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Outpost Vendors

The outpost is where scavenged loot turns into Cash — and where you spend it on weapons, meds, gear and more. Nine vendors buy and sell across every category, and prices shift dynamically with how much everyone else is buying and selling.

How Trading Works

Every trade goes through the outpost — the safe-zone hub where vendors set up shop. Walk up to a vendor, open their menu, and use the buy or sell tabs. You pay and receive carried Cash (the notes in your inventory), not your bank balance. To check current prices before you make the trip, open your phone (/phone) and tap the Market Info app.

Vendors are specialists: each one deals in specific categories. The Weapons Dealer stocks guns and ammo; the Medical Store handles meds and food; the Illegal Dealer is the only place to buy explosives or sell processed drugs. Knowing who handles what saves a lot of running around.

9
Outpost vendors
178
Items in the shop
5,000
Max vendor reputation
Bank it before you spend itCash you earn in the field drops when you die. The moment you're done looting, hit an ATM and deposit — then draw out only what you need for your shopping run. See Banking & Marketplace for how the ATM works.

The Vendors

Nine traders cover every category of gear and goods. Here's who handles what:

Vendor Sells Buys from you
Weapons Dealer Firearms, ammunition, weapon attachments Weapons & accessories
Medical Store Medical supplies, food Medical items & food
Construction Store Deployables, electrical components, resources, farming supplies Resources & farm goods
Equipment Store Tools, general equipment, keycards Equipment & keycards
Illegal Dealer Explosives, drug ingredients (Poppy Seeds, Baking Soda) Drugs & processed illegal goods
Fishing Store Fishing gear, keycards Fishing items & keycards
Clothing Store Clothing, armor, utility items Clothing & armor
Vehicle Parts Vehicle components & modules Vehicle parts & modules
Casino Casino chips & games —
Illegal Dealer is the only explosives sourceIf you want to raid, the Illegal Dealer is your only vendor option for explosives and the ingredient components. Other vendors won't stock them. Your reputation also needs to be high enough before certain items unlock — see the Vendor Reputation section below.

Dynamic Pricing

Vendor prices aren't fixed — they move with demand. The system re-checks every item's price roughly every 120 seconds and adjusts based on how much players have been buying or selling.

Each item has a baseline price. When lots of players sell the same thing, the sell price drops by roughly 5% per pressure tick — the market gets flooded and the vendor pays less. When demand is high and stock is low, prices tick back up by the same amount. The result is a live economy: move early on fresh loot, and you get the better rate.

120s
Price re-check interval
~5%
Price move per tick
Practical tip: sell in batches, not floodsDumping a huge stack all at once hammers the sell price down. If you're moving a lot of a single item, consider splitting runs — give the price time to recover between sells. The Market Info app on your phone lets you track current prices before you walk to the vendor.

Dynamic pricing affects sell rates more than buy rates. Buy prices from vendors are more stable; it's the cash-out side — selling your gathered goods — where you'll feel the swings. For high-volume earners like sheet metal and components, watch the price ticker before committing a large run. Sheet metal, for example, moves between roughly 80 and 120 Cash per unit around a 100 Cash baseline.

For more on earning strategies and which goods hold their value best, see Earning Cash.

Vendor Reputation

Every trade you make builds vendor reputation, capped at 5,000. Higher reputation unlocks restricted items that you can't buy at low standing.

Reputation accumulates as you buy and sell across all vendors — you don't grind it per-vendor, it's a shared outpost standing. Most items in the shop need around 100 reputation before you can buy them, so your very first job at the outpost is trading enough to clear that threshold. The more you trade, the higher your rep, and the more of the catalogue opens up. Some higher-tier items, particularly certain explosives and late-game gear, are gated behind steeper rep thresholds, so early-wipe players won't have access to everything immediately.

5,000
Maximum reputation
Vendor won't sell to you?If an item appears in the vendor menu but won't complete when you try to buy it, your outpost reputation is too low. The fix is simple: keep trading. Every buy and sell adds rep — farming the Medical Store for food and meds early on is a fast way to build standing.

Notable Buys

A short list of items worth knowing by price — the things that come up in every wipe:

Item Vendor Price Notes
Code Cracker Equipment Store 2,500 Cash Cracks lock combinations — essential for raiding and puzzles
Drone Equipment Store 4,000 Cash Recon tool; Guerrilla skill unlocks beancan & flashbang drops
Handmade Fishing Rod Fishing Store 250 Cash Entry point for fishing as a Cash earner
Poppy Seeds Illegal Dealer — Starting ingredient for the heroin chain; bought here, grown in base
Diamond Sells to Illegal Dealer 5,000 Cash High-value loot find — sell immediately, price holds well
Jewelry Sells to Illegal Dealer 3,500 Cash Found in monument crates and heist rooms
Zombie Flesh Sells to vendors 15 Cash Drops from every infected — low value but plentiful early-wipe
Prices move — these are baselinesThe figures above are from the current shop configuration and reflect base prices before dynamic adjustments. High-traffic items like Sheet Metal (base 100 Cash, range 80–120) will fluctuate in real sessions. Check the Market Info app before a big sell run.

For all the ways to earn Cash beyond just vending — farming, drugs, gold bars, bank heists — see Earning Cash. For keeping it safe once you've earned it, see Banking & Marketplace. If you're looking at buying or renting a vehicle, the Vehicle Parts vendor and the full pricing breakdown is on the Vehicles & Kits page.