Ramen Shop Simulator missing gas tutorial means one of two things: the tutorial kitchen has a gas canister you have not found yet, or the shop is telling you there is no gas because it wants the small canister rather than the large tank. The canister is in the tutorial kitchen and it is small and easy to miss.
Ramen Shop Simulator missing gas tutorial: the steps
- Find the canister in the tutorial kitchen. It sits next to some old noodle boxes, under a bench next to the trash can.
- Attach it to the stove. The canister has to be fitted to the appliance, not just carried.
- Check which container the stove wants. The small canister is the one the stove uses; the larger tank serves the broth boiler.
- Compare the numbers. The large tank starts with 2,000 units while a small canister costs 3,000, so a shop that only has the large tank will still report that there is no gas.
- Buy more if you need a spare. Small Gas Canisters are sold in the konbini under the Supplies tab, and also in the fax machine under Misc — the konbini guide has the store layout. The tutorial gives you enough money for at least four of them.
Step four is the one that resolves most of the confusion. The 2,000 and the 3,000 are not the same kind of number: one is the gas the large tank holds, the other is what a small canister costs.
Two ways to find the canister
There are two routes to the same spot, and the second is easier if you have not found it yet:
- From the trash can. Look under the bench next to the trash can, where it sits beside some old noodle boxes.
- From the counter. Stand in the kitchen facing where the customers will sit, with your back to the sink. The canister is under the metal counter on the left.
It is a small object in a busy room, and the tutorial will not walk you over to it every time, so it is worth picking it up as soon as you find it and attaching it to the stove immediately.
Small canister, large tank, and the numbers
The two containers are not interchangeable:
- Small canister — the stove's fuel, sold in the konbini's Supplies tab and the fax machine's Misc category.
- Large tank — the broth boiler's fuel, holding more gas than the small canisters the stove runs on.
The broth boiler originally required a medium gas canister to run — an oversight that is being fixed. So if the boiler is asking for a canister size that does not exist for it, that is a known bug rather than a thing you are failing to find.
Buying a replacement is a shopping trip to the konbini guide, and the appliance that consumes it is covered in the equipment upgrade guide.
If the canister cannot be bought
If the small canister cannot be bought at all, it is locked in that build. The way round it is to raise money from what you already own:
- Pick up decorations in your shop.
- Store them in the Decoration Storage next to the fax machine.
- Right-click them to sell.
- Buy the canister with the money.
The decorations guide covers where a decoration comes from and how selling one back works.
That is a real detour, and it is only worth doing if the shop is otherwise playable and gas is the only thing holding you up. If you cannot even get to a point where the stove matters, the more likely problem is the tutorial cap or a broken save, and the stuck no customers guide covers those.