STEPPE CRAWL // fan guide

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items (the ones that matter)

Potions and the like are unidentified when you find them: they have a random look each game (horn, felt-wrapped, birch-bark, blue glass, walnut-wood...), so "the clay one" is kymyz in one run and kara suu in the next. Names below are what they turn into once you know. Stars = my opinion, not the game's. The colour square is just how I imagine them. Click a column header to sort.

name	is	kind	my rating	notes
kymyz	curing	potion	★★★★★	Poison, confusion, slowness: gone. Most common potion. Never be without one.
ak süt	heal wounds	potion	★★★★★	The real healing. Save 2 for the ride home.
Tulpar's sweat	haste	potion	★★★★★	Escape button. Albasty? Drink. Herald? Drink.
shoro	might	potion	★★★★☆	More damage for a while. Before a unique, not during.
salkyn ayran	resistance	potion	★★★★☆	Fire, cold, poison all at once. Ajdaha juice.
bozo	berserk rage	potion	★★★☆☆	Great for Baatyrs, terrible if you're surrounded and slow after.
arashan water	magic	potion	★★★☆☆	Mana back. Casters only.
kara chai	brilliance	potion	★★★☆☆	Spells get better. Jaychy + kara chai + lightning = good day.
tuman water	invisibility	potion	★★★☆☆	Walk past things. Not past Peri, they see invisible.
ancient kymyz	experience	potion	★★★★★	Very rare. Drink it right away, it's a level.
Janyl's milk	cure mutation	potion	★★★★☆	Keep it for when kara suu gives you cattle stink.
kara suu	mutation	potion	★☆☆☆☆	Random mutation. Could be claws, could be 'cattle stink'. Usually stink.
albasty's tears	confusion	potion	★☆☆☆☆	Don't. If you must, throw it away.
kylych	sabre	weapon	★★★★☆	Baatyr's start. Good till the end, honestly.
eki-kol kylych	great sword	weapon	★★★★☆	Two hands, no shield. Dev-born love it. Kichi can't lift it.
aibalta	moon-axe	weapon	★★★★☆	Polearm. Iradi are good with it. Looks sick.
kamchy	horsewhip	weapon	★★☆☆☆	It's a whip. You're fighting a dev with a whip.
kurama jaa	composite longbow	weapon	★★★★★	At-Kishi + this = the best start-to-mid game in my opinion.
salyng	sling	weapon	★★★☆☆	Kichi's friend. Stones are everywhere.
kuyak	lamellar	armour	★★★★☆	Baatyr armour. Heavy for casters.
chapan	quilted robe	armour	★★☆☆☆	What casters wear. And seed W45 people.
ajdaha scales	dragon scales	armour	★★★★★	If you see it, take it. Fire resistance built in.
tumar of Janyl	life-saving	amulet	★★★★★	One extra life. The rarest thing I ever found (once).
yada stone	calls a freezing storm	evocable	★★★★☆	Jaychy starts with one. The weather in a pocket.
old komuz	plays a sleeping song	evocable	★★★★☆	Everything around falls asleep. Ïrchy's best friend. Mine too.
Horn of Kambar	summons	evocable	★★★★☆	Help arrives. Who? Play and see.

how i identify potions (no spoilers, just maths)

1. The most common look in the first two valleys is nearly always kymyz.
2. A stack of 3+ that isn't kymyz is often ak süt.
3. Drink unknowns when you're at full HP, rested, with nothing in view and no river next to you (confusion + river = swim lesson).
4. Never drink-ID during the ride home with the Ene Malka. The valleys come after you, remember.