Unlock the Ultimate Barn Layout for Schedule 1: Maximize Your Empire!

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After you’ve gone ahead and invested significantly in buying a large barn for your clandestine operations, it may be time to shift focus from manual workforce concerns to maximizing automatic productivity in the first schedule.

As an enthusiast, I find that the barn presents an ideal setting for housing several employees around the clock, ensuring continuous efforts towards expanding our dominion even more. However, achieving this goal requires having full authority over the Management Clipboard, coupled with a substantial financial backup and essential tools at hand.

In this manual, we’ve provided suggestions for an optimal barn arrangement to assist you in making the most of your resources, allowing you some leisure time to step away momentarily.

Required furniture, employees & cash

Prior to starting your barn setup for optimal crystal yield, ensure these necessary resources are available:

  • Bankroll of at least $100,000
  • Several storage units for ingredients and finished products
  • Eight chemists to operate the chemistry stations
  • Two handlers for automation)
  • Two Mixing Station II
  • Eight Lab Ovens and eight Chemistry Stations
  • One Packing Station Mk II
  • Four Brick Presses (if unlocked)
  • Ten beds upstairs for your chemists
  • Initial delivery of 80 acid and 80 phosphorus to the barn ($6,600)

If you haven’t learned how to get employees or Mixing Stations II, we’ve got you covered.

Best Barn setup

We’ll go step by step through the process of setting up your fully-automated Barn.

Step 1: Set up storage

Storage is a must for ingredients, product, and packaging materials.

  1. Set up multiple shelves dividing the barn into three, narrower areas to hold acid, phosphorus, and pseudoephedrine.
  2. Have separate shelves for finished products and packaging materials (baggies, jars, and mixing supplies).
  3. Keep one shelf dedicated to overflow crystal storage before packaging.

Step 2: Lab Oven + Chemistry Station setup

  1. Arrange eight Chemistry Station and eight Lab Ovens in an alternating pattern.
  2. Each Chemistry Station should have a directly adjacent lab oven facing it.
  3. Make sure there’s enough walking space between the rows for smooth workflow.

Step 3: Bedrooms

Your chemists require assigned beds for proper management, even if they don’t use them.

1. Arrange ten beds in the upper level.

2. Assign a bed for every chemist by hitting 9, choosing the chemist, then connecting them with a bed.

Step 4: Mixing Stations

Next, arrange two workstations specifically designed for blending the raw crystals into a market-ready product. Strategically position these stations close to your chemistry shelves for optimal efficiency.

Step 5: Place Brick Presses

As a keen enthusiast, I’d like to share a handy tip: If you manage to unlock it, performing two to four brick presses could assist you in compacting crystals into solid bricks. For your convenience, consider placing them close to your storage area.

Step 6: Assign Stations to Chemists and Handlers

  • Assign each chemist to one Chemistry Station and one adjacent lab oven.
  • The two handlers can be assigned to:
    • Stock mixing stations
    • Transfer product from mixing stations to brick presses

Step 7: Meet Up with Shirley and Purchase Pseudo

If you’ve unlocked Pseudo, skip to step 5, but here’s how to get loads of Pseudo at once:

  1. Message Shirley Watts to start ordering dead drops.
  2. Initially, order low-quality pseudoephedrine (10 drops at a time).
  3. Locate the drop site on your map and fill the stash with cash.
  4. Repeat until the meet-up option appears.
  5. Meet Shirley (usually under the West Bridge) and order as much pseudoephedrine as allowed (e.g., 90 units).

Step 8: Fill up Chemistry Stations, recipe & product destination

  1. Store pseudoephedrine, acid, and phosphorus on designated shelves.
  2. Fill each Chemistry Station with max acid and phosphorus (10 each).
  3. Assign each Chemistry Station to produce liquid crystal, with the destination set to its corresponding lab oven.
  • Set each Lab Oven’s destination to a shelf.

Step 9: Prepare packaging for the products

  1. Order 160 baggies and 80 jars.
  2. Set up a dedicated shelf for packaging materials.
  3. Order 160 of each mix needed for the mixing stations.
  4. Keep packaging supplies near mixing stations for efficiency.

Step 10: Order another drop

Once everything is arranged, promptly request an additional 80 units of both acid (phosphoric) and phosphorus. When the gathering platform becomes accessible once more, go ahead and order another 80 units of pseudoephedrine.

Step 11: Pay your employees

Ensure the smooth operation of your chemical production by providing compensation for your chemists and handlers. Place an appropriately filled briefcase near their sleeping areas as a convenience. Maintain sufficient funds in a reserve to cater for their wages.

Step 12: Start production and optimize

Once the barn is set up, follow these steps for maximum efficiency:

  1. Start the first cook cycle – chemists will move crystal to shelves in stacks of 10.
  2. Fill up phosphorus and return acid as needed.
  3. Ensure jars, bags, and mixers are stocked near their stations.
  4. Use extra shelves for overflow crystal before packaging.
  5. Process crystal into bricks (once you have ~20 jars and 40 bags full).
  6. Assign the handler to automate stock movement: from product shelf → mixing station → brick press.
  7. Reassign handler routes if shelves fill up too quickly.
  8. Unlist products from sale temporarily to focus on production setup without dealer texts.

Here’s what you should know about the optimal Barn Layout for Schedule 1. As your operations progress towards full-scale production, you may find it beneficial to delve deeper into the most effective mixing recipes.

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2025-04-01 21:21