Probably Stolen Winning-Run Achievements: Deed, Permit, Clean Hands, Rock Bottom, and the Day-50 Deadline

First Steps asks only that you complete the tutorial. On Day 1 the Mentor is your first customer and puts Mentor Notes on the counter; follow the tutorial he gives you to the end instead of skipping it, and the achievement pops. It sits at 56.4% of players, which mostly measures how many people skipped the tutorial, not how hard it is.

We Have Rats! asks you to start a game with the hidden scenario, and that scenario is Rat Wrangler, which carries the Advanced Start tag on the Specialization screen. Pick it and start the run, and the achievement fires on starting. One honest caveat: sources disagree about a 1.0 reveal step. The current achievement guides say to pick Rat Wrangler directly, while an older playtest-era report describes revealing it by interacting with rat holes, and a third report says the exact 1.0 trigger is unconfirmed. The direct pick is the reported 1.0 path; the rat-hole story is not verified for 1.0 and this guide does not present it as fact.

Authorized is the cheapest gate in the game: own the business permit, also called the vendor permit. Keys to the Kingdom is the win itself: own the deed to the store, either by buying it outright or by paying off the mortgage. Prodigious is Keys with a deadline: own the deed before day

50. The prices below are the base figures; the Calendar shows the live property value, which on Day 1 on Mark Up reads 12,000 credits and rises a little each day until it hits a cap.

Two consequences follow from that table. First, Prodigious on Thin Margins or Red Ink means earning two to three times the Mark Up deed price inside 50 days, which is why the day-50 limit is the hardest part of the stacked run, not the difficulty combat. Second, buying earlier is genuinely cheaper, so a run that stalls on saving for the deed while the price climbs is paying for its own delay. Check the Calendar property value when you plan the buy, not the base table alone.

Clean Hands requires winning the game without selling a stolen or contraband item at any point in the run. The trigger is the sale. That distinction shapes the whole run: you can still buy, inspect, and stock goods, but the moment a prohibited item leaves your counter for credits, the achievement is gone for that run. The safe economy for this run is legal production: purified water and legally grown hydroponic crops, sold clean, with no grey-zone stock on the shelves to be sold by mistake.

The practical danger is not temptation, it is mislabeling. A relabeled item, a mixed lot, or a contraband item sitting in sellable stock can be sold in an ordinary trade before you notice what it was. Keep prohibited stock physically separate from sell stock, or do not carry it at all during a Clean Hands run. If a sale slips through, do not keep grinding that run for this achievement: restart the run, because no later clean sale repairs the one bad one.

Rock Bottom is tagged Extreme Challenge Mode and starts you with nothing. Winning from it means owning the store, exactly like any other win, but from the hardest start. From Nothing is that win on any difficulty. From Nothing, the Hard Way is the same win on Thin Margins or Red Ink, the two difficulties that count as hard mode for this achievement. At 1.9% and 1.3% of players, these are the two rarest achievements in the game, rarer even than Clean Hands.

Do this run third, not first. The roadmap puts a long shop-building run before it for a reason: the stacked run is a race against day 50 with a doubled or tripled deed price, and it is far easier once you already know which legal goods pay, how rent climbs, and how fast a day actually passes. Players who start here usually learn the economy while the clock is already running.

Yes. Keys to the Kingdom unlocks when you own the store, and the achievement guides list both routes: buying the deed outright or paying off the mortgage. Prodigious uses the same ownership moment, only with the day-50 deadline attached.

Selling a stolen or contraband item. The Steam text says without selling, and the guides agree the sale is the trigger. Buying, inspecting, or holding a prohibited item is not the sale, but keeping such stock near sellable goods is how accidental sales happen, so the safe play is to keep it out of the run entirely.

The deed base price is higher on Red Ink, 36,000 against 24,000, which makes the day-50 race tighter. Both count as hard mode for From Nothing the Hard Way, so Thin Margins is the easier stack. Pick Red Ink only if you want the harder version of the same achievement.

Yes, and that is a fine warm-up: Prodigious alone on Price Gouge or Mark Up teaches the deed race at 12,000 base. But it does not stack with the hard Rock Bottom achievements, so you would still need the full stacked run for From Nothing the Hard Way and Clean Hands.

Sources and honesty notes: achievement text from the Steam schema for app 4348910, pulled 2026-11-03; deed and permit prices, the Calendar property value behavior, and the stacked-run conditions from player-written achievement guides cross-checked against each other. The Rat Wrangler 1.0 reveal disagreement is stated in section 1 rather than resolved by picking a side, and the rat-hole claim is not repeated as 1.0 fact.