| “ | Visit the Gastronomer to upgrade your health! | ” |
| “ | +2 Health. | ” |
The Meal Ticket is a gear in Shovel of Hope and a relic in Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon.
Shovel of Hope[]
Usage[]
Meal Tickets can be exchanged by talking to the Gastronomer in the Village, who will make a special, golden platted meal for Shovel Knight. Consuming the meal increase Shovel Knight's Maximum Health Capacity by two points (one full bubble), as well as fully restore his current health. If talked while multiple Meal Tickets are in the inventory, the Gastronomer can take them all at once. He rapidly throws the trays containing the meals onto the table, one after the previous meal was eaten.
With all Meal Tickets in the game, Shovel Knight's Health can be upgraded to a maximum of 20 Hit Points.
Availability[]
The Meal Ticket is obtained in two different ways:
- By completing all 3 main stages in a quadrant of the Valley. Upon completing the third one, the next campfire scene features an event where Shovel Knight dreams of saving Shield Knight. At the end of the dream, Shovel Knight awakes like normal, but a red Treasure Chest containing a Meal Ticket will be beside the campfire. The levels in each set are:
- By buying additional ones from the Goatician, who sells up to three for an increasing price. The prices for the tickets are
1000, 4500 and 6000.
Previously, should Shovel Knight walk away from the campfire without first obtaining the Meal Ticket in the chest, it would have become unobtainable for the rest of the playthrough. As for version 4.0, any Ticket that was not collected from the chests will become available for purchase from Goatician.
Pocket Dungeon[]
Usage[]
The Meal Ticket permanently raises the maximum health of the player by 2HP for all of the remainder of the run. It can be stacked with the Premium Meal Ticket for a total of 5 extra HP. Like all other items collected, they are lost upon return to the Camp or when restarting a run. They need to be found and purchased again in the following dungeon runs in order to continue to favor of their benefits.
Availability[]
The Meal Ticket can be purchased for 
6000 from Chester's shop during runs of the Pocket Dungeon. There, the price rises by 1250 for each Relic the player already obtained during their run. It is also randomly obtainable from Glitzem's Relic Chance Game and the first and third Shrines.
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