# Strange Juice

A juice that lifts the mood considerably; work speed rises by a large margin for a time while SAN drops just as sharply.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/Narcotic

## Basics

- Type: Consume / Drug
- Gold value: 5400
- Weight: 0.2
- Max stack: 9999
- restoreSanity: 60
- restoreFood: 1

## Recipe

- Beautiful Flower x5
- Horn x5
- Bone x2
- Aquatic Pal Fluids x2

## Where to find

| How | Where | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Merchant | Caravan Shop | 5,400 Gold |

## Dropped by

- Lovander — 1%, 1

## Notes we already publish

- (use) The work-speed spike is real and it is over almost immediately. The food status effect runs for 10 seconds and carries a work-speed line of 400 — against a Salad ([[item:Salad]]) at 30 held for 600 seconds. That is more than thirteen times the boost for one sixtieth of the duration, so the total work moved is a fraction of what a cooked meal gives. Nothing about this item is a base buff: by the time a Pal has walked from the feed box back to its station the window has closed.
- (use) The second half of that same 10-second effect is a SAN-resistance line of -50000, and there is nothing else in the food tables anywhere near it — Pancake ([[item:Pancake]]) sits at +25 for 600 seconds, the shape you actually want in a feed box. Strange Juice restores 60 SAN the moment it is eaten and then opens a window in which sanity falls at a rate the game does not otherwise produce. Treat the 60 restore in the stat block as an opening balance, not a net gain, and keep this out of any feed box you are using to hold a base's mood up.
- (strategy) It is flagged off the handcraft menu, so there is no field-crafting it from a Beautiful Flower ([[item:Poppy]]) stack — a bench is mandatory, and the earliest one that takes drug recipes is the Medieval Medicine Workbench at Technology level 12. The craft is 300,000 work, half again a Cake ([[item:Cake]]) at 200,000, which ties up a bench and a high work-speed Pal for a long stretch. Against that, 5,400 Gold at the caravan merchant is a flat, instant price with no Horn ([[item:Horn]]) or Aquatic Pal Fluids ([[item:PalFluid]]) spend behind it, and merchants restock — if you want these in quantity, buy them and leave the medicine bench on medicines.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/Narcotic