Hobo Camp
Hobo Camp | |
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Region |
Ocean City |
Unlocked by |
Wandering with 3+ hobo kindness |
You can find the Hobo Camp in Ocean City after you help out enough hobos that word gets around of your good deeds.
Hobos
All the hobos found in the camp, or recruited from other places to here, will give +1 Hobo Literacy when you ask them about hobo code. Some of them require that you first recruit them to the camp or do some other task. The most important of which is the Hobo King
There is one hobo, selling pencils in front of Fission Chips, who can't be recruited to the camp. He can still increase your Hobo Literacy after you bring him an S.I.T. coffee mug.
Most hobos refuse to talk to you if you have Shadow Taint level 3 or higher. Obie, Agamemnon, and the pencil guy are the exceptions.
Name | Location | Camp location | Recruitment requirement | Note |
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Howie | Inside a Boxcar | Outside | Defeat the minotaur behind his boxcar, then tell him about it. | Easily missable, as the Outskirts cannot be revisited. |
Gus | Plunkett Street | Outside | Give him 2 Meat during the Prologue. | Easily missable, as he will only remain for the duration of the Prologue. |
Fifty-Two | Hobo Camp | Grub Boxcar | N/A | |
Johnny | Hobo Camp | Outside | N/A | Speak to him every now and then as you recruit more hobos. |
Letters | Hobo Camp | Cryptography | N/A | Speak with him to begin learning Hobo Literacy. |
Veronica | Hobo Camp | Outside | N/A | |
Washy | Hobo Camp | Outside | N/A | |
Dusty | Ocean City Boardwalk | Outside | Give her 5 Meat. | |
Obie | Goldthwait Park | Outside | Give him at least 10 Meat, then as part of the groundskeeper's quest, ask him to leave as a favor. | Missable if you give only 1 Meat or make him leave in a non-favor way. Once he becomes a companion, he doesn't return to the camp if dismissed, instead going to The Purple Door. |
Samuel | Hiram's Grocery | Outside | Give him 10 Meat. | |
Beanie | The Old Junkyard | Grub Boxcar | 5ish Muscle | |
Creamy Steve | Sandwich Museum | Grub Boxcar | Vandalize the gazebo sign in Sandwich Museum's past, then find him there in the present. | |
Doc | Beppo's Hole | Outside | Rescue him from the coccoon. | |
Calendula | Zeta Omega Omicron | Grub Boxcar | Give her 87 Meat. | Once Cornelius is at the camp, she gives you one free big jar of moonshine, then sells shots of moonsine for 20 each. |
Ovid | Ovid's Store | Outside | Bring the Royal Summons from Johnny. | His store travels with him. |
Walter | S.I.T. (River Bridge) | Outside | Translate the nearby glyphs with Level 9 Hobo Literacy | |
Agamemnon | Gatorman Hamlet | Grub Boxcar | Give him a weapon with +6 attack damage or better. Improvements such as sharpening don't count. | |
Clyde | Mossrock Grotto | Grub Boxcar | Cryptobotanist or 6ish Mysticality | |
Pepperidge | Sunken Boxcar | Outside | Get all of his family locks in The Old Dauphin House | A grave appears in the camp, and after interacting with it, he will appear. |
Beatrice | MacMillicancuddy's Farm | Outside | Clear the ducks out of the six farm buildings. | |
Cornelius | The Maize Maze | Grub Boxcar | Brag/Bewitch/Bamboozle (7ish mainstat) | At the camp, gives you one free homemade cornbread, then sells more for 30 each. |
Croesus | Black Gold Mine | Cryptography | Remove the vampires. |
Counting and rewards
Your save file adds 1 to the hobocamp_total
flag each time you recruit a hobo.
- Fifty-Two, Johnny, Letters, Veronica, and Washy begin at the camp. They do not count toward
hobocamp_total
. - Howie, Gus, and Samuel also do not count toward
hobocamp_total
, despite being recruitable. - With
hobocamp_total = 10
or greater, the hobos can help you destroy a pillar in Government Valley in Chapter 6. - With
hobocamp_total = 14
(the maximum), when you ask Johnny about his plans, he awards you The Grand Token of the Hobo Empire. - For 14, you also earn the achievement "The Gang's All Here". (Untested: Does the achievement require Howie, Gus, and Samuel as well?)
To find what your hobocamp_total
is, subtract 9 from your Hobo Literacy level.
This assumes you've learned hobo codes from everyone at camp including Howie, Gus, and Samuel, plus the pencil-seller at Fission Chips.
Locations
Hobo Camp
- Get Warm Hands effect once per day (+3 Cold Armor).
Shuteye Boxcar
- Any attempt to move past the center will be greeted with "You probably shouldn't mess around in here, you'll wake people up."
- When Ovid joins the camp, this boxcar gets furnished with his double-sided bed by the masses, but you will still get the above prompt.
Grub Boxcar
- Until you recruit any food-providing hobos, a sign indicates the grub car is BYOG.
Cryptography Boxcar
- Find heavy boots after talking to Letters.
Notes
- Some of the hobos' names are a pun to specific item or things.