Thought-Provoking
Increases the size of the user's head. Thought-Provoking is a tier-4 effect that adds +44% of the product's base value to the sell price and contributes 0.370 addictiveness to the customer. Like all effects it stacks with the others already on a product, up to the 8-effect limit, and it can be mixed onto any product in the game.
Which Ingredient Adds It
Exactly one ingredient carries Thought-Provoking in the v0.4.7 data:
| Ingredient | Price | Unlocks at | Value on OG Kush |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addy | $9 | Hustler (tier 2) | $50 |
On a $35 OG Kush bud the ingredient pays for itself as long as Thought-Provoking is worth more than its $9 cost — which at +44% of base value it is on every product except the zero-bonus ones.
Transformations
In the full game, mixing can also transform effects — an ingredient added to a product that already carries certain effects replaces or converts them instead of appending. The transformation table is derived from the game's own mix-map data; since that audit is done, our calculator and every recipe on this site use the append-only model, which reproduces all community-verified prices so far (OG Kush base $39, Green Crack + Banana $50). Thought-Provoking is not the initial effect on any product.
Price Multiplier
Thought-Provoking adds +44% 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:
| Product | Base price | Sell price with Thought-Provoking | Value added |
|---|---|---|---|
| OG Kush | $35 | $50 | +$15 |
| Meth | $70 | $101 | +$31 |
| Cocaine | $150 | $216 | +$66 |
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
Thought-Provoking earns its slot in the top-profit recipe for Best Cocaine Mix, Best Granddaddy Purple Mix, Best Green Crack Mix, Best Meth Mix, Best OG Kush Mix, Best Shrooms Mix and Best Sour Diesel Mix. Its +44% bonus scales with those products' higher base prices, which is exactly why the expensive bases are where tier-4 effects pay off most.
FAQ
Want to test your own ingredient order? Want Thought-Provoking on a specific product — open the Schedule 1 mixing calculator and replay any chain step by step.