Shop & equipment
Probably Stolen supplier schedule: restock before the next production cycle
Use Friday for Dr. Jackson and the retired suppliers whose upgrades you own. Sunday brings the supply runner, merchant and landlord. Wild’s seller referral is a pool, so a farmer is not guaranteed every day. For an urgent shortfall, target the relevant display supplier and buy only what completes the next funded cycle.
Separate appointments from a possible customer
| Day | Relevant scheduled visit | What must already be true |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Some reputation-perk merchants or thieves. | The particular reputation perk must be earned; not a general daily supplier. |
| Wednesday / Saturday | A flexible lower-level buyer. | Its category follows the highest combined eligible tag value in your inventories. |
| Friday | Dr. Jackson; unlocked retired production suppliers. | Buying the relevant business upgrade is a prerequisite for the retired supplier. |
| Sunday | Supply runner, merchant and landlord. | Have a reserve for obligations before using the day as a bulk restock. |
This is the useful production subset of the community customer calendar, not a promise that every faction or event visit appears. Event customers, perk visitors, display sellers, Wild’s pooled seller and phone contacts occupy different positions in the queue.
Name the missing input before choosing a source
| What is missing? | Targeted source | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Pitcher, ordinary filter or test strips | Household-sign supplier; Jackson for tools such as UV and AquaScan. | A display sign uses the normal-customer pool. |
| Raw water | Water-sign seller; an established Moisture Farm for recurring output. | Test the actual contents and retain output capacity. |
| Empty water vessels | Appropriate water customers or Bottle Printer. | Printer sizes require upgrades and charge. |
| Berries, yeast or wine bottles | Unlocked Friday winemaker; pooled Wild farmer for berries. | The farmer is only one possible Wild seller. |
| Cage, feeder or rat-care equipment | Unlocked Friday retired rancher. | Equipment ownership does not fund recurring food. |
| Mixed emergency inputs | Sunday supply runner when the current stock includes them. | The source reports a 50% markup; it is an emergency comparison, not an automatic good deal. |
Open machines and containers before buying, as UPDATE 049 permits. Inspect the actual stock rather than paying for a box name and discovering that its contents do not close your batch.
Do not build a fermentation schedule around a guaranteed farmer
The retired winemaker’s recorded Friday stock includes wine bottles, water rations, BloomBerries and ordinary yeast, sometimes with a Super Yeast substitution. Treat rare bioreactor stock as a possible bonus, not a planned recurring input.
The Wild seller pool also contains a miner, chemist and pharmacist. The hydroponic farmer is the member that supplies nutrifruit and, once winemaking is bought, berries. A day without that farmer is not necessarily a broken wine unlock.
Keep enough bottles and ingredients to start the next selected recipe, then leave the cash needed while it ferments. Do not spend the bill reserve on surplus premium berries just because one visit offers several.
The rancher delivers equipment; the animals still need a daily budget
The community Friday rancher record includes cages, feed dispensers, a meat cleaver, blue labeler, cleaner robot, wire cutter, rats, Gene Scanner and livestock serums. That is a way to replace missing equipment after the upgrade is unlocked; it is not a reason to buy every item at once.
If the problem is food, adding another cage or more rats increases the unfunded demand. Refill useful feed, repair the current cage and preserve breeding replacements before expanding births. Compare the actual food cost with the next meat decision.
Bridge the gap without breaking the next cycle
- Today: identify one shortage
Bottle, food, filter or charge?. Check what is already owned.
- Next reachable source
Fixed day or supplier-sign pool?. Do not assume a farmer visit.
- Buy a complete next cycle
Inputs plus usable capacity. Keep the bill reserve.
- After arrival: inspect stock
Confirm the needed item exists. Then resume production.
Example: you have one wine bottle and berries but no yeast. Waiting for Friday is reasonable if the shop can continue trading and the shorter fermentation matters. If that wait threatens an obligation, sell finished stock or use a currently complete recipe instead of treating an uncertain pooled farmer as credit.
Source: Vendors and You. Community mechanics describe the current demo; read the actual item and customer information before spending.