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Handbook

Your first hour in Valentine

Open chat and type /guide to read this handbook in game. Press Esc or choose Return to game to close it.

1. Find the general store. Open the map and set a waypoint to the store in Valentine. Walk up to the counter and hold the on-screen interact prompt. Pick a food or drink, choose one unit and confirm the price.
2. Try your satchel. Press I, select what you bought and use it. Watch the hunger and thirst icons. Type /hudlayout in chat to move status icons to a comfortable spot.
3. Meet up. Stand near a friend and test RedM push-to-talk. Walk apart to hear how proximity voice changes. If you hear nothing, check the microphone and push-to-talk binding in RedM settings.
4. Choose your first outing. Visit the Valentine Job Center for Horse Trainer, Rodeo Clown, Wainwright or Gunsmith, ride to a stable to buy a horse, or take a gold pan to the Dakota River. For your current role and grade, type /myJob.

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Picking up a dropped item: close your inventory, stand within 1.5 metres of the drop, and hold G at the “Take from floor” prompt. Leave two metres between you and other players while collecting it. Food, bait and other catalog items now have matching inventory pictures.

Find a store or gunsmith

Browsing a store: choose Buy, then use Choose category to browse stocked sections. Each row shows the item name and price. Select a row, review its picture, level and stock, then choose the quantity and confirm the purchase.

1. Find the right counter. General stores carry food, tools and ranch supplies. For a firearm, visit the Valentine, Rhodes, Saint Denis, Annesburg or Tumbleweed gun store.
2. Buy at the counter. Approach the shopkeeper and hold the displayed interaction key. Open the buying menu, pick the item or weapon, choose a quantity and confirm the displayed total. Buy a single weapon per transaction.
3. Sell to a shop. Open its selling menu. Select an item the shop is buying and check the offered price. Player shops also need enough money in the till.
4. Use the gunsmith workbench. Open the gunsmith resource entry for the workbench and job-specific instructions. Gunsmith workbench · Player shops

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Your ranch at MacFarlane’s

1. Open management. The assigned owner walks within 5 meters of that original point and holds B at Your Ranch → Manage until the indicator fills. If there is no prompt on a newly assigned ranch, reconnect as the owner and return to the marker.
2. Fund the ranch and hire help. Open Ledger → Deposit to move pocket cash into the ranch. Use Manage Employees → Hire Employees to select a hand. The livestock ranch, ranch ledger and separate portable horse-breeding camp each have their own controls.
3. Keep animals. Use Buy Animals to choose livestock such as cattle, pigs, sheep, goats or chickens. Under Manage Owned Animals, choose the species and set its location inside the radius. When placing a point, walk to the spot and press G to save or C to cancel. Spawn the purchased animals using their management options.
4. Run chores. Under Caretaking, pick a chore such as Shovel Hay, Water Animal or Repair Trough. Set its coordinates, start the chore and travel to its marker. Check ranch condition back at the menu. Use the available species options for produce or sale when eligible. Valentine Cattle Auction is at -217.18, 634.94, 113.20. Ranch storage is under Ranch Inventory.

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Horses, trainers and horse breeding

Buy and keep a horse. At a BCC stable, G opens the shop, L calls the selected horse at the stable and R returns it. Buy a horse, choose its gender when offered, name it, select it and call it. Use /countyhorses to read its database ID and gender. Approach within three meters of your called horse and type /horseInfo for bonding and XP. BCC Stables handles ownership. Coal Stables provides coat, color and tack customization. The horse preview appears to the right of the editor. Use Rotate Left/Right to inspect its coat and tack, and Zoom In/Out for details. Save the appearance and call the same horse again to verify it.

How to build the breeder’s camp

The character who will own the breeding camp does the placement. You can set it up before buying horses. The starting equipment is built into the /horsebreeding command. Your first visible confirmation is a map marker and a menu. The physical props appear as you place the three care stations.

1. Choose the center. From MacFarlane’s Ranch, ride roughly 250 meters from the settlement center at -2395, -2378 into open country. The exclusion radius is 220 meters and applies to each station too. Dismount on a flat patch with room to walk around.
2. Claim that spot. Stand where you want the center, open in-game chat and enter /horsebreeding. Look for the horse marker on your map and Temporary Horse Breeding Ranch in the menu. At this point your camp exists. Opening the command again during the same active camp brings back its menu. Close lets you walk around.
3. Place the hay. Close the menu and walk a few paces to the feeding spot. Face the direction you want the station oriented. Enter /horsebreeding again, choose Set Foal Care Locations → Feed Hay [NOT SET] and click it while standing there. Look for a hay bale and hay pile nearby, the “set and saved” notification, and Feed Hay [SET].
4. Place the water trough. Use Back → Close, walk several paces to a second clear spot, reopen /horsebreeding and choose Set Foal Care Locations → Fill Water [NOT SET]. A trough appears beside you. Its position and heading follow where you stood and faced.
5. Place the bedding. Use Back → Close, walk to a third spot and reopen the same menu. Click Clean Poop/Bedding [NOT SET]. A bedding pile appears. All three buttons should now read [SET]. To adjust one station, stand at its new spot and click that station’s button again.

Use the camp. Choose Buy or Find Ranch Supplies to stock chores. The configured purchase gives 45 supply units for $50 cash or 3 gold. To start breeding your own pair, follow the registration steps below. Invited helpers can work the stations after the owner places them.

Move the whole camp. Choose Pack Up Breeding Ranch to clear its marker, props and spawned ranch animals. Ride to the new site, enter /horsebreeding and place the three stations again. If setup reports that you are too close to town, move farther into open country and retry.

Breed horses you own.

1. Obtain a living mare and stallion on the same character. Check their genders with /countyhorses.
2. Open /horsebreeding at your camp. For your first visit, follow the camp placement steps above.
3. Pick Register Horses and select the mare. Open Register Horses again for the stallion. Open Breed Registered Horses, select each parent, wait for the bloodline check and press Start Breeding. Both need to be ready. The pack checks for close ancestry and existing pregnancy.
4. Open Foal & Mare Stats to check pregnancy. Use Set Foal Care Locations and Buy or Find Ranch Supplies to prepare the camp. Spawn Pregnant Mare displays the mare. After birth, Spawn Foal displays the foal. Use Horse Chores for care. Base times are 24 hours pregnant, 12 hours foal to young and 12 hours young to adult. Care and reputation can change timing. Reopen the menu to refresh progress.
5. With your grown offspring, select Foal First Saddle Training, mount and stay on for 25 seconds. Use Add Adult Horse To Stables when ready to claim the adult. Use Horse Ancestry for the recorded family. Invite a nearby helper with /hbrrequest; an accepted helper opens /friendshorsebreeding to assist with supplies and chores. Registration, breeding and claiming belong to the owner.

Two owners, one foal. DeathnTaxes owns the stallion and Chance owns the mare. Each needs a livestock ranch for the county contract. Chance registers his mare at his portable camp and puts at least the agreed fee in his ranch ledger. With example horse IDs 14 and 27, DeathnTaxes runs /stud offer 14 27 12. Chance runs /stud list, checks the horses and $12 fee, then /stud accept 5 if the contract ID is 5. Acceptance pays the stallion owner, records the pregnancy and assigns the foal to the mare owner. Chance checks Foal & Mare Stats. An unused offer can be closed with /stud cancel <contractID>.

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Gather, farm and craft

1. Collect water. Fill an empty watering can at a town pump. See Water and containers for the clean-water rules.
2. Plant your first crop. Buy a hoe and seeds at a general store. Open Farming for planting, watering and harvesting controls.
3. Cook your first meal. Pitch a full camp with its included fire, then use /cook beside it. Bring a Pan and Meat for Grilled Meat. Follow the cooking walkthrough, including collecting your finished food. Other crafting stations show their own recipes and requirements.
4. Find materials. Open the guide for mining, woodcutting or herb gathering.

Eating and your hunger meter

Open your inventory, select a ready-to-eat food and choose Use. Peaches and pears restore 12 hunger points; bread restores 15. Breakfast restores 35; grilled meat, cooked venison, mutton and pork restore 30. Beans restore 25. Sweets and desserts restore 8–25 depending on the item. Eating shows your resulting hunger percentage; it cannot rise above 100%.

Food products in the current general-store and cooking catalogs have eating handlers. Raw recipe ingredients still need cooking unless their item is explicitly edible. Wait for an eating action to finish before using another food.

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First trip through the BCC expansion

1. Start at Valentine Job Center to choose a public trade. Open the instructions.
2. Visit the wagon dealer, select a vehicle and call it outside. Open the instructions.
3. Stop at the Pet Shelter for a companion. Open the instructions.
4. Ride out of town and set up a personal camp. Open the instructions.
5. For a group outing, visit the Armadillo hunter. Open the instructions.
6. For an island trip, buy passage at Saint Denis Port. Open the instructions.

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Mining: from deposit to useful ore

Open /mining to choose a mine, set a route, and check your personal paydirt and ore sacks. No job assignment or daily processing allowance is required.

1. Buy a Pick Axe. Visit a general store and look under Tools. Carry it in your inventory. Completed deposits use 1% durability; replace a worn-out pickaxe.
2. Choose your materials. Open /mining and press Route to mine & processing. Start with Annesburg for coal and iron. The map marks each mine entrance.
3. Work a marked deposit. Enter on foot and look for small gold ground markers. Stand within about 2½ metres and press E when the mining prompt appears. Stay beside it for 12 seconds. Backspace cancels. You receive 3 paydirt in your mining sack, not your normal inventory.
4. Process your paydirt. Return to the blue processing marker at a mine entrance and press E. Choose Process 5 beside a mine's paydirt. Stay nearby for 15 seconds. Any entrance can process paydirt from any mine.
5. Collect your ore. At the processing point, open the menu again and press Collect. Up to 10 of that material moves into your inventory. If your inventory is full, it stays in your sack. Use the materials in recipes that request them or trade them with other players.

Each batch yields 3–6 of the primary material and 1–2 of the secondary material. Gold is a chance bonus, not a guaranteed payout. These are items, not automatic cash.

When a deposit turns gray

That deposit is recovering for 3 minutes. Move to another gold marker. Deposits are shared, so two players cannot work the same one at once. Your sacks hold 60 paydirt and 500 processed materials. Process and collect to make room; there is no daily quota.

Leaving, cancelling or disconnecting

Saved paydirt and ore stay with your character across reconnects and server restarts. Unfinished work does not grant rewards or consume paydirt. Use /mining cancel to cancel work and /mining clearroute to clear the route.

If a collection shows a staff-review reference, give that reference to staff. It means delivery was interrupted and needs checking before another delivery is attempted.

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Gold panning with a wash table

1. Buy the four tools. At a county general store, buy a Gold Wash Table ($18), Empty Mud Bucket ($3), Empty Watering Can ($4) and Gold Pan ($12). Total $37.
2. Collect clean water and mud. Fill the can at a town pump using the BCC Water fill prompt. Check the satchel for the filled can. Ride west of Valentine to the Dakota River, dismount, stand in shallow water and use the Empty Mud Bucket from your satchel. Wait for the eight-second collection to finish.
3. Build the station. While standing on foot in the shallows, use the Gold Wash Table item. Position the preview and hold R to build, or E to cancel. Wait for construction to finish. Stay within two meters of the table. The reusable kit stays in your satchel while deployed.
4. Wash a batch. Follow the table prompts in order. Hold E to pour mud, wait for the animation, hold R to pour clean water, then hold G to pan. When the skill check appears, press E in the target zone. A successful sift pays five gold_flakes with a 10% chance of one extra gold_nugget. These are satchel items. Panning wears the pan by two durability points per attempt.
5. Pack up. Hold F at your table. Refill both containers for a new batch. If the water step fails, check for clean wateringcan from a pump. A dirty can is a different item. If the build preview never appears, step into recognized shallow water on foot.

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Run a player-owned shop

1. Find your premises. Staff create or assign a BCC store to your active character. Tell them the location and your character ID. Previous assigned farm counters carry their owner, stock, and till into the migration.
2. Put goods on sale. Go to your counter and open the owner menu. Add a sellable item from your satchel, set how many customers can buy and the unit price. Check the buying view with a second character.
3. Buy from suppliers. Set a price and quantity for goods you want customers to sell to the shop. Deposit enough cash in the shop ledger to cover those purchases.
4. Collect the proceeds. After a second character buys one item, reopen the owner ledger, check the balance and withdraw what you earned.

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Ride or work the rodeo

Prize meets, admission and crowd betting

Prize meets are separate from free practice and regular course-record attempts. Go to the Deadwater Rodeo start, then walk about six metres left and four metres behind the start line. Press the Events / Tickets / Betting prompt to open the arena counter. These activities use your normal VORP cash.

1. Buy viewing admission or enter as a rider. A spectator ticket costs $20 for the whole meet. It covers every event on that meet’s card. Entering the spectator area displays an eight-second notice before admission is charged; leave the area to decline. Registered riders and on-duty rodeo clowns have admission included. If you already bought a ticket and then register as a rider, collect the viewing-fee refund at the cashier. All spectator admission revenue goes to the riders’ prizes.
2. Choose your events. The event card can include bull riding, saddle bronc, barrels, poles and sprint. Rider entry is $5 per event. Each event needs 2–12 riders. Register using its Enter button; future events can be entered before their own registration window opens. Registration stays open for two minutes when an event becomes current.
3. Back a rider from the crowd. After registration closes, betting opens for 45 seconds. Choose a rider, enter a wager of $1–$100, review the estimated return and press Place wager. One locked wager is allowed per account per event. Riders cannot bet on their own event; organizers and rodeo-clown characters cannot bet. Wagers cannot be placed after betting closes. Estimates change as the pool grows and include the return of your stake.
4. Take your turn. The card names the next rider. Go to the arena start and press Begin Ride. Bull and bronc riders enter on foot; timed races require your own horse. You have three minutes to be ready, with additional time between rides for loose stock to clear. A missed turn is a non-finish. Highest qualified score wins bull/bronc events; fastest valid time wins races. Ties share the rider prize.
5. Collect your payout. Open the counter and press Collect cash. Event prizes and winning wagers become available when that event settles. The admission bonus becomes available after the entire meet. Winnings and refunds stay recorded for your character if you disconnect. The Champions tab shows persistent all-round standings: five points for an event win, plus one for a qualifying finish.

How the prize purse works

Example: a $100 base prize, four $5 entries and a $200 wagering pool make a $180 rider prize before admission. That is $175 profit after the winner’s $5 entry fee. If the meet has eight $20 spectators and two events with winners, that event receives another $80 in admission revenue: $260 total, or $255 net after entry. Winning bettors divide $140 according to their winning wagers.

If nobody backs a winner, all wagers back the winning rider(s), or nobody qualifies, the wagers are refunded and no betting share is taken. If nobody qualifies, entry fees and the unused organizer prize are also refunded. An event with fewer than two riders is cancelled and refunded. A restart cancels unfinished events and refunds their entries and wagers plus meet admission; already settled event payouts remain valid. Remote views from outside the ticketed footprint cannot be hidden in the open world.

Draw a bull or a saddle bronc

1. Practice on foot. Leave your horse a few metres away. Stand on flat open ground with room to fall. Type /rodeo practice bull for a bull or /rodeo practice bronc for a bucking saddled mustang. For an official score, go to the Deadwater Rodeo start on foot and use /rodeo bull or /rodeo bronc. The contractor supplies a saddled bull or bronc and collects it after the ride. You do not need to buy a saddle.
2. Balance in every direction. Keep the white rider dot near the green center of the circular meter. Move the mouse or the gamepad left stick to counter the drift: forward, back, left, right and diagonally. The blue ring shows your lean. With a mouse, move back toward center to reduce your lean; releasing the stick centers gamepad lean. WASD also works. Large corrections can send you past the center, so ease off as the dot returns. The dashed amber ring is the warning boundary: you have 0.7 seconds to recover. The red outside edge is the immediate buck-off limit. A countdown shows how much recovery time remains. Small, steady corrections are easier than a full lean.
3. Ride through the whistle. Eight seconds qualifies the ride. Keep balancing, then press your Jump control (normally Space on keyboard) to jump off and record the score. The animal keeps moving after eight seconds. Falling or jumping before the whistle gives no score; falling after it without completing your dismount also forfeits the score. Use /rodeo cancel to withdraw.
4. Choose your controls. Automatic mouse/gamepad detection is the default. Use /rodeo controls mouse, /rodeo controls gamepad, /rodeo controls keyboard or /rodeo controls auto. Adjust mouse sensitivity with /rodeo sensitivity 2; allowed values are 0.25 to 6. Your choice is saved.
5. Clear the stock. Both bulls and broncs alternate running, bucking and turning. They use the published arena bounds and navigation to turn back from obstacles. In practice, neither animal is given a post-ride attack target. In official heats, a loose bull targets its former rider after a short dismount delay; an on-duty clown can draw it away. A loose bronc keeps running and bucking. Move out of the ring; the contractor collects loose stock after about 30 seconds.
6. Check your score. Staying close to the center earns more points, up to 100. Extra riding after the whistle does not increase the score. Use /rodeo board bull or /rodeo board bronc for the top five official riders. Practice does not change the record board.

Try a timed horse race on your own

1. Choose open, level ground. Mount your horse. Allow about 38 metres across and 56 metres front to back, with 5 metres behind you. Face down the long side. For private practice, move at least 70 metres from the official start.
2. Pick your event. Type /rodeo practice barrels to ride a cloverleaf around three barrels, /rodeo practice poles to weave out and back through six posts, or /rodeo practice sprint for a turnaround sprint. Only you see your practice course.
3. Wait for the course and countdown. The timer starts only after the three wooden barrels or six poles have been placed. Stay at the start until GO. Circle barrels 1, 2 and 3 in order; the HUD names your next barrel, and a small gold ground cue guides the turn. Ride home through the finish. The barrels and poles are solid obstacles, so allow room for your horse. Use /rodeo cancel to leave. Practice times are private.

Set an official course record

Once a marshal places the arena, ride to the Deadwater Rodeo map blip. Inside the start marker, use /rodeo barrels, /rodeo poles or /rodeo sprint. One rider uses the official course at a time. Falling, leaving the course, or moving off the start during the countdown ends the heat. Check the top five riders for an event with /rodeo board barrels, replacing barrels with poles or sprint. Entry is free.

Work as a rodeo clown

1. Take the job. Visit the Valentine Job Center, press G, choose Rodeo Clown, and choose Confirm – change my profession for Arena Hand, grade 0. This replaces your current civilian job. The job center has a ten-minute change cooldown.
2. Open your shift. Stand within 12 metres of the official start and type /rodeo duty. One clown works the ring at a time. Between heats, stand on foot at the entrance and use /rodeo show to wave in the next rider and announce the heat.
3. Practice a safety inspection solo. At the empty entrance, use /rodeo drill. Hold at each of the two marked escape lanes for two seconds, then return to the start and hold there. A completed drill pays $10 once every ten minutes. If a rider enters, the drill ends so you can cover the live heat.
4. Draw the bull away. After an official bull ride, approach the loose bull on foot within 25 metres and look directly at it. Press the button shown by the Distract Bull prompt. The game shows the keyboard or controller button automatically. This requires your Rodeo Clown job and an active shift; no chat command is needed. The prompt hides when you look away, open a menu, or lose sight of the bull. The bull switches its attention to you; lead it away from the rider and head for an escape lane. Practice animals cannot be taunted. When a rider falls, draw the bull away, then follow the amber marker and press the Assist Rider prompt within four metres. Assistance does not heal injuries. The next rider must wait for loose stock to be collected.
5. Collect show pay. When another rider starts within two minutes of your warm-up and finishes, stay within 60 metres of the start to earn $15. Pay is limited to once every five minutes. Use /rodeo off to clock out. Leaving the area or changing jobs also ends your shift.

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Take your companion along

1. Call your pet. Type /pet, choose your animal, then Call pet. A purchased pet normally appears immediately. “Out” means the pet is currently spawned; “Home” means you can call it.
2. Open its controls. Stand beside your own pet and press E, or use /pet and select it. Choose Follow me, Stay here, Come here / recall or Send pet home.
3. Choose Defensive or Passive. Dogs and alligators start in Defensive mode: when a nearby attacker hits you or that pet, it protects you for up to 20 seconds. It only responds within 30 metres and stops chasing if the attacker moves more than 40 metres from you. Falls and nearby strangers do not start a fight. Choose Passive mode or type /petpassive to stop combat and disable defense; use /petdefend to enable it. This preference is saved per pet on your computer. /petcome recalls immediately and pauses automatic defense for 10 seconds. Follow and Stay also pause defense for 10 seconds; after that, a defensive pet can leave its waiting spot to protect you. Defense safely drops any fetched carcass first.
4. Give your dog or alligator an attack command. Enable Defensive mode, aim at a living target within 30 metres and use /petattack. Use /petcome to cancel and recall immediately. Attack ends automatically after 20 seconds or when the target dies. Owned horses and your other pets cannot be selected.
5. Fetch small game. Leave a dead rabbit, squirrel, duck or other supported small game on the ground within 25 metres. Use /petfetch. Your dog runs to it, carries the same carcass back, and drops it near you. Collect it normally. Stowed, attached, mission-controlled and other players’ controlled animals are excluded. This does not create inventory items or pay money.

Dogs and alligators support Attack and Defensive/Passive modes. Fetch remains a dog command. Cats, frogs, sheep and farm pigs use Follow, Stay and Come Here; their native models do not have a supported attack in this resource. With several pets out, shortcut commands choose your nearest pet. Use the menu to choose a specific pet.

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Wall signs and wanted posters

Put a readable notice on a wall, fence panel or wooden board. These signs stay in place across restarts and expire after 30 days.

Make a sign

1. Choose a surface. Stand within five metres of a vertical wall or board and type /sign.
2. Place the preview. Aim directly at the solid surface from within five metres. Walls and boards use the same placement control; a window is not required. A paper or wooden-sign preview follows your aim. Press Enter to set the position, or Backspace to cancel.
3. Write it. Add a heading of up to 70 characters and a message of up to 600 characters. Choose Publish notice. If a check fails, the editor keeps your text so you can correct it.
4. Read or change it. Approach the front of the sign within 2.5 metres and press E or type /notices. The author and staff can edit it or remove it. Removal asks you to click again to confirm.

Each character can have six active notices. Leave at least half a metre between signs and room around the official jail board. Signs are fixed to their chosen position, so use permanent scenery rather than a wagon or movable object.

Issue a player wanted poster

On-duty law and staff first use /wantedtarget SERVER_ID to bind the suspect’s actual character, then /wantedposter within ten minutes. Place the preview, enter the charges, and choose wanted level 1–5 and difficulty. Rewards are calculated from those settings. Read the finished notice for its delivery command. Follow the capture, handoff and jail walkthrough.

Wanted boards and bounty hunting

Every town has its own NPC roster. Look for the town’s Wanted board on your map. There are 72 named NPC contracts across 12 locations, six per location. Each board displays three at a time.

1. Read the board. Approach it on foot and press E, or type /notices. World posters appear while you look at the board; the full reader stays open until you close it.
2. Choose an NPC bounty. Compare the wanted level, difficulty, last sighting and alive/dead rewards. Choose Accept warrant. A red GPS route points to the last known location. A poster marked In pursuit is reserved by another hunter.
3. Find and capture the suspect. Approach on foot. Some suspects flee; others fight with knives or guns. For a live capture, equip a lasso, rope the suspect, keep the rope held and approach. Use the game’s Hogtie prompt, then Pick Up and Stow on your horse. Bring the actual body if the suspect dies.
4. Deliver at any marked sheriff or marshal handoff. Once the suspect is secured, the route leads to the nearest handoff. Unload the prisoner/body onto the ground at the sheriff entrance. Hold G on Deliver wanted person, or type /countyhunt turnin. Both you and the actual suspect must be near the handoff. A live suspect must still be hogtied.
5. Collect the reward. Alive pays more and puts the NPC in the receiving jurisdiction’s jail for five minutes. Dead pays 40% of the live offer, rounded to whole dollars. Difficulty and wanted level set the price.
6. The board rotates. A successful delivery replaces that poster on its original town board for everyone. Other active posters remain. Cancellation releases the same suspect; it does not reroll the board. The existing 20-minute personal NPC payout cooldown remains in effect.

/countyhunt route restores your route. /countyhunt help repeats capture instructions. /countyhunt cancel returns the warrant without payment. Active contracts last up to 30 minutes; teleporting, death or losing the actor can end one.

Law-issued player warrants

Every board also has Law-issued warrants · All towns. These are real character notices posted by authorized law officers or staff. Read a notice for its ID and target. They do not create an NPC copy or reveal a live player location.

1. Law/staff: use /wantedtarget SERVER_ID to link a connected character, then /wantedposter within ten minutes. Place the notice on a wall or board and fill in the crime, wanted level and difficulty. The notice appears in every town board’s law section.
2. Hunter: bring the named character to any marked sheriff or marshal handoff. Living players must be hogtied or cuffed; dead players must be delivered as the actual connected player body. Unload onto the ground.
3. Type /countyhunt deliverplayer NOTICE_ID PLAYER_SERVER_ID. A successful live handoff books the player into BCC Law jail for two minutes per wanted level (2–10 minutes). A successful handoff closes that notice countywide and pays once.

Boards and jail destinations

Wanted portraits

Wanted papers appear within three metres; board papers also require looking toward the board. NPC portraits prepare automatically when you look at or read a board. They use the wanted NPC's model and outfit. Allow a few seconds the first time a face loads.

1. Record a player. As law or staff, type /wantedphoto PLAYER_SERVER_ID from anywhere on the map. The subject must be online with a character selected; you do not need to stand near them. Leave off the ID to record yourself. Wait for the appearance-recorded message.
2. Publish the warrant. Within ten minutes, use /wantedposter, aim at a board or wall, and enter the wanted details. The recorded character is attached automatically.
3. View it elsewhere. The appearance record stays on the server. Other players render its portrait locally, including while the subject is offline. No screenshot upload or companion application is used. A later /wantedphoto for the same character updates their portrait.

Staff verification: the native player portrait has been visually confirmed. The new board integration, NPC rendering and saved-player reconstruction still need their in-game acceptance check.

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Valentine trail contracts

Find Valentine Trail Work on your map outside Valentine Station, near the post office. Approach the green marker and use the on-screen prompts, or enter the commands below. You can do either contract alone with any civilian job.

Escort a stranded traveler · $20

1. At the board, choose Escort a traveler or type /trail rescue. The dispatcher marks a location near the wagon stand or in the station yard.
2. Dismount near the marker and walk up to the traveler. Once they start following, walk with them to the marked entrance of the Valentine doctor’s office. Slow down at corners and let them catch up.
3. Bring the traveler within nine metres of the destination and stand nearby. The $20 payment is automatic.

Survey the railway · $60

1. Bring your horse to the board, stay mounted, and choose Survey the railway or type /trail survey.
2. Ride to Flatneck Station. Stop at its marker for five seconds to record the first reading. Continue to Wallace Station and repeat with the same horse.
3. Follow the final marker back to Valentine Station to collect $60.

Type /trail to repeat your current instructions or /trail cancel to abandon a contract. Each type pays once per character every 15 minutes. You can take the other type while one cools down. Finish within 30 minutes.

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Freight, auctions and county depots

Use /county at a depot to see its name. Each depot has a 45-meter interaction radius. Centers are Valentine (-368, 784, 116), Blackwater (-875, -1328, 43), Rhodes (1230, -1295, 76), Tumbleweed (-5517, -2940, -2) and Colter (-1345, 2431, 307).

Run a freight job. Two characters each own a ranch. The issuer deposits at least $10 into their ranch ledger. At Valentine the issuer runs /freight post rhodes feed 10. The hauler uses /freight list to get the ID and /freight load 4 at the departure depot if the order is 4. The game records a manifest. Ride to Rhodes, verify the depot with /county, and type /freight deliver 4. The $10 reserved when the order was posted goes to the hauler's ranch ledger. Other cargo types are tack and provisions. Use /freight release 4 to release a loaded order or /freight cancel 4 as the issuer to cancel an open order.

Run a horse auction. The seller brings a living, owned horse that is clear of breeding registration. Both players meet at the same depot. Check IDs with /countyhorses. Seller runs /ring open 14 25 for horse 14 with a $25 opening price. Buyer checks /ring show and runs /ring bid 30. Stand within four meters for the seller to run /ring close. The buyer accepts the horse sale prompt. Check the horse now appears in the buyer's list and $30 moved from the buyer's pocket to the seller's. Open rings are temporary. Use /ring cancel to end an open ring.

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Town newspapers & the Writer profession

Each town has its own newspaper and edition archive. Everyone can read. Writer is admin-assigned because publication is a trusted role; it is not available at the public job center. Staff assign writer, grade 0 (Reporter).

Read your town’s paper

Type /newspaper anywhere, select a town and choose Read latest edition or an older issue. You can also use the L newspaper prompt beside its civic office. Open /guide → Find an activity and search “newspaper” for the routes. Reading and publication are free.

Publish an edition

1. After staff appoint you, open /newspaper, select the town and choose Writer’s desk → Create an edition.
2. Write an edition headline and introduction. Add one to six articles under Town news, Business, Law & court, Ranch & range, Events or Classifieds. Your character’s name supplies the byline.
3. Choose Save draft. Drafts stay private and survive reconnects; you can keep ten unfinished editions. Use Preview edition to read the finished layout.
4. Go to the chosen town’s newspaper point. From the preview choose Publish this edition and confirm. Readers can then find it in that town’s archive. Wait one minute between publications.

Published text stays fixed. Publish corrections in a new edition. Authors and staff may Withdraw edition with a reason; the record is retained. Changing jobs removes editing/publication access. Writer grants no law powers or business administration.

Wanted in this town

The Town wanted page shows the current rotating NPC bounties for the selected town and the active county-wide player warrants that also appear on its sheriff board. It uses the same character portraits as the wanted posters, names, alleged crimes, wanted levels and alive/dead rewards. The bulletin refreshes every 30 seconds while open, including completed or expired notices. Writers cannot edit it. Go to the sheriff board to accept a contract; the newspaper cannot start one.

Portraits prepare automatically when brought into view. A person without a recorded poster portrait is marked No portrait on file. This page is current information, separate from the historical text of archived editions.

Make news part of roleplay

Interview ranchers, report court hearings, advertise player businesses and announce rodeo meets. Classifieds are articles in an edition. There is no automatic publishing wage or paid-advertisement checkout; agree any reporting or advertising fee with the customer through roleplay.

Town mastheads

• Valentine — The Valentine Chronicle
• Rhodes — The Rhodes Gazette
• Saint Denis — The Saint Denis Times
• Strawberry — The Strawberry Sentinel
• Blackwater — The Blackwater Herald
• Armadillo — The Armadillo Dispatch
• Tumbleweed — The Tumbleweed Tribune
• Annesburg — The Annesburg Record

Choose your work in Deadwater

Visit the Valentine Job Center at −192.60, 627.36, 114.03. Hold the displayed G prompt. Its three sections separate public professions, activities and appointed careers.

Public professions

Choose Choose a profession, read its benefits, then Confirm – change my profession. The server assigns the correct rank. A successful change has a ten-minute cooldown.

Already employed? The center cannot replace law, medical, unknown or registered business employment. Ask the employer or staff to release that job. Choosing your existing profession preserves your rank. A stopped profession resource is temporarily unavailable.

Activities that keep your current job

Mining, gold panning, farming, beekeeping, hunting, fishing, gathering, oil work, public contracts, NPC bounties, cooking, moonshining, grave digging and rodeo competition use activity rules, equipment and locations rather than a new profession. Check /guide → Find an activity for routes.

Tobacco: Indian Tobacco is now ordinary farming. You do not need the old tabak job; seeds, supplies and planting rules still apply. Writer: an admin-appointed newspaper profession. Draft and publish town editions, with a live wanted page sourced from the sheriff boards. Newspaper walkthrough.

Appointed careers

Staff appoint Writers, law officers, clinical doctors/healers and license issuers. Sheriff, mayor and judicial offices use the government appointment system; they cannot be claimed at the public job center. On-duty law receives operational alerts. Going off duty does not create a public profession.

Staff appoint law and medical roles. Law uses /goonduty and /pmenu; doctors use /medic. Medical and law alerts remain separate.

Working as a doctor

Staff must assign one of the supported medical jobs. Stand within two metres of the patient and use /medic to inspect them. The patient menu now includes Restore health (two bandages, eight seconds), Stop bleeding (Needle and Thread), and Revive (Morphine or Smelling Salts). Obtain the required supplies at a medical cabinet. Stay within three metres throughout health treatment; leaving, changing characters or losing the medical job cancels it. Health treatment has a 30-second patient cooldown. Treat bleeding separately. A clinician can also use Treat my injuries from their own medical page.

Medical alerts go to clinical jobs. Law alerts go to on-duty law. Being a police officer does not grant treatment powers.

Working in law enforcement

Use /goonduty, then /pmenu. The menu covers ID checks, cuffs, escorting, wagon transport, cash fines, jail/release and community service. A fine takes the full amount of carried VORP cash; insufficient cash is rejected. Bank-account seizure is unavailable and is no longer offered as a working fine option.

At a law cabinet, an on-duty Sheriff/Chief can hire a nearby civilian as an off-duty grade-0 recruit, dismiss a lower-ranked member of the same department, and manage funded department cash. A recruit must first be released by their previous employer. Promotions remain staff-controlled. A Sheriff civic appointment is separate from the VORP job and does not grant another town's office.

Community service: escort the person to the Blackwater construction site, then assign 1–100 tasks. The person follows the work blip and presses the displayed interaction key. Progress is saved, resumes on reconnect, and supports repeat sentences. Leaving the service area for ten seconds converts it to a two-minute Blackwater jail sentence.

Owner-hired work and staff administration

Ranch, shop and society owners hire their own employees and grant access within their business. Society ranks retain the business job key when hiring or promoting. A manager needs that business’s employee/rank permissions. Ownership does not grant global administration.

Global ranch, society, shop, bank and housing administration requires staff permission. Jobs such as writer, rancher, banker, realtor, storemanager and societymanager no longer bypass those checks. Existing ownership and employee records remain intact.

Law, medicine and businesses

1. Contact the sheriff. For a staff-assigned law character, /goonduty starts duty and /pmenu opens the police menu. Confirm your active job with /myJob if the menu refuses access.
2. Jail and release. Law staff use Jail / Release Player in the law menu. A jailed player sees the remaining sentence on screen and is released outside when it expires. Unjail clears the sentence and returns them outside early.
3. Get medical help. A doctor can check injuries and treat bleeding. A bandage provides temporary relief. The medical job menu opens with /medic. Use /sendhelp to request an NPC doctor when eligible.
4. Manage a business. With an assigned society, employees use its management and duty menus. A manager can hire workers, set rank permissions, bill customers and manage a company ledger. Ask the owner for your rank before expecting access.

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Homes, banks and mail

1. Visit a bank. At the teller, follow the prompt, open your account and check its cash and gold before making a transfer. Open Safety Deposit Boxes to access eligible items. Imported VORP bank items stay in the box for their original branch.
2. Settle into a house. Owners can access their BCC house menu, furnish the property and grant access. Use /HouseMenu where the housing prompt is available. At an imported cupboard, stand next to it and use /cupboard.
3. Send a letter. Visit a mailbox, register your postal address and give the code to a friend. Use their address to send a letter, then have them check the inbox.

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Brew your first moonshine

1. Buy equipment. General stores carry a Fermenting Barrel ($20), Distilling Still ($40), Empty Brewing Bottles ($1 each), apples and sugar. Bring water. For corn mash, bring harvested corn.
2. Place the barrel and still. Use each piece from your satchel, position the preview and hold the displayed placement prompt. Leave room to stand beside each station.
3. Make mash. At the barrel choose Apple Mash or Corn Mash. Supply three apples or three corn and one water. Return after ten minutes and collect five mash using the character who started it.
4. Run the still. Choose the matching moonshine. Stage one takes one water and one minute. Stage two takes one mash, one sugar and three minutes. Stage three takes five brewing bottles and six minutes. Reopen the still between stages.
5. Collect and sell. Collect five bottles when the final timer ends. County general stores buy finished apple or corn moonshine for $4 per bottle. Finish any open batch before packing up its station.

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Work the Cornwall oil fields

1. Meet the manager. Go to the oil manager at Cornwall Kerosene & Tar, southeast of Valentine. Follow the manager map icon and hold the prompt. An oil wagon costs $100 and a supply wagon costs $200.
2. Run a legal delivery. Select the delivery for your owned wagon. Load it where the GPS sends you, deliver to the marked destination, return that same wagon to the company and approach the manager to collect. Base pay is $60 for oil and $70 for supplies.
3. Take a robbery contract. Meet the criminal contact northeast of the oil works. For a company robbery, take a lockpick to the marked chest, finish the lockpicking minigame, defeat the guards, return to the chest and press G. For a stolen-wagon contract, defeat its guards and return the assigned wagon to the contact.

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Hunt treasure with Madam Nazar

1. Find the traveling merchant. Look for the Madam Nazar blip. She can change locations every 30 minutes. Approach her wagon or stall and hold G.
2. Buy your first hint. Choose Grizzlies West. It costs $5 and has no playtime minimum. Follow the marked search area. A paid hunt belongs to the purchasing character and resumes on reconnect.
3. Search the chest. Stand at the chest and hold G through the search animation. Leave enough space for a diamond, two gold nuggets and five iron. If your satchel fills up, make space and search again for the remaining items.
4. Collect cards. Use Eagle Eye near a card to help spot it, then hold the collection prompt. Each location has a 60-minute cooldown. Buy an empty card box from Nazar for $3 and assemble a complete set of 12 distinct cards.

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Play blackjack

Find a table

Look for the Blackjack map marker at Rhodes Parlour House, Blackwater Saloon or Van Horn. Walk up to a free seat and press R. Tables support up to four players and NPC opponents; you can play when the server is quiet.

1. Place a bet. Use the on-screen controls to wager $2–$20 in $2 increments. Cash is deducted when your bet is accepted. The first player can choose the card style.
2. Play your hand. Choose Hit for another card or Stand to keep your total. Double Down adds a matching wager for one last card. Split is offered for an eligible pair and costs another matching wager.
3. Beat the dealer. A natural blackjack pays 3:2 profit. A normal win pays even money; a push returns your stake. The dealer stands on soft 17.
4. Leave between hands. Use the Leave control. Leaving during a wagered hand forfeits the stake. A normal resource stop refunds unsettled stakes to connected players; a server crash is not a guaranteed refund.

Betting and player decisions each allow 60 seconds. A missed decision automatically stands. This installation uses native dealer, seating and card animations with on-screen betting controls.

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Order at a saloon

Find the bartender

Available at Valentine, Blackwater, Rhodes, Armadillo, Tumbleweed, Van Horn’s Old Light Saloon, and Saint Denis’s Schiffer Brewery and Doyle’s Tavern.

1. Open the menu. Stand beside the bartender and press G. Browse with the arrow keys, press Enter to buy and Backspace to close.
2. Drink at your pace. Beer is $1, coffee $0.50 and a whiskey bottle $4. Use the native drink prompt to sip; hold the drink control to finish more quickly. Coffee restores up to 35 thirst across the full serving. Alcohol can cause blurred vision, stumbling and a blackout.
3. Finish your meal. A bowl of stew costs $2.50 and restores 35 hunger and 18 thirst when fully eaten. Discarding the bowl early does not grant the full meal reward.
4. Know the local menu. Champagne costs $5 at Rhodes and Schiffer Brewery. Doyle’s sells drinks without stew. These are served directly into your hand, not stored as inventory items.

Use /bartenderclothes if the drunken blackout sequence removed your character’s cached clothing. Moonshine crafting still uses the separate brewing system.

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Keep bees and harvest honey

Buy your supplies

Visit a town general store and open Beekeeping. A Beehive Box costs $40, Queen Bee $20, Honey Bees $5, Bee Smoker $8, Bug Net $5 and Empty Bee Jar $0.50. Sugar, water, wheat and Animal Medicine (Petheal) are colony-care supplies. Existing supplies may appear in another store category.

1. Place a hive. Use the Beehive Box from your inventory on suitable ground. Follow the placement controls; confirm with Enter. You may own three hives, at least five metres apart.
2. Start the colony. Approach the hive and use the Tend Hive prompt (G). Add a queen and workers of the same species. Honey bees and hornets are separate colonies.
3. Keep it healthy. Sugar supplies food, water hydration, wheat cleaning and Animal Medicine (Petheal) treatment. Keep food, water and cleanliness at 60% or higher for faster production. A Honey Bees item adds 15 workers; a Hornets item adds 10.
4. Harvest when ready. Frames become harvestable at 80%. Bring a smoker and empty jars, then follow the honeycomb uncapping minigame. Production progresses over time; it is not instant.
5. Use or sell the harvest. Honey restores 15 hunger and Manuka Honey 20. General stores buy honey for $1, Manuka Honey for $1.50 and beeswax for $0.50 each.

Wild nests offer another source of bees and honey. Bring your smoker, net and jars and follow the nest prompts. Use /beeclear if a tool remains stuck in your hand.

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Drive an Ironhorse

Visit Rust & Co. in Saint Denis

Find the vehicle dealer at the map marker. On foot, stand at the dealer interaction point and press J. The Ironhorse is configured at $1,000 VORP cash. Check the menu total before purchasing optional accessories.

1. Buy and retrieve your car. Use the dealer and garage menus. Town garages include Saint Denis, Rhodes, Valentine, Annesburg, Blackwater, Strawberry, Armadillo and Tumbleweed.
2. Drive and secure it. Follow the vehicle entry prompts. L locks or unlocks it. On foot behind the car, E opens its trunk.
3. Refuel. Pumps are available at Saint Denis, Rhodes, Emerald, Blackwater and Armadillo. Follow the G hose prompt. Fuel costs $0.10 per litre. A Fuel Can costs $5 empty; fill it at a pump using E, then use it beside your car.
4. Maintain it. General stores sell a Vehicle Repair Kit for $15 and Chamois Cloth for $2 under Motoring. Kits repair damaged vehicles, not destroyed ones.
5. Store it. Drive to a garage and press R. Use /carreturn to return your own unoccupied vehicle, or /givekey PLAYER_ID to share temporary access with a nearby player. Temporary keys do not survive a server restart.

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Rent a hot-air balloon

Find the balloon rental interaction and open the Hot Air Balloon Rental menu. Read the quoted price before choosing Rent. Cancel or press Esc to leave the menu.

Follow the in-game flight controls once the balloon is supplied. The supplied release protects its location, price and control configuration, so this guide does not promise a particular town, fare or key binding. These details still need an in-game check after activation.

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Enter a cockfight

Find Cockfight on the Valentine map. Stand within two metres of the arena interaction and press E.

1. Buy and name a chicken. Purchase price is $25 VORP cash.
2. Challenge another player. Bring another participant to the arena. Choose a wager from $1–$20 and one to five rounds. Both participants must accept.
3. Watch the match. The resource tracks the result and pays the winner. Spectators can use the betting options shown by the arena menu.
4. Check the standings. Results are recorded in the ranking system. Losing chickens can die and be removed; do not enter a bird you are unwilling to lose.

This is a player-versus-player activity. It needs another participant; it does not supply an NPC opponent.

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Take a group hunting contract

Look for Group Hunting Contracts at Strawberry, Valentine, Annesburg, Saint Denis, Tumbleweed or Emerald Ranch. Approach the mission giver and use E.

1. Choose a hunt. Fourteen animal types are configured. The entry fee is $5; check the mission details before accepting.
2. Invite your party. Hunt alone or invite up to three other players from the menu. Invitees must be near the start point, within 20 metres; invitations expire after 20 seconds.
3. Follow the investigation. Use the mission markers and clues to track the animal. Watch for poachers. The mission time limit is 30 minutes.
4. Complete the contract. Configured cash rewards are $50–$60 for the group, split among its members. There is a 30-minute mission cooldown. A member disconnecting cancels the group’s mission.

These cooperative contracts are separate from the existing BCC legendary-hunting progression. Look for the distinct Group Hunting Contracts label when choosing this activity.

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Buy horse-care supplies

Town general stores now have a Horse Care category. Visit Valentine, Blackwater, Rhodes, Saint Denis, Strawberry, Armadillo, Tumbleweed, Van Horn or Wapiti.

Keep your horse nearby and on accessible ground. A horse that is not ready to be brushed may reject another brushing. Stable care also supports the matching carrot and apple items; hay cubes are the dedicated feed supplied here. A nearby foal can receive care through the breeding integration.

Which money do shops use?

VORP cash. BCC shops and the BCC HUD use your VORP character balance. There is no separate BCC cash wallet. Gold is a separate VORP currency; some stable purchases offer a gold option.

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When something doesn’t open

1. Look for the prompt. Dismount, put your weapon away and walk close to the counter, horse, or station. Hold the displayed key until its ring fills.
2. Check the character. Use /myJob for your role and grade. The character who owns a ranch, horse, camp or batch has access to its owner actions.
3. Check the satchel. Use I to check the exact item and free space. For gold panning, the wash table requires clean pump water.
4. Tell staff what happened. Give the town, activity, character, and the last button you pressed. Include the message you saw and whether a friend could repeat it.

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