Kingdom of Loathing Guide – How to Heal Batfellow in Kingdom of Loathing

There are a few ways to get sober other than simply waiting a day, none of them quick and none of them cheap. This is set as a built-in turn limitation, so you don't circumvent the 40 turns-per-day limit simply by guzzling booze and then taking sober pills.

There are, in effect, three ways of reducing drunkenness:

1. Spice melange - This is a relatively rare drop from sandworms (usually found by using a drum machine). It reduces drunkenness and fullness by 3, but you can only use one a day.
2. Synthetic hair of the dog pill - This item is also hard to find as it requires the Transpondent effect, which is gained from an item dropped by an Item-of-the-Month familiar. You can buy the items in the Mall, but it's somewhat cost-ineffective to do so just to farm hair of the dog pills. This item reduces drunkenness by 1 and you can only use it once a day.
3. Ultra Mega Sour Ball - This item is a rare drop from the item 'huge bowl of candy'. It reduces drunkenness and fullness by 3, but you can only use one a day.
4. The Towering Inferno Discotheque - You can choose one boon per day, and the fourth option decreases drunkenness by 1. You need to be wearing four pieces of equipment made of unsmoothed velvet (the bra doesn't count). If you don't have a charter for the 70s volcano, you need to use a one-day ticket to get there. (If you want the the one-day ticket to be worth your investment, do some mining or get powerful gear like Mr. Cheeng's spectacles while you're there.)
5. Calculate the Universe - This is a complex skill that, once per day, does one of many things depending on a formula based on your stats. One of them (ending digits 11) is changing your drunkenness. Be careful, it might also make you more drunk; this is seemingly random. Getting this skill requires you to play some PvP during certain seasons.
6. Waiting for tomorrow - This is the "method" used by most players and probably the only one you currently have access. After rollover, your drunkenness is set to 0 again.

The amount of Drunkeness you can have before becoming completely useless depends on your skills and what kind of run you are doing. For the purposes of normal ascensions, your alcohol tolerance runs at about a baseline 15. At and over that, you're face-down in the gutters. You can increase your tolerance by consuming a steel margarita, received from the Azazel in Hell quest.

Avatars of Boris and Zombie Slayers are lightweights, only having a tolerance of 5, while Avatars of Jarlsberg can handle slightly better at 10. Avatars of Sneaky Pete, on the hand, pretty much have two functional livers and have a base tolerance of 20.

Note that these numbers are the levels of Drunkenness at which you become falling-down drunk. The amount of alcohol you can drink and still actually adventure is the aforementioned appropriate number minus 1. So to more clearly illustrate my point:

• Normal ascension - 14 Drunkenness
• Avatar of Boris/Zombie Slayer - 4 Drunkenness
• Avatar of Jarlsberg - 9 Drunkenness
• Avatar of Sneaky Pete - 19 Drunkenness
• Actually Ed - 0 Drunkenness
• consuming steel margarita - +5 Drunkenness tolerance
• Nightcap (Avatar of Jarlsberg skill) - +5 Drunkenness tolerance
• Hard Drinker (Avatar of Sneaky Pete skill) - +10 Drunkenness tolerance
• Hollow Leg (Skill gained from Sloppy Jalopy) - +1 Drunkenness tolerance
• Replacement Liver (Actually Ed skill) - +5 Drunkenness tolerance