Fence

Before opening, place units of Black Lamp in the Display Case and double-click each one to choose who it calls: the Food Thief, the Petty Thief or the Thief.

• Choose the targets and arrange the Display Case before opening for the day.
• More lamps on one target and higher Black Market reputation raise the invitation chance, up to 95%. Each target is invited at most once a day; the same customer selected by another route is merged into one visit.
• Each thief a lamp brings uses one of that day's normal customer slots, so you get one fewer random customer for each. Lamps work from day 1; random customers start on day 2.

Buy from the thieves. From day 1, check the Stolen tag, Heat and Five Finger Discount (I to IV) on their goods on the negotiation screen. The higher the Heat, the bigger the discount.

• Buying Stolen goods raises Black Market reputation more than an ordinary trade, and more for higher Heat.
• Do not report thieves. It lowers your Black Market reputation; the penalty grows with each report until it reaches its cap.

Move Stolen goods into the Smuggler's Bay right away. Inspections never find its contents.

• Keep Stolen goods and contraband off the counter and out of the Display Case. Contraband or discovered Stolen goods in the Display Case can bring a Security Inspector.
• Higher Heat makes Stolen goods easier to find in an inspection; luck can still make the inspector overlook them.

Check the tag as Heat drops each night. Sell after Heat reaches 0 and the Stolen tag disappears; a non-contraband item at Heat 100 takes 6 nights.

• Heat drops inside the Smuggler's Bay too.
• Stolen contraband is still contraband after the tag disappears, so keep it in the Smuggler's Bay until you sell it.
• Food from the Food Thief starts at Heat 25 and reaches 0 after 2 nights, which makes it a shorter wait than expensive stock.

Sell non-contraband items as ordinary stock once their Heat reaches 0. Put those goods in the Display Case to call buyers of that category.

• Selling an item while Heat remains raises your suspected crime level, more for higher Heat.
• For expensive household goods such as Advanced Water Filter and HydraTech Micro Water Purifier, displaying household goods with a high enough total value from day 14 calls the Upper Level Servant, who has the budget for them. Before day 14, the household buyer's usual budget is too low for their normal price. The Security Requisition Officer buys the Immunivax Injector.

The Merchant comes on every rent day and buys anything that is not contraband. Sell there to raise cash in a week when the rent is short.

• The Merchant does not pay the retail markup, so sell items that can wait to your normal customers.

At Black Market reputation 40 you get Safe Hands: the Thief comes every Monday and carries a supply crate on every visit, and the Petty Thief sometimes comes too, on any day of the week.

• Without perks that change starting reputation, on Mark Up you start at 30, so 10 more is enough, and on Price Gouge you start with Safe Hands. Blabbermouth halves the starting value and every later Black Market gain.

Match keycards to crates: the Disposable Keycard (Security) opens the Security Department Supply Crate and the Security Department Evidence Locker, the Disposable Keycard (Medical) the Medical Bay Supply Crate, the Disposable Keycard (Engineering) the Engineering Foundry Supply Crate, the Disposable Keycard (Service) the Service Department Supply Crate, and the Disposable Keycard (Command) opens any crate. Each opening uses up one keycard; you start with one Disposable Keycard (Medical), one Disposable Keycard (Engineering) and one Disposable Keycard (Security).

• Opening clears the Stolen and contraband status of the crate itself, and it no longer sells as a supply crate. Take the contents out and check each item before selling it.

Buy supply crates from the Thief. Before Safe Hands, a visit sometimes carries one crate; after it, every visit carries one.

• Buy a crate when you have its keycard ready or enough secure storage. Keep your Smuggler's Bay for small stock and consider a Smuggler's Bay (Modified) when storage runs short.

Sort the contents by buyer: look for the Immunivax Injector and the Energy Cell in a Medical Bay Supply Crate, and the Energy Cell and the Energy Cell (Mk. II) in an Engineering Foundry Supply Crate. Contents vary, so count what you actually received.

• Selling the Immunivax Injector to the Security Requisition Officer, who comes on Thursdays with Requisition Order, also raises Security reputation.
• Check the Stolen and contraband tags on the contents before selling. Keycards found inside are contraband too.
• Display contents that are not contraband to call buyers of that category; the Merchant also buys the Energy Cell and the Energy Cell (Mk. II) on rent day.

When you run short of keycards, use the Underground Exchange: turn the Janitorial Service on, put one Disposable Keycard (Command) in the trash can and sleep. The next morning the trash can holds 2 keycards in total, randomly chosen from the Disposable Keycard (Security), the Disposable Keycard (Engineering) and the Disposable Keycard (Medical); both may be the same type.

• The promotional offers change every 7 days and sometimes include 3× Disposable Keycard (Security) for a Security Department Supply Crate, 4× Disposable Keycard (Medical) for a Medical Bay Supply Crate, or 4× Disposable Keycard (Engineering) for an Engineering Foundry Supply Crate.
• Each deal runs once per night, and nothing is traded while the Janitorial Service is off.
• Ordinary items left in the trash can after the exchange are destroyed that night, so put only the goods for the trade in it.
• Leave room in the trash can for the delivery. The materials are consumed even if the reward cannot fit and is lost.

The Case Enjoyer first stops by to talk once you meet the ownership condition, on day 2 at the earliest, and comes back once 7 days later with a large budget, on day 9 at the earliest. Sell unopened crates and spare keycards on that return visit.

• The first visit comes on the first day from day 2 on which you own at least 2 keycards and supply crates combined, and the return is 7 days later.
• Keycards, the Security Department Supply Crate and the Security Department Evidence Locker are contraband, so selling them raises your suspected crime level, more for higher prices. The Case Enjoyer is a Lower Levels customer, so the crime is not halved unless you have Tight Lips; run Wild's Fixers that night.

The unopened Medical Bay Supply Crate, the unopened Engineering Foundry Supply Crate and the unopened Service Department Supply Crate also sell to the Merchant on rent day, and the Shady Merchant buys the Security Department Supply Crate and the Security Department Evidence Locker.

Keep contraband in the Smuggler's Bay until you sell it.

• If you open with contraband in the Display Case, a Security Inspector comes that day.
• Inspections also search the counter and Display Case. Take out only what the current buyer will buy, then return the rest to the Smuggler's Bay.

From day 2, the Shady Merchant comes now and then as a random Black Market customer. This customer buys contraband and keycards, and sales to Black Market customers raise your suspected crime level only half as much.

• The Shady Merchant does not pay the retail markup and applies contraband discounts. Compare the offered price before buying more stock.
• At Black Market reputation 25, and again at 50, random customers are more often Black Market customers such as the Shady Merchant and the Thief.
• To bring Black Market buyers on purpose, use Criminal Networking: for a nightly fee, either the Shopping Thief (keycards and medical goods, the Vial of "Dream Dust" included) or the Shopping Mercenary (weapons, ammunition and medical goods) comes with a large budget (3-day cooldown).

The Mercenary, a random customer, also buys weapons and ammunition.

• The Mercenary pays the full markup, but as a Lower Levels customer the crime is not halved unless you have Tight Lips.
• Police customers never buy contraband.

Run Wild's Fixers on nights after contraband sales. Your suspected crime level drops faster than normal.

• While your Trafficking and Possession (Stolen Goods) crimes have built up a little, routine inspections recur unless you have VIP; higher totals shorten the interval. Keep contraband in the Smuggler's Bay; Inspection Early Warning Service tells you the routine inspection schedule for a nightly fee.
• If the investigation completes while your suspected crime level is high, a Security Officer comes; Evidence Removal destroys the evidence collected so far.
• Once the investigation's evidence reaches 80 of 100, your suspected crime level stops dropping by itself each night. Use Wild's Fixers to lower it, or use Evidence Removal to reset the evidence to 0 and restore the nightly decrease.

Limit how much contraband you sell per day, and sell the next batch after your suspected crime level has come down.

Restock the Vial of "Dream Dust" from the Lower Level Chemist, a random customer who often brings it; a Security Department Evidence Locker can contain it too.

• The Old Scav comes only once, on a random day, and sells an Ironcraft 10, 10mm Ammunition and 10mm Ammunition (AP).
• A Security Department Supply Crate can also contain 10mm Ammunition.

Check the Underground Exchange deals and turn the Janitorial Service on.

• Promotional offers change every 7 days; use only a deal offered that week.

For the regular deal, prepare 2× Vial of "Dream Dust". The starting two bottles are enough for one deal.

• Check the bottles' purity before exchanging them: it changes the possible rewards, and low-purity bottles can be consumed without any reward. Other outcomes include household goods, food, materials and medical goods; compare them with selling the bottles directly.
• The promotional medical-goods deal takes 4× Vial of "Dream Dust", so the starting two bottles alone are not enough.

When its promotional deal is offered, exchange 2× Oxymore Injector for 1× Immunivax Injector. Keep storage-upgrade materials before trading the surplus.

• A Smuggler's Bay and 8× Oxymore Injector make a Smuggler's Bay (Modified); upgrading storage can keep the main trade growing.

For an Energy Cell, use 2 spare poisons, or 5 spare seeds only when the seed promotional deal is offered.

• Seeds give a full battery; poison results depend on the inputs. Check the charge before choosing to use or sell it.

Leave only the exchange materials in the trash can and enough free space for the result, then sleep.

• Each deal is used once per night. Extra ordinary goods are thrown away, and a reward that cannot fit is lost after the materials are consumed.

In the morning, sort the delivered goods. Sell the Immunivax Injector to the Security Requisition Officer and the Energy Cell to the Station Engineer; use other goods to fill categories you can already sell.