The galoshes come from trading 3 blackberries with The Blackberry Cobbler, in the choice non-combat. The blackberry bush drops up to 3 berries, each a 20% drop.
: The choice non-combat All Over the Map is also guaranteed to occur every 4 turns spent in this zone. Having at least +5% bonus Combat Frequency prevents it from appearing as a random encounter.
: The beehive is available from the choice non-combat for the cost of 3 Adventures, for the Naughty Sorceress Quest.
Use your father's MacGuffin diary to start the next four subquests: the Hidden City Quest, Spookyraven Quest, Palindome Quest, and Pyramid Quest. These can be done in any order.
: Acquiring and installing the Nostril of the Serpent (quest item, from Such Great Heights here) allows controlling The Hidden Heart non-combat outcome without exiting the choice.
Clear the four Overgrown Shrines of dense lianas (3 each) and unlock the four Hidden sidezones of the Hidden City. A Massive Ziggurat also contains 3 lianas.
: With any machete equipped, lianas are instantly defeated without taking an Adventure. Some machetes include:
/: In the non-combat here, digging through the dumpster drops two Hidden City items, one being a bowling ball or pygmy doctor equipment. Knocking over the dumpster instead adds the pygmy janitor to the Park's monsters, and also removes the janitor from all other Hidden City zones, changing them from 4 to 3 monster zones. The book of matches is a 20% drop from the janitor, and unlocks The Hidden Tavern upon use.
: (2016) Summoning the Intergnat demon at Level 11 yields this machete, along with other items.
Acquire 4 stone spheres (quest items), one each from an ancient protector spirit miniboss in each sidezone. This can be done in any order.
/: Using a short writ of habeas corpus against any pygmy monster is a free runaway. This item is a 5% drop from the pygmy witch lawyer in the Apartment and Office Buildings, and may also come from The Hidden Park non-combat and (2019) from eating a diabolic pizza made with a combat item.
: These items drop from the pygmy witch surgeon here (100%, only drops one item not already in inventory) and from the dumpster in the Park. Each equipped item increases the special non-combat's encounter rate by 10%.
: These items are not normal Item Drops, but behave similarly. They each start with a base drop rate of 5%, increasing by 5% each time the respective item does not drop. Bonus Item Drops improve the drop rate, but not bonus Food Drops.
Equip the unstable fulminate and defeat monstrous boilers in The Haunted Boiler Room(3 monsters) until the fulminate gains at least 51 degrees and becomes the wine bomb.
: Defeating a monstrous boiler adds 10 + (bonus Monster Level)/2degrees to the fulminate. With at least +82 bonus Monster Level, only one boiler is needed for this step.
With the wine bomb, return to the Masonry to destroy it.
Copperhead Club: Alternate between Adventuring in the Club (5 monsters) to find Shen, and finding the quest item he requests. This provides the Copperhead Charm after the third item delivered this way.
: Shen appears as the first encounter in the Club, and will appear when returning with his quest items after 5, 10, and 14 (50% chance) or 15 (100% chance) turns are spent in the Club.
: (2020) Having the skill Comprehensive Cartography makes the first non-combat here a choice of any of the three non-combats here.
Using a cigarette lighter (15% drop from the Blue Oyster cultist) against a protestor instakills it and clears an additional 5-7 protestors. This is also available from (2016) summoning the Intergnat demon at Level 11, and (2019) is a possible item from eating a diabolic pizza made with a combat item.
(2016) Using a bomb of unknown origin against a protestor clears an additional 10 protestors.
: Having a Red Zeppelin ticket ( 5,000 Meat, from the Black Market) prevents the chance of being thrown overboard after combat and negating progress.
: Using a glark cable here instakills the monster and makes that combat not cost an Adventure, on the first 5 uses per day. This item is a 30% drop from the red butler here, and (2019) is a possible item from eating a diabolic pizza made with a combat item.
Adventure in The Red Zeppelin and defeat Ron "The Weasel" Copperhead, who drops the Copperhead Charm (rampant).
Manual pages have a base 25% drop rate in the Desert, and require being Ultrahydrated. Each time pages do not drop, this rate increases by 25%, and this rate resets to 25% after pages drop. Bonus Item Drops do not improve this.
The first page drop gives 1 page. After that, each page drop gives 2-3 pages (random), until accumulating 15 pages.
: Maintaining the Ultrahydrated effect without visiting The Oasis means fewer overall turns spent on gathering manual pages. Ways of doing this include Effect Duration extenders and using free fights.
The drum machine is a 30% drop from the blur in The Oasis.