What items should I always carry?

Inventory is limited, so prioritize items that save sanity and solve events:

• Coffee - the best sanity item in the game (+15, brews every three minutes). Always grab a fresh pot at shift start
• Chocolate bar - restores 60 sanity in an emergency
• Taser - only for confirmed anomalies (+2 sanity per fake tased, -15 per real patient)
• Maple syrup - pacifies the Bed Monster under patient beds
• Fire extinguisher - puts out fires and slows Slimebert, but never use it on a ghost
• Medicine for your current patients - read the room computer and fetch the exact treatment; the wrong one kills the patient

Tip: If you hold medicine in your inventory without equipping it, you can administer all needed medicine to a patient in one interaction.