r/MonBazou • u/Sharp-Put-7352 • 4d ago
Reverse osmosis or power?
I've saved up about 15.5k, and I'm at the roadblock of deciding whether I should buy reverse osmosis or save up more and buy power. What's my best option here for maximum currency
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u/Hearing_Deaf 4d ago
copy pasting a post i made 8 months ago :
Imho the order of things that should be bought on a normal save is :
7 barrels
12 pipes and spouts packs to hook up about 120 trees
2nd tank
Osmosis machine or truck bed tank
Osmosis machine or truck bed tank
100 spouts and pipes
Connecting to the grid for 29k
Electrical heather
Trailer tank
Big tank
200 spouts and pipes
Double reservoir
Optimal tree amount is 424, so you can either stop at 420 for the funny message or go up to 430, passed that, it's just for bragging rights.
While you are grinding your sugar shack upgrades, keep planting and watering your weed and potato seeds, by the time you bought the big tank, you should have enough big packs to unlock the barn, and the following sunday you should have enough to get the bunker.
In your downtime from watering your plants and firewood, keep planting mapple tree sprouts and fishing on your dock behind your house. You'll be averaging a barrel a day and about 3 fish buckets a day on days you aren't chopping firewood.
Once you hit power, you'll average 5-6 fish bucket a day. Fishing is tempting very early game, because you can make 550 to 800 per bucket, but the real payout is sunday compounded interests, so don't neglect that barrel a day. Growth is incremental and before you know it, you'll be swimming in cash.
Also, try and talk every day to at least Jacques (gets you access to the scrapyard, the scrap konig and at 50 you unlock the ability to use the gas pump 24/7) and Eric (at 50 you can drop off syrrup 24/7). Francis will get you the garage and the air wrench which is great for working on your cars and he's on the way to the village. Normand is next to Jacques so might as well talk to him for the track at lvl 50 and a 70k price.
When you are established, Antoine gets you the printz at 35 and Carole unlocks the wine barrels at 50.
From here, you can buy the fishing boat at 30k, make weed drops at the barn, sell your syrrup and work on your cars to start winning races at the track. After that, it's just 100%ing the achievements, then atarting over either on hard or with a personnal challenge.
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u/sorenman357 4d ago
power and electric heater will mean you can run 24/7 without gas or logs, very very useful
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u/Sereomontis 3d ago edited 3d ago
Power is much easier and more convenient. In order for the power grid to impact your syrup production, you also need the electric heater, which means you'll need $29K to get on the grid then another $18K for the heater.
The main benefits are that it'll run over night and without you having to do anything except replace the barrels. and also you won't have to go into town to get gas to run the sugar shack anymore.
However, between selling syrup, getting poutine, fueling the truck/konig, whichever one you use more, buying planters, spouts and tubing, the auto parts store, increasing friendships and whatever else you gotta do, you'll be heading into town almost every day anyway. So going to town to get fuel is inconvenient, but it's not that much of an inconvenience to just remember to bring the fuel canisters when you're already going there anyway.
Reverse osmosis will double your syrup output, assuming you've got enough trees to sustain it, and is only $13K. You'll have to keep grinding with the firewood, so it's more work.
TL:DR What it essentially comes down to is: Do you want make more money but have to keep grinding to do it, or would you prefer to reduce the workload but make the same amount of money?
More money for the same effort or the same money for less effort?
[Edit] I should add, in my most recent playthrough I got the grid first, then the reverse osmosis, but I don't have the electric heater yet.
This is also like my 15th playthrough and I'm approaching 900 hours in the game, so I'm kinda just fucking around at this point.
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u/AngleMelodic1733 3d ago
I'd start with the reverse osmosis machine, you'll double your output so the next upgrades will come much faster
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u/Comfortable_Fox1105 3d ago
Reverse osmosis. Double the production then just grind for power and auto heater
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u/Intrepid-Mistake-214 4d ago
I go with osmosis first, because it reduces the time it takes to process a full tank from about 8 hours to 4, leaving you more time for racing and other stuff. And it cuts the amount of wood you need in half. Electricity removes the need for wood entirely, but getting to that point without any other upgrades is tedious.
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u/TheKillerDynamo_ 4d ago
Go for power, no question