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Step 1: Escape the Ruins
Schedule I

Step 1: Escape the Ruins

Follow this comprehensive walkthrough for Schedule I to escape the ruins, covering character customization, initial quests, renting a motel room, and buying essential equipment.

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Follow this comprehensive walkthrough for Schedule I to escape the ruins, covering character customization, initial quests, renting a motel room, and buying essential equipment.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    After the initial cutscene and character customization, you'll spawn near the bus station. Open your phone ('Tab') and read the message from 'Unknown' to start the 'Getting Started' quest.
  2. 2
    Go to the payphone and talk to 'U.N.' (Uncle Nelson), who instructs you to find his stash near the skatepark, on a ledge leading to the motel. You'll find $375.
  3. 3
    Speak to the motel manager, Donna, at the house next to the motel to get the 'Rent a motel room' quest.
  4. 4
    After speaking with Donna, you can optionally pickpocket her to retrieve the $75 needed for the room, giving you an early cash boost.
  5. 5
    Enter room 1 of the motel to complete the quest objective.
  6. 6
    Return to the payphone to speak with Uncle Nelson again, initiating the 'Gearing Up' questline.
  7. 7
    Head to the hardware store (marked by a yellow star on your map, or by following the road from the bus station).
  8. 8
    At the hardware store, you'll receive quests to deposit cash at the ATM and purchase a grow tent, soil bag, and watering can. It's recommended to also buy 'Plant Trimmers', 'Packaging Station', and 10 'Baggies' for future quests. Consider buying a trash grabber and trash bag for convenience.
  9. 9
    If you tell Dan at the hardware store you're a drug dealer, he may gift you 'Speed Grow'.
  10. 10
    Return to your motel room, place the grow tent, and fill it with soil.
  11. 11
    Talk to Uncle Nelson again, who will introduce you to Albert Hoover.
  12. 12
    Open your phone and message Albert Hoover to order seeds. Purchase one 'OG Kush' seed.
  13. 13
    Retrieve the seed from the delivered 'Dead Drop' (marked on your map or by following quest directions).
  14. 14
    Sow the seed in the grow tent and water the plant using the watering can filled at the sink.
  15. 15
    Sleep to advance plant growth.
  16. 16
    Harvest the plant using the 'Plant Trimmers' once fully grown.
  17. 17
    Place the 'Packaging Station' and use it to package the harvested buds into baggies.
Tips
  • Speed-runners can open the motel room door and step inside, then immediately start the next quest.
  • Depositing all your cash at the ATM is safer as it protects you from fines if caught by police or from medical bills if you die.
  • When buying items at the hardware store, use the 'MAX' button for the ATM and hold 'Shift' when grabbing items from storage to collect entire stacks quickly.
  • You can unpackage weed by using the packaging station's unpack function.
  • Sleeping after watering plants saves water and time, and significantly boosts plant growth.
  • It's generally recommended to stick with OG Kush seeds due to their ease and cost-effectiveness for mixing.
  • Pay off debts to Albert Hoover by placing cash in the dead drop behind the hardware store.
  • $375 from Uncle Nelson's stash.
  • Optional $75 pickpocketed from the motel manager.
  • Essential equipment for starting your first grow operation.

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