Long-Tail Guide

Animal Hospital sanity guide

What lowers sanity

• Looking at the wrong anomaly or lingering on cursed photos can chip away at sanity.
• Enemy grabs, jumpscares, ritual mistakes, and environmental hazards like room fires all create pressure.
• Letting several problems stack at once is usually what collapses a run, not one single mistake.

Best recovery loop

• Coffee restores 5 sanity per sip and 15 total per cup, making it the best renewable recovery source.
• Chocolate restores 20 sanity per bite and 60 total, making it the strongest paid emergency refill.
• Secretary restores 1 sanity per patient check-in, while Doctor and Surgeon restore 1 per heal.
• Intern starts with +10 bonus sanity, which helps early learning runs but does not scale well.

The safest rule of thumb for fresh runs is to keep your sanity above 50, rotate back to coffee before a panic moment, and pair your build with a class that naturally refunds sanity while you work. If you want the raw math, the sanity planner uses the verified current values.