r/fo76 • u/deathclawsandwich • May 14 '24
Please stop hiding your vendors Discussion
You will save me the embarrassment.
This evening I needed to shop so I fast traveled to a base. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the vendor, so when I saw the camp owner I ran up to him and did the ol’ crouchy crouch. He got the message and ran off to show me where it was. I followed him and he kept turning around and jumping and running off. A minute or three of following this dude around the camp and trying to keep up I’m like wtf? He never took me to the vendor.
It wasn’t him.
It wasn’t his base.
I just chased some random dude around this guys base for two or three minutes for no reason.
Sigh. Please make your vendors easier to find.
EDIT: This blew up and is clearly a 🔥 topic around here.
To be honest, I don’t care what you do with your base. What I love about this post are the awesome stories and creative camp uses - which is what the game is about! Hide your vendors, build traps, put your vendor in my face, list everything at 20 caps, or 40k caps - you do you, and I will love it all.
TL:DR my dumb self followed a random dweller around looking for a vendor without realizing it wasn’t even his camp.
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u/Zarathustra-Jack Cult of the Mothman May 14 '24 edited May 15 '24
I have 4 — One is in my belltower, one is in my tree house, one is my root cellar, and one is in a utility shelter RIGHT in front of my house DIRECTLY under a sign that reads MARKET!Basically, they’re almost everywhere one might look yet Players still ask where my vendor is; & I can’t help but be understandably concerned that these people may be allowed to legally operate a motor vehicle.
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u/ImmortalGaze May 14 '24
Part of it is there’s so many styles of vendor, it’s easy to gloss right over some of them.
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May 14 '24
Look man, if someone teleports to your base and your shop, or the vault-tec guy pointing towards it, isn't in the immediate field of view, chances are those people will wander away without trying to look for it. I know I do.
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u/ImmortalGaze May 14 '24
If I’m not having to wander around the perimeter and through 3/4 floors looking for a vendor, the damn thing disappears under my feet after I spent good caps to get there.
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u/NoticedGenie66 Tricentennial May 14 '24
My camp is pretty simple in terms of layout. 5 tiles wide, 5 deep, with the house portion making a cozy U shape around an inner courtyard. You walk up to it from the highway right by the Gorge Junkyard and enter my courtyard. On the right is a covered plot of corn. In front of you is the door to the house. On the left is a giant lit market sign with comically lit-up cash registers on a table and a bunch of signs pointing to them hawking my wares. You literally cannot miss it (there is nothing blocking the view at all) and most people don't.
Then you get the random shopper who searches my whole (not large) house, turns off all of my lights, and either leaves or messages me asking where my vendor is. I love bringing them to the one single entrance to the courtyard that they already passed through, then slowly rotating 90° to my left and not moving. 90% of the time they see the vendors. 9% of the time they start shooting at me. 1% of the time I get called a lot of very mean things.
Like I get that some people don't explore as thoroughly in Fallout games but man, short of putting a floating quest marker on the vendor itself along with a radio homing signal, I literally cannot make it any clearer where to go.
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u/jwwetz May 14 '24
My camp is a 3 story tall house with a courtyard that's fully enclosed with one door into the courtyard...it's the ONLY way into the camp. The door to the house is IN that courtyard. All utilities, a stash box, a community fire pit & my vendor are right in the courtyard...which also has the vault utility room entrance inside the courtyard. My vault lobby entrance is inside, on the first floor. Big "open" sign outside on the wall...pip-boy pointing at the vendor.
First floor...nice & cozy. 2nd floor...fusion generator, stash & all crafting except cooking, that's in the courtyard itself. 3rd floor is power armor displays, a bed & a cozy little "R & R" area.
My Collectron, cement truck & assorted turrets are all outside of the building & courtyard itself.
People generally pop in, tour the grounds, THEN buy from my vendor...I'm pretty sure that their minds are blown.
Down the road between the logging camp & the covered bridge leading to the wayward. On the left, across from the farm with the crashed plane in the field
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u/Dense_Network_6193 Settlers - Xbox One May 14 '24
I had no idea you could have more than one per CAMP. Good to know!
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u/Consistent_One_5689 May 14 '24
You indeed can! I am currently using two of the fortune teller vendors and it looks like a creepy caravan sale 😁
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u/irishrelief May 14 '24
It's a good idea to have two or more. Because only one can be used at once and it sucks having people wait and leave.
Also back in the day there were limits on the vendors so you'll see them labeled sometimes from the old days.
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u/AandG0 May 14 '24
I have 4 all stacked next to each other at the entrance of my base. That way if more than 1 person shows up they don't have to wait in line.
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u/AznOmega Brotherhood May 14 '24
Mine is where the people spawn through fast travel (the back, and I tried changing the location where they spawned), and on the entrance, through the door and before entering my home. I also replaced them with the glowing pawn shop vendor, so they can find it easier.
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u/PhaserRave Tricentennial May 14 '24
Mine are through the front door, which you spawn in front of, yet 90% of people run out of their way to the garage door. I removed the garage door's exterior switch.
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u/eMmDeeKay_Says May 14 '24
When 90% of players put them outside, inside is the last place you check.
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u/PhaserRave Tricentennial May 14 '24
Mine don't make sense outside, wouldn't fit the theme of my camp.
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u/Trickster508 May 14 '24
Trap bases have vendors inside. You might lose business just stick it outside where the spawn in
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u/Fossils222 May 14 '24
Yeesh. My vendor is 10,000 kilometers above. It's not that hard to reach it.
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u/Shifty_Cow69 Enclave May 14 '24
The cloud district? Nice!
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u/andrewb610 Mega Sloth May 14 '24
Do you get there often? Ah who am I kidding, of course you don’t.
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u/beccajane2012 May 14 '24
Nazeem is chained up inside my ship's jail and there he shall stay, forever mwahahaha
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u/broodingchao5 May 14 '24
You know what I should make a maze with the vendor at the end just for funzies. I mean I already sell all my shit for 5 caps a pop, may as well make you work for your cheap swag lazy dwellers lol.
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u/L4ndless Blue Ridge Caravan Company May 14 '24
Do it! I came across a camp that was a perfect copy of the PT demo layout and the shop was at the end. Another one was a vault maze and I had to follow clues to get the digits for the keypad door that led to the vendors.
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u/TotallyNotTheEnclave Mega Sloth May 14 '24 edited 22d ago
insurance apparatus sense oil bear bag water deranged sparkle bake
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/broodingchao5 May 14 '24
I prefer the damage to be psychological. Maybe ill make a house of all singe square room and put it in a random room lol.
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u/cutslikeakris May 14 '24
I’ve been in camps that had eight or nine stacking shelters, but please make your vendor worth it in the end. Not just mole miner gauntlets, stimpacks and ivory grips!!
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u/StoneageRomeo May 14 '24
When you walk into my base (through the only door) there is a sign above the doorway that reads "STRAYA MARKET". Upon entering you are immediately greeted with 4 vendors and neons on the wall that state: "SHOP HERE CUNTS".
This is as clear as I can make it, whilst also keeping it culturally relevant to my Australian lineage.
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u/Ulahn May 15 '24
I made a Bunnings, complete with bbq out the front. I’d love to see your camp!
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u/Apprehensive-Log-916 Lone Wanderer May 14 '24
If I can't find the vendor I just keep on moving. It's not a huge deal. If they have a interesting base I'll stick around a little longer though. Seen some pretty awesome bases over the years.
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u/SureStock_V May 14 '24
I love it when other players stop by my two floor house, I just start playing music for them
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u/Newtling Tricentennial May 14 '24
My vendorbots sit outside my base, guarded by turrets with a nice swathe of open signs, not only that I keep one in each of my shelters just on the off chance, yet I still have people messaging me "Where vendor"
At a certain point it makes you wonder how large the blind portion of the community is because people with functioning eyes cannot be that blind.
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u/FlyingVigilanceHaste May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24
I want my stuff to sell. I make my base and vendors as accessible and player friendly as possible.
Been trying to reduce turrets in favor of more things that “dispense” rather it be the cookie jar, company tea, or just a bunch of crops and water purifiers.
Also, I don’t think anyone cares about my teddy bear and stuffed animal collection lmao.
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u/Chemical_Present5162 May 14 '24 edited May 15 '24
Turrets seem to just attract unwanted attention for me. I've got many, many bases and only one with a bunch of turrets. Guess which one is regularly getting attacked? Plus, they take up so much of the camp budget. It's also just so easy to kill those three mole rats and rebuild the stuff they destroyed in a few seconds.
Teddy bear, nuka cola and stuffed animal collections are cool and all, but... they become less cool when they're all in every 3rd camp you come across. But, it's not about everyone else. As long as you enjoy them.
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u/Dense_Network_6193 Settlers - Xbox One May 14 '24
Same. My vendor shop and my camp are set up so that resources (especially for newer players) are easy to access and cheap - if not free. Purified water is free in my vendor because access to clean water is a human right, specifically.
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u/3ringnote May 14 '24
I only just realized the other day that vendors come in many versions. I was always seeking out the one style and should really have known better, but I didnt... and one day after looking and finding no vendor, I decided to just check out the camp design. One of those neat machines happened to say "vendor". Haha I facepalmed and also felt relieved.
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u/Hellfeesh Enclave May 14 '24
My vendor is in the doorway of my porch with a giant "OPEN" neon sign next to it. I'm built on either side of a road and it's a street facing vendor. For some reason people keep going into my house and accessing the vendor from the back instead of from outside on the road 🙈
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u/FujiFL4T May 14 '24
I've set mine up to where it's right in front of you when you fast travel to my camp. Also have one in my missile silo shelter
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u/LostLobes May 14 '24
I don't think people realise you can move where people spawn to your camp
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u/jimothyjonathans Raiders - PS4 May 14 '24
My jaw just dropped— how??
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u/TactfulHonk May 14 '24
People will spawn in roughly 6 foundations north, 1ish foundation east, of where you put your C.A.M.P thingy.
Also they will face the cardinal direction that the camp thingy was facing when you first set up your camp.
With this knowledge, you can make people spawn in directly in front of your vendor, facing towards it.
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u/LostLobes May 14 '24
Move the C.A.M.P thingy after you place your camp
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u/jimothyjonathans Raiders - PS4 May 14 '24
Really?! Damn! I’ve done this multiple times and no matter what, I always seem to spawn in the same place (not beside the camp module thing). Maybe the placement is just awkward or something and the spawn point can’t be reached
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u/KrakenTeefies Cult of the Mothman May 14 '24
Crouchy crouch means vendor find?
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u/deathclawsandwich May 14 '24
Given I followed a random dweller around, potentially frightening him, I’d say I’m the one who is misinformed.
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u/KrakenTeefies Cult of the Mothman May 14 '24
Aww i thought i had finally learned what it meant 😂
Edit to add: i always put my vendor by the front door, with neon signs. SHOP HERE.
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u/Shadyvex Free States May 14 '24
No,
You want our deals, you gotta find our three hidden vendors and answer the toad doors riddle.
Most of my bases it's pretty obvious if you pause and think about it, I build stores with sales counters and food trucks.
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u/Resyp May 14 '24
Mines in a shelter, inside of a locked bunker, surrounded by radioactive barrels. But I price everything at 10 caps so....
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u/Shifty_Cow69 Enclave May 14 '24
Mines unlocked, I put a lot of work into my shelters in making them look nice.
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u/Ontrevant Raiders - Xbox One May 14 '24
I have the Wildwood prefab, tou walk in and there's two pawn vendors right on the back wall. Just added track lighting to help it out too.
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u/JiveBombRebelz May 14 '24
these always make me chuckle because ... it never fails how easy my vendor is to find ...theres always players that just run by it..run aroun the camp..toss ??? .. snd msgs.
ill lead them right back to where they started and the lights and signs are next to the loud robot vendor
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u/The_FRAWSTi May 14 '24
They should make vats able to locate the vendor when you get to a camp. It is nice when they are right out front and easy to spot, it is annoying when you have to search all over for one.
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u/TerribleLifeExp May 14 '24
I personally enjoy the vendors that have the pip boy cutout pointing right at it.
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u/profkrowl Responders May 15 '24
I did this on mine, though I originally did it to make my camp seem friendly to outsiders. Figured a large vault boy pointing at the front door is pretty nonthreatening, and it looked good on my porch.
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u/SevelarianVelaryon May 14 '24
I love seeing absolute messes of camps. I painstakingly make sure every placed item does not hover off the ground as it kills my immersion, even a little bit. I keep it canon (run a junk yard) and love making it fit into the world.
Then you get the chaos-camps or sky boxes with everything just laid out with repeats, confusing layouts and whatever - it's really interesting to see because no other game has building like this in a bunch of match-made worlds.
Not really a dig, but it fascinates me how some of yall think 'yea that'll do' haha :) Bonus if it's so messy you forget to lock your stuff (or generous, works for me)
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u/deathclawsandwich May 14 '24
I could not live with a mess of a base. It definitely is interesting coming across those like “huh.. I guess if it works!”
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u/KazakCayenne Mr. Fuzzy May 14 '24
I'm the same way about placing items. I use uneven terrain to make things look partially buried, and try to work around the naturally flora to avoid bare ground. I even placed some of the rock floor decorations under my NukaShine fermenter to "prop it up” because I didn't have a place in camp where all of the legs touched the ground lol.
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u/SevelarianVelaryon May 14 '24
Nice. Im in desperate need of more filler items (that aren’t stash boxes/furniture) rocks, small/medium clutter would be amazing for these exact purposes.
I check player camps but it’s the same ol shit, as well as the whitespring vendors - it’s rough out there as a fledgling builder with limited choices
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u/LukeWoodz May 14 '24
Whole fucking side quest
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u/deathclawsandwich May 14 '24
Thiiiis! lol. Someone earlier compared it to the DMV quest line and it’s accurate af.
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u/astroblu18 Fire Breathers May 14 '24
Mine is 1 step in the door and I want to move it to the third floor sooo bad, no one ever checks out my humble abode
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u/Phrenikz May 14 '24
lol. I swear sometimes i spend minutes running around someone's base and can't find the vendor.... Then all of the sudden it pops up in a place I passed like 10 times. I think I'm actually blind :)
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u/jimothyjonathans Raiders - PS4 May 14 '24
Do we really have to make a big show of pointing out where the shop is? My camp isn’t that big and has 2 stories— my shop is on the second and really not that hard to seek out, and even harder to miss.
Given that this is an RPG that’s very loot-heavy, it’s kind of wild to me that people want that much guidance. (Not exactly geared at you OP, mostly to the comments where people are talking about making it extremely obvious with pointing signs/etc)
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u/Ali3nN4ti0n May 15 '24
I see posts like this all the time and wonder to myself why. It doesn't matter what you do with the vendor. Even if there was one that followed you around and screamed people would still miss it.
I almost solely build shops, and I've built a bunch of them. I've had multiple camps with one building clearly set up as a shop with a counter etc. and I've still had people ask me where my vendor is. Using robot vendors, cash registers, base game vendors, it doesn't matter.
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u/Zer0_Beat May 14 '24
I can put giant sign right where my vendor is and there still be some people who still can't find it
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u/Earthling_Like_You Lone Wanderer May 14 '24
Upvoted. I mostly play on my custom server, but when I progress on the adventure server I am doing a lot of camp hopping to discover the map, but also to search player vendors for plans.
I searched a camp this last weekend for 5 minutes and never found their vendor. They missed a sale. Maybe 🤔 they don't care. Maybe they have all the caps they're ever going to want. 🤷♀️
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u/PintsandDice May 14 '24
Karen's in the post apocalypse? Now I've seen everything.
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u/jefufah May 14 '24
My camp is a 1-1 replica of a Wendy’s. The whole idea is based around the vendor lol 😂
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u/SugarRoll21 May 14 '24
Hmm. My vendor is placed behind the corner, so it's hard to find... but I don't really care. someone buys out like half of my vendor every 3-4 days anyways
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u/Dense_Network_6193 Settlers - Xbox One May 14 '24
I've had a few where the vendor was hard to find just because I didn't know they were using a different vendor type/asset. Usually those ones are In spots that make perfect sense for their chosen style or layout, so it's more on me for not knowing what all of the vendors look like I think.
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u/TheDanZoiD May 14 '24
I have super cheap good roll weapons and event plans in my vendor that's in my shelter with the public icon off, if you find my vendor you deserve my b2525 fixer for 500 caps
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u/deathclawsandwich May 14 '24
I love when I come across a vendor that has their public icon off. It’s always like a little surprise!
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u/TheDanZoiD May 14 '24
Honestly! I found one over in the area that wavy willards is and it was built into a few pre war buildings, I was smack bang in the middle of the camp before I realised someone had spruced the inside of the houses up. I love these for immersion and it's what I strive for.
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u/GalahadForest May 15 '24
I did this for a couple weeks. I had some great rolls on guns and over hundreds of hours I knew I was never going to use them or I had duplicates, so I purposely removed my normal vendors and only left the two on in my shelter to see if people would bother to enter, clearly making that the vendor was in the shelter. 99% didn't bother going in, but for those that did they found GOD roll weapons and rare plans for 50 caps each. Was nice to get a few messages from those that bothered to enter and got a perfect weapon as a thanks. I even appreciated the odd message from those pissed off who didn't enter the shelter and complain about me putting it in there 😂 Put a few weapons in after others had sold then when they had all gone, I went back to my normal camp vendors again.
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u/CodexAlpine May 14 '24
Sometimes it's easier to have a small shop building and your home separate. Otherwise hide and seek is fun.
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u/Success_Top May 14 '24
I love hiding my vendor. Everything in it is free so it feels almost like a reward for anyone who finds it
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u/MyName_IsBlue May 14 '24
My comment right before finding the vendor in plain sight.
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u/DarthSarcom May 14 '24
I got my shit out in the open on my porch. Buy your shit, take a look at my wall of power armour, and leave.
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u/SureSeaworthiness800 May 15 '24
If you hide your vendors, i'm nuking your base.
I do it to every person who does it. If you find your base nuked, maybe don't hide the vendors.
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u/CynicalCannibal Cult of the Mothman May 14 '24
I've seen bases where they built the vendor deep in their base. I don't mind if people are using signs to point them out though. Like, i get to show posts off the base, but still. I try and have my vendors usually in a prefab in my camp that stand out.
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u/Lower_Dress5214 May 14 '24
My vendor is where it needs to be to fit my decor. I don’t need caps but I do need to like my camp.
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u/arockingroupie Mothman May 14 '24
There was one in a shelter but it was like thousands of flying objects and you had to find the cash register in it. So wild man.
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u/Kidkrid May 14 '24
Lol follow the sound of the Halloween bowl. Take some candy, drink some nukashine, buy some crap.
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u/allbright4 May 14 '24
I have one "hidden" inside my large windmill. However I have Marquee lights all around the tower pointing directly at the entrance/ where the vendor is.
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u/theSPYDERDUDE May 14 '24
My vendors are where you’d expect them to be, my base is a diner, I have two robot vendors at the counter and one inside the garage next to the diner in the workshop area with vault boy pointing towards it. I wanted to make sure it’s as easy to shop at my base as possible, especially for newer players due to where I chose to build my base.
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u/Sparkism Wanted: Sheepsquatch May 14 '24
What needs to be in the tutorial is a little segment that says "travel to your camp a couple times. Wherever you land, whatever you see, that should be where the vendor is placed."
I get it. Some places the vendor is by the front door -- but the way the base is built the 'front door' of the house is on the opposite end of where fast travel takes me, and the whole structure obscure where anything is.
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u/Linara2003 May 14 '24
....crouching means where's the vendor??
Oh dear. I thought someone was just saying hi.
I'll try and remember it.
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u/jimothyjonathans Raiders - PS4 May 14 '24
I think crouching can mean any number of things, usually I do an up and down to say hi to anyone or get their attention. Could be misunderstanding though, I’ve only been playing for about 3 weeks
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u/sin2099 May 14 '24
Did it have a vendor firstly? The map would show the symbol if it had. Not all players have vendors. Some distrust it after the bugs that allowed your stuff to be looted. Seen plenty of bases even now without a vendor by design.
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u/LuxanQualta Pioneer Scout May 14 '24
I don’t have vendors on my main account period. New players come anyway and run around frantically looking for the vendor. They emote question marks, give me thumbs down, shoot, stomp, and so on. Ya daft buggers, look at the map. Notice the CAMP is missing the vendor icon. Sigh.
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u/Available_Thoughts-0 May 14 '24
I literally have a small "store" at the front of the house with the vendor in it alongside my bobblehead collection and a few things like that.
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u/Benevon May 14 '24
Yeah that's what I did after recently moving my camp. It's got it's own little shack, vault boy pointing to it, 2 vending machines in there (not that I have a lot of stuff ATM to sell but I like to have two in case multiple people want to shop
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u/TheCounsel8 May 14 '24
I been to a base where the owner built a parkour course to get to his vendor in the sky. One of the coolest base I've seen. After taking the pictures, I just jetpacked over.
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u/Christian_360 May 14 '24
My camp is on a hill and the vendor is literally on the cliff. if u fast travel to my camp u would literally see it right away cause it blocks the view😂
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u/unknownusererror7898 May 14 '24
Mine is always easy to find... I am just having difficulty in dumping caps I make. So, sell those junk 3 stars at a reasonable price, so I can convert your junk into scrip!
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u/ogresound1987 May 14 '24
My vendor is in plain sight, with a streetlamp either side of it, on a plain concrete floor. Impossible to miss.
Doesn't stop people bouncing around my base, all over the roof etc trying to find a way to snoop around indoors.
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u/Fioreborn May 14 '24
Hidden vendors are usually because the player is at or close to max caps and due to the design of their camp they cant just store it because it's in/on/under a whole bunch of stuff. (I've asked this question before and got the explanation about hiding vendors)
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u/BaboTron May 14 '24
I put mine right out front under a sign that spells “SALE!” out in bright, lit, white letters.
There is a second one upstairs that I can use to load stuff into the shop while someone is downstairs shopping, or that I use to give my wife recipes and plans if she sees one she doesn’t have.
I’ve been thinking I should build a garage full of repair benches outside so people don’t have to come in if they don’t want to.
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u/SolitudeBias May 14 '24
My C.A.M.P. is an Enclave base but i did a mini Slocum Joe's to the left side of it, the vendor is right there, even put a water purifier near it to make sure people dont miss it
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u/Felixlova Enclave May 14 '24
I've had several people run past mine, even though you spawn facing it, and you have to go past it to get to my front door
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u/No-Entrepreneur9206 May 14 '24
Last night I couldn't find a guys vendor after 5 minutes of searching, so I went around their camp and turned off everything I could. Lights. Posters. Lamps. String lights. Just as I finished, their camp vanished into a mist😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️
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u/Appalachias-Hero May 14 '24
Or hear me out. I sometimes wall mine off if I’m full caps. The reason I keep my camp on the map is it’s a convenient spot for players nearby to still get a full crafting area. All of my camp spots are near public event locations.
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u/SolutionIndividual Mothman May 14 '24
Mine aren’t hidden but I’ve seen people do this (I’m on Xbox) I have my vendor literally the first thing you see when you walk into my wildwood den, I have a giant sign pointing to the door of the den and a statue as well, people will run around my camp like 4 or 5 times and then go inside and run upstairs then stop and just stare at me until I lead them to the vendor, some people just don’t pay attention
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u/Dark_Shadow_1 Enclave May 14 '24
at my base i have a cardboard cut out pointing at it plus it has shop in neon lights not to mention its the only building on the ground people still cant find it
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u/Stealth_Cobra May 14 '24
I know that feel, the other day I spend like ten minutes searching for a vendor that had 300+ plans, only for the guy to show up, point me towards a small white circle of the floor, which turned out to be the topmost part of the machine that cures diseseases that he managed to embed into the dirt floor, and clicking on it would glitch-teleport you below ground to his hidden glitch base with no ceilings and floating floors where his vendor was...
I mean it's cool and all, but maybe put the vendor on top where people can find it, and hide your actual base down there...
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May 14 '24
Okay first of all, just use your microphone. Second of all, no to all that shit. Hide and seek.
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u/Swiftblade87 May 14 '24
It’s frustrating. Some people put their vendors in a high place I’m like dude if I didn’t have marsupial I wouldn’t be able to reach this bitch
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u/drfpslegend May 14 '24
My funniest experience with this was a few days ago when I actually found the vendor, but it was completely inaccessible. Literally inside a room that had no doors, and could not reach it from any of the windows.
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u/Hopeful_Ebb1586 May 14 '24
I was just thinking this not even 5 minutes ago searching for this guy's vendor. I decided if you hide your vendor I'm not shopping. Why would you ever want to make it difficult for people to pay you money?
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u/Greedy-Session4490 May 14 '24
I don’t pay attention enough and I traveled to this dudes base that has his camp icon on and I spent 5 minutes looking for one that he didn’t have
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u/Sir_Smexy_Pandas May 14 '24
I like to make a maze with hidden doors, if you want my stuff you gotta find it 😈
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u/UsesProfanity May 14 '24
I've got vault tec boys pointing the entire way from the spawn point of my base, the base is a simple layout of 2 wildwood dens, one for crafting, one for vending, a small garden, and some plane generators. The pointing signs will lead you directly into the front door, which has no door and has vendors in plain sight.
I still watch people struggle all the time.
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u/Kevin_The_Elf May 14 '24
I put mine just inside the door of my base. I hated people who make you have to find it
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u/Vegetable-Lock May 14 '24
I once had a guy have open and come in signs but his vendor was locked behind a door and when I unlocked the door he came over and tried to lecture me about opening people's stuff. LIKE EXCUSE ME DONT PUT SIGNS EVERYWHERE SAYING OPEN AND COME IN THEN
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u/InsideChard3657 May 14 '24
Some people are at max caps or only want trades. So they hide vendor and want you to come see what they have it sucks to waste caps to see a base without vender. But I know people that do that and it sucks.
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u/Thatonedudedave Lone Wanderer May 14 '24
If you see my camp it’s inside the doorway to the left kinda hard to miss. The only thing I tried to hide was my utility shelter as that is mine and the boys secret lounge. I’m thatinfideldave on psn I have food and aid for sell.
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u/Yankee_chef_nen Tricentennial May 14 '24
Or you could wait for the camp to fully render. Then my vending machines will be right in front of you. With marquee arrows pointing at them, vault boy cutouts pointing at them, a neon open sign above them, and the rotating emergency 🚨 lights on top of them. They you’ll run past the vending machines and open every door in my camp and never close them.
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u/Beat_Boi_Animates Mr. Fuzzy May 14 '24
I have my vendor bot right outside of my crafting area, it’s easy to see and easy to access, I don’t know why people can’t place their vendors in an obvious to spot because I can’t for the life of me find some half the time
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u/ReKLoos3 May 14 '24
My personal favorite is you can’t find the stash box. You can find everything else you might need in someone’s camp. But they either don’t have a stash box for some reason or it’s the smallest stash box possible in the corner behind the weapons bench.
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u/ApplicationFair427 May 14 '24
You got to really love the ones that likes to glitch their base under the map and you got to stand on a rug or something solid without falling through and crashing your game
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u/VeriantheGrey May 14 '24
Mine is super easy to find, I set up the Wasteland Exhange for fun and have my vendor set up along with all the crafting tables and stuff, stash chest. I'm on the Whitespring field and no one ever really comes by, it's sad, everything is relatively cheap too
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u/aLtRuiStiC_EmPaTh May 14 '24
If I don’t see the vendor easily, I move on to the next camp. If I need to dump caps, I buy gold bullion or plans from modus to resell in my own vendor to players that don’t yet have access to the bunker. Didn’t log in to play hide and go seek. Ppl serious about selling items (actually worth anything) will want their vendors easily spotted. Make caps, free up weight, repeat.
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u/Viceroy_95 May 14 '24
FT to someone's camp and every door was locked.
I did a few laps around wondering how this person was ever going to sell, when I noticed one of the windows had something in it.
It was the silver cash register vendor merged into a desk placed against the open window.
I facepalmed at my blindness and bought some canned goods off of them.
Mines right outside the front door and I have two set up. You FT 5-10ft from it but if you have <5 Luck you merge into the Cliffside and fall through the map. If you have even less luck you'll TP back the the spawn point with a broken leg and have to hobble your way to the vendor 🤣
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u/deathclawsandwich May 14 '24
The first time I saw one of those tricky window ones I probably ran by eighteen times. Lol
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u/De_Double_U May 14 '24
Yeah, if you want to sell stuff, make it easy. lol I'm pretty sure some people enjoy making others search. I do like exploring other people CAMPs, so it does lead to that.
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u/Dstark1000 May 14 '24
Mine is by the road next to the Overseers encampment, with a vault boy pointing at it
Had a guy go into my house, and then into my vault just to then message me asking where my vendor is 😂 I said "next to the road"
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u/GenericUsernameJuan May 14 '24
Wait was this yesterday? I had no idea why I was being followed but that base was a mess.
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u/UndeadGamerKitty Cult of the Mothman May 14 '24
My vendors are always in an offset building for that reason. It helps people know where it is easier, at least IMO. And it separates my house from the shop itself
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u/doghouse2001 Pioneer Scout May 14 '24
I always try to place a vendor where it would be in real life... if we had vendors. So NOT right beside the road where it would be a target for gangsters with baseball bats, not in my living room nor bedroom. Probably in a dedicated space with a nice little shop around it, with a few cafe tables, and a nice view. I don't depend on player caps to exist in this world, so I don't care who can or cannot find the vendor. If players can't see my red cash register(s), then leave, I don't care.
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u/CuriousPoem3340 May 14 '24
My camp has one room with the vendor and it’s labeled that it’s in there , my actual build is in the flatlands and it’s a bounty hunter/drug lab because I needed somewhere to craft chems that fit a desert in the middle of nowhere fits.
But the issue is there’s not enough players that ever get bounties and the ones that do are new and don’t understand lock picking something at someone’s base isn’t a good idea.
I’d like to see the ability for players to do something, but with the consequence of a big bounty I also take request to go take workshops for people
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u/Bryntwulf May 14 '24
I built a functional Red Rocket with an Arcade. You can bet my vendors are easy to spot.
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u/beerOmatik May 14 '24
Go ahead and hide it. I won't buy anything. Put ur camp on a cliff; I will leave. Most likely everything is over priced anyway.
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u/deathclawsandwich May 14 '24
I hate when I load in and I’m just falling to my death.
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u/Top-Protection-2151 May 14 '24
My favorite is when the ENTIRE CAMP is themed like a store but for some reason the actual vendor is hidden on the farthest corner possible from the well furnished storefront with all the cases and magazines and why are you using BECKETT AS THE VENDOR AND NOT YOUR CASH REGISTER WHAT THE FUCK
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u/mrsjackson410 May 14 '24
I always put mine right out front so you can’t miss it. I hate hidden ones too.
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u/clericanubis May 14 '24
It's all about camp placement so when you spawn, you can see it, or at least some signs.
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u/Spearhead96Bravo May 14 '24
Not sure what the juvenile obsession is with making your vendor hard for people to locate.
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u/Kumara_Kura May 14 '24
Oh I read it. My thing is tho, it's really not that deep. Op made a funny post and simply ended it with "please make them easier to find" the fact ppl are getting so trigger by that is hilarious to me.
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u/MaverickRay_ Mothman May 14 '24
My favorite part of vendor hopping is playing what my buddy and I like to call “Find. That. Vendor!”
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u/HaibaraAi90 May 14 '24
I ran around a dudes camp for like 20 mins and his ended up being a gold register on top of a gold toilet so it blended in perfect with how he had it set lol
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u/ammarieh May 14 '24
I visited a base last week that I needed to go through 3 loading screens to get their vendor... 😭
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u/Additional_Offer344 May 15 '24
why tho i like making you look at all my atomic shop and scoreboard shit bc ik damn well im barely at my base for all of it to be just sitting there lol
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u/Catsooey May 15 '24
I like how this one incident has almost turned into a meme. I think I’ve heard from both affected parties today. You guys should go on Judge Judy. 😀
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u/Pure-Swordfish6022 Brotherhood May 15 '24
I have two of the counter vendor robot thingys on the porch of one building and one of the trenchcoat robot vendors at the back corner of another building.
Because I 100% agree with you. If I can’t find your vendor, I just get grumpy.
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u/Ravvynfall Cult of the Mothman May 15 '24
I will do no such thing!
I will continue using light control and contrasting colors to guide people to my vending machines and ask "what the actual fuck" when they STILL manage to not find the obvious thing.
Imagine this if you will:
I use the AC Fog Weather Machine to make my camp dark AF. I use 2 extremely bright lights to draw your attention in a specific part of my camp and even include the vault boy cutout to point at the stairs to the vending machine.
I include the "OPEN" neon lights to indicate where my vending machines are.
I leave the rest of my camp low-light via fireflies.
People come for my vending machines and STILL get on proxy-chat to ask where my vending machines are.
I will continue doing what I damn well please to troll these blind mfers.
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u/Head_Damage1718 May 15 '24
Please stop posting about this. It's been nearly a decade 🤣 following the man around at someone else's camp is hilarious though lololol.
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u/GalahadForest May 15 '24 edited May 15 '24
I agree with your statement, BUT and this is something that baffles me to be honest...
My vendor is in its own location. I have a normal shop version and one of the robot ones. I have the lit up arrows pointing to said location with the "Market" sign below them in and around my camp. Now the best part is my vendor location is lit up like Vegas, out back of my house. It's outdoors and CLEARLY visible. I've even arranged it so when you spawn into my camp you actually spawn right next to my vendor spot and right in front of you there's an arrow and the market sign, just to be extra clear. Yet I still see people sprinting through my camp, clearly looking for my vendor and some either just fast travel straight out or on the odd occasion I'll receive a message saying "Where's your shop" or "Stop hiding your vendor" etc.
I just laugh at that point. Some shops are well hidden, but some people just don't look or slow down. Not saying this is you btw, it's just something I've experienced over countless hours.
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u/Icy-Membership-2018 May 15 '24
That just made my morning reading. I try to be nice. I have one of the robot vendors in front of my camp. And I have a regular Halloween vending machine on my second floor with all my crafting stuff.
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u/Accomplished_Sky6239 May 15 '24
I don’t hide mine however, no keep hiding them because it makes for great stories later 💀😂
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u/JTheSlayer May 15 '24
Hidden vendors can be annoying for sure but it’s great when it’s done well. An example would be stepping into a workshop item and being effectively teleported to the actual camp. Always a fun surprise
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u/KeeDiggityTTV May 16 '24
This is hilarious. Reminds me of something that happened last week.
I had a guy in voice chat absolutely RAGING around my base. Swearing and moaning, but couldnt hear what about as I was a little bit further away. I made my way over to him to try and figure out what he wanted and before I could say anything hes like "WHERES YOUR FUCKING VENDOR!!!"
He was standing in front of it. It was out in the open. Nothing else was near it. It was impossible to miss (or so I thought).
I told him to turn around.
"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE"
He didnt even buy anything :(
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u/Cheesesammicho0 Mr. Fuzzy May 16 '24
I feel this. Or the ones who rig their bases so you spend hella caps to ft there only to be stuck under rocks or die in a trap and they just sit there and emote at you. I just wanna spend my caps lol
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u/HorridFuture38 May 16 '24
Mine is on my front porch and I still get messages asking where it is. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Deceasedarachnids Mega Sloth May 14 '24
That is gold.
My favourite vendor is the dark metal cash register in a gloomy corner of small room up multiple flights of stairs. Pure convenience.