How to Get and Manage Money

This guide will help explain everything there is to know about money farming and money management in this game.

Options for Money Farming

There are five main ways to gain money in this game, these options are revenue, faz-rating, salvaging, sponsors and achievements. Revenue and faz-rating are the two primary methods. Choosing between the other methods is easy if you know what your goal certificate is, for example, if you plan to get the completion ending you might prefer salvage money over sponsor money.

Food and Bonus Revenue

The food revenue and bonus revenue values derive from the total visitors count at the end of each day. To get more total visitors you need to get more new visitors and returning visitors and less turned away visitors, to do that you have to increase your atmosphere and entertainment stats and to make sure you have enough room size for all your visitors. To get more bonus revenue you will need to increase your revenue stats too. You can see these stats for each item in the catalog and also your overall stats in the up right corner of the blueprint mode.

Formulas for Food and Bonus Revenue
New visitors = 20 + atmosphere * 2 + X * atmosphere + Y * 10
Returning visitors = entertainment * 2 + X * entertainment
Total visitors = new visitors + returning visitors
Food revenue = total visitors * 4 + X * total visitors / 2 + 100
Bonus revenue = bonus revenue * total visitors / 3 + X * bonus revenue * 2

X and Y are RNG generated numbers

Turned Away
Turned away visitors come from not having enough room size for all the visitors so if you have turned away visitors that means that you should upgrade the size of your pizzeria.

Pizzeria Upgrades

• 1st: up to 50 visitors for free
  
• 2nd: up to 100 visitors for 250$
  
• 3rd: up to 500 visitors for 1,000$

Games

Games give points which turn to faz-rating after you complete that game. Each night you are given 10 play tokens so you'll have to use them wisely by selecting the best possible games available and also planning for the next games to buy.

Here is a list of the overall best games for each night based on their required skill, potential rewards, price, RNG dependancy and accessibility (by catalog menus). Each game's stats, catalog menu and catalog price will be listed with it.

Discount Ball Pit
Preferable Night(s): 1
Menu: 1
Price: 30$
Atmosphere: 0
Health & Safety: 0
Entertainment: 3
Bonus Revenue: 0
Liability Risk: 1
Description: The discount ball pit can be a good first game for night 1 if you are planning to not accept any sponsor offers during your run, this is because you start with 100 cash so instead of spending all that money on the sanitation station and wasting your 10 play tokens you can get a game like discount ball pit and use your play tokens to make at least 270 cash and then spend that on the sanitation station and on the midnight motorist arcade from catalog menu 2, then you can spend the rest of your play tokens on the midnight motorist arcade.

Midnight Motorist Arcade
Preferable Night(s): 1-2
Menu: 2
Price: 170$
Atmosphere: 0
Health & Safety: 0
Entertainment: 4
Bonus Revenue: 1
Liability Risk: 0
Description: Midnight motorist is great for the first two nights. It gives about 2550 to 2780 points.

Basketball Hoops
Preferable Night(s): 2-5
Menu: 3
Price: 550$
Atmosphere: 0
Health & Safety: 0
Entertainment: 5
Bonus Revenue: 4
Liability Risk: 0
Description: The basketball hoops are an efficient choice after the midnight motorist arcade. They give 5500 point if you hit 20 baskets plus the performance bonus that you will get for doing so (It is also time efficient which is useful for speedrunning).

Fruit Punch Clown
Preferable Night(s): 2-6
Menu: 3
Price: 490$
Atmosphere: 3
Health & Safety: 0
Entertainment: 2
Bonus Revenue: 1
Liability Risk: 0
Description: The fruit punch clown can give a huge amount of money if you manage to scare all the children at the same time. Unfortunately, this is a bit difficult and time consuming, it requires a lot of patience and determination to do it once.

Riding Rockets
Preferable Night(s): 2-5
Menu: 3
Price: 450$
Atmosphere: 0
Health & Safety: 0
Entertainment: 4
Bonus Revenue: 5
Liability Risk: 1
Description: The riding rockets give out a decent amount of money relative to the required skill.

Deluxe Ball Pit
Preferable Night(s): 4-6
Menu: 4
Price: 4400$
Atmosphere: 0
Health & Safety: 0
Entertainment: 8
Bonus Revenue: 0
Liability Risk: 4
Description: The deluxe ball pit is an excellent game for money farming which i haven't seen being adviced by others. It gives 2000 points for every time helpy falls in the pit (10000 max), it is fairly easy to get 6000-10000 points every time you play. Also it gives a performance bonus every time unless you got 0 points.

Gravity Vortex
Preferable Night(s): 4-6
Menu: 4
Price: 9000$
Atmosphere: 0
Health & Safety: 0
Entertainment: 9
Bonus Revenue: 5
Liability Risk: 5
Description: Gravity vortex gives an exceptional amount of money but it is very skill-demanding.

Salvaging and Sponsors

Salvaging

Salvaging should be used as a secondary money source if you go for the completion or blacklisted endings. If you are planning to salvage all animatronics you should avoid accepting any sponsor offers so that you don't get any advertisments during the office stage. Also avoid getting a high liability risk so that no animatronic enters the building before their salvage phase. If you are planning to get the Rockstar Assemble achievement you should not buy lefty until you've salvaged him so that you do not lose out on the salvage money.

To salvage an animatronic you have to use electric shocks on them in order to prevent them from getting aggressive and killing you. After 3 uses of electric shocks, their salvage value which determines the salvage money will start to decrease with each new electric shock.

Starting Salvage Values

• Molten Freddy: 500
  
• Scraptrap: 1,000
  
• Scrap Baby: 2,000
  
• Lefty: 5,000
  
• Total: 8,500

Sponsors

Each night you are given one sponsor offer which you have to decide to either accept or ignore. If you ignore the sponsor offer you lose out on free money but if you accept ads will play during the office stage which will create noise and stun your progress.

Sponsor Money

• Night 1: Fiztime Popsoda 250$
  
• Night 2: Marty's Plungers 500$
  
• Night 3: Flo's Glossy Floss 1,000$
  
• Night 4: Wacky Wart Paste 2,500$
  
• Night 5: Lally's Lollies 5,000$
  
• Total: 9,250$

Achievements

You can get achievements by buying specific animatronics and placing them on stage together. This money farming method doesn't have any downsides other than the fact that it can't be used consistently.
Requirements
Most achievements require the maximum amount of stage slots which is five. In order to get that amount of stage slots you have to buy the Deluxe Concert Stage from menu 4 for 810$ and the Star Curtain Stage from menu 4 for 500$, the Star Curtain Stage also requires the maximum room size for 1,000$ which is available after you buy the medium room size for 250$.
Tips
To get achievements it is easier to get the first one and then proceed to get all of them one by one so that the money from previous achievements can be used to support the next one. For the Rockstars Assemble achievement you should avoid buying lefty until you have already salvaged him in order to get 5,000 salvage revenue which would have been lost otherwise (you don't have to do this if lefty has already entered because of a high liability risk level). For the Posh Pizzeria achievement you don't have to buy all the animatronics, you can buy only El Chip for 32,000$ and then buy Prize King and Ballpit Tower for 8,520$. Prize King has a 1% chance to give Funtime Chica but on the 10th try it will have a 100% chance to give Funtime Chica. The same is true for the Ballpit Tower but with Music Man instead.

Animatronics

• Trash and The Gang: menu 1 animatronics
  
• Mediocre Melodies: menu 2 animatronics + Orville Elephant
  
• Rockstars Assemble: menu 3 animatronics + Lefty
  
• Posh Pizzeria: Music Man + El Chip + Funtime Chica

Total Costs

• Trash and The Gang: 55$
  
• Mediocre Melodies: 4,980$
  
• Rockstars Assemble: 8,505$
  
• Posh Pizzeria: 122,000$ or 40,520$ + 2 to 20 play tokens (probably 20)

Rewards

• Trash and The Gang: 1,000$
  
• Mediocre Melodies: 10,000$
  
• Rockstars Assemble: 20,000$
  
• Posh Pizzeria: Jar of Pickles will become available

Money Management

Money management will help you decide how to use the cash that you've earned from money farming to buy different things.

Catalog Menus

To unlock new calatolg menus you have to spend a specific amount of money on the previous menu. This can influence your money management and thus must be taken into consideration when buying items.

Required Spendings

• Menu 2: 100$ spent on menu 1
  
• Menu 3: 900$ spent on menu 2
  
• Menu 4: 2,000$ spent on menu 3

Pizzeria Upgrades

Pizzeria upgrades can be used to have more game slots, make more items available and reduce turned away visitors. All these factors should be taken into consideration before deciding to buy an upgrade.

Upgrades

• 1st: up to 50 visitors for free
  
• 2nd: up to 100 visitors for 250$
  
• 3rd: up to 500 visitors for 1,000$

Item Statistics

There are 5 different stats that each item has, these stats are Entertainment, Atmosphere, Health and Safety, Revenue, and Liability Risk (There is also the happiness stat which is exclusive to the jar of pickles). These stats will be taken into consideration when buying an item as they alter your overall stats.

Entertainment:
Increases the amount of returning visitors
Atmosphere:
Increases the amount of new visitors
Health and Safety:
Decreases liability risk (1 point of risk for each point of H&S)
Revenue:
Increases the amount of bonus revenue
Liability Risk:
Increases the chance of a lawsuit and the chance of the item containing an animatronic, each run starts with either 3 or 4 risk without having bought any items.

Game Upgrades

Use upgrades on the games that you plan to keep for later nights too.
Safety Straps: 50$
Safety straps will reduce liability risk by one, this is the most useful game upgrade of all in case you have more than 0 liability risk.
Clean & Polish: 50$
Clean and polish will give 1 atmosphere to the game.
Add Coin Slot: 100$
The coin slot will give 1 bonus revenue to the game.

Strategies

Night 1 Strategy
Usually the sanitation station should be the first item you buy as it immediately unlocks catalog menu 2 and it decreases the liability risk to 0. But then you have no money left which means all your play tokens will be wasted unless you accept a sponsor offer. So if you are not planning to accept any sponsor offers, the sanitation station should be your second item after the discounted ball pit (or any other game from the first menu) which should be used to get enough money for both the sanitation station and the midnight motorist arcade where you'll use the rest of your play tokens. If you accept the first sponsor you won't need to do that and you can just buy the midnight motorist arcade right after the sanitation station without buying any games from menu 1. After that you should either try to unlock menu 3 or get a stage which you can afford and buy all the menu 1 animatronics to place 4 of them on stage. If you unlock menu 3 you can buy the fruit punch clown or the basketball hoops to help you further.

Night 2 Strategy
Now you will try to upgrade to the max-sized pizzeria. If you have unlocked menu 3 on night 1, try to get the Deluxe Concert Stage and the Star Curtain Stage, then buy all the trash animatronics from menu 1 to get the Trash and The Gang achievement. If you bought all the menu 1 animatronics on night 1 then buy more stuff to unlock menu 3 and then buy the Deluxe Concert Stage and the Star Curtain Stage to place the animatronics down and get the achievement. Now you have earned 1,000$, use that to buy more animatronics and get more achievements while unlocking menu 4 in the way.

Lawsuits

Liability risk increase the chance of you getting a lawsuit, so if you have more than 0 risk you should be prepared for the case that you get a lawsuit. When you get a lawsuit you will be presented with one or more papers (each paper for one lawsuit) and you have to chose to either settle or fight each one. If you settle you spend more money but then you won't need to worry about the lawsuit anymore. If you decide to fight, you will need to pay legal fees which will cost less than the settlement cost but the lawsuit has a chance to appear again tomorrow unsettled.


There are 10 different lawsuit papers that you can get. Here is a list with all of them:

Personal Note

This took a L O N G time to research, test, and type out. I appreciate it a lot if you read everything and even more if it helped you at all with the tycoon phase of the game. Please let me know if it did.

[FredBread]

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[Soysuh]

Really helpful!

[Vernous]

cool, got this game today sience my friend showed me. This will help alot!