ROB RUN Grow Room & Decoder: Setup, Prices and Raiding

The short answer

The Grow Room is the production side of a base. You rent a plot, build a room full of grow tables, feed it bushes you find in the world, and sell the harvest. It is slower than robbery and it is the closest thing ROB RUN has to passive income.

Decoders are the other half of the loop: they are what other players use to get into the room you just built.

What the Grow Room needs

Three things have to be in place before a table grows anything:

1. A plot in a settlement that has an owner. You rent it from that owner.
2. Grow Room and Grow Table researched in the Production branch of Larry's Tree.
3. Both bought on the Trade Laptop at your base. The table unlocks after the room.

The bushes are separate. The table does not supply them. You find Growing Bushes as cargo in the world and carry them back.

Costs

Public data puts the first working table at about $320,000: Grow Room roughly $150,000 to research and $100,000 to buy, Grow Table roughly $30,000 to research and $40,000 to buy.

Research prices can differ from server to server, so check the Trade Laptop on your own server. Extra tables are cheaper because the research is one-time.

The growing loop

Once a table is down, the loop is short:

• Place a bush on the table.
• A clock icon shows while it grows, and a check mark shows when it is ready.
• Harvest for two to four bags, which takes a few seconds.
• The bush regrows as the same rarity, so you do not replant.

Public data says harvest bags stack to 10 per slot, and cargo drops if you draw a weapon. Cops can seize a bush, with a reported $5,000 bounty on an Uncommon one.

The carrying rule is the one that costs people money: do not pull a gun while you are moving cargo.

Sell prices

Harvest bags go to a Fence at the dollar-sign van in Looty Bay or at the Sales Center.

Public data for a level 1 Fence lists about $4,000 per Uncommon bag, $6,000 per Epic bag and $8,000 per Legendary bag. With two to four bags per bush, a full six-bush table is roughly $48,000 to $96,000 at Uncommon and up to $192,000 at Legendary.

Whole bushes can also go to a Smuggler. Public data lists about $20,000 for a Growing Bush and $30,000 for a Mature Bush at Uncommon, rising to about $40,000 and $60,000 at Legendary.

Upgrades

Public data lists three speed upgrades that stack on one table: a Fan at +12% growth speed, a Water Pump at +14% and a UV Lamp at +24%.

The Trade Laptop tier follows your district level. Higher tiers need level 2 and 3 plots, which need Black Market documents. On a level 1 plot, the common advice is more tables before speed upgrades.

Defence: fuses and alarms

A Grow Room is a building with a Security System panel. Public data puts its base defence low, around 5, with nine fuse slots, and says it is easy to raid until you fit fuses.

• Fuses add breach points the raider has to remove.
• Alarm slots warn you or your clan when the panel is being hacked.
• Cash should go to Lenny's or the Laundering Desk, not sit in the room.

Decoders

A decoder is applied to a building's Security System panel. It takes about 12 seconds, removes its breach value from the building's defence and is used up. At zero defence the building is hacked: doors, gates and windows open for a short window. That is access, not ownership.

Public data puts decoder breach values at 1 point for Uncommon, 3 for Epic and 5 for Legendary. It reports the Uncommon decoder as a Season 1 reward and the Epic one as a barter at the Suspicious Door inside Lenny's Motel. No confirmed source for Legendary was listed.

To work out how many you need, add the building's base defence and all installed fuse points, divide by the decoder's breach value and round up. A small house with no fuses is reported at 15 Uncommon, 5 Epic or 3 Legendary decoders; with full legendary fuses the same house is reported at 150, 50 or 30.

Decoders do not open safes. Safes and cabinets need a Master Key, and vehicle trunks need a Lockpick.

Timing it around the wipe

Every server wipes seven days after it opens, and the Grow Room does not survive. A build that takes longer than the remaining cycle to pay back is a loss.

Public data puts payback for a first table at four to seven harvests, roughly four to fourteen hours. That fits the first half of a wipe. Building on the last day or two rarely pays.

FAQ

The FAQ block above covers requirements, costs, bush counts, sell prices, decoder sources, raid maths and safes. Every figure is player data until Kefir publishes its own.

Read next

• Time the build around the reset: Server Wipe: Schedule and What You Keep
• Fund the first table: How to Make Money Fast
• Clean the profit: How to Launder Money