Schedule I: From Rags to Riches, Chapter 1 | We Built a Drug Empire With Just Two Plants
The best way to conquer Northtown in Schedule I is to start with two OG Kush plants, recruit Benji Coleman, automate mixing in the Sweatshop, and eventually turn the $4,000 Storage Unit into a fully automated cannabis factory. You don't need dozens of growing pots, an expensive car or a warehouse resembling a botanical research centre. Our entire operation reached that point with two plants, three employees and an increasingly suspicious quantity of bananas.
We spent 18 in-game days testing this progression, from salvaging equipment out of the starting RV to reaching maximum loyalty with every Northtown contact. By the end, our factory was producing Granddaddy Fruit worth $111 per unit while we concentrated on customers and sales. We also made some spectacularly avoidable mistakes. One cost us $2,544 in potential revenue. Another left us unable to buy factory equipment despite having more than $17,000 in combined funds. Both taught us rather more than another afternoon of harvesting cannabis would have.
Two plants carried our entire Northtown operation, but how much money can one actually make? Our OG Kush money guide digs into yields, mixing and squeezing more profit out of a plant that really has no business being this productive.
Days 1-3: Two plants, an RV and a remarkably modest empire
Your first priority isn't buying equipment. It's recovering what you already have. The starting RV contains two growing pots, lights and other useful supplies. Take what you can before moving into the motel, because replacing perfectly functional equipment is an excellent way to bankrupt yourself before selling anything.
Our first harvest produced 24 OG Kush, twelve from each plant. We also collected $375 from three starting cash stashes and obtained free growing supplies during the opening progression. OG Kush seeds cost $30, while the finished crop has a suggested selling price of $38 per unit. One twelve-unit harvest therefore represents $456 in suggested sales value before seeds, soil, packaging and other expenses.
For now, keep both pots growing, maintain enough seeds for the next planting, package your harvests and develop customer contacts. We purchased the $800 Sweatshop on Day 3, moving our existing equipment rather than purchasing everything again. Two pots were still perfectly adequate.
One thing we'd change: buy a skateboard much earlier. We waited until Day 12 before spending $250 on one. By then, we'd spent days traveling between customers, properties and suppliers on foot, apparently determined to run a criminal enterprise while simultaneously training for a marathon. Once you've secured your essential growing supplies, the skateboard is worth having. A car can wait.
Day 4 onward: Benji is more important than another growing pot
Benji Coleman costs $500 to recruit, takes a 20% commission and can manage ten assigned customers. Handing over a fifth of your sales initially sounds unpleasant, but consider the alternative. You're also the farmer, packager, purchasing department, customer relations manager and entire logistics division. The organizational chart consists of one exhausted criminal and a collection of increasingly demanding houseplants.
We learned that delivering every small order can consume the time you'd otherwise spend maintaining production. Benji breaks that cycle by handling routine customers while you develop the business.
Our established roster eventually included Beth Penn, Donna Martin, Mrs Ming, Chloe Bowers, Ludwig Meyer, Sam Thompson, Austin Steiner, Peggy Myers, Kathy Henderson and Mick Lubbin. It worked for our save, although it isn't proof of a universally optimal assignment. Give Benji routine customers and retain valuable personal deals where larger budgets or bonuses justify your time.
By Day 18, every Northtown contact had reached maximum loyalty. At that point, rearranging assignments offered little obvious value. We needed more customers in another district, not another attempt at reorganizing Benji's address book.
How much should you grow?
With two standard pots producing twelve OG Kush each, we eventually managed three harvests in a day. That's 72 units from a remarkably compact setup. Extra Long-Life Soil reduced maintenance and supported at least three harvest cycles in our playthrough, although it still needed replenishing.
We considered faster pots and larger growing areas, but additional production only makes sense when existing sales justify it. Growing 100 units while selling 50 doesn't make you more profitable. It makes you the proud owner of 50 additional units waiting for somebody to buy them.
Keep two pots until demand demonstrates a genuine need for more. We never reached that point during Northtown.
Days 5-10: Mixing turns ordinary OG Kush into serious money
Our first Mixing Station cost $500 and quickly became one of our most useful purchases. Mixing increases cannabis value through ingredients and effects, although the order in which you add them matters.
Our recommended early recipe is OG Kush → Mouth Wash → Viagor = Extreme Assblaster.
Item | Value |
OG Kush suggested price | $38 |
Mouth Wash | $4 |
Viagor | $4 |
Extreme Assblaster suggested price | $80 |
Total additive cost | $8 |
Two inexpensive additives increase the suggested value by $42. Mouth Wash first produces Purple Cheese, which becomes Extreme Assblaster after adding Viagor. It became our primary early premium product and eventually supplied Benji.
Manual mixing is entertaining when you're experimenting. It becomes considerably less enjoyable when you're manufacturing large batches of the same product. Eventually, we weren't discovering chemistry anymore. We were repeatedly pressing buttons so a man could finish mixing mouthwash into cannabis.
We hired a Chemist for $1,500, with a $300 daily wage, and prepared two Mixing Stations for the recipe. Unfortunately, we'd forgotten something: the employee Locker.
We had recruited a qualified worker and provided the mixing equipment, but couldn't get the setup operating correctly without the Locker. Another $150 and some employee-management configuration eventually solved it. Apparently, our drug empire had invested in industrial chemistry before considering basic workplace administration.
Buy the Locker as part of the hiring process. Assign both Mixing Stations to the Chemist, feed the first station's output into the second and keep the necessary ingredients available. This automates mixing, although cultivation and packaging still require your attention.
Full automation comes later. Here is the Sweatshop layout we used: https://schedule1-lab.com/b/42oPG02N
Days 11-13: The Hippies cost us $2,544 in missed revenue
The visiting Hippies at Suburbia Park were one of the most profitable opportunities we encountered. They were also responsible for our most expensive missed opportunity.
At Peddler rank, we could sell them 40 units per day across a three-day visit. Their preferred effects included Bright-Eyed, Calming, Calorie-Dense, Foggy and Zombifying, allowing suitable products to command substantial premiums.
Our specialist recipe was OG Kush → Donut → Flu Medicine = White Piss.
White Piss has a suggested price of $68 and costs $8 in additives, but its Bright-Eyed and Calorie-Dense effects matched the Hippies' preferences. Our actual transactions paid $122.40 per unit.
Apparently, adding a donut and some flu medicine to cannabis is enough to make a particular demographic abandon all remaining financial judgment.
Prepare the full 120 units
At our rank and observed payout, the optimal three-day preparation was straightforward:
Day | White Piss sold | Revenue |
First | 40 | $4,896 |
Second | 40 | $4,896 |
Third | 40 | $4,896 |
Total | 120 | $14,688 |
Actual payments depend on relevant product and event conditions, but those figures use the price verified in our playthrough.
Unfortunately, we hadn't prepared enough White Piss, despite knowing the Hippies were coming. We ended up selling 60 White Piss and 60 Extreme Assblaster across the visit, earning $12,144 instead of the potential $14,688.
That's $2,544 in missed gross revenue, simply because we hadn't considered the event's total demand.
Extreme Assblaster wasn't a bad everyday product. Our mistake was treating a specialist opportunity like an ordinary selling day. When special customers announce themselves in advance, calculate their total purchasing capacity and manufacture the most suitable product before they arrive. The best regular product isn't necessarily the best product for every buyer.
Days 13-15: How to own a Storage Unit and still be unable to afford a shelf
The $4,000 Storage Unit supports three employees and provides enough room for our final Northtown production setup. By Day 13, we'd accumulated enough money to purchase it. What we hadn't done was plan the move properly.
We purchased the property, began relocating equipment and then discovered we still needed additional Mixing Stations, storage, employee infrastructure and supplies. Unfortunately, we'd exhausted the ATM's $10,000 weekly deposit allowance, and most of our remaining wealth was cash.
We ended up with more than $17,000 in combined funds and couldn't purchase everything needed to commission the factory. Day 14 became a holding day while we waited for the banking situation to improve.
The bank wasn't especially concerned about where our money came from. It simply objected to how enthusiastically we wanted to deposit it.
Don't buy the Storage Unit until you've funded the complete setup.
Requirement | Cost |
Storage Unit | $4,000 |
Two additional Mixing Stations | $1,000 |
Handler recruitment | $1,100 |
Handler wage | $200/day |
Employee Locker | $150 each |
Additional storage and supplies | Varies |
Reuse your existing Chemist, pots and Mixing Stations. We later spent $1,540 on two Lockers, three Large Storage Racks, twenty jars and two additional Mixing Stations.
The exact bill depends on what you already own, but the principle doesn't change. Have sufficient banked funds for the property and its equipment before relocating. If you can't afford both, keep the Sweatshop operating until you can. An empty factory isn't an upgrade.
Our Hippies experiment cost us $2,544 in missed revenue. And they're only one of four visiting customer groups. Meet Schedule I's Special Customers before the next travelling bulk buyer arrives and catches your production department with its trousers down.
The four-stage recipe that became our main product
The Storage Unit allowed us to automate a more valuable cannabis recipe:
OG Kush → Viagor → Mega Bean → Banana → Cuke = Granddaddy Fruit
Mixing station | Ingredient | Cost |
1 | Viagor | $4 |
2 | Mega Bean | $7 |
3 | Banana | $2 |
4 | Cuke | $2 |
Total | $15 |
Granddaddy Fruit has a suggested price of $111, leaving $96 after additive costs but before seeds, soil, packaging, wages and commissions. Extreme Assblaster provides $72 after its additives, making Granddaddy Fruit theoretically $24 more valuable per unit at this stage.
That doesn't automatically make it the most profitable product for every customer. Actual purchasing budgets and sales volumes still matter. However, it was a strong practical upgrade for our automated setup.
And four mixing stages don't require four times as much cannabis. Each finished unit still begins with one OG Kush. The additional work belongs to the mixing stations, not the plants.
Days 15-17: Our fully automated Northtown factory
The completed Storage Unit uses three employees:
Employee | Responsibility | Daily wage |
Chemist | Four Mixing Stations | $300 |
Handler | Ingredient transport and packaging | $200 |
Botanist | Cultivation and harvesting | $200 |
Total | $700/day |
The Handler cost $1,100 to recruit, while the Botanist cost $1,200. Our setup retained two growing pots, four Mixing Stations, Packaging Station Mk II, ingredient storage and three employee Lockers.
Assign the Botanist to the pots and configure seeds, soil and harvest storage. The Chemist handles the four mixing stages in the correct order, while the Handler manages the required ingredient routes and packaging.
We verified that the complete configuration works, here you can find a tile-perfect blueprint. https://schedule1-lab.com/b/Mq3r8qcd The essential elements are the equipment, employee assignments and correct product routing.
Before hiring the Botanist, we faced a recurring choice between personally selling our products and tending the plants. Sales brought in valuable money, but cultivation suffered whenever we spent too long away.
Hiring the Botanist on Day 17 solved that conflict. The factory could finally grow, mix and package cannabis while we concentrated on customers and keeping the operation supplied.
For the first time, we could leave the property without abandoning production. And despite all the equipment upgrades, we were still using the same two growing pots we'd started with.
Bulk deliveries and stock management
Our Granddaddy Fruit line requires one Viagor, Mega Bean, Banana and Cuke per finished unit. Instead of purchasing these individually, we ordered ingredients directly to the Storage Unit.
A typical order contained 80 of each ingredient for $1,200, plus a $200 delivery charge. That's $1,400 for enough additives to produce 80 Granddaddy Fruit, with delivery taking approximately five hours
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The system allowed 80 units per ingredient per order in our tested setup. One earlier order was recorded at $1,600, so always check the displayed total.
Order before supplies run out, keep storage organized and don't expand production simply because you can. Later, Albert also began delivering OG Kush seeds directly to the Storage Unit, eliminating another manual errand.
By then, the remaining work was mostly stocking supplies, managing money, selling products and developing customers. Considerably more enjoyable than personally operating four mixing stations all day.
The Laundromat: Solving a problem we created ourselves
We eventually purchased the $4,000 Laundromat and began processing $2,000 laundering cycles. It helped convert cash into bank funds, bypassing the practical bottleneck created by the ATM's weekly deposit allowance.
Laundering doesn't create additional revenue. It moves existing money into an account where it can fund purchases.
For our operation, the Laundromat was sufficient to help sustain ordinary banking needs, although larger investments still required planning. We'd recommend establishing laundering before the ATM restriction disrupts an important purchase, rather than waiting until the business is financially comfortable but functionally unable to spend its money.
Schedule I somehow manages to create an economy in which a criminal enterprise can manufacture thousands of dollars' worth of narcotics, employ three workers and coordinate deliveries, only to be brought to a standstill by retail banking.
The criminal organization has automated its operations. The bank would prefer us to return next week with a smaller envelope.
Day 18: Northtown is mastered, but sales are now the bottleneck
By the end of Day 18, we had an automated factory, an established dealer and maximum loyalty with every Northtown contact.
Our recorded financial position was:
Asset | Amount |
Cash | $15,118 |
Bank | $1,104 |
Total liquid funds | $16,222 |
Supplier debt | $0 |
We also held 115 packaged Extreme Assblaster, 107 Granddaddy Fruit in storage and another 52 Granddaddy Fruit with Benji. That's 274 units with a combined suggested value of $26,849, although inventory value isn't guaranteed revenue.
We switched Benji to Granddaddy Fruit and began selling it personally. Our twelve recorded personal deals on Day 18 brought in $4,692, while Benji reported another $1,853. That wasn't enough evidence to declare Granddaddy Fruit the most profitable product for every customer, particularly while dealer inventory was being transitioned.
What it demonstrated was that we had no immediate need for additional growing capacity. Our existing production was already generating substantial unsold inventory. We needed a larger customer base.
We also hadn't purchased a car. A vehicle would be convenient for transporting equipment and large quantities of stock, but the skateboard and supplier deliveries had served our Northtown operation perfectly well. The $9,000 Veeper can wait until Westville gives its cargo capacity a worthwhile job.
The route we'd follow if we started again
After eighteen days of discoveries and occasionally impressive financial mismanagement, this is the sequence we'd recommend:
Salvage the RV equipment, establish two-pot OG Kush production and develop early customers.
Buy the $800 Sweatshop and move your existing equipment.
Recruit Benji and purchase a skateboard once essential supplies are covered.
Unlock mixing and produce Extreme Assblaster.
Hire a Chemist, remembering the Locker, and automate both mixing stages.
Prepare 120 White Piss before the Hippies arrive, assuming the same three-day event conditions.
Save sufficient banked money for the entire Storage Unit transition.
Purchase the Storage Unit, install four mixing stages and hire a Handler.
Begin Granddaddy Fruit production, establish bulk deliveries and purchase a Laundromat when banking becomes restrictive.
Hire a Botanist, automate cultivation and concentrate on customer development.
Reach sustainable Northtown sales, then expand into Westville rather than adding unnecessary production capacity.
These are progression objectives, not eleven mandatory calendar days. Rank, customer unlocks and earnings determine the timing.
The most useful discovery from our playthrough was that we could keep increasing production long after increasing production had stopped being the answer. We started with two plants, considered upgrading them, multiplying them and relocating them, then finished eighteen days later with the same two pots doing their job under the supervision of three employees.
We'd spent considerable time learning to manufacture more expensive cannabis, only to reach the point where manufacturing cannabis was the easy part.
Northtown was working. Our remaining problem was finding enough customers for everything we produced.
Chapter 2: Westville Mastery.
Northtown is conquered, but our banking problems certainly aren't. Before financing your next criminal expansion, compare every Schedule I money-laundering business and find out which upgrade is actually worth buying. Having thousands in cash is considerably less impressive when your bank won't let you spend them.
FAQ
What is the best early weed recipe in Schedule I?
Extreme Assblaster: Mix OG Kush with Mouth Wash, then Viagor. It has a suggested selling price of $80 and costs just $8 in additives.
What is the best four-step recipe for Northtown?
Granddaddy Fruit: OG Kush → Viagor → Mega Bean → Banana → Cuke. Its suggested value is $111, with $15 in additive costs.
How many growing pots do you need?
Two standard pots were sufficient throughout our Northtown playthrough, producing up to 72 OG Kush across three daily harvests.
Which employees should you hire for the Storage Unit?
One Chemist, one Handler and one Botanist. Together, they automate cultivation, mixing and packaging for $700 in daily wages.
How do you make the most money from the Hippies?
Prepare 120 White Piss using OG Kush → Donut → Flu Medicine. At our Peddler rank and observed payout of $122.40 per unit, the three-day event could generate $14,688 in gross sales.
When should you buy the Laundromat?
Before the ATM's $10,000 weekly deposit limit prevents essential purchases. The $4,000 Laundromat can process $2,000 per laundering cycle, converting cash into usable bank funds.
Do you need a car to complete Northtown?
No. A skateboard and supplier deliveries were sufficient for our entire 18-day playthrough. Save vehicle purchases for when their cargo capacity becomes useful.
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