Strange Brew

  

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Strange Brew

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Statistics

Type	Potion
Consumable	✔️
Heals Health	70–120
Use time	17 (Very fast)
Tooltip	Side Effects May Include: -Unpredictable Healing -Inconsistent Potion Sickness -Brief Periods of Inexplicable Invulnerability 'It looks and smells terrible'
Rarity	01*
Buy	5 SC
Sell	1 SC
Research	30 required

Inflicts Debuff

Debuff	Potion Sickness
Debuff tooltip	Cannot consume anymore healing items
Duration	40–70 seconds

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 3001 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Buff ID: 21

   

The Strange Brew is only available during moon phases 1 (Full Moon), 3 (Third Quarter), 5 (New Moon), and 7 (First Quarter).

The Strange Brew is a recovery potion that is purchased from the Skeleton Merchant during certain moon phases for 5 SC. The Strange Brew restores 70–120 health, inflicts 40–70 seconds of Potion Sickness, and has a 61/100 (61%) chance to grant up to 4 seconds of damage immunity upon being used.

Notes

• The duration of Potion Sickness can range between 40 seconds and 1 minute 10 seconds. This duration is unrelated to the amount of health restored. For instance, a Strange Brew could only restore 70 health but inflict 70 seconds of Potion Sickness, or it could restore 120 health but only inflict 40 seconds of Potion Sickness.
• The Strange Brew can grant immunity frames as follows upon consumption:

Duration	Chance
4 seconds	11%
2 seconds	20%
1 second	30%
No immunity	39%

Tips

• The Strange Brew heals an average of 95 health per potion, with an average Potion Sickness duration of 55 seconds. This means that on average, it gives slightly higher (though very similar) healing to a Healing Potion, while having a chance to grant invincibility. However, the Strange Brew is much less consistent than a Healing Potion.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Now heals randomly between 70 and 120 health.
  • Potion Sickness is now variable, between 40 and 70 seconds.
  • May give a randomized period of damage invulnerability, with longer durations being rarer than shorter ones.
  • No longer restores mana at all.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Introduced.