Labs

In Drug Dealer Simulator, shortly after finishing Endgame, you can transform your empty Hideouts into a Lab using bank balance. Hideouts that can be transformed into Labs must have a Save Station and cannot be Garages or Storages.

## Creating labs

To crate a Lab, you need to enter a Hideout that meets the requirements mentioned above, hold Spacebar to activate Furniture Mode, then press Tab to switch to Apartment Manager, then press the "Build Production Lab" button on the top. You'll be able to train your dealers into becoming Lab Technicians and assign them to the current Lab (the lower their level the more expensive it is to train them, from $950 level 1 to $550 level 10), then select the type of Lab (the drub your Lab will be producing) and then build the Lab. There are six different types of Labs, each corresponding to a different drug, listed below:

* Cocaine import operating
* Meth lab
* Amphetamine laboratory
* Ecstasy laboratory
* Heroin laboratory
* Marijuana plantation

The first two Labs you create will have a 75% discount applied to them to help you get started, this means that for the first two Labs you will only have to pay a quarter (25%) of the original price.

Converting an existing Lab to another type of Lab will apply a 50% discount on the price of the new Lab. This means you will only pay half as much then if you were to create that Lab directly, so try not to remove a Lab, only to rebuild one, because then you will lose some money, removing a Lab will only refund you 50% of the Lab setup cost.

Larger Hideouts or Warehouses will require two Lab Technicians, while smaller ones only require one. Labs with two Technicians produce more drugs in a shorter amount of time than Labs with only one Technician, at the cost of training a second dealer.

## How to use labs

Labs are mainly passive properties, which means you are not involved in the production of drugs. You only need to ensure the Safe found in your Lab has enough Cash for the Lab to continue producing batches. Placing more money in the Lab's Safe means it will keep producing drugs until it runs out of money.

To start producing drugs, you open the Safe and put enough cash for at least one batch. You can put in any amount depending on how long you would like the production to last / how many batches you want.

You can see info about batch costs, how long it takes, current batch progress, and how many batches you can produce with the cash in the Safe by looking at the Product Table.

When a batch of drugs is produced you will get a notification on the top left telling you that a batch of [drug] is ready.

In order to package the produced drugs, go back to the Production Table and press F to start packaging the drugs, this is exactly the same as if you're trying to package a drug from a Jar, Container, or other Equipment in your workstation.

Lab Technicians level up overtime as they produce drugs. The higher their level is, the faster the Lab will produce drugs. This means the longer a Lab is operational, the faster it goes.

## Additional Notes

* You can remove a Lab if you want to use it as a Hideout by pressing "Remove Lab" in the Apartment Manager. This will cancel the on-going production, and will delete all the cash that is in the Safe, so make sure to take out the cash from the Safe and to wait for the production to finish to avoid losses.
* You can still use Save Station in Labs normally.
* You can mark a Safe as a cash drop for nearby dealers, meaning you won't have to collect money from dealers in that area manually, instead, they will message you that they have deposited the money into your Lab's Safe.
* Training a dealer that owes you money will add that money to your Laundering Pool, as if you collected and deposited the money yourself.
* Converting a Lab while it is producing a batch will cancel the production and refund the batch cost to the Lab's Safe. This may cause the new Lab to start producing drugs immediately if the refund is enough to start a new batch.
* You can have multiple Labs of the same type at the same time.
* Your Lab Technicians will contact you through ShadyComm in case their assigned Lab runs out of money for a new batch.

## Laboratory Stat Table

### Credits

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2885790535