Balding

Which Ingredient Adds It

Exactly one ingredient carries Balding in the v0.4.7 data:

Ingredient	Price	Unlocks at	Value on OG Kush
Mouth Wash	$4	Hoodlum (tier 3)	$46

On a $35 OG Kush bud the ingredient pays for itself as long as Balding is worth more than its $4 cost — which at +30% of base value it is on every product except the zero-bonus ones.

Best Recipe to Get Balding

The solver explored every ingredient sequence (up to 8, transformation rules included) and this is the most profitable recipe that ends with Balding on the final product — Mouth Wash → Addy → Horse Semen → Viagor → Mega Bean → Cuke → Addy → Iodine on Cocaine.

Steps and per-step transformations are in the reverse calculator — pick Balding and the product to replay the whole chain.

Transformations

Mixing does not only append effects — under v0.4.7 rules an ingredient first applies its transformation table (if-effect-present → replace-with) to the effects already in the bucket, and only then adds its own default effect if there is room. That is exactly how Balding can appear on a product even when no ingredient carries it: another effect gets converted into it mid-mix. The full 114-rule table is derived from the game's own mix-map data and every recipe on this site runs it. Balding is not the initial effect on any product.

Price Multiplier

Balding adds +30% of the base value. Because the bonus scales with the product's base price, the same effect is worth a different dollar amount depending on what you mix it onto:

Full formula: sell price = base × (1 + the sum of every effect's bonus), rounded to the whole dollar — the same math the mixing calculator runs for any ingredient chain.

Products That Want It

Balding does not make the cut in any of our published best mixes — higher-value effects fill every slot of the profit recipes. It remains a solid pick for budget builds before those ingredients unlock: check the best mixes hub for the cheap alternatives per product.