Best Money Making For A Beginner?

[[SAP]CommanderA]

Hello, I am new to the game and getting to the stumbling block of needing a lot more money in order to further improve the apartment. Raiding random houses for supplies to sell just isn't cutting it anymore.

I am trying to make and sell mash but it is extremely slow to level up, and all the bad mash is costing me money (I don't even know how or where to get a compost bin to handle it all). I read that tenants make you a lot of money, and I thought that made a lot of sense given the premise of the game, but it doesn't really seem to be that way anymore now that they only pay once a week. Carpentry seems like it might be an ok path to making money? But everything I search up has been nerfed.

tl;dr: any easy way for a very new player to make some money in the early game?

[Ultimate Gamer]

This helped me out
https://youtu.be/2KA-Cc0ezmk?si=yfjNPUrAxDYyKXBn

[surzhykKorektor]

Tenant rent got nerfed to the otherside and back in this update. What you used to get daily, is now the MONTHLY amount, divided by 4 for weekly, or divided by 28 if you change the difficulty settings to "daily" rent.

The most direct, semi-passive way to make money right now is planting crops in Kurahaara Greenhouse, in particular Rye (two big fields) and Hops (anything with plant supports), harvest and sell them to the guy and you'll make a few thousand OC per day. Another good one is to find a furniture blueprint for the Stolland Clock, which sells for a decent 48rm, but depends on One Stop Shop selling lacquer (the other parts are either O-Market fodder or fairly easy to get at the hardware stall).

[Enter the Wang]

I wish the devs would add up the upgrade costs and calculate how many months it would take for the apartment to turn a profit. Compare that to the time it is expected for the game to be completed.

As it stands the game will be over by the time you make your upgrade costs back from rent. They need to unnerf it.

[ReZpawner]

Early game is basically go through all the recycling bins you can find, and return the bottles at the store, and sell whatever else to the robot vendor next to your building.

There are some free loot boxes with materials dotted around as well, that'll net you quite a bit of cash. Check all buildings, and all floors for these. Most of these will reset every day, and will most likely be the best source of money until you can get lockpicks.

Once you do, you'll want to stay in Kolhola, and rob the apartments that don't have NPC's in them (the ones in the middle often do, which could net you a bounty if you're not careful). Also, make sure that you stick to the floors that don't have cameras in them.
When you're in, you should know that the dishwashers can be used to remove the stolen tag on items, and there are at least 3 of these dishwashers in the floors previously mentioned. This means that you can steal, and clean the items without even leaving the building, allowing you to sell them at full price. Also, unless items are marked as stolen, cops won't stop you.

while you CAN do the rooftop farming thing, I'd say that it's not super profitable, and can be a bit buggy, but by all means, go ahead.

[Jawnycat]

Rooftop farming is a good '♥♥♥♥ about once every two days' thing for a little bit of profit, but mostly it's good for raising your farming skill. It's good at the start to cover your daily expenses, but you grow out of it fast, and usually have no need to go back once you max farming.

You can work at the telemarketing office in Kolhola from the start of the game for ~300-500oc a shift, but be aware that it will hurt your mental health to do so, so it's not really recommended.

Computer parts sell for 500oc a pop, and you won't need them till much later on, good to liquidate if you need money now. Most high value components can be sold as at least one shop will usually stock whatever regularly when you eventually actually need them, tho I would recommend hanging onto stainless steel instead of selling it, it tends to be very rare.

The market stall that sells booze also buys booze, dishwashing stolen wine to make it sellable is a good way to make allot of oc in a quick burst, as many apartments will have fully stocked wine racks. To really make money from booze you'll want to advance the story to the mines, a guy down there will buy mushroom laced booze at roughly the same price as boozestall buys regular, but has much deeper pockets.

If you get lucky and get the scam invoice recipe from a magazine, you can turn ~600oc of stamps, paper and envelopes from the O-Mart into ~1200RM through spam making them at the printer in Kolhola then mailing them, tho it only becomes reliable at higher paperworking skill (but is the best way to raise that skill), and will see you spending one day out of every three in jail under fraud charges.

If you find a gold ring, congrats thats ~500RM if sold to the fence. If you find anything else made of gold, my condolences no one can afford to buy it in the game currently.

If you find a locked safe in your exploration, do note that EVERY safe has a code SOMEWHERE, either in a note or in an environmental clue; some are easier than others, others are annoyingly hard, but the solution is usually within the same zone. Most will have something valuable in them, if not straight up cash. Their contents never respawn mind.

On that note, while not early game, at all (it's basically the end of the current content), doing the bank robbery and making sure to get EVERYTHING, including the things from the three safes, will net you a very large amount of oc, six digits worth at least.

[[SAP]CommanderA]

I have a sort of circle that I make around the square and through all the buildings, picking up all of the bottles, storing them in my backpack for the market, and looting all of the materials for building (storing those in the bin) and those that can be sold for a decent profit at the One Stop Shop. I opened all the boxes for the sacks with my axe, and all the walls with my sledge. But this cycle isn't providing me with enough money, or at least not fast enough, for me to actually do proper upgrades on the building.

[[SAP]CommanderA]

Ok, I will look into the farming to see if that can help spice things up a bit. Hopefully I can find the scam invoice recipe, that sounds like a good chunk of change and I don't mind the jail time, it will give my alcohol time to ferment.

I didn't know that about safes. I have found a bunch, all of them locked, but now I will take a better look around to find the clues to unlock them. No real point in getting the story to advance to get the mines open for that booze guy, like I said, I am barely making a profit selling mash; I am sometimes even losing money when my batch goes bad.

[ID404-NotFound]

Go to a phone booth, call Swamp Publishing LLC, get a subscription to Open Sewer Magazine, I think you can also subscribe by talking to the Telemarketer intercom. Besides being a useful item to pass time an hour, it provides recipes and can boost random skills that are below 5, usually related to alcohol making I think.

huge get with magazine is getting recipe to make lockpicks from sheets of steel

[ReZpawner]

Originally posted by Jawnycat:

If you find a gold ring, congrats thats ~500RM if sold to the fence. If you find anything else made of gold, my condolences no one can afford to buy it in the game currently.

Are you suggesting that creating the high purity goldbar isn't a good investment?!

[gug greego]

you can steal a fridge from one of the rooms in the tenament you are given, godsend for making mash, im using that until i have enough oc for a chest freezer

[Bonsey]

Did they nerf Woodworking money making methods? It's been a while but if you find a recipe you can make either a crate or a skid for cheap and sell it as furniture for a huge profit .

[[SAP]CommanderA]

Originally posted by Bonsey:

Did they nerf Woodworking money making methods? It's been a while but if you find a recipe you can make either a crate or a skid for cheap and sell it as furniture for a huge profit .

Yeah, it seems like all of the things I find for fast money when it comes to carpentry have been nerfed. I would even take a sort of, medium fast/efficient money item to build, lol.

[adrian hlavacek]

Originally posted by surzhykKorektor:

Tenant rent got nerfed to the otherside and back in this update. What you used to get daily, is now the MONTHLY amount, divided by 4 for weekly, or divided by 28 if you change the difficulty settings to "daily" rent.

The most direct, semi-passive way to make money right now is planting crops in Kurahaara Greenhouse, in particular Rye (two big fields) and Hops (anything with plant supports), harvest and sell them to the guy and you'll make a few thousand OC per day. Another good one is to find a furniture blueprint for the Stolland Clock, which sells for a decent 48rm, but depends on One Stop Shop selling lacquer (the other parts are either O-Market fodder or fairly easy to get at the hardware stall).

who will buy hops?

[Jawnycat]

Originally posted by adrian hlavacek:

who will buy hops?

The kurahaara brother who stays in the greenhouse, via a conversation option rather than a shop interface. Do note he'll only buy it if it's been grown in the greenhouse.

[Enter the Wang]

Originally posted by SAPCommanderA:

Originally posted by Bonsey:

Did they nerf Woodworking money making methods? It's been a while but if you find a recipe you can make either a crate or a skid for cheap and sell it as furniture for a huge profit .

Yeah, it seems like all of the things I find for fast money when it comes to carpentry have been nerfed. I would even take a sort of, medium fast/efficient money item to build, lol.

I can't even find decent storage recipes any more. I wish I could build wardrobes.