Best Schedule 1 mixing station recipes to grow your criminal empire

Are you looking to make money fast in simulation videogame Schedule 1 with the best mixes for each drug? While small-time dealers in Schedule 1 can get by with the standard cannabis types like OG Kush or Green Crack, the real money lies in custom strains created by adding all sorts of different things to the finished product before packaging and selling it.

Walter White's drug empire in Breaking Bad wasn't built in a day, but his unique blend of blue meth helped him get ahead in the business. The same principle applies to Schedule 1, and players have been working hard to create the best drug combinations and weed strains to make a name for themselves in Hyland Point's criminal underground.

You won't have the equipment to make the craziest custom strains when you're just starting out in Schedule 1, but once you've grinded enough XP and grown your network of contacts to the right size, you'll gain access to new crafting stations where you can mix and match drugs and ingredients to your heart's content.

How to mix new products in Schedule 1

To get started designing drugs in Schedule 1, you need to purchase a mixing station from the hardware store for $500. The mixing station is unlocked after reaching the Hoodlum 1 rank, so it should become available within the first few hours of your drug dealing journey.

The mixing station lets you combine any unpackaged product with any ingredient, but only one of each at a time. Adding ingredients purchased from Gas-Mart will add new properties to your drugs, allowing you to fine tune your product to your customers' tastes. You can place the newly-created combination back into the mixing station to add even more ingredients to it after the fact, which is how you'll end up with the most profitable drugs in the game.

Each custom recipe starts with one of the four base marijuana strains available from the start of the game. The base strain you choose will have a huge impact on the final product since its primary properties will be inherited by your custom creation.

These recipes also involve long lists of ingredients, so you'll need to mix the drugs repeatedly until you finally arrive at the final step. To make things easier, head to the warehouse in the evening and purchase the upgraded version of the mixing station so you don't have to manually add every single ingredient by hand.

Note: If see an ingredient listed twice in a recipe, that means you use it twice. For instance, if an OG Kush recipes calls for "Banana, Cuke, Banana," first you mix the Kush with banana, then mix the resulting Kush with Cuke, then mix it a with banana again.

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Best early Schedule 1 mixing recipes

You won't have access to more valuable ingredients when you first unlock the mixing station in Schedule 1, so these combinations will help you kickstart the mixing process with cheap items you can pick up from Gas-Mart. These recipes prioritize profit, using cheap base strains and shorter ingredient lists that should be a breeze to create in the early stages of the game.

Best Schedule 1 weed recipes and mixes

Best OG Kush strain combinations

Despite its simple appearance and low price, OG Kush is a surprisingly versatile strain that can be mixed with cheap ingredients to maximize profit. These custom recipes also have a ton of side effects so you can cater to more varied clientele.

Best Sour Diesel strain combinations

Sour Diesel isn't that different from OG Kush on paper, but its Energizing effects are highly sought after throughout Hyland Point. It can become truly addictive when paired with the right ingredients, and these recipes will maximize your Sour Diesel profits.

Best Green Crack strain combinations

Unlike the strains that come before it, Green Crack comes with a small level of addictiveness that really ramps up when paired with the right ingredients. These recipes will help you capitalize on your customers' addictions so you can extort them for more money than the strains are actually worth.

Best Grandaddy Purple strain combinations

Grandaddy Purple is the key to the most expensive weed mixes, but you'll need a solid chunk of cash saved up before you can sustainably grow it and afford all the necessary ingredients. These recipes prioritize large profit margins, but they have high upfront costs.

Best Schedule 1 meth recipes and mixes

While weed is a great way to make some easy cash in Schedule 1, the game's meth trade is where the real money is. As we know from reality and TV dramas, it's addictive, it's expensive, and enterprising dealers can invest all of the profits back into their equipment to scale up their operations.

Best Schedule 1 cocaine recipes and mixes

Cocaine isn't unlocked until much later in Schedule 1, but it's easily the best way to make money in the entire game. Its upfront cost isn't that much higher than meth, but it sells for a lot more and, being a ruthless and unscrupulous entrepeneur, you can capitalize on your clients' addictions to squeeze even more money out of them on top of that.

Most profitable and addictive mixes in Schedule 1

It's a good idea to diversify your portfolio so you can better serve the citizens of Hyland Point, but this isn't a charity. It's all about the cold hard cash at the end of the day, so these recipes will help you maximize your profit margins for every type of drug in the game.

It's important to note that, as you expand your operations, you'll want to take advantage of employees and handlers. Sure, employees have a high upfront cost and a salary, while dealers take a percentage of the sales, but it lets you make money with little to no intervention. Set things up right, and your employees can make all the best mixes above for you, and all you'll need to do is pass them off to dealers to sell on your behalf.

These are very complicated systems with lots of neat tricks to unpick, so be sure to check out our Schedule 1 dealers and best customers guide, as well as how to use employees in Schedule 1.

To further maximize your profits, don't pass up upgrades to your stations. The upgraded mixer and packaging stations massively speed up production for both you and your workers. Likewise, squishing your product into bricks using a brick press lets you stack 400 of any given item into a single inventory slot, rather than 20. This comes in particularly handy when divvying up dealers' inventories.

Don't forget that you can also up the selling price of your drugs. By visiting the "products" menu on your phone, you can individually tweak the price of every drug and strain that you have. Importantly, this won't apply to your dealers—they'll still sell at the base price—but any product you're hauling around can be charged up. Take advantage of this to increase your profits with no extra work, especially if you're using high-quality ingredients that cost more to procure.