Modern analysis and scripting advice for Kingdom of Loathing playershttps://www.loathers.net/en-ushttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-garden-slot/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-garden-slot/There have been ten gardens in the history of KoL. In this post, Scotch attempts to gamely analyze all of them. Well. All except the most recent one. Look, it's a RETRO review, OK?Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Retro Reviewhttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/ts-script-setup/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/ts-script-setup/A step-by-step walkthrough for getting a KoLmafia TypeScript development environment up and running, from installing VSCode to running your first built script in the GCLI.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTFrazazel & Sweaty BillScripting Resourceshttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-09-meat-shield-maiden/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-09-meat-shield-maiden/This month's IOTM is a familiar that tries desperately to shield you from life's ills, and instead ends up grieviously injuring you. Life hurts, bucko.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-08-interesting-coin/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-08-interesting-coin/For August's IOTM, the powers that be ended up taking inspiration from the wonders of numismatics. If you have never heard of that word before, well. Congratulations! You've led a great life. It's…Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-07-portable-laughing-stock/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-07-portable-laughing-stock/It's neat that we get the Time Twitching Tower once a year now. This year, there wasn't a whole lot of hubbub about it; the new floor of the tower was an old-timey hamlet that was very mechanically…Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-07-cup-of-13s/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-07-cup-of-13s/For the July IOTM, TPTB took a hint from tarot and arcana. You see, tarot cards have four suits. None are tweed, unfortunately -- they vary based on the region, but a traditional four from the…Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-06-sword-of-s-words/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-06-sword-of-s-words/I usually will put programming notes at the end, but wanted to note that I have had a truly awful June and July; I contracted walking pneumonia and have been coughing my lungs out for the entirety of…Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/going-fast-part-1/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/going-fast-part-1/Scotch here! Everyone's favorite friend, Phillammon, has decided to write up a rousing introduction to speedrunning in the Kingdom of Loathing. Unlike our monthly IOTM reviews, this is going to be a…Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPhillammonguidehttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-05-legendary-pasta-wand/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-05-legendary-pasta-wand/We're returning to the halcyon days of January 2026, back when the powers that be dropped the legendary seal-clubbing club. This time, TPTB have unearthed the legendary pasta wand from their…Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-04-baseball-diamond/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-04-baseball-diamond/Ah, baseball. The smell of fresh grass, the crack of the bat, the gentle sizzle of hot sun on the back of your neck. The popcorn, the questionably cold beers, the exhausted mascots. The dad who's way…Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-02-heartstone/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-02-heartstone/While we were quite on time with the last two IOTMs, it has taken a perhaps jarring amount of time for me to complete this analysis on the Heartstone. There's a few different reasons for this. One, I…Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-03-archaeologists-spade/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-03-archaeologists-spade/We're going to call this spade a shovel, because the good folks in the Ascension Speed Society have already handled all the spading. The Archaeologist's Spade is the March 2026 IotM, and it'll let…Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe ErosionSeekerIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-01-eternity-codpiece/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-01-eternity-codpiece/Got a real bone to pick with this year's item-of-the-year. First of all, it's advertised as the "Eternity" codpiece. Well, guess what, folks: someday, our world's sun is going to die, and when that…Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-01-legendary-seal-clubbing-club/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2026-01-legendary-seal-clubbing-club/This month's IOTM comes to us from an alternate universe. In this cursed timeline, the powers that be sell loot boxes for IOTMs, with but a scant chance of an overpowered top-tier IOTM with every…Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2026-contest/https://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2026-contest/Welcome to Passing Time IV: Past to the Future, the winter contest for Loathers.net! This contest is a lovingly rendered recreation of community stalwart Beldur's original Passing Time contests …Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchContest Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-12-skeleton-of-crimbo-past/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-12-skeleton-of-crimbo-past/I was considering only putting the Shrunken Head review up in this post drop, largely due to the fact that the Skeleton of Crimbo Past hasn't been fully spaded. But as I was thinking through it, I…Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-11-shrunken-head/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-11-shrunken-head/This month, we have a very simple, workmanlike IOTM. There's nothing remotely complicated about -this- guy! Just a fun little shrunken head with good enchantments and absolutely no confusing skills…Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-10-blood-cubic-zirconia/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-10-blood-cubic-zirconia/As I noted in the editor's note prepending the Monodent post, it's been a very busy few months for me. My daughter has entered daycare, which has brought an era of constant sickness upon my house. I…Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-09-monodent/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-09-monodent/EDITOR'S NOTE: I have been swamped at work and my daughter just started daycare, which has brought with it an unyielding plague upon my house. As such, I used a summary of the monodent from legendary…Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTProfessor Accodorian & Captain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-07-allied-radio/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-07-allied-radio/Another year, another edition of the Time-Twitching Tower in the books. This year's theme was the Skeleton War, a glancingly WWII themed adventure that was home to several fun puzzles, mostly based…Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-08-mobius-ring/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-08-mobius-ring/Step back, adventurer. this IotM is about to Möb! It comes with one side: 11 theoretical free fights per day (ACAB -- all cops are bius!), and perhaps the most confusing turnsave ever. The Möbius…Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe ErosionSeekerIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-07-cooler-yeti/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-07-cooler-yeti/This month, we're getting cool. Real cool. We've got the dopest, raddest, sickest, coolest buddy around. Homie wears sunglasses and flexes on the haters. He lives in a bucket of ice and throws you…Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-06-beret/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-06-beret/For this month's IOTM, we get a hat. This makes sense, given that the current challenge path is primarily a chapeau-focused affair. June's hat is a beret, a style of hat that is actually quite a bit…Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-05-peridot/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-05-peridot/Finding the right monsters got you down? Don't des-pear, the Peridot of Peril is the May 2025 item of the month, and it's incom-pear-able for helping make monsters ap-pear. Pre-pear to be amazed. The…Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain Scotch & The ErosionseekerIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-04-april-shower-thoughts/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-04-april-shower-thoughts/This month's IOTM was an interesting spading exercise for the Ascension Speed Society discord. Due to the nature of the shield, people were taking a fresh look at core game class skills, and trying…Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-03-leprecondo/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-03-leprecondo/Personally, I don't think that condos are inherently very cool living spaces. I have personally always preferred the extra space and the extra trees inherent in having a house; condos always feel…Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-02-toy-cupids-bow/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-02-toy-cupids-bow/Time to engage my rant zone. This IOTM's capitalization bothers me. The item is classified as the "toy Cupid's bow" -- respecting Cupid's authority as an important individual worthy of capitalization…Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/path-focus-zoot/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/path-focus-zoot/EDITOR'S NOTE: This post was contributed by noway258 (#1735780), a speedster from the aughties who volunteered to write up a path overview for us! Thanks a ton to noway, also known as Tomato Soup on…Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTnoway258Old Man Yells At Pathshttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-12-cyberrealm/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-12-cyberrealm/We've finally got a new realm! At the Ascension Speed Society discord, we often have light verbal jousts over what actually constitutes a "realm" in KOL. There are many different ways you can define…Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2025-contest/https://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2025-contest/This contest ended! A great time had by all. Here are the winners: Huge props to the 4 gold-star contest runs (2/329 by Zasq, 1/463 by TGWH, 2/398 by Harcaz, and 2/398 by astop), as well as the…Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain Scotch, Beldur, & ASSContest Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/awesome-scripts/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/awesome-scripts/This document contains a list of commonly used and (largely) regularly updated scripts that are used for a wide variety of different use cases. We've sorted these scripts out into four distinct…Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe Loathers CollectiveScripting Resourceshttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-01-mchugelarge-skiset/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2025-01-mchugelarge-skiset/The McHugeLarge deluxe ski set comes as an enormous duffel bag. That's right, kids, duffel bags are BACK. And by BACK, I mean that's where you wear it. On your back. You know, like a... duffel bag?…Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/faxes-and-summons/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/faxes-and-summons/There are a ton of ways in KoL to summon monsters. Like, a ton. With italicized entries for standard items, a non-exhaustive list of the most common methods to pick a fight with a specifically…Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchStrategy Helpershttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-12-clan-vip/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-12-clan-vip/For this article, I am going to go through every resource a player has access to in KOL's Clan VIP Lounge. There are quite a few resources, folks! There are TEN full VIP IOTMs that have been released…Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-12-takerspace/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-12-takerspace/November's Peace Turkey was all about keeping up tradition. The December IOTM, the TakerSpace, is a similarly traditional achievement. The important tradition TPTB are celebrating this month is the…Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-11-peace-turkey/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-11-peace-turkey/KOL has been around for a long time. A really long time! 2023's Legacy of Loathing should've made that very clear. If you want to be even MORE clear about it, though, they've created a new tradition.…Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-10-bat-wings/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-10-bat-wings/Dusk! With a creepy, tingling sensation, you hear the fluttering of leather wings! Bats! With glowing red eyes and glistening fangs, these unspeakable KOL speedrunners drop onto... wait, what? These…Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTThe ErosionSeekerIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-09-sept-ember-censer/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-09-sept-ember-censer/Do you remember the 21st night of September? No? Well, you should. It's important! You should go watch one of Demi Adejuyigbe's several educational films detailing many ways you can remember the…Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTThe ErosionSeekerIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/autumn-2024-contest/https://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/autumn-2024-contest/For our autumn 2024 contest, The Robot's Bodyguards, the name of the game was beating the Autoscend ascension script in a contest of ascension speed in the Avant Guard challenge path. Entrants were…Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchContest Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-08-tearaway-pants/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-08-tearaway-pants/These ain't no ripoff pants! Okay, well. Depending on how you evaluate its use, they might be ripoff pants. But one thing's for sure: they're tearaway pants! Tearaway Pants are, well, pants. They're…Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-07-roman-candelabra/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-07-roman-candelabra/Now that I have you here, it's time to discuss how to pluralize the IOTM. No! Wait! Don't boo! It's funny! Candelabra is considered a plural form of candelabrum, but can also represent a singular…Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-06-mini-kiwi/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-06-mini-kiwi/I'm not the only one who thinks it's weird that kiwis have hair, right? The fruit. They're fuzzy little guys! My wife gets kiwis pretty frequently and I'll reach into the fruit drawer and think "hey…Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-05-mayam-calendar/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-05-mayam-calendar/Imagine the Tome of Clip Art. Now imagine it with a way cooler UI and more yams. If you can't imagine it... well, good news: you don't have to! Because the Mayam Calendar is the May 2024 IOTM, and…Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTThe ErosionSeekerIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-04-apriling-band-helmet/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-04-apriling-band-helmet/The people have demanded a hat, and a hat they shall receive. The Apriling band helmet is the April IOTM, and it's filled to the brim with instruments perfect for Apriling along to the beat of your…Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTThe ErosionSeekerIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-03-dart-holster/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-03-dart-holster/This IOTM is clearly a love letter from TPTB to the Kingdom's best dart thrower, ThreeBulletHamburgler (#1993636). "But Scotch, 3BH hasn't been around for ages, and I didn't know that!" Well, yes.…Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/standard-ascension-planning/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/standard-ascension-planning/First, you'll want a resource planning sheet (similar to this one created in January of 2025) that comprehensively lists all available resources. This is helpful to you in several critical ways: - It…Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTBurningBmanguidehttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2014-02-bjornthrone-combo-post/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2014-02-bjornthrone-combo-post/Most IotMs are self-contained capsules that ship once and are never revisited. Occasionally they have explicit synergy and talk to each other, like the Tunnel of L.O.V.E. offering you toast if you…Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTDanceCommander6IOTM Retro Reviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-02-spring-shoes/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-02-spring-shoes/Spring is here / a-suh-puh-ring is here / life is skittles / and life is beer! I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring. I do -- do you? You do? 'Course you do. But there's one thing that…Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-01-black-apron/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-01-black-apron/It was a little later than usual, by TPTB's (rather high) standards, but the 2024 IOTY dropped in late January, and it's a pretty interesting one. Now that I'm back from work travel to Australia…Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-01-chest-mimic/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2024-01-chest-mimic/With the backup camera leaving standard, many speedsters were wondering if we'd get a new copy source at some point in the coming year; we have one source (sort of) through the Recall Habitats skill…Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2023-contest/https://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2023-contest/One year and more than several days ago, the venerable BinnyV and his compatriot, the benevolent VinnyB, attempted to demonstrate to the world that anagrams are funny by repeatedly riffing on…Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain Scotch, Sweaty Bill, Haxxi, & 3BHContest Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-12-candy-cane-sword/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-12-candy-cane-sword/It's a cane! It's a sword! It's a candyswordcane! You can whip out the sword in the middle of your fights... and other adventures. That means noncombats, allowing you to do a wide variety of fun…Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/path-focus-smol/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/path-focus-smol/A large portion of the articles on this website are going to feature a hidden secret agenda, a little easter egg for careful readers. For instance, anything written by Gausie will probably have a…Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchOld Man Yells At Pathshttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-ttt-wardrobe/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-ttt-wardrobe/Whoa! This one came out of nowhere. With the Time Twitching Tower back, TPTB released a brand new item in the KOL Con Merch Table, at the price of one Mr. Accessory. It's the Wardrobe-o-Matic…Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/path-focus-2crs/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/path-focus-2crs/Some paths are really, really simple. One small restriction here, a little boost there, a tiny tweak to the core mechanics there, et cetera. When I think about the 40+ challenge paths that Asymmetric…Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchOld Man Yells At Pathshttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-11-burning-leaves/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-11-burning-leaves/This month's IOTM is about going outside and touching grass. And then, after you touch grass, collecting leaves and burning them to cinders! The item creates a tiny pile of burning leaves in your…Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2007-06-pixie/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2007-06-pixie/What bleats like a goat, shakes like a dog, and talks about how it was a total game-changer in a bygone era? No, it's not your hungover uncle! It's the Bottled Green Pixie, an IOTM from -- seriously…Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain Scotch & 3BHIOTM Retro Reviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-10-jill/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-10-jill/Remember the Jill-o-Lantern? You know, that familiar from 20 years ago that revolutionized KOL, with the bleeding edge combination of a volleyball and a hot lime? Well, she's back, and she's better…Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/autumn-2023-contest/https://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/autumn-2023-contest/For our autumn 2023 contest, No Small Feat: Whuppin' AI, the name of the game was beating the Autoscend ascension script in a contest of speed in the active Standard path, A Shrunken Adventurer am I.…Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchContest Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2008-09-haiku/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2008-09-haiku/Katana so old / Reputation precedes it / Foes in a jumble. Okay, okay, I'm bad at haikus. Sue me. This one is an old mamma jamma, and here we are, going to talk about it! Crush your enemies / perform…Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain Scotch & 3BHIOTM Retro Reviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-09-bofa/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-09-bofa/Have you ever gotten into a hole on Wikipedia, where you spend hours upon hours digging into increasingly bizarre and unfathomable facts that you hazily half remember later? Then, at some work lunch…Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/unrestricted-pulls/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/unrestricted-pulls/Over 20 years of the game's existence, there's a ton of extremely powerful pulls you can snag to help speed up your non-hardcore speedruns. Loathers & ASS maintain a general standard pull list, but…Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchStrategy Helpershttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-08-scepter/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-08-scepter/The August Scepter is a scepter you can use to cast skills. There are 31 skills you can cast, one for each day of August, the month of my birth. Luckily, every single month has 31 skills, so this…Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-06-peagle/https://www.loathers.net/analysis/2023-06-peagle/For one brief shining month in the 2023 Standard Set, TPTB put on their fancy Reds, Whites, and Blues and made the most patriotic IOTM of all time. A sparkling show of blustery patriotism from our…Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchIOTM Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2022-contest/https://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/winter-2022-contest/NOTE: This is for the 2022 Astray, Darned Oaf contest. For the 2023 sequel, click here. In winter of 2022, a few anagram-loving ASS folks got together to break bread and run a contest. This contest…Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTCaptain Scotch, Sweaty Bill, Haxxi, & 3BHContest Overviewhttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/cs-scripting/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/cs-scripting/Community Service (CS) has become a commonly scripted challenge path due to its simplicity and speed (both in-game and real-time). Rather than needing to perform all of the standard council quests…Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMTDanceCommander06Scripting Resourceshttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/pr-overview/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/pr-overview/Ever wonder what the heck a pull request is? Most people have! This is a simple overview of how you'd go about submitting one of these wild and crazy things. Let's say you've been on the ASS Discord…Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchScripting Resourceshttps://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/how-we-nerfed-orb/https://www.loathers.net/shenanigans/how-we-nerfed-orb/Have you ever asked yourself "how many fights can I fight in a single KoL day between rollover and rollover"? Or "how could I exploit the Orb and Extrovermectin to maximum effect before the nerf"? Or…Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTworthawholebeanPondering the Orb with Bean & Scotchhttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/ash-overview/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/ash-overview/ASH is a custom coding language designed and built by the KOLMafia development team for scripts interfacing directly with the Kingdom of Loathing. It was lovingly designed and is constantly updated…Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchScripting Resourceshttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/js-overview/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/js-overview/Javascript (and Typescript) is the new-ish hotness when it comes to building powerful new KOLMafia scripts. In this article, good ol' Sweaty Bill will go over the hows and whys of Javascript in the…Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTSweaty BillScripting Resourceshttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/scripting-overview/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/scripting-overview/When the Kingdom of Loathing (KoL) was first created, it was designed to be a game you could play during your coffee break. Each day you have 40 adventures, and you can spend them fighting Knob…Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTCaptain ScotchScripting Resourceshttps://www.loathers.net/scripting/cs-resources/https://www.loathers.net/scripting/cs-resources/This document is a list of commonly used scripts for ascensions in the Community Service challenge path in KoL. Most of them are meant for 1-day, loop-style hardcore runs -- that is, minimizing…Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTThe Loathers CollectiveScripting Resources