Peak… excuse me, PEAK is brand new co-operative multiplayer game from the devs who made, among other things, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator and Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.
The premise is pretty simple: there is a mountain and you can climb it. Of course, it’s not going to be easy, and your friends’ occasionally clumsy assistance is going to be worthwhile.
What’s going to be even more worthwhile, however, is learning about the items you can take on the expedition. Being familiar with your equipment is never the wrong choice. If you’d like to speed your learning up a little bit, what we’ve got for you is a breakdown of all the PEAK items known at the time of writing and what they can do for you.
Let’s… well, not “dive in”. Let’s climb up!
Item list for PEAK climbers
Food
Managing your Stamina is an important part of playing PEAK, but it can be an uphill battle (pun intended) to keep it up at a decent level, especially since your Hunger reduces the available supply severely. Counteracting that requires, unsurprisingly, Food. It comes in several forms, which at the time of writing include:
- Berries (various types, including Berrynanas which drop a peel when eaten, and a Scorchberry increasing your body temperature)
- Coconut (they need to be cracked open into half-coconuts)
- Shrooms – like in real life, some of them might poison you
- Marshmallows (Marshmallow, Cooked Marshmallow)
- Egg (edible egg is acquired by breaking a Big Egg)
- Honeycombs (4 units from breaking a beehive)
- Airline Food
- Granola Bar
- Scout Cookies
- Trail Mix
- Big Lollipop
- Energy Drink
- Sports Drink
- Pandora’s Lunchbox – staves off a random amount of Hunger and grants a random status effect (including negative ones)
In addition to reducing Hunger (which means reducing the penalty to max Stamina), food items might provide additional effects, such as:
- Extra Stamina – used when your regular reserve is empty
- Getting poisoned – not advised
- Infinite Stamina – a few seconds of sugar rush might turn into a sugar crash (Big Lollipop is the main source)
- Healing – certain food, such as the Yellow Winterberry might cure some of your Injuries
- Status cleanse – removing all lingering status effects
You can improve the edible items’ Hunger-staving, Stamina-providing traits by cooking them. All you need to do so is find an open flame, hold the items in your hands towards the fire, and wait for it to get cooked.
Any source of fire will do, your cooking skills aren’t limited to orderly campfires, so your survival does not depend on you crafting a fireplace. You can put down a stove if you have one, however.
Restoratives
Keeping an eye on your hunger and stamina is not enough. The path up the mountain is fraught with danger, and this danger will often cause injuries you will need so medicine to cure. The options at your disposal include:
- Antidote – removes an amount of Poison from your system
- Bandages – heal a substantial amount of injury
- Medkit – cures a massive amount of injury and some Poison
- Heat Pack – reduces the cold for the duration
- Medicinal Root – In addition to curing a decent amount of poison and healing a bit of injuries, it can also stave off a little bit of hunger
- Cure-All – heals a decent amount of every status effect, in addition to helping you with Hunger
Traversal tool
- Rope spool – 12.5 meters of regular rope
- Anti-rope spool – an anti-gravity rope which floats upwards from the point of attachment
- Rope cannon – allows you to shoot a climbable rope at speed
- Anti-rope canon – similar to the rope canon, except the rope floats upward
- Chain canon – essentially creates an artificial vine at the point of your choosing
- Piton – useful as a resting spot while climbing a wall, but will break eventually
- Shelf Shroom – toss them against a wall to create a ledge
- Magic Bean – creates a lengthy beanstalk when thrown against a surface
- Compass – does what a compass does, pointing towards the north
- Pirate’s Compass – points to the closest unopened luggage
- Warp Compass – you get teleported to a random player (it might be temporarily patched out for fixing when you’re reading this)
- Banana Peel – less of a tool and more a prank, but when you eat a Berrynana you’ll get a peel which can cause other players to trip and slide.
Miscellaneous
- Portable Stove – reusable stove you can use to cook food and slowly recover from the Cold state
- Flare – a throwable light source which also emits smoke handy for navigation to a specific point
- Lantern – in addition to providing light, it can remove frost from nearby players
- Faerie Lantern – lightly heals nearby players and will recharge if not used up fully
- Bugle – toot at capybaras to get an Animal Serenading Badge
- Bugle of Friendship – grants nearby players 10s of the infinite stamina effect of Big Lollipop
- Scoutmaster’s Bugle – the Scoutmaster spawns and starts chasing you, but it also bump nearby players to max Stamina
- Bing Bong – carry it all the way to the peak itself for a Bing Bong Badge. Doesn’t do anything otherwise
- Scout Effigy – revives a dead character
- Cursed Skull – cures nearby players’ negative statuses, revives dead players, and recovers their full stamina… but kills the user, who benefits from none of the positive effects.
- Blowgun – one-time item launching a hitscan, lethargy-inflicting dart
Item Rarities
Items you find during your climb have a rarity assigned to them, hinting not just at how powerful their effect is, but also at how difficult it would be to find a replacement, should you use the one you have.
The rarest are Legendary items, which include the Bugle of Friendship, Faerie Lantern, and Pirate’s Compass, among others. They tend to be the best items in Peak, game-changing even, but don’t bet your entire strategy on them, the basics are the basics for a reason.
Now go and reach the peak in PEAK
PEAK isn’t a hugely serious game, but skill and mastery are going to be quite valuable, especially once the terrain starts getting really challenging. With this rundown of items and their function, you’re a little better equipped (pun intended) to deal with whatever the game throws at you.