Contraband

Milestone: In the tree (M1) Extends: Gathering, Processing, Trader, hideouts, Police confiscation

Player loop

An organization gathers a configured illegal good, processes it on the machine in their hideout, and runs it by vehicle to a buyer. Police who confiscate a wanted player take those items.

In scope

• One example good: a base-game item marked contraband in config. The example is enough; servers swap the prefab.
• Gather node and process recipe use the existing gather and process actions. The process action only succeeds at a hideout the player's organization owns.
• Sell uses the existing trader path. The black-market trader already rejects non-civilian factions.
• First organization job: a convoy. Load the goods into a base-game vehicle at the hideout, drive to a placed drop, get paid in cash on delivery. Leaving the vehicle or dying fails the run and logs it.
• Confiscation, today limited to weapons, also removes items flagged contraband from a wanted player in range.

Out of scope

• A dedicated island, a custom drug mesh, or a chemistry recipe.
• Real-world production steps. The recipe is "input prefab, output prefab" in config, the same shape as apple to juice.
• Turf wars, lab defense AI, or a second illegal job track beside the organization.

Assets

Process on Prefabs/Processor/ItemProcessor_Base.et (the juicer, furnace, and sawmill are the working examples). Sell at Prefabs/Trader/BlackMarketTrader.et. Confiscation extends EL_ConfiscateAction.

The example recipe is moonshine-shaped, taken from LNGC Configs/Economy/CraftingRecipes.conf: configured input prefabs in, one output prefab out, at a hideout machine. The stash prop is LNGC Prefabs/Props/Crates/ShineStash.et. Search uses the request shape of LNGC_SearchAction (police, server validates) but checks inventory prefabs, not LNGC virtual item ids.

Do not port the marijuana license or the hidden drug-dealer shop as this example. See sources.

First slice

One gather node, one hideout machine, one drop point. A member processes a stack and completes one convoy for cash. A non-member using the machine is refused and logged. An on-duty officer confiscates the flagged item.

Depends on

• Organizations and hideouts
• Gathering, Processing, Money
• EL_ConfiscateAction
• Vehicles only for the lock and keys if the convoy vehicle is owned; the first slice can use a job vehicle spawned for the run

Proof

• Logic: non-member process refuses; delivery pays cash once; confiscation removes only flagged items.
• World: gather, process, drive, deliver on DebugWorld.
• Persistence: a half-processed stack in the hideout survives a restart.