Probably Stolen Wild's Network Guide: How to Unlock It, Earn Wild's Favor and Pick Every Upgrade

Wild's Network is Joe Wild's upgrade shop in Probably Stolen. It opens on Day 7, and its upgrades add buyers, bigger display cases, new production lines, legal cover and nightly services. Each upgrade is paid with Wild's Favor first and credits for the rest, so on Price Gouge and Mark Up your trades quietly fund it. Buy Showcase Expansion I and the Buyer Referral Service first, then one production line you will really use. The upgrade planner below works out every price for your difficulty and perks.

How do you unlock Wild's Network?

Joe Wild comes to you; you can't find him on your own:

1. Day 4: the Insurance Service. Joe Wild introduces himself and offers his nightly Insurance Service. This is not the network yet.
2. Day 7: the network introduction. He explains his favors and opens the upgrade screen right away. On Price Gouge you get 300 Wild's Favor, on Mark Up 200, on Thin Margins 100 and on Red Ink none.
3. Close the screen and take his card. After you close the network for the first time, he leaves his business card on the counter and his number starts working.
4. Call 8376 whenever you want to shop. Choose to browse his services on the phone to open the network again.

If your start skips the tutorial, the network is open from Day 1 and the card is already in your dossier, but you never get the introduction favor. On Price Gouge and Mark Up, Joe Wild also drops by if you haven't called him five days after the introduction, and then every six days or so to remind you about upgrades; visiting the network or Dr. Jackson resets that count. Thin Margins, Red Ink and Rock Bottom get no reminders.

How does Wild's Favor work?

Wild's Favor is a second currency that only Joe Wild accepts. Its total shows at the top of the network screen as Wild's Favor. When you buy an upgrade, favor is spent first and credits cover the rest, so you can buy anything as long as favor plus credits reach the price. Favor never expires or decays.

• Trades. On Price Gouge and Mark Up, every purchase and every sale adds favor: 10% or 5% of what you actually paid or received, after haggling and after a customer's budget cap. A busy Mark Up day of 2,000 credits in trades is 100 favor.
• Nightly service fees. A share of what you pay each night for the Insurance Service, Buyer Referral, Seller Referral, Wild's Fixers and Criminal Networking comes back as favor, rounded down. The Inspection Early Warning Service, the Hypertech Smuggler, power and janitorial fees give nothing back.
• Lower Levels reputation. Every point of Lower Levels reputation you gain from something other than a trade, such as killing an Aug, gives 40 favor. Reputation from trades gives no favor.
• When business goes badly. Once per run on Price Gouge and Mark Up, if your store's estimated value has been falling over the last eight days, Joe Wild gives you 250 favor. It doesn't need to fall every day, but the first day must be higher than the last and no more than two days may hold steady or rise. Rock Bottom never gets it.

How much do Wild's Network upgrades cost?

The base prices run from 100 for Rent Grace to 10,000 for Wild's Endorsement III. Three things change them, and they multiply together:

• Difficulty: Price Gouge and Mark Up pay the base price, Thin Margins 1.5 times and Red Ink twice.
• Starting perks: Wild's Favorite takes 10% off, On Wild's Bad Side adds 10%. You can't take both.
• Pillar of the Lower Levels: at 100 Lower Levels reputation, everything costs 15% less.

The result is rounded to the nearest credit. Three upgrades also get more expensive each time you buy them: Rent Grace doubles, and Clemency and Evidence Removal rise by 100.

Pick your difficulty, perks and the upgrades you want, and the planner shows the real prices, how much your favor covers and what the nightly services cost:

What should you buy first?

The network marks six upgrades as recommended: Red Imp Brewery, Buyer Referral Service, Showcase Expansion I, Water Trading, Retired Winemaker and Aquaculture. A good order for most runs:

1. Showcase Expansion I (200). One more Display Case buyer every day and a bigger case, with no nightly fee. The best first buy on any start.
2. Buyer Referral Service (200). One more buyer every day and one more Display Case buyer, for 10 credits a night, half of which comes back as favor on Mark Up.
3. One production line. Water Trading (300), Retired Winemaker (200), Retired Farmer (350) or the Retired Chemist (1,000) give a starter kit and a weekly supplier. Pick one you will run; see the water guide and chemist guide.
4. Rent Grace (100) on Thin Margins and Red Ink. Those difficulties start without one. On Price Gouge and Mark Up you already have one at the start.
5. Power Line Hijack (300). The nightly Power Service becomes free and power cuts no longer affect you.

After that, spend by goal: Store Renovations and Showcase Expansion II for more and richer customers, Wild's Fixers if you deal in contraband, and the Minor Shareholder upgrades for suppliers you already order from. Keep enough credits for Sunday's rent; favor can't pay rent. For the money side of each upgrade, see how to make money.

Which nightly services are worth paying for?

Some upgrades unlock a nightly service instead of a one-time effect. Every night, the end-of-day screen lists your services with a checkbox each. A service stays ticked until you untick it, and you can't end the day if the ticked fees add up to more than your credits.

• Buyer and Seller Referral (10 a night). Each sends one extra buyer or seller the next day; the Buyer Referral also adds a Display Case buyer. At 10 credits, one good trade pays for a week, and on Price Gouge most of the fee comes back as favor.
• Wild's Fixers (25 / 45 / 70 a night). Each night they cut every crime type on your record by 15, 20 or 25%, then take a flat 50, 150 or 400 off each type. So evidence spread across several crime types drops faster. Only the tier you own is charged. Details in the contraband guide.
• Inspection Early Warning Service (10 a night). The night log warns you two days before a scheduled inspection, again the day before, and once more when it is imminent. It can't see surprise inspections, and it stops working once you have VIP, the Security reputation perk that ends inspections.
• Criminal Networking (45, 3-day cooldown). Brings one high-budget contraband buyer the next day: half the time a thief with a 500–750 budget who buys keycards, medical goods and melee weapons, otherwise a mercenary with 600–650 who buys armor, medical goods, weapons and ammo. Each use also adds 2 Black Market reputation.
• Hypertech Smuggler (500 a visit, 5-day cooldown). Visits the day after you pay with five Hypertech items, such as Electronic Parts (Hypertech), Hypertech Power Cell or a Mind Reprogrammer. No haggling, and prices are 50% above value on Price Gouge and Mark Up, 100% on Thin Margins and 150% on Red Ink. Report him and the service is gone for good.
• Insurance Service (from Day 4). Not a network upgrade, but Joe Wild runs it: stolen items come back the next morning. It costs 3 a night plus 1 for every 400 credits your store is worth, twice that on Thin Margins and three times on Red Ink. Wild's Favorite halves it, On Wild's Bad Side adds half, and its fee also returns favor.

What does every Wild's Network upgrade do?

The lists below use the game's own descriptions, grouped as on the network screen. Prices are for Price Gouge and Mark Up. The notes cover what the descriptions leave out.

Suppliers and Minor Shareholders

Each introduction gives you a supplier's business card to order by phone. Their courier sells wholesale at 20% off; a Minor Shareholder upgrade raises that to 35% and leaves a dividend on the counter on opening: 1 case of beer on Thursday, 6 Metal Ore on Friday, 8 Vial of "Dream Dust" on Saturday and 5 Oxymore Injector on Sunday.

Favors and protection

Rent Grace and Clemency stay in your hands until something uses them. Rent Grace covers one missed rent; Clemency turns one arrest-level inspection result into a warning. After use, each can be bought again at its higher price. Evidence Removal acts at once and then waits out its 14-day cooldown.

Referrals, services and the store

• Showcase Expansion I and II grow the Display Case from 7×5 to 8×6 and then 9×7.
• Upgraded Dossier and Upgraded Trash Can grow each from 10×10 to 17×10.
• Commercial Grade Power Supply Unit makes a Recharger and a PowerBloc charge Energy Cells twice as fast.
• Marketplace Requests posts a few requests the moment you buy it; new requests then arrive daily from Day 9, or right away if you skipped the tutorial.
• Store Renovation I–III add 150 Store Attractiveness each, which means more customers and bigger budgets; see the display case guide.
• The Makeshift Reactor starting perk hides Power Line Hijack and the Commercial Grade Power Supply Unit.

Production lines

The Retired Chemist, Ranching and Retired Winemaker are listed under Referral above. Each production unlock hands over its starter kit at once, and its visitor comes the next day and then once a week: the Water Trader on Wednesday, the Retired Gunsmith on Thursday, the Retired Farmer, Retired Winemaker and Retired Rat Rancher on Friday, and the Retired Aquafarmer and Retired Chemist on Tuesday. Starts that begin in a trade already own its unlock, such as Water Trading for the Water Merchant.

Weapon Permits are paid up front but only arrive on a morning when your Security reputation is at least 20, 50 or 80. If it later falls below 0, 30 or 60, an officer comes to take the permit back. See factions.

Dr. Jackson

Jackson Investment I and II raise Dr. Jackson's budget and stock and make bigger storage items more likely. Monday's Special Stock turns his closed Monday into a private sale of rare machine parts and modules at 150% above the usual price.

After you own the store

The Advanced tab, with Wild's Endorsement I–III and the Hypertech Smuggler, appears only after you buy the deed. Each Endorsement adds 25% of a customer's base budget, so the three together add 75%; it adds to other budget bonuses rather than multiplying them.

Can you undo an upgrade?

No. Every purchase lasts the whole run, including the weekly visitors and the dialogue that comes with a production line. Only the nightly services can be switched off, in the end-of-day list.

For the rest of the game, the Probably Stolen wiki links every guide and database.