Probably Stolen controls and first day: rotate items, buy, sell and check rent

Open Options (K) and scroll to Key Binds. These are the bindings our install showed on 100-REV13. Earlier test runs used this install, so read your own Options if a key does nothing. The bell's B key is confirmed by the developer's 1.0.0.5 notes. The tutorial's hint overlay labels Alt+click as quick transfer to the counter, while Options calls Left Alt quick move to storage.

Keys only work while you are holding an item. Our video shows a long tube in the inventory: E turned it upright, a second E turned it flat again, Q turned it back, F mirrored it, and R returned it to how it started.

Right-click an empty inventory slot (or press S over one) for the sort menu. It offers Sort to Top or Sort to Bottom, each Big First or Small First, plus Undo Sort. Right-click an item for its own menu, including Read for documents. The tutorial's hint overlay (O) labels the display case, negotiation counter, bell, sleeping bag and other parts of the shop.

Items moved straight to our inventory because Move Bought Items to Inventory was on; update 1.0.0.12 added that option, on by default.

1. Ring the bell (B) to call the next customer. A seller lays items on the outside counter.
2. Drag the item you want onto the negotiation counter. The panel lists it under SELLING with the price, Your Funds and the Total.
3. Click Buy. Our Galaxy Blend cost 25 credits: funds went from 550 to 525, and the item went straight into our inventory.

The Mentor's trading note says clients have a limited budget and that sales get a retail markup automatically. Mark Up (Normal) lists a 15% markup, which matched our sale. Items a buyer doesn't want show as Not interested. For buyers with bigger budgets, see Store Attractiveness in the customer budgets guide.

Store Attractiveness and customer budgets

1. Read what the buyer wants. Our Spacer asked for food, and the panel's Interests line said Food.
2. Drag your item onto the negotiation counter. The panel moves it under BUYING with a price, and shows Customer Budget.
3. Click the item line to see the price breakdown. Our Peat (base value 25) sold for 29 with Retail Markup (+15%).
4. Click Sell. Our funds rose to 554 and the Spacer's budget fell from 62 to 33.

On day 1 our only service was Power Service at 5 credits. Its tooltip says it keeps the store lit and grid devices running; unpaid, only machines on Energy Cells work and the lights dim. The next morning's Nightly Report confirmed the power bill was paid.

Machines that stop overnight

1. Clear the outside counter. The Mentor warns not to leave anything there overnight.
2. Click Close the Store once the queue is empty. The game won't end the day while important visitors are waiting.
3. Click the sleeping bag. Tick the overnight services you want, then click End the Day. The game autosaves after sleeping.

The morning screen has three tabs. Calendar marked Rent Due on day 7 and day 14 and said the Landlord would collect 200 credits in 5 days. It also said the property was valued at 12,000 credits. Status showed 549 credits and an Estimated Total Wealth of 768, higher than the cash alone.

Those figures are from our Apprentice run on Mark Up (Normal). The difficulty screen lists rent rising 2%, 5% or 10% each time depending on difficulty, and property prices that differ by difficulty. Check your own Calendar rather than copying 200 or 12,000.

What each difficulty changes

Recorded in the user's purchased retail copy on November 9, 2026: Windows / Steam build 26525552, menu version 100-REV13, Apprentice, Mark Up (Normal), no perks, intro on. Day 1 to the morning of day 2. AI-operated through computer use and AI-edited; no gameplay was generated.

The 1:48 video is silent, at normal speed, with cuts and enlarged UI. Its captions are repeated in the text file linked below. We did not find a bargaining control in the trade panel, so this guide makes no haggling claim. Quick-move with Ctrl+click did not register through our automation input; dragging worked. That is a limit of our setup, not a game finding.

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Test record and source timestamps (JSON)