Money making guide

Cash crops are one way of making money.

Plant work speed and harvest yield are two factors effected by skill level, manipulation, sight, and global work speed. It is crucial to have a skill level of 6 in plants, going higher may increase work speed (11.5%/level) but does not noticeably increase yield(3,2,1...%) and also allows the most profitable cash crop, psychoid plants to be grown. Herbal medicine is not the most profitable crop so level 8 in plants is unnecessary. Plants level 4 is the minimum recommended level for this money making strategy.

Note on medicine: cloth can be bought for 1.5*1.4=2.1 neutroamine can be bought for 6*1.4=8.4 herbal medicine can be bought for 10*1.4=14 medicine can be bought for 18*1.4=25.2 Therefore producing medicine from bought ingredients costs more than purchasing medicine directly is counterproductive and should be avoided. Medicine is 1.66 as effective as herbal medicine but almost twice as expensive so it's cost effective to buy herbal medicine instead of medicine. Glitterworld medicine is 1.6 times as effective but is more than twice as expensive. Growing herbal medicine is so low profit and drug production is so costly in making real medicine that it is best to use the profits from other crops to purchase herbal medicine and medicine production should be avoided.

• • Keep in mind their is a trade modifier of 60% for selling, 140% for buying**

Cash Crops

Crop	Work to sow	Work to harvest	Total work to grow	Raw material per plant	Raw material value (Selling)	Value added per unit work
hops	170	200	370	8	1.3	.016
smokeleaf	170	200	370	9	.96	.0233
psychoid	170	200	370	8	1.14	.024
healroot	800	400	1200	1	6	.005

Value added labor used to make finished products may further increase profits but at a lower rate of profit per unit work. The upside is that this can be done continuously while growing is an intermittent activity.

Note: A grower working round the clock would be more profitable for purely selling than a grower splitting his/her time between multiple activities, including drug production. However, a grower coupled with a drug producer and hauler is the most profitable configuration. It is best to remove hauling from your growers work tab to maximize production (or put it at min priority). It is important to notice that the best configuration and overall productivity and money saved may include a grower who also produces drugs (to keep within the colony).

Note: Go juice is something that should only be traded in one direction, bought and not sold. It is better to make it yourself though.

Note: Wake up is the most profitable for selling. It also is more profitable than money saved for several drugs, some drugs have high money saved though.

Drug Production

Drug	Work to process	Processed value added (selling)	Money saved by producing and not selling	Value added per unit work	Money saved per unit work
beer	200	3.3	4.8	.0165	.0405
joints	450	2.76	4.4	.0061	.0159
yayo	350	3.48	8.4	.0099	.0339
flake	250	3.84	5.6	.01536	.03776
go juice (made yayo)	950	-6	21.2	-.0063	.016
go juice (bought yayo)	600	-14.4	21.2	-.024	.0113
wake up	900	18.2	14	.02	.0357
penoxycycline	600	1.2	7.2	.002	.014
medicine	700	-3.5	-.005