TBUG
TBUG is the town Exploit Dealer. Her display name is Exploit Dealer. The talk prompt says Talk to TBUG. The shop panel is titled TBUG BUG MARKET.
She does not use vanilla town spawning. On the first arrival, a vertical seam opens at night and places her on the ground near the player. After that, if a house is free, she respawns like any town NPC.
When she arrives
Section titled “When she arrives”She arrives once when all of the following are true:
- Night
- No boss is active
- You have defeated Skeletron
- You are not in a subworld
- This world has not received her yet
She does not need a free house first. The seam lands on ground 11 to 17 tiles from you, a little higher than Victor’s door.
Right-click her for a custom dialogue panel, not the vanilla chat box. The panel has Hack Shop, Small Talk, and Leave.
Mood and prices
Section titled “Mood and prices”List prices on the shelf are multiplied by a happiness coefficient. The talk panel shows that coefficient as PRICE x plus two decimals, for example PRICE x1.00.
Vanilla happiness usually keeps the coefficient between about 0.75 and 1.50. Her shop then clamps the multiplier to 0.50 through 2.00, and never charges less than 1 copper.
She loves the underground, likes snow, dislikes jungle, and hates the ocean. Among neighbors she loves the Mechanic, likes the Goblin Tinkerer, dislikes Victor, and hates the Tax Collector. Victor likes her as a research subject. The Mechanic likes talking circuits with her.
Without a house, vanilla happiness keeps her quotes higher. Providing a house usually lowers the coefficient by one step. When the shown coefficient is about 0.90 or lower, she describes the price as having dropped a step. At about 1.15 or higher, she attributes the increase to market conditions.
Every dawn the shop restocks the full list and picks two daily specials. Those two are 25% off the list price. Happiness still multiplies that sale price afterward. The buy strip marks them -25%, and the tip reads daily special, 25% off. Sold-out stock waits until the next dawn. The buy tab status line shows restock at dawn plus a minutes-and-seconds countdown to that dawn.
The shelves
Section titled “The shelves”Stock is shared across the world. Restock caps follow list price: under 10 gold restocks 4, 10 to 19 gold restocks 3, 20 to 25 gold restocks 2, and 26 gold or more restocks 1. The two RAM chips restock 5 each.
The tables below are the shop list. How a write lands is on the Protocol Catalog and PvP Hacks. Chip pages live under Protocol Chips. RAM chips are on the RAM System.
Laboratory security chests currently do not drop protocol chips. They roll the two RAM upgrade chips instead.
| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Live Cell Tap Chip | 9 gold | 4 |
| Compensation Protocol Chip | 13 gold | 3 |
| Armor Parse Chip | 14 gold | 3 |
| Phase Desync Chip | 14 gold | 3 |
| Meltdown Protocol Chip | 15 gold | 3 |
| Shell Requisition Chip | 16 gold | 3 |
| Forced Deletion Chip | 18 gold | 3 |
| Data Leech Chip | 18 gold | 3 |
| Firmware Rollback Chip | 20 gold | 2 |
| Payload Rewrite Chip | 22 gold | 2 |
| Swarm Link Chip | 24 gold | 2 |
Projectile
Section titled “Projectile”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Ballistic Freeze Chip | 8 gold | 4 |
| Delay Fuse Chip | 10 gold | 3 |
| Ballistic Takeover Chip | 12 gold | 3 |
| Ballistic Overclock Chip | 12 gold | 3 |
| Projectile Tithe Chip | 13 gold | 3 |
| Data Purge Chip | 14 gold | 3 |
| Projectile Sample Chip | 15 gold | 3 |
Liquid
Section titled “Liquid”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Liquid Purge Chip | 9 gold | 4 |
| Pressure Surge Chip | 10 gold | 3 |
| Cryostasis Chip | 11 gold | 3 |
| Electrolysis Chip | 16 gold | 3 |
| Mirror Surface Chip | 18 gold | 3 |
| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Vein Resonance Chip | 11 gold | 3 |
| Stress Inversion Chip | 13 gold | 3 |
| Tile Conscription Chip | 14 gold | 3 |
Dropped Item
Section titled “Dropped Item”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Remote Recall Chip | 6 gold | 4 |
| Salvage Chip | 10 gold | 3 |
| Masquerade Chip | 12 gold | 3 |
| Reappraise Chip | 22 gold | 2 |
| Data Brand Chip | 26 gold | 1 |
Container
Section titled “Container”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Index Preread Chip | 7 gold | 4 |
| Lock Burnthrough Chip | 16 gold | 3 |
| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Diel Skip Chip | 20 gold | 2 |
| Gravity Inversion Chip | 22 gold | 2 |
| Storm Injection Chip | 24 gold | 2 |
Boss Part
Section titled “Boss Part”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Segment Delink Chip | 18 gold | 3 |
| Limb Seizure Chip | 20 gold | 2 |
| Command Link Cut Chip | 24 gold | 2 |
Self Rig
Section titled “Self Rig”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Power Transmute Chip | 16 gold | 3 |
| Neural Overclock Chip | 18 gold | 3 |
| Wraith Force Drive Chip | 20 gold | 2 |
Circuit
Section titled “Circuit”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Overclock Chip | 12 gold | 3 |
| Turret Hijack Chip | 13 gold | 3 |
| Munition Swap Chip | 14 gold | 3 |
| Beacon Forge Chip | 16 gold | 3 |
| Turret Mesh Chip | 20 gold | 2 |
| Privilege Escalation Chip | 26 gold | 1 |
| Grid Blackout Chip | 30 gold | 1 |
Grid Blackout Chip is the most expensive item in the shop.
| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| Channel Scramble Chip | 14 gold | 3 |
| Map Blackout Chip | 16 gold | 3 |
| Stealth Strip Chip | 18 gold | 3 |
| Memory Scorch Chip | 20 gold | 2 |
| Buff Siphon Chip | 22 gold | 2 |
| Combat Siphon Chip | 22 gold | 2 |
| Cooldown Inject Chip | 22 gold | 2 |
| Ballistic Turncoat Chip | 26 gold | 1 |
| Cyberware Offline Chip | 26 gold | 1 |
| Meltdown Brand Chip | 28 gold | 1 |
RAM upgrades
Section titled “RAM upgrades”| Chip | List price | Restock |
|---|---|---|
| RAM Capacity Upgrade Chip | 8 gold | 5 |
| RAM Recovery Upgrade Chip | 6 gold | 5 |
These two can be bought and used more than once. A protocol chip cannot be used again after it has already written that protocol.
The shop also buys what you can sell from the bag. Left-click sells a single item. Right-click sells the entire stack.