Laboratory

Certificates and recipes

Each packaged product's certificate is bought once and can be used in every city. Owned and unowned certificates appear in separate tabs. A warning appears if you lack the matching Export Office shelf; buying the certificate does not unlock that shelf.

The current catalogue contains 30 recipes. Recipes do not need the same number of ingredients, and some yield one package while others yield two. Distinguish recipe repetitions from the number of packages produced.

Package value and actual cost

A package's base price is twice the combined base value of its recipe ingredients, divided by the recipe's output quantity. This is a valuation rule; your actual cost depends on what you paid for those ingredients.

Budget separately for the certificate, ingredient stock and shelves. Comparing package selling price with ingredient base value alone does not establish net profit: purchase prices, taxes, bonuses, waiting time and initial investment also matter.

Starting a batch

Use the slider to choose the base package quantity, up to 10,000 per batch. Recipes yielding two packages require a multiple of two. All ingredients must be in the warehouse of the city where production starts and are consumed at the start.

Base production time is 4 hours. With an active laboratory acceleration item, a newly started batch takes 3 hours. An existing batch's finish time does not change afterward.

The Laboratory Acceleration item costs 100 diamonds and stays active for 24 hours. Its actual time benefit is a reduction from 4 hours to 3.

VIP and parallel production

Bronze VIP adds 10%, Silver 20% and Diamond 30% laboratory output. A base selection of 10,000 can therefore yield 11,000, 12,000 or 13,000 packages with the relevant VIP tier, without extra recipe ingredients for the bonus.

Starting a different product while another is still being produced costs 5 diamonds. You cannot start a second batch of a product while its previous batch is producing or waiting to be collected. The first eligible production has no parallel-production charge.

Collecting and selling

Collect packages in the city where the batch began, with enough warehouse room for the entire output. If space is insufficient, the finished batch waits. The system does not sell laboratory packages, and the wholesaler does not buy them.

Sell packages on the player market or through an unlocked matching shelf at your Export Office. Prepare your sales channel, ingredient stock and warehouse capacity before committing to production.