A guide to getting your own trophy on the neopets game Plushie Tycoon.
Are you having trouble with Plushie Tycoon? Do you want one of those nifty trophies for your cabinet? Or do you just want that prize money? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the guide for you. In the following article, I have provided 2 guides to Plushie Tycoon. Guide 1, a short guide for beginners to get a bronze trophy and 25,000 neopoints and Guide 2, a full guide (results may vary) for more advanced players to get a silver trophy and possibly even a gold trophy (not guaranteed). If this is your first time playing Plushie Tycoon, then you may want to read this section, but if you are an advanced player then you may easily skip over the following sections.
The Basics
Section 1: Your Factory
Your factory is where you manufacture all plushies. Your factory runs from 9am-5pm game time and updates at the :01 of every hour (e.g. 10:01 AM or 3:01 PM). It costs 980 neopoints rent for a size 1 factory. The maximum size of a factory is 9, which lets you have 18 jobs running at once, 2 for each size. The prices for rent on each size factory are as followed:
In your factory, you must always have 1 manager, so be sure to always keep an extra 1000 neopoints on hand to pay him. All the types of workers and their salaries are as follows:
Dropouts: 4 neopoints per hour Graduates: 9 neopoints per hour Trainees: 14 neopoints per hour Journeymen: 25 neopoints per hour Managers: 82 neopoints per hour
To get the maximum amount of work done, hire 1 manager for every 10 workers. (e.g. 200 workers, 20 managers or 40 workers, 4 managers.) Now to move on to Section 2: Your Warehouse.
Section 2: Your Warehouse
Your warehouse is where you can ship all completed plushie jobs to your store. Unlike your factory, your warehouse runs and updates 24 hours a day. It costs 940 neopoints rent for a size 1 factory. The maximum size of a warehouse is 9, letting you load a job of 100 plushies in about 25-30 minutes. Prices and loading times for each size are as follows:
Now, the basic job of 100 plushies will cost 278 neopoints to ship. Shipping time to your store will always be 5 minutes. There is no limit to the amount of plushies your warehouse can hold, so you may think, why would I want to expand it? Expanding your warehouse lets you load plushies faster, as I have shown above. Now, we move on to section 3: Your Store
Section 3: Your Store
Your store is where you can sell all your plushies. Like your factory, it runs 9am-5pm game time. For a size 1 store it costs 1350 neopoints rent. Like the factory and warehouse, your store can be up to size 9. Rent for each size store is:
Ok, so you see how much rent each size store costs. Now, as you may or may not know, the store is free to expand, so all you have to pay is rent. Each size of the store can hold up to 400 plushies, so the amount each size can hold is as below.
You may have noticed size 9 says unlimited plushies, and yes, its true! A size 9 store can hold as many plushies as you desire! Ok, so now that you know all about the basics of the game, you're ready to move on!
Guide 1: A Beginners' Guide
As you read above, guide 1 is a short guide that will get you a bronze trophy, and the 25,000 neopoint prize. Guide 1 is short and simple. Ok, first things first, go to Plushie Tycoon by clicking the link at the top of this page and click create store. Yay! You know have a store. Ok, look at your CoH (Cash on Hand). It says 50,000 neopoints, right? Ok, set your time zone as you wish now. Ok, now dont pay rent on anything yet. Every day, come back and check the prices of raw goods. You will be making 4-Roll accessory plushies. You may choose any combination of 7 of the below plushies.
Kougra, Yurble, Zafara, Elephante, and Draik
(For example, you may choose 5 Kougras, 1 Draik, and 1 Zafara, or 1 Kougra, 2 Yurbles, 1 Zafara, 1 Elephante, and 2 Draiks) Ok, choose 7 and write down that combination on a piece of paper. For those 7 jobs, you will need 7 units of stuffing, 7 units of gem accessories, 7 units of packing, and 28 rolls of cloth. Ok, check back to the raw goods prices everyday. Remember, dont pay any rents until I say to. When raw goods are cheap, you should buy 28 rolls of red cloth, 7 units of neocotton stuffing, 7 units of gem accessories, and 7 units of velvet bags. Cheap prices are as follows.
Red Cloth: 450 neopoints or lower Neocotton Stuffing: 400 neopoints or lower Gem Accessories: 1,600 neopoints or lower Velvet Packing: 725 neopoints or lower.
If you dont want to wait, prices of 50 to 100 neopoints more will do fine. Once you buy all your materials, wait until 6 days before the month ends. (Example, if the month has 31 days, wait until the 25th day. If it has 30, wait until the 24th. In February, wait until the 22nd or the 23rd on a leap year.) 6 days before the month ends, pay rent on everything. Expand your store to at least size 2 if you wish, because you wont have to pay anymore rents. Now, put the 6 of the 7 jobs you purchased materials for into the factory. When you put in the 3rd and 5th jobs, it will tell you that you need to expand your factory. Do it both times.
Ok, now that you have 6 jobs in your factory, you need to hire some workers. I'd suggest hiring 250 trainees and 25 managers. Now, if you do the math, this will cost 5550 neopoints an hour, but it's definitely worth it, since in one hour they will probably finish at least 4 of the jobs if they don't finish them all. Now, after the first hour when those jobs are finished, if they aren't all finished fire most of the workers, but leave about 50 workers and 5 managers to finish the remaining jobs. Then, put that seventh batch of plushies you purchased materials for into the factory. Next, go to your warehouse. You should see the finished jobs ready to be shipped. Ship those jobs, then go to your store. Using the remaining money, purchase advertisements and/or upgrades until you have about 10,000 neopoints left. After that, when your workers finish the remaining jobs in the factory, ship them to your store, then they will sell. Congratulations! You should've made over 50,000 neopoints. Now just wait until the end of the month and get that avatar and bronze trophy!
Guide 2: An Expert's Guide
Part 1
*Note: This guide only works about 85% of the time.* Ok, so if you already have that bronze or silver trophy, you want the gold, right? Was the beginner's guide too easy for you? Well then check out guide 2! Guide 2 sill not always work out and you may end up with only a silver trophy.
Ok, now let's get started. First go to plushie tycoon here, create an account, and set your time zone. You don't want to go broke as soon as you start the game, so first, buy enough green cloth to make 5-7 jobs of plushies that take 3-4 rolls each with gems depending on how much they cost. Find a list of how many rolls each plushie takes to make on TampTree's petpage, by m_evard. Then buy neocotton stuffing for each job, rare gems, and paper bags. If you spent your money well, you should have at least 25-30,000 neopoints left. After purchasing everything, go to your factory. If you bought enough materials for 7 jobs of plushies, only put in 6. If you only bought enough for 5 or 6, put them all in. If you bought 7, you'll take care of the 7th job later. After putting on all 6 jobs, you need to hire workers. You should hire 1 manager for every 10 workers if you want to be efficient. Right now, you should 250 workers and 25 managers. You can hire a mix of workers, except probably dropouts, but I usually just hire 250 trainees and 25 managers. Working at 5550 neopoints an hour, they may be kinda expensive right now, but they will get at least 4 of the jobs done and get a good start on the rest. After the first update, when the workers finish some of the jobs, you can put that 7th job in if you bought materials for it. Fire your workers, except leave as many as you think you need to finish off the rest of the jobs. Whenever any jobs go to the warehouse, check the warehouse so they can start loading right away. If you want to load them faster, you can probably expand your warehouse to level 2 right now, but I wouldn't expand anymore right now. After those jobs start loading you can go to your store. Using the money you have, purchase some ads and upgrades. Make sure you don't go below 12-13,000 neopoints though. Now comes the boring part when you have to wait for your plushies to load. When you're plushies are finished loading, ship them to your store. This is the other boring part, waiting for your plushies to sell. When the other jobs are finished, fire all your workers for now. If you bought enough upgrades and ads, your plushies should sell out in a day. If you need to ever need to expand your shop to fit all the plushies, you can expand. After all those plushies are sold, you should've made your first small profit. I have been able to make 71,000 just by the end of day one like this.
The next step in becoming a master is expanding. Using the money you've earned, you must purchase materials to make more plushies.
Part 2: Building Bigger
After you've made your first profit, you'll need to build bigger. Using the money you've made, purchase enough materials for more jobs, maybe 9 or 10 this time. This time, you'll want to improve, maybe use red or blue cloth, and velvet bags or cardboard boxes. If you need to expand your factory, still don't do it yet. Put in 6 jobs, and when those are completed, put the rest in. If you have enough extra money left over when all the plushies have been made, you can expand your warehouse to maybe level 3 or 4 so the plushies load faster. Every time you expand the warehouse it takes about half an hour less. For more exact times, look at NoDogKnow's petpage, written by roweslab. If you did a good job spending, you should have at least 35-40,000 neopoints left after shipping your plushies to the store. If you'd like, you can purchase a few more ads and upgrades, but try not to spend more than 5-10,000 neopoints, or you may not make any profit at all. Once the plushies have been shipped off to the store, you have 2 choices. You can wait for them to sell out, or using the money you have left, you can purchase materials and start another batch of plushies right away. If you start more right away, you should make sure you always keep at least 10,000 neopoints just incase. Once your store sells out, if you didn't start any more plushies yet, you should have at least 90-100,000 neopoints, or 70,000 neopoints if you already started more jobs. Now when you need to expand your factory, it should be okay. Once you start putting in 10 jobs at a time though, you'll need to hire more workers, like 500-1000 workers depending on what type you hire.
Part 3: Even Bigger!
To build an even bigger plushie empire, you have to be good at financial planning. To go bigger, just repeat section 2 over and over again, only every time, make more plushies, make your warehouse bigger, expand your store, buy more ads and upgrades, and hire more workers.
Tips:
1. Always make jobs of 100 plushies. They will make money the fastest.
2. Always keep at least 5-10,000 neopoints on hand. You never know when an emergency might come up.
3. Never hire dropouts, they don't do any work!
4. Try to hire mostly trainees. I find them to be the most efficient for a fair amount of my money.
5. Have fun!
6. Remember, you can never have too many green grundos with neopian times and paper bags!
