selling Garlic Seeds in the second year, and the bulbs ripen in just a few days. A single Spring can therefore produce several harvests, which adds up to plenty of bottles.
The Oil comes from an Oil Maker, which presses Sunflowers, Sunflower Seeds or Corn into cooking oil. Pierre's General Store also sells Oil ready-made.
The Dwarf in the Mines sells finished bottles too, once the Dwarvish Translation Guide lets the two of them talk. His price is several times the value of the ingredients, so crafting at home is far cheaper for anyone with a Garlic patch.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Garlic | 
|
10 |
| Oil | 
|
1 |
Use
Drinking a bottle gives the Oil of Garlic buff for ten minutes. During that time, monsters stop appearing on the normal floors of the Mines. In the Skull Cavern, floors can no longer turn into infested floors, and swarms of monsters stop appearing. The buff has no effect in the Dangerous Mines or the Dangerous Skull Cavern.
The buff is a special effect rather than a food buff. It runs alongside any meal or drink, so a miner can pair it with a mining or luck boost from food.
Notes
The drink suits days spent mining rather than fighting. With fewer monsters to deal with, more time and energy go into breaking rocks and finding the way down. It is especially handy while hunting a particular ore or gem on a known floor.
Crafting it is also a way to make money. Ten Garlic and a bottle of Oil are together worth less than the finished drink, even at base quality. A spring harvest of Garlic can therefore become a tidy profit at the shipping bin.
As a gift, Oil of Garlic is hated by every villager. A bottle is far better sold or used than handed to anyone.
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