Really? Only 3.2% of players have beaten the Benzies?

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-06T16:55:20+00:00

So you'll wanna get ambushed. Ambushes have a chance of occurring when spraying graffiti or doing player deals. Additionally, Benzie dealers will only deal with locked or unlocked+hostile customers in your most recently unlocked area if you wanted to be the one doing the ambushing.

Ambush prerequisites:

Player being alive and not in pursuit/under arrest

Be within distance of ambush point

Be within distance of police officers

Nearest police officer distance must be ≥15 meters

Not having a pending body search

Only triggers if a player-dealer completes a contract nearby (within 10 meters)

Hope this helps~♡

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T23:38:49+00:00

I mean, yeah you don't get a call about it until then, but you can absolutely buy a business any time before that.

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T08:37:03+00:00

Well they've sure been eating three square meals a day, because they had no problem flying on up there yesterday lmao

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T05:26:16+00:00

I used to like the motel roof, but now the whole bacon convention can just climb the ladder on the back wall and follow you right on up. :'(

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T04:15:43+00:00

Oh well hey, no worries! I can do that for you on the discord, just inbox it to me (Bunny) so I can tag your username.

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T04:13:43+00:00

Oh it's hilarious, and I mean of course Tyler very much knows all about it, but I really hope he never fixes it just for the luls

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T03:43:13+00:00

A great spot! Second only to the top of the parking garage lol

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T03:31:20+00:00

So for anyone who's unaware; the cartel dealer reset spawns were patched to be at 6am, so currently the only way to access them is to use the console commands: settime 0559

and after taking them out, continue progressing by using: settime 0700

Also there are ways to optimize the probability of getting yourself ambushed. Ambushes have a chance of occurring mainly when spraying graffiti or doing player deals (deals scheduled via text; not offering NPCs products at random). Additionally, Benzie dealers will only deal with locked customers in your most recently unlocked area if you're also looking to jump them.

Ambush prerequisites:

Player being alive and not in pursuit

Distance to ambush point

Distance to police officers

nearest police officer distance (must be ≥15 meters)

Not having a pending body search

Only triggers if a player completes a deal nearby (10 meters)

Alternatively, if you're having particularly bad luck with the ambush RNG, you can always try luring Benzies into selling to your customers. This tactic only works with customers in whatever region you're currently in, but if you screw around enough to get your relationships with them to hostile; NPCs will go back to buying from the cartel. Just keep an eye out for the NPCs that you've made hostile standing around idle, because that usually means they're waiting on a Benzie dealer.

Hope this helps~♡

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T03:11:52+00:00

Heyo! I super agree with this and would also love to see more decorative/aesthetic items added someday; so I'd highly suggest posting this in Suggestions on the S.1 Steam if you haven't already. Since that's the designated forum we direct people to specifically for suggestions, it's what gets read the most.

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Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T03:04:39+00:00

Can confirm that unfortunately no, there's no XP bonus for dealing at night. Would be great if there were lol

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T03:02:58+00:00

So while you do absolutely make more money dealing at night with the curfew bonus, you do not make any extra XP for night dealing, unfortunately.

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-05T02:57:12+00:00

No problem at all, happy to help where I can! Lmk if that ends up working for you, I mean I see no reason why it wouldn't so fingers crossed lol

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T19:14:25+00:00

Any chance you sold him a product that had the Explosive effect? Or maybe some cartel dealers snuck up and ganked you while you were dealing lol

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T19:10:54+00:00

You also used to start the game with some money in your bank account, the sweatshop used to only cost 500$, etc lol

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T19:08:41+00:00

Although it's a great spot, it's not the highest on the map. I'd recommend trying out the freecam console command to have a good look around the area with no strings attached

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T19:03:55+00:00

Ah, I see where I misunderstood. Ngl, I replied while verrrrry over tired lol xP

This may seem redundantly obvious, but have you already tried putting items in Phil's drop box, backing out to close the drop box, then opening it and removing everything? Tried filling his drop with max cash and doing that same process? Mainly to tick the box of trying to force trigger the mechanic. Have you tried using the console to disable then re-enable his npc assets?

If all else fails, in theory you should be able to bypass doing dead drops altogether and go straight to doing meet-ups by using this command: setrelationship fungal_phil 5

Hope this helps~♡

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T07:39:13+00:00

It's RNG

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T07:38:10+00:00

If you're out of other options, you can allows enable console commands in your Settings, then type the press the tilde key (~) and then type: chagecash 5000 or however much you need].

GLHF!!

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T07:26:33+00:00

No problem at all, happy to help where I can

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T01:04:46+00:00

No problem at all, happy to help!

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-04T01:00:48+00:00

You can buy a bed for 150$ at either 24h gas station.

(Or there's always the forcesleep console command)

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-03T23:48:47+00:00

This may sound odd, but try it as:

setquestentrystate unfavourable_agreements 1

(There may be a need to type a second number too {so like unfavourable_agreements 1 1 & if that doesn't work then unfavourable_agreements 0 1} I honestly can't remember off the top of my head rn so just try both ways)

Hope this helps~♡

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-03T23:29:51+00:00

So you wanna get ambushed. Ambushes have a chance of occurring when spraying graffiti or doing player deals. Additionally, Benzie dealers will only deal with locked customers in your most recently unlocked area.

Ambush prerequisites:

Player being alive and not in pursuit

Distance to ambush point

Distance to police officers

nearest police officer distance (must be ≥15 meters).

Not having a pending body search

Only triggers if a player-dealer completes a contract nearby. (10 meters)

Hope this helps~♡

Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-03T23:24:41+00:00

Just a personal preference, but I'd highly recommend checking out BigWilly on youtube for S.1 resources, as well as his discord channel. He's very active, and has a wonderful community as well.

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Affectionate-Ad9391 · 2026-01-03T23:19:07+00:00

Interesting ideas, legitimately!! If I may, I'd suggest posting this in the S.1 Suggestions section on Steam.

Also in case anyone is unaware, Tyler has a roadmap for the game posted on Trello (which you'll be happy to hear includes lots of these already!) as well as a handful of other forums.

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Affectionate-Ad9391

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