Full Prologue

Doing the Prologue Twice for an easier Pacifist Run.

How to Max Your Starting Benefits (for a slightly easier Pacifist Run)

Maxing the prologue benefits only really requires 2 runs, but 3 if you want to be extra-completionist for the S.I.T. Class Ring.

Once you finish a prologue, you can discard that save file.

1st Run (Follow the 300% max guide)

1st Run should be the 300% gas can run for the achievement. You will naturally get the max 45 XP for this. Buy the diner coffee and choose "I really want to help" -> "Family" for Big Heart. +3 Max HP makes the fights easier than the others combat buffs. Follow the Prologue Guide (Fuel Reserves) otherwise.

Make sure you talked to Howie the Hobo after beating the Bull.

This is the most convenient run to equip the bat and dip in the grease barrel to get the greasy baseball bat. The barrel is below the floorboards in the dust devil room.

Don't forget to unlock the Dream Cat. After you equip the fishing rod to fish the shorts out of the toilet, equip the shorts then look for the prompts along the fence to the right of the barn, next to the heart carving behind the train car, along the fence to the left of the barn, and petting the cat in the gas station and in front of the bus.

You should also fully talk to the hitchhiker, then later go back and "speak" to her again.

You should have:
Diner Coffee
Crowbar
The Handgun's Tale
Gas Station Personnel File
Turtle Pet
Welding Gloves
Old Fishing Shorts
Haunted Duck Call
Fishing Rod
Rusty Pistol
Grimy Spatula
Greasy Baseball bat
Jar of Gross old vegetables (3) You can use it in this run. Future Prologue skips still give 3. Don't use all 3 to be safe.

2nd Run (Meat and Food)

Don't buy a coffee, keep the 1 meat from the juke box.

Get everything from the gas station. (+Cheez Loaf, Baseball Bat, 7 Meat)
Claim to be an employee for the XP from finding your file.
Go to the fuse box, get the fuse from the shelves in the hallway, then leave the gas station. (+Fuse)

Get the pear from the BEARS box in Farmer Chekhov's house. Get the 10 meat from the dust devil room, then interact with the class rings box on the right, and flush the toilet for XP. Get the key from Farmer Chekhov.

Kill the robot in the barn, get the fuel. Go all the way to the train car on the left now.

Get the meat from the hobo.
Pick up the class ring and the fuel.
Spend XP for +1 Muscle. Open the train door, get the fuel from the refrigerator.

Show the ring to Farmer Chekhov, ask how much you can get for it, sell it for 30 meat.
Talk to bus driver and leave.

You should gain from this run:
48 meat
Fuse
Baseball bat
Clam Jerky
Bibson's Extra-Sweet Pears
Cheez Loaf

Optional 3rd Run (For the ring)

Keep the meat.

Get the key from Farmer Chekhov. Kill the robot. Get the Fuel.
Get the fuel and ring from the box car. Get the Clam Jerky from the hobo and eat it.
Open the train door and get the fuel from the refrigerator.
Leave.

+1917 S.I.T class ring.

The only real use for this ring is selling it for 5 meat.

Actual Run

Start a new run.
Pick desired trait. Scout's Honor makes talking to some sidequests slightly quicker.
Wait out prologue sequence.
Talk to bus driver and skip prologue.

You should get:
48 meat (+1 meat for every time you save the meat from the jukebox and skip prologue)
55 XP
Fuse
Crowbar
The Handgun's Tale
Clam Jerky
Bibson's Extra-Sweet Pears
Cheez Loaf
Diner coffee
Jar of gross vegetables (3)
baseball bat
greasy baseball bat
grimy spatula
rusty pistol
fishing rod
haunted duck call
old fishing shorts
welding gloves
1917 S.I.T. Class Ring (optional)

XP for Hitchhiker incident when you access the newspaper archives.
Howie the Hobo should show up at the Hobo Camp.
Dream Cat for +1 to all stats except for Day 5. This makes many pacifist events much easier to do.

Misc. Pacifist Tips

Cheese Wizard seems to be the easiest pacifist because it has two relevant perks.
+5 XP from Fights (pacifist ways of dealing with fights count as fights)
+3 Hot Armor

Pig Skinner gives +3 Sleaze Armor
Jazz Wizard gives +3 Spooky Armor.

Botany seems to be the most relevant minor for pacifist. Insects doesn't seem to have any pacifist related option, except maybe 35 extra XP at the Haim's Quarry. Rocks has one when you are cheese wizard.

Always pet the dream cat when able.

Best early buddy is Molly for XP. Once you have enough XP, switch to someone else for the items they give.

Safe to sell most weapons, battle items, and items without elemental armor:
The HandGun's Tale, baseball bat, spatula, pistol, class ring, jar of gross old vegetables.
~91 meat.

Know where all the quickest sinks are for removing surrender debuffs that reduce your stats.
Easiest ones for each chapter are:
Church grail
Lighthouse (Most convenient one by far)
Infinite Hallway
Barbara Yargara's Hut (After clean)
MoleRoss Bathroom (Annoying)
N/A

Cursing/Uncursing currently doesn't really matter for the most part, using them just gives a visual of some locations having more dead trees faster and makes shadow consumables taint you faster. Maybe also makes certain shadow orbs pop up more, not sure.
Keep everything cursed if you don't care.

Immediately buy +5 XP from Gathering Perk, then Hypnotize/Bamboozle/Brag, then get the stats from there. Of secondary interest is the XP related perk if you are Cheese Wizard.
This will allow you get more XP to more easily get by the rough early stage. This is the main reason to skip prologue for the pacifist run.

In chapter 1, it is easier if you get these stats:
+1 Moxie from MailBox sitter quest.
+1 Strength from Church quest.
+1 Mysticism from paying 150 meat to the fortune teller on boardwalk.

Get your hat pictures at boardwalk for 30 meat. Meat is a bit rough until you start finishing mob quests.

The upgrade book for Stench Armor is inaccessible in a pacifist run.
Buy Cola Wars Gasmask from Cola Wars Supply.
The handkerchief you get from finishing the Distillery Mob Quest at Crystal Dream Lake should take care of the rest.

If you need a particular armor, the colas at the college is best.

Park requirements:
Statue (1 Stench armor)
Plumber (None)
Security Guard (50 meat. Don't bamboozle or you don't get hobo code/companion)
Weed remover (3 mysticism or botany in shed after you get quest)
Exterminator (9 mysticism)

Temporarily disable pacifist mode to find Beppo's Hole at CrystalDream Lake after you have found most of the other locations. Be Careful to avoid starting fights. Beppo's Hole is the only location with pacifist content that can not be found while pacifist mode is active.

-1 to all stats in chapter 4 is unavoidable. You can only get rid of it after finishing the mini-questline in chapter 6.

It is important you get your overdue library book from the 7th locker in the 1st dream sequence.
Then get your teeth knocked out by the bully in the 2nd dream sequence.
Then get no tongue in the 3rd dream sequence.
This allows you to get +1 in the 2 stats you don't pick in the 4th dream sequence.

This will somewhat offset the unavoidable -1 curse.

[rhinedog55]

the cat didnt appear in front of the bus for me? it just ran away after the gas station

[Falaal]

Nevermind; it was in the cellar.

[Falaal]

I'm struggling to find the grease barrel.