The Probably Stolen walkthrough is four tutorial beats and one repeatable day: keep food in stock, never leave stock on the outside counter overnight, treat the display case as a traffic filter, and learn to read the first shipment of counterfeit cigarettes. Each day opens when you click the rolling shutter, runs on the next-customer control at the counter, and ends when you sleep on the bag in the corner and settle the overnight services sheet.
The Probably Stolen Walkthrough: Four Beats From The Mentor
The Mentor runs the tutorial in four beats and hands you a magnifying glass and a handbook after warning that a shipment of counterfeit cigarettes came off the docks.
- Keep food in stock. Empty shelves mean fewer walk-ins and a thinner till.
- Clear the outside counter before you sleep. Anything left there is gone by morning unless Joe Wild's insurance covers it.
- Use the display case as a traffic filter. It decides who walks in. While the tutorial is running the case is disabled on day one so it cannot desync the Mentor script.
- Inspect before you resell. Put the magnifying glass on the pack, keep the handbook open beside it, and one real discrepancy in lettering, logo, colour or seal is enough to confront the seller.
Accuse a seller on a guess and you lose reputation. The appraisal guide covers the full check and the tools behind it.
Opening And Closing The Shop Each Day
You never walk a character around the shop. Click the rolling shutter to open for the day, work the queue with the next-customer control at the counter, and sleep on the bag in the corner to close the day and open the overnight services sheet.
When the customer line dies you pick one of three things:
- Sleep and start tomorrow.
- Run one overnight machine, such as the furnace, the bottle printer or the wine fermenter.
- Go to the dumping grounds.
A dumping-ground trip costs you the next morning's customer, which makes it the most expensive of the three on a tight week.
Your First Rent Week Checklist
Rent is due on a short cycle, and the opening dialogue often frames the first invoice as six days out. Work through this list every cycle:
- Keep at least one food item on the grocery row.
- Empty the outside counter before you sleep.
- Stock the display case before you raise the shutter, not after.
- Inspect every lot that looks valuable before you buy it.
- Pick one overnight activity, not three.
- Leave the next rent payment covered before you spend anything else.
Rent rises even after a perfect week. The rent page has the per-cycle numbers for each difficulty.
What To Buy With Your First Profit
Fund one growth project rather than three. The four sensible first buys are a trading or vendor permit, a furnace, a water purifier, or Joe Wild's insurance. Insurance first if a single overnight theft would wipe your reserve; a furnace first if scrap and broken machines are your cheapest route to ingots.
The money page breaks down which income lines are safe and which product lines bring trouble to the door.