What do you do with Hypnotic Eyes?

[BlackDragon]

I've got a stack of them after running a few Derelicts, and unlike with Hadal Cores and Larval Cores, there just... doesn't seem to be a lot of worthwhile things you can do with it. The in-game description claims that they can be used for 'Crafting, Upgrading, Refining, Trading', but... whut? The only Crafting you can do with it is the Impossible Membrane, which you need ONE of, for ONE optional quest. Refining? Sure, you can 'refine' it into a piteous 50 Living Slime, which just seems SPECTACULARLY useless considering the literal THOUSANDS of LS you wind up gathering on a single Derelict-run. As for trading, it's worth a whopping 57K, which really just qualifies as pocket-change considering how many ways there are to make MILLIONS of Units.

The most significant use, I suppose, is cooking... where it can be used for a grand total of TWO recipes, unless you count the 'Horrifying Mush'. Which I suppose you should, since it's technically 'worth' just as much as the other two dishes. I guess you could just cook up a load of Horrifying Mush, feed it to Orion, and hope for the best? Depending on what criteria Orion uses for his judgments - if it's really just Value, or if it matters whether the product can be 'further refined' - it might be better to just throw in some other random stuff you've got lying around for the Abyssal Stew or some farm-fresh Frost Crystals for Iced Screams...

[Kobs]

I think it's used for the living ship quest I remember it's matched with something else to get something important but i'm not sure, I've been playing for over 1200 hours and neded 1 yes only one for that quest

[Lindy Bomber]

You can refine them into nanites, it just takes a few extra steps. Other than that it is a trade item.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

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[BlackDragon]

Well, I did some experimenting, and I can say for certain that the best use for Hypnotic Eyes is cooking. If you refine them, you only get 50 Living Slime, which is the equivalent of 10 Nanites after some time-consuming conversions. Just chuck 'em in the Nutrient Converted instead, along with some random veggie of lump of meat you've got a ton of anyway, and cook up a stack of Abyssal Stew! Or Iced Screams, both work. When I fed a bunch to Orion, he hardly ever gave me less than 50 Nanites a pop, and quite often it was his top-tier rewards in the 120-range.

The Horrifying Mush had less impressive results - seemed to be 50/50 whether he dismissed it and gave a tiny/nonexistent reward, or a decent one. So just stick to Abyssal Stews, and serve 'em up by the bucketload - Orion doesn't seem to care about maintaining a varied diet, and you can rack up quite a stack of Nanites that way!

[Bloof Malloy Flumberghast]

You ingrates sicken me. What can you do with hypnotic eyes?
1) Keep them for Halloween, put them behind a sheet, and when kids reach their hands in to feel them explain they are eyeballs.
2) Mount them on your front door to repulse salespeople and religious weirdos.
3) Put them into the beds of enemies while they are sleeping so when they awake they will see a huge eyeball and know you are super serious.
4) Keep one under your desk at work and then every time you explain something to someone say "do you see now?" and lift the eyeball up so they can see it.
5) Discretely roll one down the gutter of the lane next to you at the bowling alley so when the eye emerges from the ball dispenser the good Christian family will freak out.
6) Take the eyeball on a camping trip and when others set a folding chair by the fire you pull out your huge eye and sit on it and roast marshmallows like nothing is weird.
7) Set it in the corner of your bedroom and tell the wife you want to spice things up with a voyeur fantasy.
8) Put one with the iris facing up just inside a manhole so when city workers lift the manhole cover they will ♥♥♥♥ themselves.
9) Accumulate a thousand of them and have a big corporation where you can set a thousand workers in tightly spaced cubicles, each worker with a huge eyeball installed right above the desk, staring down at them continuously, with a sign under each eyeball reading "arbeit macht frei." Reserve 20 hypnotic eyes to suspend over each bathroom stall.
10) Send them as gifts for special occasions, cards attached saying things like "Just a reminder that EYE love you and I'm always watching" or "Eye hope your Holidays are out of sight!"

[+VLFBERHT+]

Originally posted by Romulus:

You ingrates sicken me. What can you do with hypnotic eyes?
1) Keep them for Halloween, put them behind a sheet, and when kids reach their hands in to feel them explain they are eyeballs.
2) Mount them on your front door to repulse salespeople and religious weirdos.
3) Put them into the beds of enemies while they are sleeping so when they awake they will see a huge eyeball and know you are super serious.
4) Keep one under your desk at work and then every time you explain something to someone say "do you see now?" and lift the eyeball up so they can see it.
5) Discretely roll one down the gutter of the lane next to you at the bowling alley so when the eye emerges from the ball dispenser the good Christian family will freak out.
6) Take the eyeball on a camping trip and when others set a folding chair by the fire you pull out your huge eye and sit on it and roast marshmallows like nothing is weird.
7) Set it in the corner of your bedroom and tell the wife you want to spice things up with a voyeur fantasy.
8) Put one with the iris facing up just inside a manhole so when city workers lift the manhole cover they will ♥♥♥♥ themselves.
9) Accumulate a thousand of them and have a big corporation where you can set a thousand workers in tightly spaced cubicles, each worker with a huge eyeball installed right above the desk, staring down at them continuously, with a sign under each eyeball reading "arbeit macht frei." Reserve 20 hypnotic eyes to suspend over each bathroom stall.
10) Send them as gifts for special occasions, cards attached saying things like "Just a reminder that EYE love you and I'm always watching" or "Eye hope your Holidays are out of sight!"

LoL

- Use as an Horror or Fantasy movie trope special effect, focused on a central theme depicting the eternal struggle between Good and Evil.

[BlackDragon]

11) Challenge local kids to eyeball-fights, in areas with little to no snowfall.

[!?!]

You can craft them into a secret weapon for your living ship but the recipe will only appear if you got 1.616 of them.

[BlackDragon]

Originally posted by !?!:

You can craft them into a secret weapon for your living ship but the recipe will only appear if you got 1.616 of them.

And only if you've already unlocked Shen Long in the original Street Fighter 2 first, right? :P

[Captain Cosmo]

Every time I see this thread title, my mind goes "What do you do with drunken sailor, what do you do with a drunken sailor?"