Cutting Agents & Additives

Cutting agents and additives let you stretch your supply and tune the toxicity, strength, and addiction profile of a finished mix. Drug Dealer Simulator 1 has 5 dedicated cutting agents (Salt, Washing Powder, Baking Soda, Sugar, Acetone), 4 OTC meds that double as additives (Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, Viagra, Nebilanex), and one mixing-only opioid (Fentanyl) used to crank up potency. This page catalogs every value, the toxicity scale they sit on, and the formulas the game runs at sale time.

Datamined & Verified: Every toxicity, mix-strengthening, addictiveness, and price value below is extracted directly from the game's DrugDatabase + ItemDatabase DataTables. OD math is decompiled from processReceivedDrugs, and the quality formula is decompiled from the same function. The toxicity scale is 0–25, not 0–1 as some older guides claim.

Toxicity Scale (0–25)

Toxicity is a raw float that runs from 0.0 (Baking Soda — completely inert) up to 25.0 (Acetone — pure industrial solvent). Every drug, OTC med, and cutting agent has its own toxicity number. When you cut a drug, the final toxicity is the weighted average of every ingredient's toxicity, scaled by mix proportions.

SAFE (0.0–2.0)

Below minODToxicity=3.9. Zero OD chance. Baking Soda, Sugar, Salt, Marijuana.

MODERATE (2.0–9.0)

Crosses OD threshold at 3.9. Scaled 0.1%–8% OD chance. Amphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, Washing Powder.

DANGEROUS (9.0–12.0)

Still scaled OD — max 8% chance per sale. Paracetamol, Ibuprofen.

LETHAL (12.0+)

Flat 25% OD chance. Nebilanex, Fentanyl, Acetone.

Cutting Agents (5)

Free fillers from ItemDatabase with ExcludeFromSales=true. Each is bought from various shops for $0 (you only pay the shopkeeper's time-and-effort fee elsewhere) and used to stretch your drug supply. The mixStrengthening column is the multiplier this ingredient contributes to mix quality when present.

Cutting Agent	Toxicity	Strength	Addictiveness	mixStrengthening	OD Risk
Baking Soda	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.9×	None
Sugar	1.3	0.0	0.0	1.0×	None
Salt	2.0	0.5	0.0	1.0×	None
Washing Powder	9.0	0.0	0.0	1.1×	Low (1–8%)
Acetone	25.0	4.0	1.0	3.0×	Flat 25%

OTC Medications (4)

Pharmacy-sold pills with ExcludeFromSales=true. Cheap to buy ($3–$4) but most carry very high toxicity and pump up the mix-strengthening multiplier. Three of the four cross or sit at the 12.0 flat-25%-OD threshold — use sparingly and only when you accept the OD risk.

OTC Med	Buy	Toxicity	Strength	Addictiveness	mixStrengthening	OD Risk
Viagra	$4	3.0	2.0	7.0	1.6×	None (below 3.9)
Paracetamol	$3	12.0	3.0	4.0	1.3×	High (25%)
Ibuprofen	$3	12.0	3.0	3.0	1.3×	High (25%)
Nebilanex	$4	15.0	2.0	1.4	2.0×	High (25%)

Mixing-Only Ingredient (1)

Fentanyl is treated as a drug by the game (level 25 unlock) but flagged with ExcludeFromSales=true. Clients will not order it directly — it exists purely as the most aggressive mix-strengthening ingredient available.

Drug	Buy	Unlock	Toxicity	Strength	Addictiveness	mixStrengthening
Fentanyl	$20	L25	18.0	6.0	9.0	3.0×

Overdose Math (from `processReceivedDrugs`)

The OD check runs on every completed sale. The game checks the final mix toxicity (the weighted average of all ingredients) against two thresholds, then rolls a weighted random bool.

        minODToxicity = 3.9          // below: zero OD chance

        highToxLevel  = 12.0         // above: flat 25% OD

        if drugReceived.toxicity > 3.9:

            if drugReceived.toxicity > 12.0:

                clientsOD[ClientID] = RandomBoolWithWeight(0.25)

            else:

                lowToxChance = Clamp(((tox - 3.9) / 3.9) / 20.0, 0.001, 0.08)

                clientsOD[ClientID] = RandomBoolWithWeight(lowToxChance)

Below 3.9 toxicity — OD check is skipped entirely. 0% chance.
3.9 – 12.0 toxicity — Scaled chance, clamped to 0.1%–8% maximum. The "low tox" branch is most of the curve.
Above 12.0 toxicity — Flat 25% OD chance per sale. Nebilanex, Acetone, Paracetamol+Ibuprofen at scale, Fentanyl — all land here.

Note: A lowToxOdPercent = 0.1 constant is defined in the bytecode but never used — dead code from an earlier design. The actual low-tox formula uses the clamped scaling above.

Quality Formula & Why Heavy Cuts Crater Mix

The end product quality is what clients judge their order against. It's computed at sale time from two factors: how much of the expected drug is actually in the mix (contentRatio) and how the mix's strength compares to the expected strength (strengthRatio).

        strengthRatio = drugReceived.strength / drugExpected.strength

        clampedStrength = Clamp(strengthRatio, 0.0, 1.5)

        endProductQuality = contentRatio + (contentRatio × 0.2 × clampedStrength)

The contentRatio is the proportion of the mix that is the primary expected drug. If a client wants cocaine and your mix is 80% cocaine + 20% Sugar, contentRatio = 0.8. That sets the floor — you can never exceed contentRatio × 1.3 in final quality, even with the strongest possible mix.

Worked Examples

Mix	contentRatio	strengthRatio	endProductQuality
Pure Cocaine (no cut)	1.00	1.00	1.20
90% Cocaine + 10% Sugar (light cut)	0.90	0.90	1.06
50% Cocaine + 50% Sugar (heavy cut)	0.50	0.50	0.55
30% Cocaine + 70% Sugar (gouge)	0.30	0.30	0.32
80% Coke + 20% Acetone (boosted)	0.80	1.20	0.99

Key Insight: Light Cuts Are Almost Free

A 10% cut barely moves quality (1.20 → 1.06). But once you drop below 50% pure drug content, the contentRatio collapses and quality goes with it — a 70% cut leaves you with 0.32 quality, which is below virtually every client's expectation. The +20% strength bonus from mixStrengthening can only multiply what's already there; it can't rescue a mix with too little of the expected drug.

mixStrengthening Explained

Every drug, OTC med, and cutting agent has a mixStrengthening value (often abbreviated "MixStr" or "ms" in tooltips). This is the multiplier the ingredient contributes when blended into a mix — it boosts the strength of the finished product, which feeds into strengthRatio in the quality formula above.

1.0× — Neutral. Salt, Sugar, Marijuana, LSD, Mushrooms.
Below 1.0× — Reduces mix strength. Baking Soda (0.9×) is the only one in this category. Use only when you specifically want a weaker mix.
1.1× – 1.6× — Mild boost. Washing Powder, OTC meds.
2.0× – 2.4× — Strong boost. Cocaine, Nebilanex, Meth.
3.0× — Maximum boost. Acetone, Heroin, Fentanyl — all three carry serious toxicity or addiction costs.

Practical Cutting Recipe (Safe Tier)

For clients with quality expectation around 0.75 (typical of mid-tier areas): 85% expected drug + 10% Sugar + 5% Washing Powder. Final toxicity stays under 4.0 (no OD), contentRatio is 0.85, and strengthRatio sits near 1.0× giving an endProductQuality of about 1.02 — comfortably above the 0.75 expectation. Profit per gram is roughly 15% better than selling pure.

What's NOT In Vanilla

"Rat Poison" does not exist in ItemDatabase or DrugDatabase. There is no item, cutting agent, additive, or substance with that name in the shipped game. Older guides that mention it are either mistaken or referring to an unreleased concept. The complete list of in-game cut/additive items is the 10 entries documented above (5 cutting agents + 4 OTC meds + Fentanyl).

Datamined from DrugDatabase + ItemDatabase DataTables and decompiled processReceivedDrugs bytecode (UE4 4.21 build). All values exact game data. Last updated May 2026.