Field notes / Guides

Player guides

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Practical next steps for the counter. Start with a question, then follow the references.

Getting started

Getting started: your first shop

Choose a starting scenario, prepare the display case, inspect purchases and build a daily routine without spending your rent.

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Appraisal guide

How to get appraisal customers

Join the board, display your certificate, prepare an inspection tool, and check why customers are not arriving.

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Water guide

Water purification: tools, steps & troubleshooting

Measure your batch, choose a treatment, check High-Quality or Pure thresholds, and troubleshoot stalled purification.

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Getting started

Getting started with Hand appraisal & water mixing

A first-use walkthrough for the Hand and Water calculators: prepare your readings, calculate, check and repeat.

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Customers & security

How to identify Augs

Check Aug clues, understand the scanner and avoid treating a request for medical supplies as proof.

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Rat ranching

Rat farming: setup and common problems

Set up rat ranching, place food where rats can reach it, maintain the cage and troubleshoot a colony that will not breed.

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Storage & disposal

How to get rid of radioactive waste

Take radioactive waste to the Dumping Ground, understand Georgio’s return event and avoid relying on trash-can exploits.

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Progression

Buying the store and continuing afterward

Compare outright purchase with the mortgage route, check your run’s buyout price and learn what happens after you own the store.

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Water trading

Water Merchant: from testing to selling

Build a practical water-trading routine: test stock, choose treatment, relabel containers and prepare water your customers will accept.

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