#interdimensional vending machine

when you put money in the vending machine three things can happen

1) the panel displaying the amount of money inserted remains the same after the item is dispensed, this means that this item will be dispensed again if you put in that much money again (though if you do so too many times it will trigger a reshuffle and assign that item a new number)

2) the number displayed on the panel changes after an item has been dispensed, this means that the amount of money you just put in will consistently give you a random item until it ends up assigned to a new item during a shuffle (a vast majority of numbers will dispense random items), the number that shows up after dispensing the item is how much money you need to insert to get that specific item again

3) the panel says GOOD (or maybe 6000? kinda hard to tell with the graphics) after dispensing an item, this seems to indicate that the item does not have an assigned number and can only be won randomly until it reshuffles and gets assigned a number, there's always several items in this category at a time

if you input 1000 you get either a large packet of apple seeds OR a bucket of 'KFG', the KFG will have a much more affordable assigned number that you can also purchase it with, however purchasing the KFG via the 1000 input seems to bypass the trigger that causes the assigned number to reshuffle, apple seeds never have an assigned number but often show up randomly, and if you input any amount under 100 you will always get small quantities of apple seeds

the assigned numbers seem to stay within the 100-500 range

also the food items have different effects on your character so you can colour code them when you figure them out! (the effects are all different flavours of body horror)

important to note, new games will ENTIRELY reshuffle the numbers so make sure to ONLY 'continue' your game! dying of starvation will reset your items, money, and form, but it will NOT reset your numerical system as long as you still select 'continue' after it boots you back to the main screen, (I will assume being arrested has the same result but I haven't actually tested that one), the game also auto saves your progress even if you close the browser

also because updating your spreadsheet takes time and time in this game very rapidly drains your hunger, the game will pause when you get pop up messages, which happens when you click the menu button on the top left, so abuse the everloving fuck out of that