Items and money

Where money comes from

• Your allowance. The park pays residents - launch-week streams show an allowance letter arriving in your mailbox at the start of a round. Check the box; it is the closest thing this game has to a safety net.
• Junk and scrap. Scrap metal and junk are collectable around the park (and there is always somebody buying). The Scrapper role is built on this trade, but nothing stops anyone from hauling junk for cash.
• Your role's business. Dealers sell weed and shrooms, Cooks sell moonshine, Thieves take what they want. Illegal income is larger but comes with the obvious risk.
• Luck at the reels. Slot machines pay out, and the Luck effect visibly tilts the odds in your favour. The $1,000 jackpot has its own achievement, so somebody has to win.

Where money goes

The Community Center store is the everyday seller: food, drinks, milk, hot dogs, sodas, beer, cigarettes and general supplies - the maintenance side of the sanity system runs on store receipts. Beyond the store, the park's specialist economy is where things get interesting:

• Firecrackers are the classic purchase: blow up a mailbox, blow open a locked trailer, cause a very specific kind of scene. One stream went as far as the merchant selling firecrackers specifically for breaking into houses.
• Lighter fluid for barrel fires and more ambitious criminal urges - Pyromaniac business 101.
• Booze and moonshine flow between the saloon, the Cook, and whoever is thirsty. The bartender buys moonshine; players sell.
• Propane tanks, grills and barbecue supplies - the park's favourite social cover activity. Nothing says "we are definitely not criminals" like a cookout.
• Tools for break-ins. Crowbars open locked doors, and launch-week footage treats "who has a crowbar" as a real social currency question.

Trading with other players

Player-to-player trading is simply the fastest economy in the park, and it works exactly like it looks:

1. Hold an item out toward a player - the game offers an "offer to buy" interaction from their side.
2. Name your price, or drop cash on the floor for it; loose bills get passed around constantly in streams.
3. Confirm by handing the item over.

Trading is how deals stay quiet: a weed sale, a stolen microwave, a suspicious amount of scrap changing hands - all of it happens face to face, in the park, with everyone's ears three metres away. Half the game's comedy is a transaction that goes catastrophically badly because someone's push-to-talk was on.

The slot machines and luck

The saloon's slot machines are the park's casino and its best people-watching spot: you can learn a lot about who is nervous about money from the row of stools. Luck is the stat that shows up around the reels - players confirm better results with the Luck effect active, and energy drinks raise your luck when you want to press the odds. The house edge is real; the $1,000 jackpot achievement exists precisely because it is not a strategy, it is a lottery.

Money-adjacent crimes worth knowing

• Pickpocketing is a Thief task, not a general mechanic - but the park's thieves are extremely good at it, so keep bets small around strangers.
• Stealing items works on trailers and lockers; Bella's missing weed in one launch-week stream was solved, correctly, as "the Thief".
• Mailboxes are loot boxes with a fuse. Money and letters arrive in them, and firecrackers make them explode. There is an achievement for 100 of them. We do not recommend standing near your own.
• The $20 toilet flush. Real achievement ("Down The Drain"). Some crimes are just for the points.

A sensible first-round budget

Spend your first allowance on maintenance: milk, a drink, something to eat. Bank the rest for one tool that matches your role - firecrackers if you like a scene, fluid if you like fire, nothing if you are the Supervisor and want people to like you. The park's economy rewards players who look like they are not participating in it.

Related guides

• The system all this spending feeds: sanity and urges
• Where the store, saloon and machines live: map and landmarks
• Every money-related achievement: all 19 achievements

Last checked: September 20, 2026 - game version 1.0.3. Economy behaviours from launch-week gameplay footage and community threads; item prices and stock rotate as the studio patches.