The main town in the 2D RPGWest of Loathingis a humble town calledDirtwater. Spend enough time in a podunk town like Dirtwater, and a character will start to feel salty, bitter, and sour. If a cowpoke’s in that kind of a pickle, it’s time to visit theAbandoned Pickle Factory.
Check the wall of the jail to find the Wanted Poster for the Gherkin Brothers. It’s the fifth and last one on the right. This reveals the location of the Abandoned Pickle Factory, and there are a few things to know before moseying out into the wilderness to bring those varmints to justice.
The enemies the player faces at the Abandoned Pickle Factory are ghosts. Fighting them is optional, but if the protagonist decides to take them on,they’re highlyresistent to Spooky damageand vulnerable to physical damage, silver, and fire.
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The Abandoned Pickle Factory
The Abandoned Pickle factory, which is actually the Haunted Pickle Factory, is located on the eastern side of the mountains. When it appears on the map, it’s to thesouthwest of the Circus and north of the Lost Dutch Oven Mine.
The waking nightmare that the player experiences when touching the doorknob on their first attempt to entercontains the clues neededto complete the puzzles inside. There are other ways to get this information. Characters with a Mysticality score of 20 or more can relive the dream sequence, or players can fight the ghosts inside each room and read the numbers from the tokens they drop.
The Cukes Room
The trick here is to get the vats at an equal number. It doesn’t matter which number, so it’s the second easiest of the three puzzles and possible to finish just with some luck. There’s a more practical solution, however, for those players who don’t want to waste time guessing.
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The Salt Room
This one isn’t even technically a puzzle; it’s just a matter of learning the meanings behind the terms “coarse” and “fine.” The “coarse” salt corresponds to the hundreds place in the salinity meter’s reading, the “fine” salt corresponds to the ones place, and the unmarked one in the middle is the tens place.
The dial has to read976. Once the dials on each lever go past nine, they just start at one again, so this is pretty hard to mess up.
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The Vinegar Room
The temperature of the vinegar starts at 93 degrees andthe player has to get it to 190using bellows and steam. A release valve is available if the character needs to start again, and the supply of coal is unlimited. This is the most difficult of the three puzzles, but at least everything required to solve it is readily available.
There are several ways to get the temperature of the vinegar to 190. The player can either start at 93 degrees, or reduce the temperature and start at something lower. One of the most straightforward is tostart by lowering the temperature instead of raising it.
Aside from retrieving the bounty on the Gherkin Brothers, the other nice reward from completing these quests is the Ghost Pickle. Eat this food and be almost impossible to hit in melee combat for a whole day.
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