Production Numbers/Calculations/Cheat Sheet

I just exported all the production data/numbers and put it on the same denominator: 24hr or 1day. Use it to easily calculate, how man buildings you need for a balanced prodution chain.

Introduction

Pretty straight forward: I exported the ingame data and put it on the same demoniator:

24 Hours

Just use the numbers to calculate the perfect prduction chain.

Because it is a very long guide due to a lot of tables, feel free to use the table of content on the right to navigate.

Farms

Farms are the first and basic way to get crops to grow. The production interval stays always the same, but you can research for more output. Those number are on 100% fertility. If you consider building farms on less, just use the corresponding factor:

Fertility 60% = Daily throughput * (1 - 0,6) = x * 0,4


Opium

Level	Output	Durationl	24hr/day
I	2	13,6hr	3,529
I upraded	3	13,6hr	5,294
II	4	13,6hr	7,059
II upgraded	6	13,6hr	10,588
III	6 (yes, there is also just 6)	13,6hr	10,588
III upgraded	10	13,6hr	17,647

Vegetable

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
I	14	24hr	14
I upraded	15	24hr	15
II	16	24hr	16
II upgraded	17	24hr	17
III	18	24hr	18
III upgraded	20	24hr	20

Coffeebeans

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
I	6	40,8hr	3,529
I upraded	7	40,8hr	4,118
II	8	40,8hr	4,706
II upgraded	9	40,8hr	5,294
III	10	40,8hr	5,882
III upgraded	11	40,8hr	6,471

Cannabis (Level II required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
II	19	8,4	54,286
II upgraded	21	8,4	60,000
III	23	8,4	65,714
III upgraded	25	8,4	71,429

Peel the Avocado (Level II required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
II	6	40,8	3,529
II upgraded	7	40,8	4,118
III	8	40,8	4,706
III upgraded	9	40,8	5,882

Coca (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
III	25	8	75
III upgraded	31	8	93

Chicken (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
III	7	48	3,5
III upgraded	8	48	4

Quinoa (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
III	8	55,2	3,478
III upgraded	11	55,2	4,783

Plantages

Plantages are bigger, cannot be built everywhere, because the surface must be flat, but have fairly higher throughput than farms. In the end you need to calculate, if (according to fertility and space) one Plantage is better than maybe 4 Farms - also put into account, that your vans need to adress maybe just one building instead of multiple farms. Plantages have the same production time, but a higher output and are on Level I already better (without considering the space you need to build) than a Farm Level III with upgrade (except for Opium).

Those number are on 100% fertility. If you consider building farms on less, just use the corresponding factor:

Fertility 60% = Daily throughput * (1 - 0,6) = x * 0,4


Opium

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
I	8	13,6hr	14,118
I upraded	no upgrade
II	12	13,6hr	21,176
II upgraded	no upgrade
III	20	13,6hr	35,294
III upgraded	30	13,6hr	52,941

Vegetable

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
I	56	24hr	56
I upraded	no upgrade
II	64	24hr	64
II upgraded	no upgrade
III	72	24hr	72
III upgraded	80	24hr	80

Coffeebeans

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
I	24	40,8hr	14,118
I upraded	no upgrade
II	32	40,8hr	18,824
II upgraded	no upgrade
III	40	40,8hr	23,529
III upgraded	44	40,8hr	25,882

Cannabis (Level II required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
II	76	8,4	217,143
II upgraded	no upgrade
III	92	8,4	262,867
III upgraded	102	8,4	291,429

Peel the Avocado (Level II required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
II	28	40,8	16,471
II upgraded	no upgrade
III	50	40,8	29,412
III upgraded	55	40,8	32,353

Coca (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
III	100	8	300
III upgraded	110	8	330

Chicken (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
III	28	48	14
III upgraded	31	48	15,5

Quinoa (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
III	32	55,2	13,913
III upgraded	38	55,2	16,522

Chemistry

Close to rivers those buildings generating substances for high price drugs - in general they can generate three substances: H, O and C - like level I, II und III. Here it is the other way around: upgrades shorten the duration and increase the daily throughput that way.

Chemic: H

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
I	11	8,8hr	30
I upraded	11	8hr	33
II	13	8,8hr	35,455
II upgraded	13	8hr	39
III	14	8,8hr	38,183
III upgraded	14	8hr	42

Chemic: O (Level II required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
II	20	12,8hr	37,5
II upgraded	20	12hr	40
III	23	12,8hr	43,125
III upgraded	23	12hr	46

Chemic: C (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day
III	15	12	30
III upgraded	15	11,5	31,304

Dryer

To get dried Coca, Opium or Cananbis you need to dry those thing in the Dryer #you dont say. Same procedure as above: Upgrades decrease the amount of time needed for one operation, but upgrading the Level also incrases the amount of final product you get per operation.

So E.G.:
If you do the time research for a Dryer, you will need to step up you Cannabis production, since you now need lees time to process the Cannabis, so you need to provide more Cannabis per day.
If you just do the Dryer research from level I to II, you dont need to imporve your Cannabis production, since you need the same amount of Cannabis per day, but get more Dried Cannabis out of it.

Dried Cannabis

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day	Cannabis needed per Day
I	3	2,8hr	25,7	291,4
I upraded	3	2hr	36	408
II	5	2,8hr	42,3	291,4
II upgraded	5	2hr	60	408
III	6	2,8hr	51,4	291,4
III upgraded	6	2hr	72	408

Dried Coca (Level II required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day	Coca needed per Day
II	50	4,4hr	272,7	501,8
II upgraded	50	3,6hr	333,3	613,3
III	60	4,4hr	327,3 (note: Lvl II with upgrade is better)	501,8
III upgraded	60	3,6	400	613,3

Dried Opium (Level III required)

Level	Output	Duration	24hr/day	Opium needed per Day
III	30	12hr	60	180
III upgraded	30	11,2	64,3	192,9

Spices (Level III required)

Level	Output	Durationl	24hr/day	Veggies needed per Day
III	9	24hr	9	35
III upgraded	9	23,2	9,3	36,2

Lab

Let's do the good stuff! Breaking Bad at its finest. You can increase you production per day either by doing some research or adding some chemics. The tables are getting more complex, but you will get it.

Cocain

Level	Output (3)	Duration	24hr/day	Dried Coca needed per Day	24hr/day by adding "H" (increasing output to 5)	Chemic "H" needed per Day
I	3	4hr	18	330	30	30
I upraded	3	3,4hr	21,2	388,2	35,3	35,3
II (basically like Level I	3	4hr	18	330	30	30
II upgraded	3	2,8hr	25,7	471,4	42,9	42,9
III (basically like Level I)	3	4hr	18	330	30	30
III upgraded (basically like Level II upgraded	3	2,8hr	25,7	471,4	42,9	42,9

Meth (Money Printing) (level II required)
(according to my research Level III and its upgrade does not improve anything)

Level	Output (7)	Duration	24hr/day	Chemic "O" needed per Day	Chemic "H" needed per Day	24hr/day by adding "C"	Chemic "C" needed per Day
II	7	11,2hr	15	70,7	15	30	17,1
II upgraded	7	7,8hr	21,5	101,5	21,5	43,1	24,6
III	7	11,2hr	15	70,7	15	30	17,1
III upgraded	7	7,8hr	21,5	101,5	21,5	43,1	24,6

Heroin (level III required)

Level	Output (6)	Duration	24hr/day	Dried Opium needed per Day	Chemic "C" needed per Day	24hr/day by adding "O" (increasing output to 10)	Chemic "O" needed per Day
III	6	14,4hr	10	143,3	10	16,7	80
III upgraded	6	10,1hr	14,3	204,4	14,3	23,8	114,1

Workshop

This buidling is underestimated - at first you think that it is to hide your illegal stuff in legal goods. Basically it is, but after a while you might ask, why bothering with it if I export through an Airfield or small Port? There I don't need to hide anything, Fear will not rise.

True.

But: You don't simply hide your stuff, you also increase your export volume, because if you pack your drugs in legal goods, you can sell more!

E.G.:
At the small Port you can sell 10 dried cannabis per slot at level one.
But you can also sell 18 Coffee per slot at level one.
And you guessed it: You can pack 5 Dried Cannabis in 1 Coffee each, wich increases your export volume to 90 dried cannabis per slot at level one instead of 10, which is STONKS!

So: I would go for Coffee, see the table down below for my reasons.

Workshop rates

Level	Durationl	Packs per day equals legal goods needed per day
I	8hr	3
I upgraded	5,6hr	4,2
II	4,8hr	5
II upgraded	4	6
III	3,2hr	7,5
III upgraded	2,1hr	11,4

Workshop Packing Quantitiy

It does not matter which drug you want to pack - it is all about the package itself.
Always consider where to get those goods to pack into - maybe it is easier for you to buy Coffee from a village and gaining Respect/Loyalty instead of harvesting from 30% Farms. Mostly it is cheaper, but needs a bit more maintenance (manual buy at villages).

Legal Good	Amount of Illegal Goods packed
Vegetables Just do not bother	3
Chicken Dont bother either: Only 3 Drugs and you need a Farm Lvl III or expensive prices at Villages at higher Lvl	3
Coffee Easy to get at Lvl I Farms and Lvl I Villages	5
Avocado Imo better fertility spread than for coffee - swith after a while	5
Quinoa Dont know, Farm Level III and slow production, I guess not worth it	5
Pet-Food Small Increase of drugs compared to relatively easy to manage Coffee Packs, but way harder to produce, dont think it is worth it	6
Spices Maybe in some situations a good choice	6
Gamingcontroller Hard ot maintain, since you need a town building and manual buy	6
Sauce Endgame Package I guess	10
TV Hard ot maintain, since you need a town building and manual buy	10

Canning

Basically the endgame packaging: Sauce.

Just imagine selling 42 Sauces each Slot at a Level III Pier filled with 10 Heroin each: 42*10*5*1450$= over 3.000.000$ dirty money each ship.


Can Factory

Product	Needs	Output (Lvl I/II)	Duration/Upgraded	Needs per Day	Output per Day
Pet Food	9 Chicken 15 Veggies	Level I:5 Level II:8	12hr / 10,8hr	Chicken: 18 Normal 20 Upgraded Veggies: 30 Normal 33,3 Upgraded	I: 10 I up: 11,1 II: 16 II up: 17,8
Sauce	18 Avocado 3 Spices	3 (Level II required)	18hr / 16,4hr	Avocado: 24 normal 26,3 Upgraded Spices: 4 Normal 4,4 Upgraded	II: 4 II up: 4,4

Last Words

Enjoy this guide and the game!

Just a playaround:

For this: Just imagine selling 42 Sauces each Slot at a Level III Pier filled with 10 Heroin each: 42*10*5*1450$= over 3.000.000$ dirty money each ship. you would need rounded up:

210 Sauces packed with 2.100 Heroin.

• For the Sauces you need:
  
• 48 Canning Factories Level II upped producing Sauces.
  
• 3.780 Avocado per day coming from 117 Level III Plantages upped or 643 Level III Farms upped at 100% fertility
  
• 630 Spices per day coming from 68 Level III Dryers upped using 22.050 Vegetabeles per day coming from 276 Level III upped Plantages at 100% fertility.

• For the Heroin you need:
  
• 89 Level III upped Labs using
  
• 10.067 Chemicals "O" produced by 219 Level III upped Chem-Factories
  
• 1.261 Chemicals "C" produced by 40 Level III upped Chem-Factories, so 259 Chem-Factories in total
  
• 18.036 Dried Opium produced by 281 Level III upped Dryers (so in total 349 Dryers) using
  
• 54.205 Opium coming from roughly 1.024 Level III upped Plantages at 100% fertility - so just about 1417 Level III Plantages.
  

I guess there is not enought space on the map.

But it is just a wild guess.

Changelog

First Release: 21.08.2022
Fixing Typos: 23.08.2022
Fixing Typos: 09.11.2023

Maybe in the future:
Costs per Unit (hint: Farms are cheaper)

[lembos-hauser]

I understand, that the guide is not suitable for your request, but I refer to the last two lines in my guide: Maybe in the future: Costs per Unit (hint: Farms are cheaper). I promise: I wont update the guide anymore ;) But to answer your question: It really depends! Plantations have higher througput, but they are harder and way mor expensive to research and build. Some fertile areas hold only 1 plantage at 100%, but you could fit 8 farms at 100% there. Also: The logistics only need to adress 1 building instead of 8 buildings in this example. So you cant just argue from the "production cost"-site-wise, you need to put into account the other factors aswell (like usable space, fleixibility, buildings per logistics, and maybe more.
A quick access to google: As I mentioned above already, a Plantage I w/o upgrade is already "faster" than a Farm III incl. upgrade. If you run the math, you will see, that in that case 1 Unit Coffebean costs 2,73 at a Farm III+ and 2,36 at a normal Plantage I.

[RaRa]

I was hoping to learn if it is worth upgrading farms or use plantations but the guide does not account for production cost at all making it fairly useless...

[lembos-hauser]

Hi! I don't know if they are up to date, since I don't play the game anymore that much. So I won't update it I guess. I am sorry.

[Incosto]

Nothing has changed it seems 100% accurate

[Infinite Justice]

Is this guide updated ?

[lembos-hauser]

Glad to hear! Maybe I mixed up the numbers an it should be .6 - I dont remember anymore, but I dont play the game either anymore. If you want, you can try out a farm at 100% and then at 60%. Then let me know the true values and I correct the Guide!

[Psycholeon]

Hi amazing work! Also confused about your fertility calculation - why is fertility 60% = daily throughput * .4 ?

[lembos-hauser]

Thank you! Updated it.

[Strahle]

Hi, I found a small error in your numbers :).
At the Can Factory the value for Chicken in Needs per Day is 30 (upgraded), according to the calculation it should be 20. :)

[lembos-hauser]

... If you don't pack your goods :) but you also have to consider that the upgrade from lvl II to III costs 100.000 clean money (and that's without the research costs)