Vending Machines

Guide · Economy

Trader Vending Machine

Two machines with the orange light

Buy it	Survivor Shop, tab TRADE: $50,000
Craft it	100 Pure Gold Coin, 20 Scrap Electronics, 10 Steel Sheet
Holds	Up to 130 weight of stock
Power	Not needed
Breaks	Never
Sells while you are offline	Yes
Extras	Your own name, a map pin, 10 light colours

A Trader Vending Machine is your own little shop. You put items in it, give them a price, and other players can buy them at any time, even while you are offline. The money stays safe in the machine until you collect it.

In short

1. Buy or craft a machine and place it somewhere.
2. Open it and put your items in.
3. Give each item a price.
4. Collect your money whenever you like.

Contents

1. Getting a machine
   1. Buying one
   2. Crafting one
2. Placing your machine
3. Opening a machine
4. Selling: for the owner
   1. Putting items in
   2. Setting prices
   3. Collecting your money
   4. Taking items back out
   5. Name, light and map pin
5. Buying: for customers
   1. Buying at the machine
   2. Looking from the map
6. Moving or packing up
7. Good to know
8. Messages and what they mean
9. See also

Getting a machine

You can buy a machine or craft one. Both give you the same machine.

Buying one

Buy a machine in the Survivor Shop: right-click a Walkie Talkie, choose Emergency Survivor Shop, open the TRADE tab and buy the Trader Vending Machine for $50,000.

More about the shop: Server Shops.

Crafting one

You need	Amount
Pure Gold Coin	100
Scrap Electronics	20
Steel Sheet	10

1. Carry all of these items with you.
2. Stand next to a table, counter or other surface. The recipe needs one.
3. Open the crafting window and find Craft Trader Vending Machine in the DOTD category.
4. Craft it. It takes about 30 seconds.

Placing your machine

1. Go to the spot where you want your shop.
2. Right-click the machine in your inventory and choose Install furniture.
3. Pick a free spot and place it, like any other piece of furniture.

The machine is now yours. It starts with the name YourName's Vending Machine, and you can change that later.

To turn it to face another way, use the game's Move Furniture tool and choose Rotate. Only you can rotate your machine.

Opening a machine

Right-click a machine and choose Vending Machine.

1. Walk up to the machine. You need to be within 3 tiles of it.
2. Right-click the machine.
3. Choose Vending Machine.

The same window opens for everyone. Customers only see the list and the Buy button. If it is your machine, you also get the owner buttons below the list.

Selling: for the owner

Your own machine, still empty. The owner buttons are at the bottom.

Everything below happens in your machine's window. What the buttons do:

Button	What it does
Set price	Gives the selected item the price you typed in the Price box.
Take 1 / Take all	Takes the selected item back out of the machine.
Withdraw	Pays out all the money the machine has earned.
Rename	Gives your machine its own name.
Map pin	Shows your machine on everyone's world map, or hides it.
Colour list	The colour your machine glows in, or No light.

Putting items in

With your machine open, right-click items in your inventory and choose Stock in.

1. Open your machine and keep its window open.
2. Open your inventory and right-click the items you want to sell. You can select many at once.
3. Choose Stock in <machine name> (the number in brackets is how many items you selected).

The items move into the machine. New items show as not for sale until you give them a price.

What you need to know:

• The machine holds up to 130 weight of stock. You can see how full it is under Stock weight (for example 2.6 / 130).
• Items can come from your main inventory or from a bag you are carrying.
• You can put in up to 200 items at once.
• These cannot go in: money, money bundles and money piles, items you are wearing or holding, items marked as favourite, animals and corpses.
• A bag goes in with everything inside it.
• Buyers see the state of every item: its condition, how many uses are left, and whether food is fresh, stale or rotten.
• Food does not go off while it is in the machine.

Setting prices

New stock says not for sale. Click it, type a price, press Set price.

1. Click the item in the list.
2. Type the price in the Price box. This is the price for one item.
3. Click Set price.

The price is now shown in green and players can buy it.

• The price applies to the whole line, so all items in that line get the same price.
• A price of 0 means the item is not for sale. Customers do not see it in their list.
• Identical items with the same price and the same condition are shown together on one line.

Collecting your money

Every sale puts the money into the machine. You can see how much is waiting under Cash (bottom left, in green).

• Click Withdraw to take it all. You get Money Piles ($1,000 each) first, then Money Bundles ($100 each) and loose Money for the rest.
• The money is safe in the machine for as long as you like. Nobody else can take it.

Taking items back out

1. Click the item in the list.
2. Click Take 1 for one item, or Take all for the whole line.

The items go back into your inventory, exactly as they went in.

Name, light and map pin

• Rename: give your machine a name of up to 48 characters, for example Rose's Ammo & Tools. Customers see this name at the top of the window and on the map.
• Light: choose a colour from the list on the right: White, Blue, Cyan, Green, Magenta, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red or Yellow. The machine glows and lights up the area around it, no electricity needed. Choose No light to switch it off.
• Map pin: click it until it says Map pin: ON. Your machine now shows on every player's world map with its name, and players can look at what you sell from the map (see below). Click again to hide it.

Buying: for customers

Buying at the machine

Click an item, set the quantity and press Buy. Total is what you will pay.

1. Walk up to the machine (within 3 tiles), right-click it and choose Vending Machine.
2. Click the item you want. You can type in the box at the top to search the list.
3. Type how many you want in Quantity. Total shows the full price.
4. Click Buy.

The items go straight into your inventory.

• You pay with Money, Money Bundles and Money Piles from your inventory and the bags you are carrying. Wallet shows how much you have on you.
• You get your change back.
• Money in the bank does not count: withdraw it first (see Deposit & Withdraw Cash).

Looking from the map

Click a machine's pin on the world map to see what it sells.

Machines whose owner switched the map pin on show up on the world map as a small vending machine icon with their name.

1. Open the world map.
2. Click a vending machine pin.

A window titled <machine name> (map view) shows what that machine sells and the prices. You cannot buy from the map: go to the machine to buy. The list shows the stock at the moment you clicked; click the pin again to see it fresh.

Moving or packing up

Only the owner can pick a machine up, and it has to be empty first.

1. Open your machine and click Take all on every line until the list is empty.
2. Click Withdraw to take out the money.
3. Use the game's Move Furniture tool and choose Pick up.

You can now place it again somewhere else, the same way as the first time.

If your machine is ever gone

Your stock and money are kept by the server, not inside the machine itself. If a machine of yours is ever missing from its spot, place a new one while you are near the old spot: the server moves your stock and money into it and tells you how many items it brought back.

Good to know

• It cannot be broken. Zombies cannot thump it, and weapons and sledgehammers do nothing to it. Nobody can take it apart.
• Nobody can steal from it. The machine has no container to loot. Stock, prices and money are kept by the server.
• Only you manage it. Other players can only buy. They cannot change prices, take items or pick the machine up.
• It sells while you are offline. The money waits for you.
• No electricity needed, for selling or for the light.
• Food stays fresh while it is in the machine.

Messages and what they mean

Message	What it means
Too far	Walk closer. You need to be within 3 tiles of the machine.
Not enough money	The money you carry is less than the Total. Bank money does not count.
The stock changed, look again	Someone bought it or the owner changed it just now. The list has been updated: check it and try again.
The machine is full	The stock has reached 130 weight. Sell or take something out first.
None of these can be stocked	The items you picked are money, worn or held, marked as favourite, or not in your inventory.
This is not your vending machine	Only the owner can do that.
Empty the machine first	Take all the stock and withdraw the money before picking it up.
Another player's vending record is bound to this spot	That spot belongs to someone else's machine. Choose another spot.
This machine is not registered	Pick the machine up and place it again.
Slow down	Too many clicks too fast. Wait a moment.
Vending is closed for maintenance	The machines are paused for a moment. Nothing is lost; try again soon.
Server error. Nothing was changed	Nothing happened to your items or money. Please tell staff.

Something not working?

Getting helpOur Discord, and how to open a support ticket.

See also

EconomyCash, the bank, payouts and every other way to earn money.

Server ShopsWhere to buy a machine.

Custom ModsOther mods made for the server by staff or volunteers.