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COST CHECK · OCTOBER 3, 2026

Include production cost in your Schedule 1 mixing calculator result

The answer: enter your actual base production cost per unit before comparing batch profit. Leaving it at $0 excludes that cost. For a 20-unit batch, every extra $1 of production cost per unit reduces calculated profit by $20. It does not change the recipe's calculated selling price.

This is a reproducible calculation using the mixing engine on Schedule 1 Mixing Tool. All dollar amounts below are in-game values. It is not a game-save test or a guaranteed customer quote.

A short recipe you can reproduce

  1. Open the calculator and select OG Kush.
  2. Add Cuke, then Banana, in that order.
  3. Set quantity to 20 units.
  4. Compare base production cost inputs of $0, $3, $5 and $10 per unit. These are deliberately chosen scenario inputs, not claims about your production setup.

Our saved engine run returns $4 of ingredient cost per unit and a calculated $66 selling price per unit. The recipe and its effect result stay fixed across these four cost scenarios.

Our 20-unit comparison

Same recipe; only the entered production cost changes
Base cost / unitBatch costBatch sell valueBatch profit
$0$80$1,320$1,240
$3$140$1,320$1,180
$5$180$1,320$1,140
$10$280$1,320$1,040

Notice what stays constant: the $1,320 batch selling value. Adding a production cost changes the expense side of the calculation, not the recipe's effects or value multiplier. At $5 per unit, omitting production cost would overstate this batch's calculated profit by $100.

Calculated 20-unit profit decreases from 1240 to 1040 as entered production cost rises from 0 to 1020 units · same recipe · different entered cost$0 / unit$3 / unit$5 / unit$10 / unit$1,240$1,180$1,140$1,040
Original chart from our saved calculation. Bars share a zero baseline. It compares scenarios, not observed player earnings.

The calculation behind the table

For this fixed recipe, use profit = quantity × (66 − 4 − base cost). With 20 units and a $5 input, that is 20 × (66 − 4 − 5) = 1,140.

The same equation gives a useful check: the entered cost reaches the calculated break-even point at $62 per unit. At that input, the $4 ingredient cost plus $62 base production cost equals the $66 calculated selling price. This is a mathematical threshold for this recipe and model; it is not advice about what production should cost.

Subtract ingredients and entered production cost from calculated unit value, then multiply by quantityCalculated unit value$66Less entered costs$4 + base costMultiply by units20→→Result: calculated batch profit after entered costs
Keep recipe value, expenses and batch size separate when checking a result.

Questions before you compare profits

Does a $0 input mean the base product is free?

No. It means the calculator has not included a base production expense. Use the figure appropriate to your own in-game setup. Do not substitute the base product's game selling value for its production cost.

Does changing quantity improve per-unit profit?

Not in this model. Quantity scales the same recipe and entered unit costs linearly. A 10-unit batch with a $5 base-cost input has calculated profit of $570; a 20-unit batch has $1,140. Both are $57 per unit. This calculation does not model discounts or equipment throughput.

Are all expenses already included?

No. The tool adds ingredient prices and your entered base production cost. Equipment, packaging, wages and other costs are excluded unless you account for them in that entered figure. Avoid counting the same expense twice.

Will a customer pay exactly the displayed selling price?

The output is a calculated value, not a guaranteed customer offer. Keep a value estimate separate from your actual transaction results.

Scope and reproducibility

We ran the site's local engine on October 3, 2026 using OG Kush and the ordered ingredients Cuke → Banana. The engine is adapted from the MIT-licensed Schedule1 Tools snapshot, commit 74607081, retrieved October 1, 2026. The source does not identify an exact game build. Our site uses standard mixing with Seeded Mixing turned off.

The cost-sensitivity table, break-even derivation, quantity comparison and charts are calculations created for this article. Check the same inputs on the live calculator before applying them to a different recipe or rule version.