Equipment
Equipment raises capacity, storage or efficiency. All of it is bought in SEED, all of it wears out, and all of it is gated by the stand's experience so that it is earned by playing rather than bought on day one.
Catalogue (launch values, at price index 1.0)
| Name | Effect | Price (SEED) | Storage | Durability (rounds) | Required experience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice-o-Matic | Produces 10 ice/min during the round | 100 | 10 | 100 | 400+ |
| Super Ice-o-Matic | Produces 25 ice/min | 200 | 20 | 200 | 800+ |
| Lemon Squeezer | 2 lemon/min, +1 capacity | 50 | 2 | 100 | 400+ |
| Heavy Duty Lemon Squeezer | 4 lemon/min, +2 capacity | 150 | 4 | 150 | 1,200+ |
| SqueezeMatic | 6 lemon/min, +3 capacity | 250 | 6 | 200 | 1,600+ |
| WaterLine | Unlimited water | 200 | – | – | 800+ |
| Small box storage | ×2 storage | 50 | – | 500 | 500+ |
| Large box storage | ×4 storage | 100 | – | 500 | 1,000+ |
| Cooler | 400 ice storage, ice keeps overnight | 50 | – | 500 | 200+ |
| Street sign | +10% customers for 3 rounds | 30 | – | 3 | 0 |
| Radio ad | +25% customers for 3 rounds | 120 | – | 3 | 800+ |
Prices follow the price index like every SEED price. Equipment cannot be resold, so an item bought at a low index is not a trading position — but it keeps its full durability, which means early buyers keep a real cost advantage on every round it lasts.
The balancing rule for every item
No piece of equipment may have a better return than the stand itself. A stand pays back in roughly 100–120 rounds. An item that costs 50 SEED and raises output by 10 SEED per round would pay back in 5 rounds and become the only thing anyone buys, so it does not exist. Every item is priced so that its payback, over its durability, is somewhat worse than the stand's, which means equipment is bought by players who want to reach their cap faster or enjoy a bigger stand, and never as a yield product.
Boosts like the street sign and the radio ad are consumables on purpose: they expire in a few rounds and get bought again. They are the best kind of sink because they repeat.
Boxes
Stand boxes and accessory boxes are sold in SEED and LEMON. Contents are drawn with published odds from a commitment-and-seed process identical to the daily round, so a box result is verifiable the same way a round is. Boxes contain stands, equipment and cosmetics; they never contain LEMON or SEED.