7 Trinkets

What Are Trinkets?

Trinkets are permanent passive modifiers that you equip on your toon before a run. They do not need to be activated in the match. Once a run starts, every equipped trinket quietly changes how your toon behaves, for example by increasing extraction speed, reducing stamina drain, or making Twisteds lose interest faster.

You unlock a trinket only once, then it is added to your account collection. After that, you can freely equip or unequip it in the loadout screen, limited only by the number of trinket slots your toon has. Different toons can use the same unlocked trinket, so you do not need duplicates.

Trinkets are separate from items. Items are picked up and consumed in the run. Trinkets are chosen before the run, never consumed, and stay active for the whole floor set unless a specific mechanic disables them.

You will spend a lot of your progression time unlocking and testing trinkets. For beginners, learning what each trinket does for your chosen role extractor, distractor, or survival focused is more important than chasing every single unlock at once.

How to Unlock Trinkets

Trinkets come from several sources, but the two main ones for beginners are Dandy’s Shop and progression rewards. You do not need to rely only on random chance, but there is still a luck element in which exact trinket you get early.

The usual ways to unlock trinkets are:

Dandy’s Shop in the lobby lets you buy trinket capsules or specific featured trinkets using tapes or event currency. Capsules commonly give a random trinket of a certain rarity. Direct purchases are less random but often cost more.

Progression milestones such as reaching certain floor thresholds, completing beginner challenges, or finishing research lines sometimes reward specific trinkets. These are reliable and a good foundation for a basic collection.

Event shops and event passes offer exclusive event trinkets while the event is active. If you miss them, they may return later in reruns, but not always.

Occasional quest chains or achievements can unlock unique trinkets that support particular roles or toons, especially main characters.

If you want to grow your trinket collection efficiently, focus your early currency on broad capsules that give you many different common trinkets quickly, then start targeting rarer ones and role specific trinkets when your basics are covered.

Trinket Effects

Every trinket modifies one or more aspects of your gameplay. Effects can be simple percentage buffs, conditional bonuses, or tradeoffs that give power in one area while weakening another.

Typical effect categories include:

Extraction speed modifiers that make your skill checks and machine progress bars fill faster. Some apply all the time, others only after you complete consecutive checks or while no Twisted is nearby.

Stamina and movement modifiers that reduce stamina drain, increase regeneration, or slightly boost run speed. Distractors and solo players value these highly.

Survival and health modifiers that increase maximum hearts, improve healing value, or reduce damage taken from specific sources such as hits during panic. These are core for new players.

Aggro and stealth modifiers that shorten Twisted detection ranges, make them lose you faster when you break line of sight, or slightly reduce aggro gain from nearby actions.

Item and loot modifiers that increase the chance of finding items, improve item effectiveness, or let you carry more of a specific item type.

Hybrid or conditional modifiers that reward particular playstyles, such as bonus extraction speed after being chased, extra stamina if you are the last one alive, or stronger effects once a certain floor threshold is reached.

Most numerical effects scale as simple percentages. If base extraction time for a machine is $T$, and you equip a trinket that gives a $p\%$ extraction speed bonus, the new time is usually:

$$T_{\text{new}} = \frac{T}{1 + \frac{p}{100}}$$

so a 20 percent bonus turns a 50 second machine into roughly $50 / 1.2 \approx 41.7$ seconds.

Some trinkets carry drawbacks, like more extraction speed but increased Twisted aggro range. Those are strong but punishing and better for experienced players who can manage the risk.

Common Trinkets

Common trinkets are your first step into loadout building. They are easier to obtain and cheaper to buy, and they usually focus on one clear, simple stat increase without any complicated triggers or side effects.

For beginners, common trinkets are valuable because they teach how roles feel with even small bonuses. A slight buff to extraction or stamina can make an immediate difference in how safe a run feels.

You can think of common trinkets in three broad groups.

Basic extraction helpers give small increases to overall extraction speed, slightly faster skill check windows, or forgiving timing. They are perfect to learn machines without being punished too hard.

Stamina and comfort tools give you a modest boost to stamina capacity or regeneration and sometimes a tiny run speed increase. They do not turn you into a top distractor but reduce the frustration of running out of breath in early floors.

Safety nets touch on hearts, healing, or simple aggro reduction. Instead of big power, they make beginner mistakes less fatal, for example by letting you recover from one extra hit per floor.

Common trinkets rarely define a full build on their own. Instead, they fill gaps when you do not yet own the rarer, more specialized options. Many experienced players still use one or two commons as flexible glue around key rare trinkets.

Rare Trinkets

Rare trinkets are stronger, more specialized, and often have conditions or tradeoffs. They are the core of most serious builds and heavily shape how you play.

Some rare trinkets offer large pure bonuses, for example a big extraction speed boost that kicks in after hitting several skill checks in a row, or a hefty stamina regeneration buff while you are being chased.

Other rare trinkets are hybrid, such as giving extraction and movement buffs while on a machine that already has progress, or increasing both hearts and item effectiveness once your health drops below a threshold. These encourage specific patterns like committing to nearly finished machines or playing more aggressively at low health.

A third group are high risk options, such as powerful extraction bonuses at the cost of making you more visible to Twisteds, or extreme movement speed with slightly shorter blackout timers to punish mistakes. These are flexible tools but can be punishing if misused.

Because rare trinkets can interact in complex ways, you will often build around one primary rare trinket, then support it with commons or other rares that enhance its strengths or cover its weaknesses. For example, a rare trinket that speeds you up while chased pairs well with another that restores stamina on successful escapes.

Main Character Trinkets

Main character trinkets are tied to specific main toons. They are usually locked behind that toon’s progression, research, or achievement chains and are designed to enhance that particular character’s unique ability or natural stats.

These trinkets almost always have powerful synergies if you equip them on their intended toon. For example, a main character extractor might have a trinket that dramatically boosts extraction speed when using that character’s signature ability, or a stealth focused main toon might have a trinket that shortens Twisted detection only while their special ability is active.

You can usually equip a main character trinket on other toons if the game rules allow, but the effect will often be weaker, harder to trigger, or simply less efficient because it was tuned around a specific ability. In many cases, using a main character trinket on the wrong toon wastes its potential.

As a beginner, once you find a main toon you enjoy, unlocking their dedicated trinket is a very strong investment. It can turn a decent starter into a full build centerpiece. However, do not rush every main trinket at the expense of all general ones, especially if you have not settled on a favorite character.

Event Trinkets

Event trinkets are tied to limited time events and typically available only through event currency, event specific capsules, event passes, or special quests.

These trinkets often have unique or playful effects that match the event theme. They might change how your toon interacts with a particular event Twisted, increase rewards during event floors, or grant unusual bonuses that do not exist in the standard trinket pool, such as extra ichor from certain actions during that event.

From a gameplay perspective, you can group event trinkets into three rough categories.

Event limited power trinkets that are unusually strong during the event itself, for example by boosting event currency gain or dramatically weakening event specific threats. Outside the event, these may be weaker or simply less relevant.

Evergreen event trinkets whose bonuses are strong in regular play, such as general extraction, stamina, or survival boosts, but flavored for the event. These remain valuable long after the event ends.

Collection and niche trinkets that are more about novelty or minor mechanical twists. They are fun and may support an offbeat build, but they are not required for strong progression.

If you have limited time or currency during an event, prioritize event trinkets that clearly benefit your usual role or that maintain power outside the event context, for example a strong survival buff instead of a highly specialized event currency boost.

Best Trinket Combinations

Trinkets are most powerful in combinations. Synergy comes from pairing effects that either multiply each other, cover each other’s weaknesses, or interact with the same condition.

For example, an extraction focused combo might use one trinket that increases machine progress after each successful skill check together with another that makes skill checks easier or more frequent. The first multiplies the value of every success, and the second helps you achieve more successes.

A chase oriented combo might pair a trinket that grants extra movement speed while in a Twisted’s line of sight with one that restores stamina when you break that line of sight. Together, they encourage a rhythm of fast escapes then quick recovery, perfect for a distractor.

You can think of combination design with a simple rule.

For instance, a pure extraction build might sacrifice some personal safety and chase strength to finish machines extremely quickly. To make that playable, you then add just enough survival or stamina to avoid instant collapse when a Twisted appears. In contrast, a survival build centers on staying alive and completing floors slowly but safely, adding minor extraction only after survival is secure.

Typical strong combos include:

Extraction chain combos where every trinket rewards long stays on the same machine with fewer interruptions.

Chase loop combos where movement speed, stamina, and aggro decay effects stack to let you lead Twisteds around loops indefinitely.

Last survivor combos that only reach full strength when teammates are down or extracted, ideal for clutch endgame plays, but risky early.

Always test combinations in practice, starting with moderate floors before bringing experimental builds into deep runs.

Best Trinkets for Extraction

Extraction trinkets aim to reduce the total time spent on machines and the number of risky visits you need to complete them.

For a dedicated extractor, prioritize trinkets that:

Increase raw extraction speed, especially ones with unconditional or easily maintained effects.

Improve skill checks, such as larger hit windows or better progress rewards per success.

Protect you while extracting, for example small bonuses to detection reduction while at a machine or minor stamina refunds when leaving a machine after a near miss.

A simple way to evaluate extraction trinkets is to ask two questions.

First, how much time do they save on a single machine on average. Second, how often can you actually trigger their condition in a realistic run.

A trinket that gives a big speed burst only when you are the last player alive may look powerful, but if your runs usually keep several teammates alive, a smaller constant bonus is better. Likewise, a trinket that ramps up extraction after several consecutive checks is great if you stay on machines for long stretches, but not if you constantly reposition.

For beginners who mostly play in teams, a safe extraction set includes one strong general extraction trinket, one skill check helper, and one mild safety or stamina piece. This lets you finish machines quickly without becoming helpless when a Twisted appears.

Solo extractors, on the other hand, often pair one or two heavy extraction trinkets with at least one strong stamina or survival trinket, since they must both finish machines and handle every Twisted themselves.

Best Trinkets for Distractors

Distractors care more about managing chases and aggro than pure extraction. Their trinkets should help them grab attention, survive long loops, and escape safely so they can repeat the process.

High priority effects for distractors include:

Increased movement speed, especially while in chase, in line of sight, or near a Twisted.

Improved stamina capacity and regeneration, or partial stamina refunds when certain chase conditions occur, such as dodging an attack or exiting line of sight.

Aggro and pathing control, for example slower aggro decay on you so you hold the Twisted longer, or faster loss of aggro once you break line of sight to finish a chase cleanly.

Defensive safety nets that soften hits during chase, reduce panic penalties, or slightly increase hearts so one mistake does not end the run.

A very effective distractor build combines at least one strong stamina trinket and one chase speed or chase bonus trinket. A third slot can go to either survival or a small extraction buff if you occasionally help with machines.

If you run in a coordinated team, you can choose more extreme chase trinkets that increase your visibility or aggro but pay you with big movement bonuses. Teammates will finish machines while you keep the Twisted busy. In public lobbies or when you are unsure of team coordination, lean into safer stamina and survival oriented trinkets that still help you distract even if the rest of the team is inconsistent.

Avoid loading a distractor build with pure extraction trinkets. Every trinket that does not help you survive or control aggro makes chase mistakes much more punishing, which defeats the purpose of your role.

Best Trinkets for Survival

Survival focused trinkets help you stay alive through long runs, clutch bad situations, and recover from early mistakes. They are especially useful for beginners and for deep floor play where every hit matters.

Strong survival trinkets usually interact with hearts, healing, or damage avoidance.

Some increase maximum hearts or reduce incoming damage under certain conditions, such as when below a health threshold or recently exiting panic.

Others improve healing, making each healing item restore more or slightly regenerate health over time after a heal.

A third group reduces the likelihood of being hit at all by improving stealth, shortening Twisted detection ranges, or accelerating aggro decay once you are hidden.

Survival builds work best when you layer these effects.

One trinket to increase your buffer, for example more hearts or small damage reduction.

One trinket to improve recovery, such as better healing or partial heart regeneration after a chase.

One trinket to reduce how often you get into lethal situations, for example line of sight or stealth tools.

For beginners, a survival heavy loadout is recommended while you learn Twisteds and floor layouts. Once you feel more confident, you can gradually trade some survival power for extraction or chase bonuses.

In very high floors, even experienced players return to survival focused trinkets. Twisteds hit harder and mistakes are punished more, so long term sustain and safety become more valuable than a small extra speed boost.

By understanding how trinkets unlock, what their effects do, and which combinations fit extraction, distraction, and survival roles, you can start building loadouts that match your preferred toon and playstyle instead of relying only on base stats.