Nuggets feel capped in terms of how much you can gain

[jovial flame]

After going through every ingredient room from every area and having Salchichonium from the Pond, I made the same amount nuggets I would make during a run where I didn't have that item and didn't go to any ingredient rooms. The average would be 34-36 nuggets and never would go beyond that if I simply make it to the very end of the game. So currently, this mechanic feels useless and like a false sense of progression as purposely going into these rooms and grabbing this item feels like a waste because the amount you gain feels so fixed.

Salamander Axolotl- Salchichonium and ingredient rooms run
Archvale Axolotl- Vanilla run

As you can tell, first one I gained 36 nuggets and the vanilla one with the video and picture (recorded too soon and so it cut off early) made 34 nuggets

[normal zenith]

No other modifiers are present?
Such as more enemies per wave or extra waves?

[woeful copper]

Quite annoying

[jovial flame]

Not in this case no but that doesn’t change anything. No matter how many ingredients you gather during a run, it caps at a certain point. Usually 34-36 like I said

[normal zenith]

you only showed one example twice, i cannot compare that except to my own runs which is what im doing

also yes that changes things since the "cap" is between a number and is still untested because i havent kill 500+ enemies in a single run

[jovial flame]

That’s so weird, I got to add the correct video, I knew something looked off but sent this before work so I was a bit rushed in sending it out. However again, Chaos 20 or vanilla, you can’t get very many nuggets past what you would get normally even if you go for every opportunity to grab extra ingredients, which is why I said it doesn’t matter.

[normal zenith]

about to test that theory

[jovial flame]

Well thank you for your help and let me know how it goes. I’ll still add the actual video I meant to put with the post.

[normal zenith]

ALRIGHT!

IT IS CAPPED

started with 9 nuggets

ended up with 43

[jovial flame]

Thank you for your test Glad to know I wasn’t crazy

[near sonnet]

i once used the glitch to have a lot of waves per room (like 5 waves and also the salchichonium) and beat the game, got only 35 nuggets

[normal zenith]

My theory is that the code used for nugget calculation keeps incrementing the food needed the more nuggets you get per run

[trim cape]

OR

Its just every room you complete you get set nuggets

[normal zenith]

That could also be true except i didnt complete my run and got the same ammount of nuggets as a full run

[queen phoenix]

hey there! we were checking this one, actually there is a cap of 999 ingredients that you can get inside the run, that's why the end result is similar when you go back to the hub 🙂

[trim cape]

we are reffering to the amount of nuggets that you obtain after a run ends, we noticed we get the same amount of nuggets even if we do things that are supposed to give us more

[normal zenith]

How many pieces of food are needed for one nugget?

[jovial flame]

My point is that ingredients effectively do nothing since it caps the nuggets you get a certain amount