Kingdom of Loathing Helper - KoLMafia

So, you ask... "Rotini, how do you possibly play your adventures in a day? And on Groggy too? And with a wife and son? And a job?"

Never fear.... KoLMafia is here!

Well, it's there
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KoLMafia can be located at http://kolmafia.sourceforge.net/ and/or http://kolmafia.us/. It is a combination of an automation tool, turn-burning tool and a KoL helper.

To your left is the opening screen that you'll see after downloading the .jar or .exe. You enter your name and password (note how long and complex my password is) and hit 'enter'.

It will automatically log you in and do some very basic things for you if you click the "Breakfast" button. Breakfast consists of Cocktailcrafting, summoning Reagents and Noodles, getting Clovers from the Hermit, summoning Tasteful Items and Snowcones, and and taking all the Clan meat trees that are available to you.

After logging in, you'll see the screen on the left. It presents all your stat information on the left-hand side of the interface (in the green bar) including a calculation of Monster Level, Combat + / -, Initiative, bonus Meat and Bonus Item drops.

Along the top nav, there are buttons that can take you to various tabs to help you cast spells/use skills, change your equipment, buy stuff from the mall, listen to chat etc. The tabs are Excel-style ways of getting to the same screens, if you prefer tabs to icons (I certainly do!). You can use KoL Mafia as your single-source of adventuring, or you can use the KolMafia Relay browser (which I'll discuss in tomorrow's Blog.)

The tabs contain a wealth of information about your inventory. If you'll look to the left, you'll see my "Food" section of my "Item Manager" tab. Note the ability to see the range of adventures and substats a food will give you when you eat it. Also, you can one-click drink Milk of Magnesium for bonus adventures, sort for Myst, Mox or Musc-only food and look at your inventory by Adv / Fullness or just raw # of Adventures a food will give you. The Booze and Spleen tab look very similar to this, but have an addition of one-click Ode to Booze casting.

On the 'Gear Changer' tab, you can equip yourself nicely. Any weapon or accessory that you cannot equip due to stat requirements will appear as greyed out. As you put on clothes or weapons, all the stats in the green section change on-the-fly, as your oufits can affect meat and item drops and the other stats. You can also funk with the Custom Outfits here, as well.

On the 'Purchases' Tab, it is a quick interface into the KoL Mall of Loathing. You can search for an item, a group of items or a wide swath of types. I searched for the cheapest 3 Hi Meins of any type below, and you can see the results.

It is much faster to buy things through the KolMafia interface, as there are far fewer clicks, and you are not susceptible to price-switching scams.

There is also a direct interface to the Bounty Hunter Hunter, which will allow you to choose your Lucre of the day, and then setup a condition for you that allows you a one-click Lucre. It puts you in the correct zone to adventure, and sets a condition that has you go back to the BHH when you have the correct number of BHH items in your inventory. So, if the Lucre of the day is 40 Broken Petri Dishes, KolMafia will show you to the Knob Goblin Laboratory, and set a condition of "40 Broken Petri Dishes". When you complete that, it auto-sends you to the BHH and gives you a Lucre. Easy, eh?

You can set your own conditions. I often eat, drink and spleen, and then tell KoLMafia to go to the Orc Chasm and run adventures until I have 25 31337 scrolls. It automatically makes them for you, when it encounters the Rampaging Adding Machine, so I just give it a couple hundred adventures to work with, put on my best Item Drop outfit and go. If I'm feeling really special, I'll set up a Custom Combat adventure that casts Transcendent Olfaction on the first Anime Smiley I find, so I can farm 334 scrolls. Woo me!

Hopefully this introduction gives you a fair overview of the capabilities of KoL Mafia. I'll go deeper into the Relay Browser and other facets of KolMafia when I tackle this subject next.