Making money

This page lists efficient methods of **making money** that are available in the game.

At the beginning of the game, selling food to Bear or finding secret caches is the only way to receive coins, but as one progresses through the game, many more efficient ways to make money are made available.

It's not a bad idea to invest in the businesses providing passive income early. Then you will be able to earn money daily as you explore the rest of the game. The total investment will pay for itself soon, and then spin off approximately 1000 coins of profit daily.

## Passive income

These businesses generate income without any serious effort from you, but they require you to invest some money to start.

By going to bed soon after waking up, it is possible to quickly generate large amounts of money. You cannot go to bed until around 8:45AM, but you can skip that time by traveling with the Map or the Ocean Map immediately after waking up. Sasquatch can’t sleep while completely hungry, so you may also need to eat. You also need to visit the campground regularly to keep the Ferry Duck active, and to restock the cooler.

### Island Campground

Total investment is 4500 coins and 575 lumber.

With the Island Campground fully upgraded, each occupied tent will pay 125 coins per night, and consume one food from the cooler, paying 2.5 times more than the Bear (see above). The Ferry Duck automatically brings new campers, but you must advertise his phone number (`555-2267`) on a Billboard, which costs 500 coins initially and 25 coins from your bank account per day. You also need to visit the campground every day so the Duck keeps bringing campers.

This table lists daily income with all 3 tents occupied, depending on food in the cooler.

 Large fish
 Goldfish, Sea Cucumber | 1875

### Spaghetti Hotline

Total investment is 7650 coins.

A fully upgraded Spaghetti Hotline with a Billboard ad generates 350 coins per day (the billboard ad subtracts 25 coins from your bank account per day). A newspaper ad gives an additional 100 coins, but it must be repeated manually every day.

### Quick money by skipping days

The idea of this method is to go to sleep soon after waking up. Then, while the passive income per in-game day stays the same, the income per real-life minute becomes very large: from 2000 to more than 4000 coins per minute. You can skip a lot of days and collect the money in the end: there doesn’t seem to be any limit on how much money the safe and the money counter can accumulate.

There are some limitations which you need to take care of:

* You wake up at 8:00AM and can’t sleep until around 8:40AM. That can be circumvented by quick traveling (using the Map or the Ocean Map) immediately after waking up. The best houses for sleeping are those where the point where you appear after the quick travel is close to the bed; for example, the Marina Cabin or the Snow Cabin. (If you sleep in the Cone Zone, the Driving Instructor talks to you every morning, which slows you down.)
* You can’t sleep with 0 hunger points. You lose 2 hunger points each night, or 1 if you have only 1. To save both time and money, it’s better to eat a single item of 5-point food (Burger, Fries, Beef Jerky, Taco) every 3 days. That way, a full backpack of 75 items will carry you for 225 days.
* The Ferry Duck only brings new visitors to fill empty tents on days you visit the island campground, so it’s better to visit it every day.

Preparation:

1. Fully upgrade the Spaghetti Hotline
2. Fully upgrade the Island Campground, you must have at least 5 reviews to hire the Ferry Duck
3. Rent one billboard (edit it if you already have it), put the Spaghetti Hotline number into one text field, and the Island Campground number into another. That way you can advertise both businesses while paying for only one billboard.
	* Check that both billboard ads are working: Spaghetti Hotline must bring 350 coins every day, and Ferry Duck must automatically bring new campers.
4. Cancel your Apartment rent if you have one. You won’t be using it for many days, so it’s a waste of money.
5. Fill your backpack with food that restores 5 hunger: Burger, Fries, Beef Jerky, Taco.

Optionally:

* Stock the island campground cooler with a large amount of expensive food or fish. Note that the game becomes slow when there’s too much food in a container, so stop stuffing the cooler when you notice the slowdown. It will make you some additional money, but restocking the cooler is quite slow.
* Send your dog home so it’s not getting in the way.

That way, your profit per day will be

Profit = 375 (campground income) + 350 (spaghetti income) - 25 (billboard rent) - 16.6 (cost of food for yourself) = 683.3 coins total

Skipping days:

1. Sleep in the Marina Cabin or Snow Cabin.
2. Quick travel to Island Campground.
	* If you have 0 hunger points, eat a single 5-point food from your backpack using a dining table.
3. Quick travel back to your cabin and sleep.

Restocking food:

* When the food in your backpack is running low:
	+ from the Marina, ride a car to the Town and buy all 6 Burgers and all 6 Fries in the Diner, then buy all 3 Beef Jerky in the Stop and Snack (steal the beef jerky because it just takes a few seconds and saves 150 coins)
	+ if you have the Surf Shack unlocked for quick travel, go there and buy all 5 tacos in the Taco Truck.

Repeat the process until you have skipped a planned amount of days, then take your money from the Island Campground and the Spaghetti Hotline. For example, skipping 100 days will bring you around 78 thousand coins.

Alternatively, you can try to do the same, but with filling the cooler with the same food you eat (campers pay 125 coins for it). That will give you more money per day, but you’ll have to spend time trading items into the cooler. The profits per day will be:

750 (campground income) + 350 (spaghetti income) - 150 (cost of food for campers) - 25 (billboard rent) - 16.6 (cost of food for yourself) = 908.3 coins total

Also, if you have a large amount of large fish (for example, from Shopping Bonanza), Goldfish, or even more expensive items, you should put them in the cooler for additional profit.

## One-time active income

These methods of getting coins work only once per save.

### One-time activities

These events can only be completed once.

 Fox Mischief (with the exception of the Fox at the Golf Course)
 Newspaper Photo Requests | 8200

### First wins

Winning various competitions for the first time gives larger rewards than subsequent wins. The following table lists the rewards for winning each event in the specified location once.

 Virtual Bread game on the Computer | 1000

### First mushrooms

The Mushroom Hunter gives double the reward for the first Mushroom of each species you submit. Submitting one of each 29 types of regular mushrooms and both types of truffles will bring you 11600 coins.

### Secret Caches and Dig Spots

Secret Caches contain between 20 and 3500 coins, but getting the largest ones can be quite complicated. Dig Spots contain a single Sack of Coins or a Gold Bar (rarely), which is between 10 and 1000 coins.

## Repeatable active income

These activities can be repeated indefinitely, but you have to make some effort to make them work.

### Selling food

#### General

All foods can be sold to these buyers:

* Bear (Sasquatch House) - unlimited.
* Bear (Sawmill) (known as Trash Bear) - pays 2 times more than the Bear. Limited to 1000 coins per day. Food must be marinated in trash containers.
* Island Campground campers - pays 2.5 times more than the Bear (rounded up). Limited to 3 items per day.

Most foods have a Bear price of 1-3 coins, so they are not very profitable. Foods which restore more than one hunger point, and Fish, are more profitable:

#### Specific foods

Some buyers require a particular kind of food, and pay much higher than normal.

 Spectator at the Race Track bleachers
 Golfer at the Driving Range | Smores | 30, or 60 if cooked on a campfire
 Hungry Duck | Various foods found at the Campground (see the article for a list), sometimes need to be cooked in an oven
 Ferry passengers (when working as Substitute Ferry Captain)

#### Food sources

These are the main sources for most profitable foods.

### Stealing from the port

Port Theft generates a large amount of money, but the Port then locks down for several days that varies based on the type of goods stolen.

 Oranges | 2 crates (30 to 50 each)
 Beef Jerky, Burger | 2 crates (20 each)
 Lumber | 4 stacks (100 each)

### Mushrooms

Gathering Mushrooms and selling them to the Mushroom Hunter can be quite profitable, but the results are highly random.

The Campground (including the campsites, Ranger Station, RV Park, Cave entrance, northern shore of the Lake) usually provides a lot of mushrooms. It is a good idea to collect them in the evening for a chance of finding an expensive Dusky Bolete.

Particularly many mushrooms appear the next day after the rain.

If you don’t collect mushrooms purposely, you can still collect them while driving or running between other tasks, and sell them from time to time. Keep your Dog with you to detect Truffles. It will automatically detect them upon entering areas.

Mushrooms can also be bought from the Shopping Bonanza, but the resulting profit is not very high.

### Competitions

As of version 1.8.4, the most profitable competition is the Monster Truck Madness at the Dirt Racetrack.

It awards 500 coins and can be completed in around 45 seconds.

The best vehicle for the job is a Super Car (2500 coins), with both upgrades from the Garage (3000 coins), and custom suspension (15000 coins) and off-road tires (1125 coins) from the Automotive Customs.

If you don’t have money for such a car, you can rent the Big Rig truck (located in the Dirt Racetrack) for a day for 150 coins.

### Jobs

* Working at the R Corp
* Writing tickets as a Police officer
* Selling Underwater Trash found while Scuba Diving (gives 8 coins per piece of trash)
* Working at the Port (Forklift Driver shifts pay the most at 580-700 coins after getting promoted thrice)
* Working as a Substitute Ferry Captain. It pays 100 coins per trip, and also you have a chance to sell food to passengers for a large amount of money (see the section above). In total this job can make up to 4000 coins per in-game day.
* Working at the Hospital as a Paramedic or a Doctor. Most completed jobs will bring between 250 and 1000 coins.

### Daily Challenges

The Daily Challenge can be completed once per real-life day. The total reward for top players is in the range of 5000 to 10000 coins.

As opposed to other ways of making money, you can complete the challenge once, and collect the reward three times (once in each save slot).

### Virtual Coins

You can collect Virtual Coins using the VR Goggles. These coins reset every real-life day; around 1 thousand of them spawn. You receive 1 coin for each virtual coin collected.

After collecting all of them, you receive additional rewards from the Virtual Duck:

* 2500 coins
* a Virtual Bread disk which can be sold to the Virtual Bear for another 2500 coins

In total, you can earn around 6000 coins each real-life day.

Note that the Virtual Bread can also be used to play a computer game, which gives one-time reward of 1 Gold Bar (1000 coins).

### The optimal late-game sequence

1. Buy out every Burger and Fries from the Diner, every Beef Jerky and Energy Drink from Stop n Snack, every Coffee, Mocha, and Tea from the Cafe, and as much Spaghetti as possible. (Alternatively, Burger and Fries can be Stolen from the the Port).
2. Put the food items in the Island Campground coolers, keeping some for yourself along with the drinks.
3. Commit Port Theft of Coin crates.
4. Sleep in the Hospital.
5. Upon waking up, take over the Head Doctor’s shift for the whole day. When Sasquatch is sleepy, eat your Energy Drink/ Coffee/ Mocha/ Tea.
6. Repeat 4 to 5 for 8 days.
7. On the 8th day, fast travel to Island Campground and return to the Hospital. Do remember to restock the cooler there if it ever runs empty.
8. Repeat 4 to 5 for 2 days
9. On the tenth day, attempt Port Theft of Coin Crates
10. Repeat 4 to 9. Buy Cell Phone Minutes and food items whenever necessary.

Don’t forget to collect money from the Spaghetti Business and the Island Campground from time to time, although you can technically wait as long s you want (the storage is infinite).