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Two Bucket Strategy - Unlimited Detergent

By Baron von Tansley

This guide (created 6/17/24) demonstrates how to have a water bucket with unlimited detergent without spending the skill points.

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Category: Crafting, Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Secrets, Story or Lore, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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17 Aug, 2024 @ 12:02pm

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The Trick

You can skip spending points in the "Detergent Quantity" skill tree by simply using two water buckets.

First, you will need the "Additional Bucket" skill in the water tab.

During your mission, fill BOTH buckets with WATER, but put the DETERGENT into only ONE of them. This is the DETERGENT BUCKET and WATER BUCKET.

Dip your fresh, CLEAN mop and sponge into the DETERGENT BUCKET. This will apply the buffs, which you can see in the lower right.

Whenever your mop or sponge gets dirty from blood, use the WATER BUCKET to clean it. This will remove all of the buffs from it, but then, just dip the CLEAN mop or sponge back in the DETERGENT BUCKET to reapply the buffs.

When the WATER BUCKET becomes dirty, take it back to the faucet and fill as necessary. Leave the DETERGENT BUCKET alone, just carry it to wherever it needs to go.

By doing this, the DETERGENT BUCKET will never become dirty, meaning a single dose of detergent can potentially last the entire mission... however, you will need to use more if you are clumsy and knock over the bucket. This trick does not work for the Pressure Washer.

Since the DETERGENT BUCKET does not become dirty, you do not need to spend skill points on or ever use "Clean Detergent" as it would have no impact.

Hope this helps.

10 Comments

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Sofa King We Todd Ed 12 hours ago

You can use the Clean Detergent in the cleaning bucket, not sure if it actually helps because it might need to be ON the mop to trigger the Clean effect, but i throw it in anyway since its pointless in the detergent bucket with this method. Double buckets for the win!

meskobalazs 19 Sep, 2024 @ 12:27pm

Finally a cheat that also works IRL.

joridiculous 10 Sep, 2024 @ 7:42am

Oh, well that's worth trying :)

Baron von Tansley [author] 10 Sep, 2024 @ 7:27am

@joridiculous After you clean the mop in the water bucket, "clean" it again in the detergent bucket, this will apply the buffs without making the detergent dirty.

joridiculous 10 Sep, 2024 @ 5:26am

How do you even dip the mop?

Vendic01 27 Aug, 2024 @ 7:51pm

I think the detergent bucket stops working over time as if it was dirtied or bugs out as I used this on the short circuit mission and felt something was off and replaced the detergent bucket and noticed better cleaning performance

Athloriel 27 Aug, 2024 @ 4:27am

Classic two-bucket method, used by professional cleaners, detailers, painters, and mechanics.

Baron von Tansley [author] 25 Aug, 2024 @ 2:23pm

@Osmium @MOka I figured it out pretty late too, just in time for the museum so it was a huge help for the biggest levels.

MOka 23 Aug, 2024 @ 10:10am

I was doing the same, it's sad i figured it out a bit too late in game. When you start with a limited detergent use it's very useful !

Osmium 21 Aug, 2024 @ 4:15pm

I don't know why I never thought of this. I got close to figuring this out, but not quite. When a bucket got dirty, I'd refill it with water but not detergent until after I dirtied my mop again. Then I'd clean mop and sponge, refill bucket with clean water, and then add detergent. The strategy in this guide is so much better.

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