Figure out how to make yourself a sleep whatchamacallit.

> Quit being a pansy and regain your health

Attempt to gather a large amount of the gear parts. Continually craft them together to see if there are better quality clockwork parts than perfect. Then continue to build your pet.

If you can combine the sprite with anything, do so with the metal. Having a clocksprite with higher defense would really help.

Then, go to the item shop.

>Reinforce the pet with that other piece of metal.

Find more hands and fuse it into the pet!

Make more clock sprites! Form an army!

Hm, do we have enough money to make a smaller John to combine with the sprite? A combat companion would be invaluable.

This. Check the Hepht Soda Dispenser.

I think you should go and kill some more armlings to get about 3 more alloy peices, then buy a Kark shirt, the gauntlets, and the wooden sheild, and individually combine them each with a piece of alloy.

Buy the Wooden shield, go home, follow these steps:

<Wooden Shield + Alloy = Fortified Wooden Shield (+1 Shield)>
<Nice Shirt + Fortified Wooden Shield = Nice basic Carapace Armour (+Lvl 3 Armor; +1 Shield)>

Combine John with the eye

<John the Atomizer + Eye = John the Cybernetic Atomizer (-ADDITIONAL COMBAT ABILITIES UNLOCKED-)>
-EITHER:
--1) John can hit more accurately (2x DMG/hit)
--2) John can hit multiple targets per attack (1x DMG/hit on 1st target; 0.5x DMG/hit on 2nd target)

We can't afford the wooden shield, we only have 350 heph. He just forgot to update the shop screen.

Check what healing items are available.