Pickups

Pickups are miscellaneous items which are not weapons, skills, runes, blueprints, or amulets. Pickups can be collected using the Interact key while the player is close enough to do so.

Most pickups give either health or gold.

Gems
Gems give a significant amount of gold when collected.

The table below lists all gems in order from least valuable to most valuable. Generally, gems will be more valuable when they appear in harder biomes, and their values seem to increase multiplicatively by ~18.9% (~2^0.25) with each difficulty increment.

Food
Food regenerates a fixed amount of health when eaten. Two types of food exist: carrots and chicken.

Carrots
Carrots restore roughly 25% of the expected maximum health, based on a biome's difficulty level. Enemies and wall runes may drop them, or they might be found on the ground at the end of a branch or for sale in a food shop.

Chicken
Chicken is very effective at healing the player, granting 4x the health of a carrot (or approximately 100% of the expected maximum health for a given biome). Chicken can only be found inside of a food shop.

Crypt Key
"'Open the gates of Hell...'"Only found in the Graveyard in one of the minor tombs, the Crypt Key is required to open the door leading down into the underground portion of the level. Unlike other pickups, the Crypt Key adds a key currency when picked up which can be seen above the player's carried cells (it disappears once the locked door has been opened).