Shops & Vendors — Project Lazarus Life Wiki

How Shopping Works

Shops run on carried cash — the notes in your inventory, not your bank balance. Keep some on you before a supply run.

Each kind of store is duplicated across the towns (Livingstone, Belksville, South Outpost, WoodMount and Suntown), so you're rarely far from one. Livingstone is the main hub and has the densest cluster of vendors, the vehicle dealership and an ATM.

The Stores

The traders you'll actually use, by name:

Equipment Store — tools, food and basic gear; the de-facto general store for everyday kit.
Medical Store — bandages, meds and food.
IKEA — the construction store. Sells workbenches and furniture, and it's only in Livingstone.
Clothing Store — apparel, diving gear, and where you sell leather & cloth batches.
Weapons Dealer — legal weapons and the hunting bow.
Illegal Dealer — the black market. Sells raid explosives, and buys your drugs and illegal goods.
Fishing Store — rods, diving kit and low-grade fuel.
Pawn Shop — the metal detector, shovels and odds and ends.
Farmer — buys crops and fertilizer; sells farming tools.
Horse Seller — horses (which produce fertilizer).
Vehicle Parts & the Vehicle / Boat Dealership — fuel, parts and the cars and boats themselves.
Casino — for when you feel lucky.

Two things people get wrongThere is no "Farmers' Market" — the trader is just called the Farmer. And the Hunting Grounds is a gathering zone, not a shop: you sell your leather and cloth batches ($500 each) at the Clothing Store.

Some gear needs Outpost reputationA few items won't sell to you until you've built up enough Outpost reputation — explosives, for instance, only unlock at 4,500. If a vendor won't hand something over, your rep isn't high enough yet; keep trading and it'll open up. See Outpost Reputation.

Selling Your Loot

To cash out gathered goods, take them to the matching vendor and use its sell tab — the same window you buy from has a tab for selling back. Leather and cloth go to the Clothing Store, crops go to the Farmer, drugs and illegal goods go to the Illegal Dealer, and so on.

Own the store, keep the full cutSales through a vendor are taxed. But if you own a store-front property, you keep the full cut with no tax on what you sell — a real edge for anyone moving a lot of goods.

Notable Items

Some of the standout buys and sells worth knowing by sight:

Gear & tools

Code CrackerCrack locks

Compact BackpackExtra slots

Military BackpackExtra slots

Donator BackpackVIP perk

DroneRecon

ParachuteSafe landing

DefibrillatorRevive

Anti-BioticsCure illness

HM LMGCustom weapon

Sell to the dealer

DiamondSell to dealer

JewelrySell to dealer

RelicsSell to dealer

Poker ChipsCasino

SharkFishing catch

Where Do I Buy…?

A quick reference for the things players ask about most:

Item	Where	Price
Bandage / Med Syringe / Large Med Kit	Medical Store (also Equipment & Gang Hideout)	$4 / $85 / $250
Food (Beans / Tuna)	Medical, Equipment, Gang Hideout	$6 / $3
Drinking water	Not sold — use a water jug, catchers/pump or natural sources	—
Workbench	IKEA (construction), large Equipment	$452
Basic Code Cracker	Every Equipment Store + Gang Hideout	$1,550
Explosives (raid ingredient)	Illegal Dealer only	$450 (rep 4,500)
C4 / Satchel / explosive ammo	Not sold — craft only	—
Metal Detector (treasure)	Pawn Shop	$500
Shovel	Pawn Shop, Farmer	$150
Diving kit (wetsuit / fins / mask / tank)	Fishing Store & Clothing	$109 / $78 / $85 / $213
Hunting Bow	Weapons Dealer	$235
Low-grade fuel	Vehicle Parts, Equipment, Fishing, Gang Hideout	$2
Seeds	Not sold — harvested from crops at the barn	—

The Illegal Dealer also buys: drugs (from a Marijuana Joint at $350 up to Liquid Meth at $2,100, with consumables worth far more) and illegal goods like Gold Bars and Diamonds ($2,500) or Relics ($40). Note that the Relics you sell here are the processed version — raw Dirty Relics have to be run through a recycler first (full walkthrough on the Crime page).

Vehicles & Boats

Cars and boats are bought with your bank balance at the dealership. You can rent instead of buy — rent costs 25% of the purchase price. Police and VIP get a 15–20% discount.

Vehicle	Buy price	Boat	Buy price
Small Hot Hatch	$1,800	Row Boat	$2,000
Mini Van	$1,500	RHIB	$4,500
Medium Wagon	$4,500	Solo Sub	$4,000
Van	$7,000	Duo Sub	$8,000
Motorbike	$1,750
Minicopter	$30,000
Scrap Heli	$50,000
Attack Heli	$250,000

Fuelling upVehicles spawn already fuelled. To top up later, hold low-grade fuel and press Reload while looking at the vehicle — standard Rust refuelling.