• Left click a bill to pick it up. Once you have two in hand, you can hold M1 to automatically pick up more bills and ONLY bills - this filter mechanic also works for trash. You can pickup up to 100 into a neat STACK.
  
• As soon as you pick up a second "trash" item, they merge and turn into a trash bag which can only pick up more trash. The bag has a max capacity.
  
• Use F to sweep up loose bills that are spread out. This can yield up to a full HANDFUL. If your first F only hit bills, your subsequent F will filter only for bills. This is useful for cleaning messes.
  
• Caution, if non-bill items are in your first F sweep, you instead just grab a handful of random stuff and no filtering happens.
  
• Loose bills on the map combine into a PILE automatically once 101 are lying close together.
  
• From a PILE, you can no longer grab single bills.
  
• Holding F and left clicking a PILE gives you a HANDFUL (300) of the bills. Note this may be less than the max amount if the PILE contains less than that.
  
• Long left clicking a PILE grabs up to 100 bills in a neat STACK, however the stack is not sorted by bill type. Still useful for the "150 bills" quest.
  
• With a STACK in hand, holding M2 and pressing X allows you to drop single bills, which is useful when you need less than 100 or when getting the basketball achievement.
  
• You can carry an infinite number of bills in your hands using the SPHERE grab. First grab a HANDFUL, then hold M2 and touch more money with it. It vacuums it up and turns into a SPHERE which does not appear to have an upper limit.
  
• If you try to overfill a money counter or a washing machine, the bills that don't fit burst away explosively. Avoid doing this, as they may fly into sorted PILES and contaminate them.
  
• Grabbing loose bills from a container yields a more loose HANDFUL which will not cleanly insert into counters - drop it on the ground first and re-grab with F for a compact HANDFUL.
  
• Wet bills will eventually dry on their own, even when bound in stacks. Unsure about plastic
  
• The Dryer does not have an upper limit on how many bills it can handle.
  
• The Washing machine can be used to separate bills from items - if you grab cash out of a washing machine with F, trash, items and coins separate away and fall to the ground.
  
• The Washing machine also breaks open any money packs. It is possible for the machine to become severely overfilled because of this - you may have to use F many times to empty it after.
  
• Ink and Dirt can spread from one bill to others. Never mix inked or dirty bills with clean ones.
  
• Dirt is washed off in the washing machine, ink can technically be scrubbed off on the worktable. But it isn't worth the time investment. Feed inked bills to the pig.
  
• Always open treasury bags with the knife, never by hand. You wont see ink that way, ever, until you reach the endgame vault.
  
• Dollars have 4 bill types which is one more than the XXL Counter can handle. Euro and Yen however only have 3 bill types.
  
• Once in midgame, coins start to appear in tasks. Filter them out with the washing machine and keep them. Tasks ask for coins rarely. Picking these up into a stack with M1 grabs 20 coins, which is helpful when counting them for an order.
  
• Your full packed money packs are color coded, but incoming pack straps may lie! Incoming packs may be incomplete or have mixed bills.

Supplies and hand tools:

• Tape and plastic combine with themselves! Pick up one, left click another, and they merge.
  
• Plastic is almost never asked for, and the initial supply should last your entire game.
  
• Tape however, you should buy in bulk of 20-30, combine them into one, and keep them on your table until you run out.
  
• The game recommends you keep tools in your bag, which is clunky. I recommend you only keep the knife on you so you can whip it out with X. You need it to cut open packs before you have the washer, to open treasury bags, locked cases, and to cut mattresses.
  
• Leave tape and plastic on your working table, near the money counter - you can quickly use them if needed.

You get a bunch of free stuff in early story tasks (the yellow ones):

• a shopping cart
  
• a bunch of tape and plastic
  
• a knife
  
• a Dryer
  
• a Washing Machine
  
• a Ladder

Another story task makes you buy the first money counter, which isn't free but you still have it after.

When the map expands into the area with the pig, the "upper area" you can pay to access contains 2 more Washing machines. This area also contains the worktable on the left. You should buy all the worktable upgrades in the shop as soon as you can, they cost almost nothing.

When the map expands into the vault, you can find a small UV lamp inside on the right, as well as a Trolley.

Since using UV light is super annoying (you need a dark area), i recommend only using the one on the worktable. Counterfeits are sorted out by any money counter above the basic one, and for marked bills i would suggest just ignoring them altogether until the vault quests. Just add some extra cash into the deliveries to hit the goal amount for sure. Picking out single marked bills is a gigantic waste of your time and never worth the effort. The vault quests near the end do force you into it, however.


As mentioned before, washing machines can automatically break open packs and help sort out trash.
You can stack multiple washing machines on top of each other, if you overfill the topmost one the one below may suck in the falling remains.

A washing machine has a limit of 300 or slightly more objects, it can always take a full HANDFUL.

You only need the one dryer as it can handle an infinite pile size.


Money Counters

• The basic money counter cannot spot counterfeits, which also means it is the only counter than can sort counterfeits.
  
• The basic and L models spit out bills in an arc, which means you can technically daisy chain them. But it is largely unhelpful and i didn't do it.
  
• You should keep leveling to get the L counter before you accept the first story quest which involves fake bills.
  
• Note the counters work faster if they "hit" and much slower if they "miss", so avoid sifting giant piles to find a single bill
  
• The XXL counter can handle multiple currencies and bill types at the same time, however you cannot use multiple slots for the exact same bill, the duplicate slot(s) will get nothing.
  
• Each counter accepts a specific amounts of bills: The basic one takes one HANDFUL (300), the L models take two HANDFULs (600), and the XXL model accepts three HANDFULs (900). Do not overfill or bills go flying everywhere. Be patient, or you will clean up messes.

Other tools
I haven't really found a good use for any of the racks or the slide. Avoid buying them until you don't know what else to do with your crypto.

• Open containers can spill their contents, so close them if you move them around.
  
• Tasks usually provide money in some container.
  
• If the container is a treasury bag, make sure to cut it and remove the money that way. Then burn the bag.
  
• You should burn dirty containers after emptying them. They are useless to you.
  
• Wet containers, however, will eventually dry, so put them with your empty containers.
  
• Keep all other clean containers for reuse except maybe the gift boxes, tasks never ask for these.
  
• Mattresses have to be cut twice with the knife before you can add money.
  
• Keep empty containers opened and away from the drop zone so you can easily find fresh inputs, they bounce quite far sometimes.
  
• Don't use the shopping cart to move money around, it can only take 1650 bills. The XXL carton can take twice that. And the SPHERE grab has no limit.
  
• Gold bars later are different - you need the trolley to move those quickly.
  
• You can only hand-carry one gold bar, but you can also hand-carry containers that contain multiple gold bars.

To end the game, you have to feed a million dollars worth of currency to the pig and do the final tasks.

Notes:

• The pig accepts any and all currency including Euro, Yen, fake, inked, dirty, marked and wet bills.
  
• YOU CAN SOFTLOCK YOURSELF if you feed counterfeit or marked bills to the pig. The panther quest early on for fake bills and the final vault quests specifically need a large batch of fake bills you get in one of the first quests, and a large quantity of marked bills found in the vault respectively. DO NOT FEED THOSE TO THE PIG OR MIX THEM WITH YOUR NORMAL STASH I'm pretty sure that's a bug and you are supposed to get counterfeits and marked ones from side tasks, but i didn't get any. See dangerous tasks below.
  
• I recommend putting the shopping cart or a XXL carton underneath the feeding port to catch spillage, the port only takes 100 bills or 20 money packs at a time.
  
• USE PACKS. Feeding loose bills to the pig is much slower than feeding packs.
  
• Feeding small bills to the pig is mostly a waste of time ... do more tasks instead and you will have more big bills to feed it much faster.
  
• The vault contains about 212k dollars in loose bills which do not appear to be fake or marked. So you you are free to pig those. Make sure not to pig the ones in the cartons.

Dangerous tasks:
"GLOVED HAND" task early in the story gives you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of fake 10 and 20s and real 50s and 100s.
You absolutely need the fake bills for the "PANTHER" story task which you cannot discard once started.
"Truth of the Vault" and the Panther Vault task both require the bills located in the vault entryway area in cartons and sports bags. Do not use these for anything else. Do not pig them or mix them with your normal money.

So, how do we progress quickly?

By following a maxim: Don't waste your time. Barring maybe the first 2-3 tasks, 20 and 10 dollar bills are a waste of your time. So are 20 and 10 Euro bills and 1k Yen bills.

Barring the extreme early game, you always receive enough money to fulfill orders with just big bills.

Early game loop (Counting machine)

• If the money provided has packs, cut them open with the knife.
  
• So, once you have the first counting machine, set it to 100$ and sift your money pile. Pack stacks. Put the remaining 100$ bills to the side, into a carton maybe. Use these next 100$ round.
  
• Now set it to 50$ and sift your money pile again. Pack these. Store the rest of 50s for next round.
  
• You should be able to fulfill any quest with just these packs. Toss the remaining 20s and 10s into a loose "discard" pile in a corner.
  
• Only pack full stacks of 100 each so you know exactly how much money you have there.
  
• Keep your stacks on the worktable or in cartons split by type.
  
• Always fulfill orders with just the exact amount asked for, not more.
  
• By all means run multiple tasks concurrently so you only have one big money pile to sift twice.
  
• Should a very rare task ask for 20 bills, you can sift the discard pile once.

YOU CAN SOFTLOCK YOURSELF* if you feed counterfeit or marked bills to the pig. The panther quest early on for fake bills and the final vault quests specifically need a large batch of fake bills you get in one of the first quests, and a large quantity of marked bills found in the vault respectively. DO NOT FEED THOSE TO THE PIG OR MIX THEM WITH YOUR NORMAL STASH I'm pretty sure that's a bug and you are supposed to get counterfeits and marked ones from side tasks, but i didn't get any.

*mostly. Side quests will provide low, LOW amounts of counterfeit and marked bills.

Mid game loop (Washer, Dryer, L Counter)

Set up your workspace like an efficient pipeline!

• The washing machine should be near the drop zone so you don't have to drag the money too far
  
• But not IN the drop zone, so dropping items don't mix wildly
  
• the dryer should be next to the washing machine
  
• your counting machine should be near the dryer
  
• the counting machine counterfeit output should not be in danger of mixing with any other piles
  
• the counting machine remainder pile should not be in danger of mixing with any other piles
  
• the counting machine should be on the edge of a table, so you can grab the remainder pile and quickly make it the input pile again without bumping into or running over things

Process:

• Open the input containers, toss all contents into a washing machine.
  
• Toss the wet result into the dryer. Toss in more input for washing if you have more, pick up and burn the trash. KEEP COINS as some tasks ask for them.
  
• You only need to run the dryer once, as it can take infinite bills.
  
• Now you have a dry clean money pile for sifting.
  
• Sift out and pack 100$
  
• Sift out and pack 50$
  
• Rest goes on the discard pile
  
• Keep counterfeit bills in a separate pile for the few story quests that ask for them.
  
• Run multiple tasks concurrently so you only have one big money pile to sift twice.
  
• Simply avoid tasks asking for Euros until you have the EUR machine
  
• Once you have the EUR machine, run the same setup in parallel for EUR tasks, but now the refuse from the EUR machine may contain dollars and the refuse from the $ machine may contain EUR.

End game loop (Washer, Dryer, XXL Counter)

• Open the input containers, toss all contents into a washing machine.
  
• Toss the wet result into the dryer. Toss in more input for washing if you have more, pick up and burn the trash. KEEP COINS as some tasks ask for them. Keep necklaces and vases also.
  
• You only need to run the dryer once, as it can take infinite bills.
  
• Now you have a dry clean money pile for sifting. The pile may contain all 3 currencies.
  
• I recommend only accepting tasks for one currency type in series, and high value tasks to get more xp and surplus.
  
• However, you could accept a wild mix of bills and sift twice total: 100$, 50$, 100€ and 50€ and the 2 high YEN types will grab any interesting bills for packing. The rest is a waste of time to deal with, toss them in the corner.
  
• Some tasks have a time limit, however these are very generous. Also, even with you discarding small bills, you should have built up a huge surplus. I can always fulfill an order before i even touch the money they sent me, then sift in peace.

You can use pallets or other physical items when daisy chaining counters to achieve perfect placements



Send help i packed all my discard pile

Inside the vault entryway there are sport bags and cartons with inked and dirty money. DO NOT USE THIS MONEY FOR ANYTHING BUT THE FINAL QUESTS. YOU CAN SOFTLOCK YOURSELF.

The cartons exclusively contain dirty Black Lotus marked bills.

The sports bags contain, with one mixed bag as exception, either only police marked bills or only Black Lotus marked bills. All are inked. The one bag has a mix of both.

If you want to save yourself tears, do not mix those and if you must have them seperated, you only have to sort that one bag by hand.

In total, there is
~770 inked police marked bills mostly in YEN
~700 inked Black Lotus marked bills mostly in YEN
~2650 dirty Black Lotus marked bills mostly in YEN
So absolutely plenty for the story tasks, unless you lost these.

There is also gold bars, and the cases in the rack to the right contains the files on you, the criminals, and the government.

Deeper inside the vault there is the pipe quest item, a trolley and a UV lamp, but otherwise nothing of interest, i think. The cartons seem empty. There is an artsy bill hidden in the back left, next to the bucket.

There is a bunch of small tasks to do that have nothing to do with money:

The red handle is ontop of a beam to the top right of the conveyor button. Use the free ladder you get to reach it. You need that handle to repair the "broken switcher" and expand the playable area.
CAUTION: Throwing the switch will cause an explosion and physics-toss nearby loose items in the map around, so maybe put all your valuable money piles into containers and close them first. The discard pile too, maybe. But the blast is focused on the tank where the switch is located.

The mortar base plate is in the "relaxation area" you can unlock.

The pig launch controls are on the third level, you need to unlock the second level via the stairs on the left and then use the ladder in the top back left to reach the third level. That's where the panel and the pipe go for repairs.

The pipe can be found in the vault, on the right, on top of one of the expanding racks. You can lever a rack up while you are ontop of it and easily reach it.

Regarding the tasks asking for necklaces and statues, i am unaware of any way to obtain more of these. You can't buy them in the shop and i have never gotten more from random tasks. There isn't enough in the vault and the story tasks to fulfill these. Probably a bug.