The Last Caretaker Memory Items: Full List and Uses

They are for growing humans. Food builds the body (height, weight, life expectancy, strength and intellect); memory items build the mind, the ten psychological attributes from Adaptability to Wisdom. Each profession needs more than a set number in some of those ten, and the memory items you load are what get it there.

Put a Human Seed in a Lazarus Pod on a rack with power and fresh water, track the profession you want, then add the food and the memory items. The rack’s Growth Prediction shows how close the mix comes to each profession before you start the grow.

Only four are kept: the Anna Echo, Dolly, the Oath Token and A Future without Him stay in the pod after a grow, so load them every time. Every other memory item is used up by the human it grows.

Points above what you need can also meet a second profession, and the rack may then grow that one instead: a player tracking a Teacher got a Professor. Big all-round items like the Anna Echo make this more likely for low-tier targets, so check the Growth Prediction before you start.

The Anna Echo adds 100 to all ten attributes and the Oath Token 50, and neither is used up. The Anna Echo alone beats the memory requirements of 31 of the 40 professions; with the Oath Token it is 39, and all four artifacts together cover all 40. The pair falls short only for Sustenance Architect, whose Patience must be more than 160.

Apart from the four artifacts, the biggest are Ash Notebook (100 to all ten), Porcine Vocal Interface (100 Communication, 50 Creativity, 50 Empathy), The Manifest Chant (100 Wisdom) and any PECO game cartridge (25 Creativity, 25 Focus, 20 Adaptability, 20 Patience). The other 35 add between 1 and 10 points to one to three attributes each, so they top up what the big ones leave short.

The 19 PECO game cartridges count as one memory item here: every title, from Amiga Boing Ball to Turbulence, gives the same 20 Adaptability, 25 Creativity, 25 Focus and 20 Patience.

Seven of the eight underwater caves hold memory items, three to six each. First Whisper: Commander's Log, Meditation, Mystery Box and The Art of War. Deep Silence: Blueprints, Cards and Stopwatch. Far Horizon: Cognitive Cards, Encyclopedia, Small Tree and Where's Tommy. Grey Mouth: Commander's Log, Maps, Meditation and Stopwatch. North Lantern: Crayon, Guitar, Mirror, Sudoku Book, Teddy Bear and Tommy. South Echo: Assembly Instructions, Biology Notes, Cognitive Cards, Guitar and Where's Tommy. Twin Tide: Compass, Encyclopedia, Maps, Small Human Art and The Art of War.

The Spires carry a few too: Camera, Maps, Teddy Bear, Commander’s Log and Guitar on the Spire of Industry, and the Compass and Meditation on the Spire of Command.

In the Transposium maze, which holds ten of them, along with nine Teddy Bears, two Small Trees, a Guitar, a Stopwatch and Tommy. Each Ash Notebook adds 100 to all ten attributes, as much as the Anna Echo, but it is used up by the human it grows.

Keep them. Every memory item except the four artifacts is used up by the human it grows, so a spare copy is the one you load into the next human. Mark how many of each you have in the Human Calculator and it picks which ones to load for the profession you choose.