Game Tips & Tutorials

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🎒 Inventory and Quick Slots

Inventory allows you to manage items stored by your character.

Your inventory has regular slots, quick access slots for consumables and tools, a special slot for flashlights, and clothing slots. It also displays your character stats and total carry weight.

🔦 Flashlights

Flashlights help you explore the world at night.

Available in different sizes and power levels from stores. Insert into the designated inventory slot and use the keybind to toggle.

👕 Clothes and Wardrobes

Equip different clothes to change stats of your character.

Clothing affects your appearance, available inventory slots, quick slots, and character stats. Wardrobes store your collection accessible from any wardrobe on the map.

🏃 Parkour

Use parkour to navigate through environmental obstacles.

Jump over fences and natural obstacles. Use for shortcuts, escaping enemies, or sneaking into inaccessible areas.

🗺️ Map

Use the map to navigate more efficiently around Isla Sombra.

Discovering locations adds markers automatically. Displays active mission locations and supports custom markers for planning.

👁️ Enviro Sense

Use enviro sense to highlight interactive objects in the nearby area.

Highlights dealer spots, dead drops, interactive items (amber stones), loot spots, and more. Essential for finding hidden collectibles and business locations.

🌙 Day/Night Cycle

Take advantage of the day to sell drugs and the night to plan activities.

Daytime is best for sales and exploration — orders only come during the day. Nighttime is for production, transport, decorating, and burglaries. Sleep in a bed to skip to morning.

💾 Save System

Save your game progress in safe spots like owned hideouts and bars.

Save in safe places (hideouts, bars). Manual save from pause menu. Auto-saves periodically when in safe spots.

🏪 Item Shops

Visit shops to buy and sell various items.

Stores offer crafting ingredients, tools, clothing, chemicals, and consumables. Buying increases your relationship with the store owner, unlocking new items. Some shops require quests or street cred. Pay by cash or check (from vault wealth).

💰 Selling Items

Sell different items to vendors to make more money.

Sell empty bottles, amber stones, palm leaf baskets, and more. Not all stores buy all items. Great for early game income and recovering from failed experiments.

🪑 Furniture Shops

Visit furniture shops to buy furniture and decorations for your hideouts.

Wide range of furniture with different stats. All go into your collection, accessible from any hideout. Improve vendor relationship to expand their assortment.

🍽️ Bars and Restaurants

Use bars and restaurants to set up business meetings.

Develop business relationships over meetings with influencers. Discuss financial terms, gain new prospects and employees. Venue prestige and your attire affect meeting outcomes.

💸 Paying Bills

Regularly deposit money into Vault wealth to make sure your bills are paid on time.

Drug production generates electricity and water costs. Bills are paid periodically from your wealth vault. Debt causes reputation penalties. Access your vault from various shops.

📞 Phone Booths

Use phone booths to listen to messages and set up meetings with influencers.

Located in cities and villages. Buy minutes to use. Listen to messages and make appointments with influencers for business meetings.

🏠 Hideouts

Hideouts help you expand your business and setup complex worker structures.

Various sizes, shapes, and styles with different stats. Furnish to improve stash and substance storage. Upgrade with security features like locks and bars. Consider location and business strategy.

🔑 Obtaining Hideouts

Buy new hideouts to expand your business across Isla Sombra.

Look for "For Sale" signs around the map. Interact to enter viewing mode. Talk to the vendor inside to finalize the purchase. Money is taken from your wealth vault.

🛋️ Furnishing Mode

Decorate your hideout to improve its properties and usefulness.

Purchase furniture via remote store offers or visit stationary stores. Place items from your Collection tab. Can also sell purchased hideouts through this mode.

🔧 Furniture Upgrades

Installing upgrades on equipment converts them to stations with different stats and abilities.

Certain furniture can be converted to new equipment types. Only one upgrade at a time. Use the DIY table to craft upgrades (requires toolset from item shops installed on an industrial table).

📦 Hideout Stash

Hideout stash provides you with additional storage space in each hideout.

Store any items in your stash. Increase slots by placing additional furniture. Accessible from the Inventory tab anywhere inside the hideout. Main source of items for crafting.

🧪 Substance Storage

Substance storage holds all substances and drugs unpacked and crafted in the hideout.

Has a weight limit that can be increased by setting up containers. This is the source for all lab equipment and crafting stations, including the lab tray for packaging.

⚗️ Lab Equipment

Use lab equipment to produce and mix drugs.

Different types, shapes, and sizes of crafters for different purposes with varying batch sizes and efficiency. Check the Journal for production chains and compatible equipment.

📦 The Laboratory Tray

Laboratory tray allows you to pack and unpack drugs and substances.

Pack drugs using plastic baggies, stretch foil, and duct tape. Unpack items back into substance storage. Advanced substances require special equipment.

📋 Crafting Recipes

While progressing you will learn new recipes to improve your production skills.

Obtain recipes via NPCs, tasks, or loot. New recipes appear on crafting stations. Review production chains in your journal to see required steps and equipment.

📈 Demand & Influencers

Create a drug offer with the local influencer to gain more returning clients and increase reputation.

Each region has an Influencer. Give packaged drugs to expand your business. Different areas have different drug preferences. Rising demand brings more clients. Max demand and preference vary by territory.

⭐ Reputation

Increase reputation in unlocked regions to let your business thrive.

Unlock new items, business contacts, and improve community relationships. Affects how opponents and locals treat you. Increase by dealing with clients, completing quests, and making investments. Stealing and burglaries decrease reputation.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Returning Clients

Returning clients create your main customer base.

Build demand via influencers. More products and higher demand = more returning clients. Orders come via text messages (accept/decline). Assign customers to hired dealers. Co-op players can assign clients to each other.

🌟 Special Clients

Special clients give you the opportunity to make more money on a single sale.

Unique variation of returning clients with larger orders and more unique forms like cookies or blunts. Orders come via text message with green colored accents.

🤝 Potential Clients

Hand out drug samples to potential clients to increase reputation and obtain returning customers.

Encounter potential customers who wave at you in the world. Demands vary by drug type and quantity. Useful when entering new territories to increase demand, gain customers, and earn cash.

📊 Sale Rules

Assign special sale rules to your dealers to prioritize selling mixes or pure drugs.

Order dealers to sell specific products in a drug group. Prioritize mixes over clean, sell only mixes, or only clean. Set per individual drug type for each dealer. Distributors can override individual settings.

🏷️ Dialogue Tags

Use dialogue tags to learn new information about topics you are interested in.

Ask questions from a pool of topics when talking to NPCs. Helps with quests, finding party spots, hideouts, popular drugs, and more. You can re-ask previously asked questions.

🤵 Dealers

Hire and set up dealers to let them handle returning customers.

First step to automating your business. Place employees in a dealer's cabinet (buy via furniture mode). Assign clients, set up in dealer spot. Give drugs via dead drops. Collect money minus their cut.

📋 Workstations

Place workstations in your hideouts to assign employees to specific roles.

Different workstations for different roles. Dealer's cabinet for dealers, distributor's desk for distributors. Buy workstations via furniture mode, then assign and configure workers.

📍 Dealer Spots

Assigning a dealer to a terrain spot allows you to collect sales money directly from the worker.

Dealers work more efficiently on terrain spots. Collect money directly or order them to carry cash to an assigned hideout (needs at least one safe). Find spots by looking for hanging shoes and using enviro sense.

📤 Dead Drops

Leave your product in dead drops for your dealers to pick up and distribute.

Hidden spots like old sofas, barrels, and fuse boxes scattered around the map. Locate them using enviro sense. Your assigned dealer retrieves and distributes the drugs to their clients.

📊 Distributors

Hire and set up distributors to let them handle dealers and drug distribution.

Next automation step after dealers. Place in a distributor's desk, assign nearby dealers. The distributor collects money from dealers and distributes goods from hideout substance storage. Takes a percentage fee.

💪 Bodyguards

Assign an employee to the bodyguard station to hire them as a bodyguard.

Expensive but helpful, especially for single player. Bodyguards follow you, protect you, and fight opponents. Provide weapons and medical supplies for self-healing between combat.

🔬 Lab Technicians

Hire lab technicians to automate production and gain new recipes.

Lab techs unlock special recipes that require fewer ingredients. They automate drug production as long as sufficient resources are in the hideout. The ultimate production automation.

🚌 Quick Travel

Use quick travel (buses, cars) to move around Isla Sombra more efficiently.

Discover new places, buy hideouts, and increase reputation to unlock more travel points. Buses run at designated times (not at night) and require tickets. Land vehicles unlock additional quick travel points.

⛵ Boats

Travel by boat to move more freely and avoid dangers on land.

Avoid police patrols and thugs by traveling on water. Dock at piers on each island. Boats consume fuel and various models are available from vendors.

🚗 Land Vehicles

Use land vehicles for quick traveling around the map and between hideouts.

Best for quick travel around explored areas. Can transport items but riskier for smuggling. Good for reaching hideouts far from the coast. Have their own storage and use gasoline.

🚧 Road Blockades

Road blockades protected by local thugs can be dangerous to cross if your street cred is low.

Set up by thugs but not always guarded. Avoid if carrying valuable goods. Easier to pass with higher street cred.

🐍 Snakebites

Snakebites lead to loss of health, impaired movement and vision.

Effects increase over time and multiple bites can cause death. Boots increase protection. Use antivenom from quick slots — available in stores and pharmacies.

🌿 Tall Grass

Moving in tall grass carries the risk of snakebites.

Environmental obstacle. Some snakes warn before biting, others don't. Be cautious or avoid tall grass entirely.