60 articlesSchedule 1 is a game that lets you make and sell all kinds of illegal drugs in the streets. To make your job a whole lot easier, you can start hiring workers to do all the boring work for you, leaving you more time to do whatever else you want. In this guide, we will be covering how you can automate the processes in your property and produce a lot of crystal drugs almost completely passively.
How to Make Your Barn Automatic | Crystal Setup
Very late in the game, you are going to be able to afford the barn property, which gives you a metric ton of space to work with. This means that you can start automating a lot of the processes in your drug production business, and you are going to want that as there will be a lot of labor involved with this amount of room.
If you need a refresher, make sure to check out our guide on how to unlock and cook crystal in Schedule 1 to see how the step by step process of making crystal drugs works. Keep this in mind as you will need it for the automation process.
Now, check out our guide on how to make the best crystal recipe in the game as well. This will show you the mix that you should be going for, so you know what type of materials to stock up on once you are ready to automate things.
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The whole concept is basically just the same as how you automate everything else in the game. Being in the barn, all that changes is the scale in which your operation works at. Make sure to buy a lot of chemistry stations to start cooking liquid products, and then point them towards an oven to start cooking them automatically.
Make sure to set up your handlers’ routes so that some of them will move products from one work station to the next, while a couple of your other handlers will be moving supplies both into chemistry stations and mixers as well as your desired storage racks afterwards.
Set up a lot of mixing stations, with one for each step in the “best product recipe” that we talked about earlier. Obviously, set them up so that the finished product for each step is sent to the mixing station of the next ingredient in the correct order described in the recipe.
At the very last mixing station, just have it set up in a way that a handler will move it straight to storage or a packaging station. For the latter, make sure to have another handler actually working on packaging too, and check if you have enough storage for the stuff that’s ready to sell as well.
The only thing you need to really keep in mind is that the game is still in very early access and workers tend to break a lot and ignore the work you have assigned them. If this happens, make sure that you did not mess up any of your assignments and that everything is in the correct order.
If fixing their routes and assignments, as well as correctly sorting all of the ingredients throughout the cooking and mixing process, does not help, you will just have to try and restart the game or re-hire new employees. Again, there are a lot of bugs to encounter in the game, and a lot of them revolve around the workers.
