What to sell: goods, customers & margins

Match goods to customers

Product	Check before buying
Water	Actual contents, grade and accepted buyer
Wine	Finished fermentation, quality and tied-up cash
Weapons	Permit requirements and inspection exposure
Medical or rare goods	Condition and authenticity
Animals	Housing, food and a saleable output
Raw materials	A buyer or powered processing route

Containers change category

UPDATE 049 distinguishes empty liquid containers as household goods and filled containers as water goods. It also reprices the container and liquid in market events. Premium Spring Water has a restricted buyer rule: ordinary customers and tourists will not accept it. Do not infer demand from the Water tag alone.

Calculate a real margin

Include purchase cost, consumables and power. A batch that sells eventually may still be a bad use of cash before rent. Our planner uses your own current-build numbers instead of a fixed universal price list. Machine and water prices have already changed since the demo.

Overnight selling

1.0 adds vending machines that sell after closing. Treat them as another outlet with their own investment cost, rather than assuming everything in storage sells automatically.

Labeler: description is not condition

Inspect the actual goods first. Select the Labeler and compatible item, choose the correct grade or authenticity label, and check the resulting description before offering it. Retest treated water before changing its grade. Relabeling does not purify liquid, repair damage or make counterfeit stock genuine. A false premium label can lose reputation and money even when the interface permits it.

Negotiate for the run you want

Use a lower offer when buying or a higher asking price when selling, then inspect the reputation feedback before pushing again. A slightly customer-favorable trade can instead support the faction whose permit or supply you need. Watch the Feedback Box on the left door; do not assume a larger immediate margin is always the better long-term result. Reserve this approach for trades that allow bargaining; gun orders have separate rules.

Sources & version scope

Sources reviewed November 01, 2026. Official patches establish the changes they describe; earlier community reports are not independently tested in 1.0 here.

Your run checklist

Match goods to customersCheck current build and item detailsKeep the next rent payment covered